Subject:  Re: Nathaniel Abraham... OMG! |
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Chris
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Date Posted: 01/23/07 6:50pm
In reply to:
Lillie T
's message, "Nathaniel Abraham" on 01/19/07 8:06pm
Okay, everything I said about Nate Abraham and my hoping he can make a good life for himself, now comes into question when I see what he wore for his court date and release from prison. He wore a ivory-and-pink-pinstriped suit, with hat, hot pink alligator shoes, and a real rabbit fur coat.
If this outfit does not say "I'm going to be a troublemaker for life", than I don't know what will! This "man-child" needs a good whack in the head so he thinks straight. I'm not so gung-ho anymore about supporting someone who wants to dress and maybe even be a gangsta.
Here is a video of Ronnie Green's sister speaking to the press and what she is concerned about regarding Nate's release. You can also see more of his choice of outfit and those pink shoes.
Click here for video
There have been several articles written about his choice of clothes. Here is one article:
Abraham outfit cries: 'I'm free'
Lawyers, state clash on aid plan for Abraham
The Detroit News, by Laura Berman
Until a few minutes before Nathaniel Abraham's court hearing Thursday, Daniel Bagdade, his lawyer, had never seen it. Now he wishes he could forget it.
Not since he was a slight boy of 12, dressed in orange prison garb and leg chains, has Nathaniel Abraham received so much attention. Front page photographs in newspapers, talk radio air time, on-line forum buzz.
Abraham's ivory-and-pink-pinstriped suit and hot pink alligator shoes are the talk of the town, like Jennifer Lopez in her cutaway emerald Grammy dress or Bjork dressed as a swan.
At The Broadway, the downtown Detroit haberdashery, Nathaniel Abraham's suit was Friday's furor.
"Some thought he was over-the-top," said Wallace Bell, the store's manager. "And some thought he looked really sharp."
What you couldn't say about Abraham's attire was that you didn't notice it, or that it was bland, middle-of-the-road or even vaguely corporate.
"Appropriate" was another word that did not spring to mind.
These were not the duds of a young man preparing to go quietly into the world, never to be heard from again. These clothes screamed a message -- and the message was at odds with the sober and earnest vocabulary of Abraham's professional handlers -- the therapists and counselors and lawyers -- in the courtroom.
It wasn't humble or self-effacing or even earnest.
Whether he was deemed a fashion victim or applauded for looking sharp, Abraham's boldly chosen attire was clearly a siren song, a call for notice. The suit, the shoes, the broad-brimmed hat festooned with a wide pink band topped with a rabbit coat were flamboyant.
On radio shows and in chat rooms, some contended that the clothes signaled disrespect, or provided clear signals that Abraham is, after 10 years in custody, headed back down the road to crime. Nathaniel Abraham is no stranger to courthouses: He knows what he's expected to wear.
For 10 years, he's been dressed in the uniform of juvenile detention: khaki pants and polo shirt.
That's how he was dressed on Jan. 8, the last time Dan Bagdade met with his client.
"It is our policy to advise (the youth in detention) on the appropriate attire for court appearances," says Maureen Sorbet, the spokeswoman for the state Department of Health and Human Services.
But we don't have to read the absolute worst into Nathaniel Abraham's dress.
After years of toeing the line, wearing "appropriate" clothes, he opted to show off. To preen for the cameras. "He was saying, 'I'm free,' " says The Broadway's Bell.
And isn't that Abraham's latest offense?
Those of us who know and follow the rules -- of law or fashion -- don't shout or flaunt our freedom. We're familiar with constraints a 21-year-old raised in a training school can't easily imagine. We're free -- but. Free and bound by strict yet invisible codes that count, even when they have nothing to do with jail.
You can reach Laura Berman at (248) 647-7221 or lberman@detnews.com.
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