More Good News

Young black men are suddenly dressing less like aspiring rappers and more like aspiring employees.

Lately, I’ve been feeling more cheerful about the direction of American life. That actually makes it harder to post because it’s easy to jump on this week’s social media Crisis of the Century and lament how everything is going to hell in a hand-basket.

This is not to say that everything is getting better, or even just the majority of things. Still, certain extremely stupid and pointless trends of the Great Awokening, such as gender affirming care, homicides, and car crashes, appear to finally be falling out of fashion.

Here’s another positive trend. This fall, young black men are suddenly dressing less like would-be criminals and more like would-be tech bros.

From Slate:

Why is my TikTok algorithm full of young Black men talking about quarter-zips and drinking matcha lattes? And what, pray tell, is a Nike Tech?

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