Nba Nerd Analysis

In reading the article, NBA nerd  , A lot of stereotypes inevitably will come to your head, when you See the first picture, so adamantly displayed, of LeBron James the most influential basketball player on the planet, being portrayed as a "nerd". This whole idea that these athletes dressing as someone they are not, a nerd who attends college and morning tea before that, is something that makes even the most racial equality believers think: why are you wearing this?

 This is a very fair question, in fact the author, Wesley Morris, hints at this many times throughout the article. Morris relates all of this "nerd" dressing to the popular 90's TV show: The fresh prince of Bel-Air. This show features what many, at the time, had never seen; a rich black family. Morris uses this idea, and one of the main characters of the show, Carlton Banks, as a way to show the change in how black people dress and are seen. Carlton act "white", in the fact that he went to a virtually all white school, and was wealthy; then Will smith comes and starts seeing all this from a poor, "regular", black man's position. The crazy thing is, Will embraces the style of the red blazer and makes it his own; a creation that has since been transposed into the modern NBA, and many high level black athletes. Fashion was one of the last things that really separated the races, and with this that separation is no more.

The idea that a professional basketball player can dress as what he is not: a nerd, and a nerd like me can dress in a NBA basketball jersey should be seen as the same. The clothes we wear should be worn for reason; even if that reason is to create a hipster-nerd movement in the youth. Never before could someone dress like this and get away with it, but once a celebrity gets involved, new roads are paved and are drove by the bus-loads. All races can dress the same now, and this should not invoke any racial stereotypes: because there are black nerds out there, and there are white NBA players. Race is more equal now than ever before, and the equality in fashion should be the same.