Posted on 03/26/2012 6:35:58 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
ALBANY - State Senate Democrats put on hooded sweatshirts to protest the death of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teen allegedly gunned down by neighborhood crime watch captain in Florida.
At an Capitol news conference, Sen. Eric Adams, D-Brooklyn, denounced the killing of Martin, who, he said, carried nothing but "Skittles and god-damned ice tea."
The Senators discussed the case as groups around the country, including members of the NBA's Miami Heat, have put on the sweatshirts or "hoodies" to decry the 17-year-old's killing.
Martin, who was black, was shot on Feb. 26, allegedly by a neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman, 32. Martin was wearing a hooded sweatshirt as he walked through a gated community on the way to the home of his father's girlfriend.
Zimmerman, who is white and Latino, has claimed he fired on the unarmed teen in self defense. The killing, and the lack of criminal charges, have caused outrage in Sanford, the Florida community where the death occurred, an protests around the country.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Senators-wear-hoodies-to-decry-Trayvon-Martin-s-3435567.php#ixzz1qHDeXcAv
Proof positive that any moron can become a politician.
A “Senator” no less.
There’s a bank by me that prohibits anyone from entering who is wearing a hat, sunglasses, or a hoodie. I guess they are going to have to change that , at least for hoodies, now that the virtues of the hoodie wearer should be obvious to everyone.
Just goes to show you how stupid our “leaders” are! Scary, huh?
No agenda here folks. just move along.
They look like fools. They look like rejects from a high school assembly in which the teachers attempt to appear cool and hip.
And from the picture, 99% of them are racist.
what clueless race-baiters!
George Zimmerman was going back to his car when he was Jumped. Treyvor was pounding George’s head into the comment.. self-defense!
You people in New York must be so proud.
The state is bankrupt, but at least the Senate is working on the things that really matter. :)
Now go pay your taxes, your government is broke.
These people are fomenting violence
what clueless race-baiters!
George Zimmerman was going back to his car when he was Jumped. Treyvor was pounding George’s head into the comment.. self-defense!
what clueless race-baiters!
George Zimmerman was going back to his car when he was Jumped. Treyvor was pounding George’s head into the comment.. self-defense!
I have always wondered how they managed to carry around that very overdeveloped prism of race? I mean, it must weigh tons....
Idiots
Dudes, invest in the hoodie manufacturers! New spring fashion.
so...there protesting against a Hispanic Jew that is a Democrat? Nice.
Some people like to believe in hope, change, and I wish it was this way or that.
When 12 percent of the population commits well over 50% of the murders, and nearly 50% is committed by someone 22 or younger can you see how suspicious people are. I hate to say it but this group has done it to themselves.
These statistics come from the FBI for 2010.
Sorry Reverend’s Jackson and Sharpton but you need to look inward to solve this problem and stop blaming the white man.
You get your own shop in order before telling others how to run theirs.
These racists are so blinded by their hatred of whites and now Mexicans that they don’t realize that THEY ARE ONLY 13% OF THE POPULATION AND THAT THEY ARE P*SSING OFF ALL OTHER RACES IN THE COUNTRY WITH THEIR BULLYING TACTICS!!! THIS IS GOING TO BACKFIRE BIG TIME ON THEM!
AND DON’T FORGET THAT THE MAIN OFFENDER OF RACIAL DIVISION IS BARAK OBAMA.
In Poland, where I passed through a couple of years ago, you cannot wear a hoodie without being branded NFG, as I learned, while displaying my own Made in China wardrobe. Only gang members and skins wear them. They are called there ‘dresy’ in plural, as if derived from the English ‘dress’ and I’ve never been able to discover where that name came from.
Does that make Obama a white blackman or a black whiteman?
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