March 25, 2012
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I Fear For the Life of Justin Bieber
Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera is blaming a hoodie on the death of Travvon Martin. The young black boy was shot even though he was unarmed.
Geraldo said, “I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly not to let their children go out wearing hoodies. I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as much as George Zimmerman was.”
He went on to say, “People look at you, and what’s the instant identification? What’s the instant association? It’s those crime-scene surveillance tapes. Every time you see someone stickin’ up a 7-Eleven, the kid’s wearing a hoodie.” Here is the link: Link
Do you tend think a hoodie is associated with criminal activity?
Comments (76)
No, I associate criminals with criminal activity.
Unfortunately, being black is associated with criminal activity. Just ask poverty pimp Jesse Jackson.
People on YouTube seem to think that I’m Justin Bieber, so thanks for your concern!
Ohhhhhh, I thought this was a racism issue! I should’ve known it was about the hoodies! Silly me.
I wear hoodies all the time and I’m one hardcore criminal.
I associate paranoid idiots with guns with criminal activity.
I was wearing my Grumpy dwarf hoodie earlier. People took a step back around me cause I’m a bad ass.
Geraldo is trying to become relevant. It’s a sad attempt.
I often walk 6 miles to and from home and work because I don’t own a car. Since Spring is only just now approaching (or here now), the mornings tend to be chilly at worst, so I wear a blackhoodie because it’s not too heavy to boil me alive, and just right to keep me warm. I work three jobs so I carry a change of clothes in my blackbackpack. My morning job requires me to wear blackpants. (By the way, I’m white.) Sometimes, depending on the temperature, I wear twohoodie jackets. TWO! And I wear both hoods! (Because I sometimes want to look really gangsta…) My walk has me traveling along a semi-busy highway just before dawn.
Whenever I stop by the 24-hour convenience store, I make sure I lower my hoodies, just because I’m not eager to provoke any worry amongst customers or clerks alike. (Go figure, though, there are about 3/4 of the customers who are black people who look gangster-like if we’re gonna jump to conclusions about who’s-who at a gas station. During my patronage to the store, though, not once has there been any trouble from the “normal” or the “gangsters”. Not the slightest.)
So this idea that a hoodie is to blame is like saying the gun went off by itself and that’s why the boy was killed. Better yet, let’s just say the hoodie strangled the poor boy and the gunman was just trying to save the boy by shooting the hoodie. Yeah,that sounds logical. Totally justifiable. … –__–
Milk ‘n cookies, fish ‘n chips, hoodies ‘n crime, Dan ’n boobs. All go together.
I think clothes are associated with criminal activity. The only person you can really trust is someone who walks around naked, all the time.
I think this is an appropriate time to remark that during my six years on Xanga I have moved from being one of the serious answerers of Dan’s questions, and looking down on idiots who wrote flippant answers, to being one of the writers of flippant answers, who laughs at the writers of serious answers.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
No, its associated with being cold.
I see what you did there, with the title. Hmmm.
I knew there was a reason I hated hoodies other than the fact that they mess up my hair.
This is only true if the color of your hoodie matches the color of your skin and your surroundings. So, if I wear a white hoodie in a blizzard, I am obviously up to no good and somebody should shoot me! At the same time, if I’m wearing pasties and a g-string under my hoodie and remove that hoodie, any man has the right to rape me! Yay, for clothing determining what I want done to me!
It’s always find something to blame it own instead of the person who actually commited the crime.It’s never anyBODIES fault.It was the clothes fault,or the SUV’s fault,or the guns fault.If it was the persons fault we would be judging,and we can’t have that.
Just put targets on them….I love my hoodies
@FuhkAwf - I just came in my pants a little.
Aw Theo, I believe guns in the wrong hands are the problem monsieur.
@Iobot - Wait I do that…Are you spying on moi?
@TiredSoVeryTired - I think most would be attackers would prefer you in a Batgirl costume mademoiselle….
@stupid_systemus - Your Grumpy hoodie is no match for my Oscar Le Grouch hoodie mon ami.
