#Black doctor’s viral TikTok plea: Respect me in my scrubs — and my hoodie
“#Black doctor’s viral TikTok plea: Respect me in my scrubs — and my hoodie”
June 16, 2020 | 12:10pm | Updated June 16, 2020 | 12:23pm
Dr. Emeka Okorocha, 27, an emergency room physician from London, wanted to show how clothing disproportionately affects how people of color are treated amid nationwide upheaval following the killings of George Floyd and several other black Americans.
“If you respect me in my scrubs, respect me in my hoodie,” reads the caption of the timely clip, which has been viewed more than 835,000 times on TikTok. “No to racism. No to discrimination.”
In the clip uploaded June 4, Okorocha can be seen changing from a pair of blue medical scrubs into a black Nike hoodie while Childish Gambino’s racially charged “This Is America” blares in the background.
“It shows the contrast of how people see us in society,” the doc-turned-political commentator tells the Daily Mail, adding that he came up with the idea after seeing another video of a black lawyer being asked to be celebrated sans uniform. Okorocha decided to make his own TikTok version after joining a chat group of mostly black doctors who had also experienced dress-based discrimination.
Okorocha says the social commentary is particularly resonant as the public praises emergency responders on the front line of the coronavirus fight amid simultaneous Black Lives Matter protests spawned by the deaths of black Americans in police custody.
He alluded to the phenomenon in an Instagram repost of the clip which has garnered another 14,000 views: “I don’t want to be clapped for and celebrated when I have my scrubs and PPE on only to see myself and others who look just like me racially profiled for wearing a simple hoodie,” the same garment worn by Trayvon Martin when he was fatally shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, in 2012.
Needless to say, the doc’s prescription for change has garnered him ample online praise.
“This is very powerful I stand with you,” commented one newfound TikTok fan of Okorocha’s impromptu political commentary.
“From a fellow human and health-care professional, keep being you,” another posted.
“Don’t love [us] just when it’s trendy or convenient,” Okorocha wrote on the ‘Gram.
“Love us when it’s hard, when you may be criticized, when you may be scared or embarrassed. That’s when we really will feel you stand with us.”
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