“.......If you dress like a hoodlum eventually some schmuck is going to take you at your word...............”
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I have a minor change to Geraldo’s word’s above.
“If you dress like a hoodlum AND, BECAUSE OF SOME PERCEIVED PROVOCATION OR DISSIN’, ATTACK & START BEATING UP SOME SCHMUCK, eventually some schmuck is going to take you at your word AND RESPOND TO YOUR BEATING BY DEFENDING HIMSELF WITH DEADLY FORCE.”
And folks, I’m not defending everything Zimmerman did. This all could have been avoided if he had exercised better judgement.
Isn’t Whorealdo The Drama Queen the one that faked getting assaulted?
This sounds like the equivalent of saying a rape victim “asked for it” by wearing something that might provoke a violent and perverted misogynist.
Ir is too bad he didn't offer him some skittles.
No one black, brown or white can honestly tell me that seeing a kid of color with a hood pulled over his head doesn’t generate a certain reaction, sometimes scorn, often menace.
The first few seconds of an initial encounter between two people who are strangers are driven by instinctive reactions: the fight, flight, or fright response. Each person makes unconscious unthinking appraisals that center around their safety.The animal instinct for survival makes one super alert at a subconscious level on first contact, and for a split second, as the body enters a heightened state of awareness, a mental shield goes up to protect it.
Geraldo’s one redeeming virtue is that he is the one person in the multiverse that is more vapid and clueless than the Cretin-in-Chief.
Let us not BS ourselves or allow others to do it.
Hoodies are worn up over their heads to conceal their identities to those who might have an interest in it.
Robbers, thugs, thieves and assassins have been doing it since the advent of clothing.
What you see regularly is no different. It is blatant anti-social behavior and skulking.
Remember, there is a “hood” in “hoodie.”
Geraldo-the-Whore makes streetwalkers look like nuns.
Trayvon would be alive if he had not jumped Zimmerman. Hoodies don’t have anything to do with it.
No matter what Zimmerman did, right or wrong, Trayvon had the option of NOT fighting with him. Choosing that option would have left the little (6’2”) moron alive.
Likewise, if Zimmerman had left Trayvon alone, he wouldn’t be facing bankruptcy from lawyer fees.
The morgue is short of customers!
“No one black, brown or white can honestly tell me that seeing a kid of color with a hood pulled over his head doesn’t generate a certain reaction, sometimes scorn, often menace.
When you see that kid coming your way, unless you specifically recognize him you are thinking ghetto or ghetto wannabe high-style or low-brow wise-ass. Pedestrians cross the street to avoid black or brown hoodie wearers coming their way.”
Really? It’s such a common piece of clothing, honestly, the thought hadn’t occurred to me. Maybe it’s an east coast thing?
They are trying to blame Whitey for this, but as long as we are going to focus on race then we might notice that the guy is a “minority.”
I work at a high school and everyone wears them including the staff and teachers.
Thank you Geraldo. I wanted to say the same thing but didn’t want to be attacked for being an insensitive white person. Will Geraldo be called a racist now? Maybe, but less likely to face that public humiliation than a white man.
He is right. This guy put on his hoodie (people assume you do that to hide your face) and tried to lose the guy.
(MEMO to Jerry Rivers)- you’re supposed to be taking the side of the HISPANIC in this dispute. Otherwise your continued status as a faux-Hispanic may be in jeopardy.
That anyone would watch this tool’s show, is beyond me.
That anyone would watch this tool’s show, is beyond me.