@Shadowrunner81 - Oui, I am guilty of criminal mischief, bu tI usually wear a ski mask instead of le hoodie.
It all depends by the way you act in the hoodie!
Jesus wore a hoodie. LINK
Guns kill people, not hoodies.
I like hoodies. They just ROCk..
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Yea….as a small asian female with a gentle aura I’m pretty sure I could wear the most ghetto outfit ever and still not be able to strike fear into any hearts.
@Somefishytales - If it was the persons fault we would be judging,and we can’t have that.
I think that was aimed at the liberals who like to be nonjudgmental in moral matters like opting to mate with their own gender and stuff like that, but when it comes to you know MURDER? Actually I judge the ever loving crap of the killer Zimmerman and I know they should arrest his ass, like last week, and I judge all the people who are behaving harzardously like all the cops who allowed the murderer to walk away with the murder weapon and originally wrote up the charges against the dead kid instead of the cold blooded killer, yeah I judge that.
just when you thought you knew me oh too well…
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Geraldo has an amazing ability to outdo his previous absurd comments, it never stops.
lulzwut?
Oh hell. Better think twice when I get up at 5 am to drive my fiance to work from now on…
i believe hoodies are associated to criminal activities as mini skirts and tights shirts are associated to women asking for “it”. people need to stop thinking that clothes are the problem and start educating people to not judge based on appearances
Actually, its all about being associated with the “bad” and if others don’t see this, they are living in denial. There is an image focused on our youth. It stems from gangsters who became rappers and when they made the money, instead of trying to focus on the positive, continued to bring the street philosophy into the entertainment arena. By glorifying the “bad” image in clothes, movies and in songs. So, its not surprising when a 7- Eleven store gets ripp-off or a group of gang members gets pulled over, all these guys are wearing these hooties.
So yeah, kids like the bad look that defines them with the street gang. So, Geraldo was not flippin when he was on fox news and made that statement. Kids who dress like gang members will be associated with them and then assholes like Zimmerman will try to take the rascist law into their own hands.
every fucking white person i’ve seen, save MAYBE 3, has spelled his name wrong.
T-R-A-Y-V-O-N. it’s NOT that hard.
this just shows how many people give a fuck, other than sensationalizing a news story. they don’t care that a 17 year old boy was shot, in his own neighborhood, by a white man with proven racist tendencies, after his girlfriend warned him to run, with skittled and tea to enjoy a fucking football games, and the man who did it HAD NOTHING DONE TO HIM. he wasn’t charged, he wasn’t held, he was HARDLY interrogated.
is it so hard to spell it? TRAYVON.
If hoodies wanted me shot, I would have died a long time ago. I wear hoodies and jeans everyday from fall to spring.
AND I’M STILL ALIVE.
Oh snappers! Looks like I’m just lucky I wasn’t shot on my way out my car this morning!! It was raining and I threw the hood of my favorite hoodie up! – __ – Reriously?!?!
Hoodies are NOT to blame. I can’t believe Geraldo Rivera would even dare suggest this. This reminds me of rape victims “asking for it” by the attire they wear. In no way, shape, or form are people asking to be killed by wearing certain clothing. It’s disgusting.
Nope. Just black people in hoodies.
@RealistFantasies - He isn’t white. He’s hispanic. More proof that people immediately want white people to be the blame when someone black suffers a tragedy (see how ridiculous that sounds? It’s just a name). Furthermore, why isn’t there a huge media outcry over this case http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?s=6023706?
Double standards in this country. Also, apparently there’s a key witness that saw Tavvon (just to piss you off) attack Miller. If true, it could blow the lid off the entire case.
The sign on my local convenience store was robbed 3 times in a short period of time so there’s now a sign that says “Please remove hood before entering.”
It TOTALLY works at scaring away robbers…. :]
I used to wear hoodies when I was partaking in criminal activities… Ahh ha ha hah Yeah, not really…
That’s just stupid.
Justin is white, so accodring to Rivera he doesn’t have to fear being killed so much.
I like how Geraldo is stating that Blacks & Latinos should not wear hoodies..what about Asians or white people? Seems very stereotypical & racist to make such a bold statement like that.
