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.
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
Trayvon Martin would be alive if he had called 911 and reported a suspicious person following him.
Always easy to armchair QB after the fact.
Take a poll of 7-11 and other personnel as to what their reaction would be - same as mine if I was in one of those stores (RARE event).
I have a “Hoodie” but I only wear it when it is a cold windy day. I’m also an Old Fud and don’t look THAT intimidating. However, let some young kid wear it, any color, and like Rivera, I’m thinking “ghetto wannabe maybe looking to establish his ‘creds’ “ and the hand drifts down to my inside-the-pants holster.
A black in a “hoodie” means the same thing as a KKK member in their hood, the races are just reversed.
Sure, Geraldo. Got it.
Now......carefully put down the crack pipe and go back to bed. It’s for your own good.
“You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” Obama said.
This is out and out race baiting. Total thuggery on the part of Obama. Only part he left out was to bring out your guns.
Oh yeah, he’s said that before too.
In the majority of security videos of robberies I see on local news, the perp is wearing a hoodie.
“If you don’t vote for 0bama, you support the killing of Trayvon Martin”
That’s what he’s going for.
“.......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.
Trayvon Martin would be alive if he hadn't been on top of Zimmerman, punching him repeatedly.
I have at least a dozen hoodies. I spend a lot of time outside. At least 3 of mine are hunter orange. I spend half the year in hoodies, long johns, and Carhardts.
Yes, it is, he wants race riots just like every other leftist POS in this country
Great minds and all that:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2862284/posts?page=180#180
I think you and I are the only one’s pointing out that fact.
If ghetto types took to wearing purple ties with pink spots it would be the same. In time the rest of us would move away from people with purple ties with pink spots. It’s NOT the hoodie - it’s what the hoodie represents. It’s screams ‘ghetto violent’.
ANYTHING black ghetto criminals wear as a fashion statement will become something the rest of us recoil from...
As a percent of population, black males are the most violent - black young people deaths? The vast majority of the murders are done by black men. The MSM is very quiet about those murders. Those murders don’t help liberal elites. Those murders only hurt the black community.
Black people get a little money and the first thing many do is MOVE AWAY from black people. The racist Rev Wright who thinks of whites as blue eyed devils - retired and moved to a white community. It’s not uncommon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFOmUXR080
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.”
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