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DL MASTER BARBER MC120
Each One Teach One

Who in our

communities thought

up until Trayvon

Martin’s untimely

slaying that a hoodie

was threatening? But

that’s the reality many

young black men and

young people of color

live. And sadly, melanin

can be just enough to

make people afraid. We

know it’s not right and

while white privilege

allows for tech bros to

show up to work with a

T-shirt and open-toed And he touts the importance of owning a well-

sandals, the burden is tailored suit because he wants the world to see

placed on people of young black men and women for the kings and

color to dress up so queens they are. And he says you don’t even

that we can be taken have to cash out for an Armani. The suit he

seriously. It’s not just wore to our interview was only $30. That’s right,

that Lyons is a realist Lyons is a thrifter. Those who know the joys of a

when it comes to that good thrift store haul don’t need to be told

double standard, but about the treasures you can find in a thrift

that he was raised with store, especially in a city like Los Angeles. But his

the mentality that a suit point is that you don’t have to spend thousands

is an investment. of dollars to look like you did.