No I associate Justin Bieber with baby baby baby ooh like.. baby baby baby .. oooh :p
wait geraldo rivera arent you pureto rican russian and jewish ? Yeah umm that whole wwII propaganda comes to mind as in Jewish star in germany during the 1940s wasnt exactly held in high regard either niether was being russian. So just say racism is at the core issue not a damn hoodie.Man geraldo you haveeee really sunk low.
I go to school in my hoodie yo.
@RazielV - ever looked at the section for race identification
“hispanic” “white hispanic”different, he’s white hispanic.white is a race, hispanic is an ethnicityhis color? white.
@RealistFantasies - -rolls eyes- He’s White Hispanic, yes, but you called him a “White man”. Splitting hairs, but saying he’s solely a “white man” is indicative that he’s Caucasian, not Hispanic. That’s common sense. Re-read you comment because at no point did you indicate that he is Hispanic. Of course if his name wasn’t George Zimmerman, but José Martinez there’d be no “grey area” wording of it. If we’re going to play out this little race card of yours (“White people can’t spell a black name right!”) then let’s get all the racial facts straight, mmkay?
@RazielV - What about white men with John Lennon glasses and goatees who need a haircut and weird names like Razie wearing hoodies? Will they get shot too?
@RazielV - Do you know if Treyvon Martin was shot in the back or the front? Cuz that would make a huge difference. Does anyone know if he was shot in the back or the front?
Anyone seen George Zimmerman? He looks like a cabbage patch doll.
@redlight3 - Only after thoroughly raping n00bs hiding behind troll accounts and silly profile pictures. The Lennon pick would work had my glasses even remotely looked like his. LOSE.
Hopefully the back, Boondock Saints style.
@RazielV - Pffft. Just as I thought. You are but a mere court jester, strutting and fretting his hour upon the stage, full of BS, signifying nothing. Again, I say, Pffffft.
@redlight3 - Cute how you edited your comment. Freudian slip, much? Yes, you are exactly what you erroneously claimed to be. Though I admit your half-arsed Shakespearean writing is wholly amusing. Try again later, jelly.
http://razielv.xanga.com/photos/96dc6281339591/ <— caught and lost.
@RazielV - Watching you breaks my heart becuz I can see you are flirting with intelligence but are getting the cold shoulder.
@redlight3 - Coming from the noobcake who can’t spell “because” properly. #bilosing
@RazielV - The one thing I noticed about you is that if you were anymore stupid you would have to be watered 2 x’s a week.
@redlight3 - In most cases try-hards would succeed at some point. Yours is like the never-ending quest of a straight man finding a straight man in San Fran. #triwinning
@RazielV - You must be an experiment in artificial stupidity.
@DivaJyoti - Talking about the Zimmerman thing.My wife told me she saw where there was an eye witness that says he saw what happened.Said the boy turned and asked why Zimmerman was following him and the next thing the eyewitness knew,the boy was on top of Zimmerman hitting him and that was when Zimmerman pulled his gun and shot the kid.I honestly don’t know who or what to believe.I’m afraid the news media(on both sides) are so anxious to get the story first,they disreguard the truth and go with what will make the biggest story.Everyone has their own agenda nowadays and it’s just a shame.Truth is SOOOO hard to find in todays crazy mixed up world.
@RazielV - Oh, and one more thing before I go to sleep, I’ ve never said this to anyone and meant it, but you trip over cordless phones.
@redlight3 - Worst, troll, ever.
Good try, though, jellyfag. Perhaps tomorrow you’ll get on my level and we can play a game of hide the sausage. You’re already playing Hide The Wit, and winning at that. You were bound to win at something, sometime. <3
@RazielV - I was gonna be a nice guy and suggest a game of spot the idiot but that’s too easy at the moment.
Pip pip, cheerio lad.
@RazielV - YOU’RE the one splitting hairs. “white hispanic” is still fucking white.
he was a racist, white man. that’s it. there is no gray area here. he made dozens of 911 calls all to report black men is his neighborhood as suspicious no matter what they were doing. he was recorded calling him a racial slur. he’s still white, and still free. “race card” is a bullshit way of saying “i don’t want to acknowledge race as a factor/white people can still be racist.” this conversation is pointless, so I’m done.
