"Point of the story is that almost everyone is prejudiced against thug-looking-people and it's often misattributed to racism." I don't think I follow you here.

"Point of the story is that almost everyone is prejudiced against thug-looking-people and it's often misattributed to racism." I don't think I follow you here. I think that most folks concerned about racism in these situations would say that race is a big factor in how folks define "thug looking". (I'd be willing to bet that for a whole lot of people, there's a range of intermediate dress/appearance/behavior where they'd say a white person was not "thug looking" but an equivalent-looking black person was not.)