Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
I did, hood goes up, chair demands he step down. The reason for this is that House rules require a representative to be bare headed. This is a Western cultural tradition, and a purely secular one because monks raise their cowls in Church so that their head is NOT uncovered. In fact, I would hazard that you could argue that as a hood is not a hat he did not have to remove it.

Also, you will not that he was not asked to lower the hood, but that simply by raising it he became "unrecognised", by changing his dress he became disenfranchised. Don't a lot of black men in the US shave their heads? Certainly, film and television promotes as a look for black men. Turk in Scrubs for example, a shaven headed black man who wears a hoodie.

The representative's argument was that while many black men choose wear hoodies, with the hoods up, that does not mean they are doing so for the reason a white person would assume (criminality). There is a strong bias here in European and therefore white American culture, going all the way back beyond "Robin Hood".
That's the thing. It's already law in a lot of places in the US that you can't go with your face "concealed" or "covered". Quick article link with some references: http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/201...n_america.html I personally don't agree with these laws at all.