While the parents of Trayvon Martin are saying that he is wearing a hoodie in heaven, Geraldo Rivera went on the air to denounce hoodies as evil garments causing the death of teenagers across the country.
Here is Geraldo’s view:
I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters, particularly, to not let their young children go out wearing hoodies. I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.
Geraldo continued:
“When you, when you see a kid walking — Juliet — when you see a kid walking down the street, particularly a dark skinned kid like my son Cruz, who I constantly yelled at when he was going out wearing a damn hoodie or those pants around his ankles. Take that hood off, people look at you and they — what do they think? What’s the instant identification, what’s the instant association?”
He then made comments along the same lines on his radio show.
Source: Washington Post
Well Heraldo…… What was in Al Capones brick wall……will you please tell us….. Hoodies…. Really….
Given that Jerry Rivers changed his name so he could pass as a Latino he should be a bit more careful – there are pictures floating around the internet of him in a hoodie. Theres even one of him with that other defender of all that is silly and senseless in America, Bill O’Reilly, at a Mets game where both gangsta thugs are wearing hoodies.
I posted on this subject on my site http://www.mostly-right.com. As more details come to light, including an updated profile of Treyvon Martin, the rush to judge should clearly be slowing. Thanks for the insightful piece.
Jeff
Craig Sonner, George Zimmerman’s Lawyer, Reportedly Flees Lawrence O’Donnell Interview
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/craig-sonner-interview-lawrence-odonnell_n_1381578.html
Don’t people realize that (nowadays) teenagers go through a FU stage, It’s part of growing up, I’ve heard.
In the early 50′s all we had was smoking and not washing our jeans.
We had gone through the shoplifting of yo-yo’s when we were ten.
All that other shit today is the result of ????????? you name it?
I guess there’s more to protest against today. Be glad most of them are not carrying weapons.
eniobob,
I read that story this morning. I guess Sonner decided not to stand his ground, huh?
Pirates of the Carribean: Sink his boat when you catch him on the high seas. He is not one of us. He is a NYC phony and he changed his name from some yokel name to Geraldo. When he walks the plank, make him wear a hoodie.
He works for Fox News. He is indoctrinated. It is to be expected.
Doesnt Geraldo realize that everyone wears hoodies, including the white working class fox courts. I guess fox has given up on the working class and is just sticking with the elderly demographic.
Elaine M.
I couldn’t have said it better.
“I guess Sonner decided not to stand his ground, huh?”
Get your 2012 reelect Obama hoodie on sale now
Where I come from, Latinos in hoodies are generally farm workers. The hoodies keep their necks from burning while they toil in the sun.
krissy 1, March 27, 2012 at 10:14 am
“Doesnt Geraldo realize that everyone wears hoodies, including the white working class fox courts. I guess fox has given up on the working class and is just sticking with the elderly demographic.”
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I’m on a fb site of people who graduated from neighboring high schools. Graduation dates seem to run from the ’50s thru the ’70s (guess the youngsters have better things to do). Lots of us wear hoodies but didn’t know we were considered gangsta’s. Now we know.
While there is definitely a problem with a racist police department and prosecutor that have failed to charge Zimmerman, racism isn’t the only problem this tragedy highlights. There is also the non-racist reason that people associate young black males with crime: While young black males make up less than 5% of the total population, they commit almost half of the violent crime in the US. There is very little deviation between the criminal conviction rate and the suspect race/gender that victims report to police. So it isn’t a case of inherent racism in the judicial system. Baggy pants are an active embracing of prison culture. Hiding your face, with a hoodie or otherwise, is something people do when they are committing crimes, just look at the video tapes from any convience store hold up and you have strong odds of seeing the robber with a hoodie over his head. None of the things makes Trayvon’s killing acceptable but they do make it predictable and make future events like this preventable. Of course preventing such future incidents will require black leader to admit to the problems that the black community is bringing to the table, and earnestly addressing them. Bill Cosby tried, and the people who shut him down are partially responsible for Trayvon’s death.
Hoodies are not evil. A Packers jersey or Red Wings jesrsey… now that’s evil.
Feyd Rautha,
Around Boston, Red Sox fans proudly wear T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Yankees Suck.” Should they be advised not to wear them in NYC?
Does anyone else hear the faint but audible sound of “…the way she was dressed, she was asking to be raped…” in the background? Blame the victim because the perpetrator couldn’t control himself.
rcampbell,
Yep. Right again.
my son Cruz, who I constantly yelled at when he was going out wearing a damn hoodie or those pants around his ankles
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try lowering you voice and reasoning with him. can’t hurt, apparently yelling ain’t helping.
Shoot Pete, if the kid is lucky Jerry never speaks to him at all. The kid called him out on tweeter shortly after he tweeted this idiocy.
But its all a game to these scum. They are ripping the country into tiny pieces because it is profitable. If only there really were a hell for them, they have earned it.
Two of many things we lack in Sweden, (besides jews, smiling at SwM), are:
1) funny cute birthday cards—in fact cards of any kind here are stupid and dopy.
2) hoodies and sweatshirts with hip (sorry old word) text/pictures.
Don’t tell me to go into business. You have to have market acceptance or hip customers. When questioned about what they came home with from the USA, they usually don’t know what the text refers to.
Sigh.
So any hip tips are welcome.
So…ThinkoftheChildren, I’d like you to consider a few things, since you sound quite thoughtful.
1. Maybe young African Americans are simply being CHARGED WITH MORE CRIMES and CONVICTED OF MORE CRIMES than their white contemporaries; maybe they are not actually COMMITTING MORE. I know a family that has three white kids and one black kid. One of their white kids has done plenty of things that would have been prosecuted to the max, had that child been black, especially poor and black, as many black children are, through no fault of their own. Yet it is a major concern of the parents in that family to watch over and guide and guard the black kid because he is the most vulnerable, in terms of how police and society would treat him.
2. Maybe young African Americans are committing more of the crimes that cannot be hidden when their white contemporaries can easily hide such misdemeanors. And once they get into the system, maybe they are being channeled into other crimes.
3. Maybe young African Americans are needing to resort to self-defense more often. Hmmmmm…
There are lots of other sociological and psychological factors involved, including the attitudes of police. For intance, a white guy who has a judge for a father might be considered innocent more readily than a black guy who has no judges in his family. So the attitude of the police might just as easily play into who gets arrested when there is some sort of trouble…
NRA Begins Selling Hoodies With Pocket To Conceal Handguns
The National Rifle Association has a new item in its online store: hoodies, with a special pocket designed to conceal a handgun. Hooded sweatshirts have taken on new meaning in the last week as a symbol for Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed while wearing one last month. Last week, Geraldo Rivera speculated that it was Trayvon’s hoodie that was to blame for his death, sparking widespread criticism. “We want concealed carry to fit around your lifestyle — not the other way around. That’s why we developed the NRAstore exclusive Concealed Carry Hooded Sweatshirt,” reads the product description. If enough people buy them, Rivera may be right to assume some hoodies can be dangerous.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/03/27/453313/nra-begins-selling-hoodies-with-pocket-to-conceal-handguns/
Elaine M.
Wearing a yankees suck t-shirt in NYC would be unwise. But that would not exonerate someone who attacks this t-shirter. So where (or wear) do land on this?
Ban hoodies? I would rather ban the baggy pant’s hanging down around kids rear ends these days! Geraldo on the scene again!
Jeff Metz
http://www.mostly-right.com