Yes. So are ski masks when worn off the ski slopes or when it isn’t
below ºF outside. A small bank I like because it takes security
very seriously has warnings on its branch entrance doors telling those who
enter to remove all sunglasses, ski masks, hoods, etc. That makes good
sense to me. I won’t bank at a place that requires my finger or thumb
print to cash checks (and am not going to knowingly accept a check
written on an account at a financial institution that does), but having
to allow my face to be seen clearly so as to be recorded by security
cameras and maybe identified by bank customers and staff doesn’t bother
me a bit.
Justin Bieber is certainly annoying enough to parents of vacuous tweenage girls, and wearing a hoodie might help him avoid the paparazzi The former is far more likely to endanger him than the latter.
@redlight3 - Ironic statement is ironic. <3
@RealistFantasies - Knock it off. You know fully well the semantics of the term “white” and what it entails. Ignoring it is just as ignorant as saying, “Hey, when I said ‘African’ I obviously meant the WHITE Africans.”
Holy shit, white people CAN be racist?! SO THAT MEANS THE HISTORY BOOKS WERE TRUE?! -facepalm- What is wrong with you? You recklessly toss around a racial marker (white) without acknowledging the situation properly, then have the gall to assert I’m shaming myself into delusion about the matter? Hypocritical.
Furthermore, what of the eye witness that came forth in anonymity claiming he/she saw the kid attack Zimmerman? Interesting you have nothing to say on that matter. The whole event is not as cut and dry as you want it to be, nor can it be until the entire story is laid bare. AND REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME, a young teen is dead. That, that is the saddest part of this whole thing. Our society is ever-slowly circling the drain, but you keep tossing your vehemence over something fucking stupid as mis-spelling a name. That’s definitely going to change things, and is so goddamn important, right?
Dan, your biting sarcasm is your most endearing quality. This blog entry is the epitome of that facet in your personality.
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Hmm, do they sell hoodies right next to guns and ammo?
Should they put warning labels on hoodies?
@RealistFantasies - Wow, I never knew someone would be so butt hurt over the spelling of a stranger’s name. Lol.
@sheshe143 - And I never knew a whole country could give so little of a fuck about the murder of an innocent child but herenwe fucking are.
@RazielV - YOU don’t tell me to “knock it off” when you know full well this man is WHITE SKINNED AND IDENTIFIED AS WHITE and this kid’s name would not have been spelled wrong once if people gave a flying fuck about him and not just the media sensationalizing of the case. So, yeah, the case is pretty fucking cut and dry when you hear witness reports, the recording and the history of Zimmerman.
And African isn’t a race, it’s an ethnicity or nationality. Race, which isn’t a biological or even geographical concept but a societal one, isn’t the same so African implies where they are from not what they look like and white would be the race they identify as or people identify them as. Apples and oranges are both fruit but most certainly not the same.
@RealistFantasies - I never said that I did not care about the murder and it happened in the same county that I live in. So, I do have concerns.
@RealistFantasies - ”every fucking white person i’ve seen, save MAYBE 3, has spelled his name wrong.
T-R-A-Y-V-O-N. it’s NOT that hard.”
Racist!!!!
@RealistFantasies - You can throw a tantrum all you bloody well want. Latino is not White. Fact. Grow up a little. You’re just trying to justify your original post which had a very racist and condescending attitude over a fucking name mis-spelling.
Hoodies should only be worn in snow and playing poker. It is also o.k. if you are a unibomber.
@sheshe143 - @RazielV - I don’t think you know what the word racist means.
But you’re right it is racist no one gives a fuck how to spell the kids name because he’s black.
I’ve heard and read literally dozens of white people say “or however you spell it because black names are so hard to spell.”
But here’s a little tip: can’t be racist to white people.
Seeing someone in a hoodie would not automatically make me think of a criminal activity. Although I do believe it is shady and sketchy at certain times and in certain instances, it all depends on the situation.