An emergency doctor has gone viral after asking people to celebrate him rather than fear him when he jumps from his medical scrubs into a hoodie.

As 27-year-old Dr. Emeka Okorocha, a Nigerian-British doctor, suggested, he feels hated whenever he sets aside his medical scrubs to take to the streets in a hoodie.

“I was in a group chat of doctors, and most of us are black. We were talking about it and all discussed how they when people in scrubs they’ll celebrate us, but when they see you in hoodie they fear you,” the doctor said in an interview with FEMAIL.

“Everyone seems to love me in my scrubs and everyone is clapping for the NHS,  but if I wear a hoodie, as a 6ft6 black man in an affluent neighborhood – they’ll be scared.”

To get his point across, Dr. Okorocha created a TikTok video – which he was inspired to do after seeing a black lawyer do the same thing – in which he is seen in his medical scrubs before donning a hoodie.

The video is accompanied by the following text: “If you celebrate me in my scrubs, don’t hate me in my hoodie.”

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Thank you for the shares and support ?? — This is the message.point 324 |

Don’t love is just when it’s trendy or convenient.point 46 | Love us when it’s hard, when you may be criticised when you may be scared or embarrassed.point 121 | That’s when we really will feel you stand with us.point 164 | — 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 hoody — That’s the message and thanks for everybody who’s been supporting and sharing and speaking in a time like this — #UnitedWeStand #BlackLivesMatterpoint 443 | 1

A post shared by Dr. Emeka Okorocha (@doctor.emeka) on Jun 6, 2020 at 5:57am PDT

Soon enough, the doctor’s video went viral and received thousands of likes and comments across different platforms including Instagram and TikTok.

“This is the message. Don’t love is just when it’s trendy or convenient. 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,” Okorocha expressed in his Instagram post.

“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 hoody.”

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