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Rep. Bobby Rush Explains Hoodie Incident to The Blaze: Martin Killed for Wearing Hoodie in ‘White
The Blaze ^ | March 28, 2012 | Benny Johnson

Posted on 03/28/2012 12:29:42 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

In an exclusive interview with The Blaze, Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) explains what motivated him to break House rules and put on a hoodie during a chaotic speech on Tuesday. It was a speech that eventually led to him getting yanked from the podium.

When asked on Tuesday afternoon why he wore the hoodie on the House floor, he responded, “To demonstrate my outrage of Trayvon Martin’s Murder.”

“The reason he was killed was because he was a black man wearing a hoodie in a white neighborhood,” he added.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: blackpanther; bobbyrush; formerblackpanther; trayvonmartin
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To: Lazamataz

Maybe Sons of Barack works better?


21 posted on 03/28/2012 1:00:51 PM PDT by dblshot (Insanity: electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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To: trappedincanuckistan
I just saw Bobby Rush interviewed on CNN. How did someone that is completely illiterate make it to Congress?

He's from Illinois, Chicago specifically. My state is a total embarrassment!

22 posted on 03/28/2012 1:04:56 PM PDT by blondee123 (To GOP Est. - Not This Time!)
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To: trappedincanuckistan
I just saw Bobby Rush interviewed on CNN. How did someone that is completely illiterate make it to Congress?

He's from Illinois, Chicago specifically. My state is a total embarrassment!

23 posted on 03/28/2012 1:04:58 PM PDT by blondee123 (To GOP Est. - Not This Time!)
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To: trappedincanuckistan
I just saw Bobby Rush interviewed on CNN. How did someone that is completely illiterate make it to Congress?

He's from Illinois, Chicago specifically. My state is a total embarrassment!

24 posted on 03/28/2012 1:05:01 PM PDT by blondee123 (To GOP Est. - Not This Time!)
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To: trappedincanuckistan
I just saw Bobby Rush interviewed on CNN. How did someone that is completely illiterate make it to Congress?

He's from Illinois, Chicago specifically. My state is a total embarrassment!

25 posted on 03/28/2012 1:05:01 PM PDT by blondee123 (To GOP Est. - Not This Time!)
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To: smoothsailing

His “hoodie” looks like it’s a high-end model from REI.


26 posted on 03/28/2012 1:07:34 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Lazamataz

“Sons of Obama

You may have inadvertently named the civilian army intended to create disorder this summer.”

Hey Laz! You’re probably right. It’s going to be a long hot summer in the inner-cities. They are already ramping up the rhetoric, with the “civil unrest” to follow soon after. Obama needs a huge ‘Reichstag Fire’ leading up to the election and I fear he will use this class/race warfare to light it. Keep your head down and your powder dry!


27 posted on 03/28/2012 1:09:36 PM PDT by Batman11 (Obama's poll numbers are so low the Kenyans are claiming he was born in the USA!)
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To: trappedincanuckistan; Lizavetta
I just saw Bobby Rush interviewed on CNN. How did someone that is completely illiterate make it to Congress?

He has the distinction of defeating Barack Obama in the 2000 Illinois 1st District Congressional Primary, Obama's only election defeat to date. Rush has held the seat ever since. Rush also was a co-founder of the Illinois Branch of the original Black Panther Party.

28 posted on 03/28/2012 1:11:03 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Except that the “white neighborhood” turns out to be a mixed race apartment complex. I tell you, if you’re even one day behind on this story you risk making yourself look ridiculous. Each day it seems like another leg is kicked out from under the original “narrative”.


29 posted on 03/28/2012 1:11:46 PM PDT by Yardstick
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so the black supremacist is telling everyone to walk around with their face obscured and with large protruding objects in their pockets.. and Whorealdo apologized for telling that wearing a hood (which hid the face) used to be a signal that someone was up to no good.

I need to drink until this all makes sense..


30 posted on 03/28/2012 1:13:38 PM PDT by newnhdad (Where will you be during the Election Riots of 2012/2013?)
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To: blondee123
pssst .. i was born waaaaay downstate, but got out in the 70s .. can we keep it just 'tween you and me ?
31 posted on 03/28/2012 1:14:10 PM PDT by tomkat (FU.baraq !)
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To: newnhdad
I need to drink until this all makes sense..

If that's the plan, you prolly don't have enough on hand

32 posted on 03/28/2012 1:15:40 PM PDT by tomkat (FU.baraq !)
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To: smoothsailing

Yeah I seem to remember he was a Black Panther, but I wasn’t sure of his exact role.


33 posted on 03/28/2012 1:16:09 PM PDT by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

How did someone that is completely illiterate make it to Congress?

Easy, his constituents are just as illiterate!


34 posted on 03/28/2012 1:16:28 PM PDT by jimmyo57
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To: trappedincanuckistan

How did someone that is completely illiterate make it to Congress?.. that’s pretty much the entirety of the democrat caucus. all mouth breathing, drooling idiots that do what Pelousy says and she returns insider stock info in exchange for votes. Which is why Giffords fit in perfectly.


35 posted on 03/28/2012 1:17:27 PM PDT by newnhdad (Where will you be during the Election Riots of 2012/2013?)
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To: jimmyo57

If I was a member of Congress I’d be embarrassed.


36 posted on 03/28/2012 1:18:17 PM PDT by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Uh, dude, the neighborhood wasn’t a “white” neighborhood.

It was 49% white and 51% black and Hispanic.

That total doesn’t amount to a “white neighborhood”.


37 posted on 03/28/2012 1:39:08 PM PDT by Jack Burton007 (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

Cofounder and deputy defense minister of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party.

http://justpiper.com/2010/04/in-depth-piece-by-jp-panthers-deem-flap-over-voting-error-and-history/


39 posted on 03/28/2012 1:47:39 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

“Deputy Defense Minister” rofl.


40 posted on 03/28/2012 1:51:30 PM PDT by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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