Posted on 03/23/2012 8:49:52 AM PDT by Beaten Valve
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Posing like a hip hop mogul when the holes in your pants are real is ultimately self-defeating.
But leave the subject of self-destructive pretense for another time, let’s talk hoodies.
His hoodie killed Trayvon Martin as surely as George Zimmerman did.
Remember when my friend and colleague the estimable Juan Williams got fired from NPR for saying that Muslims formally garbed freaked him out at airports? Juan is among America's sharpest commentators. He wasn't justifying his reaction, he was copping to it. Maybe shock therapy or a semester of sensitivity training could change it, otherwise It is what it is.
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.
Because this is a teachable moment let me speak plainly.
Whatever Reverends Sharpton and Jackson say in Florida Friday, after listening to the 911 tapes and hearing the witness’ testimonials, I believe Trayvon Martin would be alive today but for his hoodie.
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Down the street? I read here he was killed in somebody's back yard.
Are you wearing your sockets, tee-tee, and undies, too?
Just kidding—but I always thought the term hoddie was just silly.
No sh*t, Sherlock.
Slamming a man’s head into the concrete while beating him the face form the mount position is a violent felony for which he was shot to death, and deservedly so.
The race zombies, of which you are one, seem to ignore the fact that Zimmerman shot the little thug in order to save his life.
Period, end of story.
Interesting. I work in a high school on the West Coast and kids are NOT allowed to slouch around with a hoodie covering their faces— although they try — try it in class too so they can sleep!!
Faces are not to be covered up at any time (and NO we don’t have any burka wearers...yet).
Oh, I remember those hoodies!! They had a skeleton (or skeletor) painted on the face part — they zipped up right across the face!! WE thought it was going to become a HUGE fad.
We teachers passed out an official missive from the school district with a picture of one of those particular hoodies on it warning students that they were NOT to show up at school wearing one.
Making up crap is all you are good at. Concrete, hell the boy would have been justified in killing zimmermen , under the florida law. He was in fear of his life because some dead beat was stalking him. He should have hit him in the head with a baseball bat. Then the kid without a record would be alive and the sorry dead beat 28 year with a criminal record would be on the slab.
Get out of my face, you are brain dead and useless.
It’s amazing what is tolerated on FR lately.
Like father like son?
Seal them good, the communist narrative is what matters, dontcha know?
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