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Hoodie and the Blowfish: Geraldo Calls For Crackdown on Killer Hoodies

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

31 thoughts on “Hoodie and the Blowfish: Geraldo Calls For Crackdown on Killer Hoodies”

  1. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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?

  5. Hoodies are not evil. A Packers jersey or Red Wings jesrsey… now that’s evil.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Where I come from, Latinos in hoodies are generally farm workers. The hoodies keep their necks from burning while they toil in the sun.

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  11. Elaine M.

    I couldn’t have said it better.

    “I guess Sonner decided not to stand his ground, huh?”

  12. 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.

  14. 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.

  16. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. Well Heraldo…… What was in Al Capones brick wall……will you please tell us….. Hoodies…. Really….

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