Trayvon Martin Dogged By Disciplinary Problems at School
He is "dogged" by "problems"? Like, these "problems" keep following him around as he tries to escape them, and and they bite him in the ankles?
No. He was disciplined repeatedly for his own poor choices, and sometimes his criminal choices. The headline makes him sound like some kind of passive victim. Pure bad luck. No, he is the perp, by his own bad choice.
Trayvon Martin Dogged By Disciplinary Problems at School He is "dogged" by "problems"? Like, these "problems" keep following him around as he tries to escape them, and and they bite him in the ankles?
I know, I noticed that too.
"Trayvon kept trying to do right, but every time he started to get himself together, why, those darned Diciplinary Problems would crop up again, and down he go. Seemed like wherever he went, those Disciplinary Problems were just waiting for him.""I told him many time, Trayvon honey, you just gotta stay away from those Disciplinary Problems, don't let'em get you, don't let'm bring you down! And Trayvon, he say I know Mama, I'm tryin' hard. They doggin' me Mama, they doggin' me."
Another non-judgemental phrase the MSM likes to use is "caught up in," as in "Tyrone wanted to play for the NBA, but he got caught up in the street-level drug business when he was in the eighth grade, according to his great-grandmother."