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:
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Do you tend think a hoodie is associated with criminal activity?
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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.
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.
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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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