2kool4skool;1130147 wrote:Every middle and upper class person I know wears hoodies. I don't know anyone of even reasonable intelligence that would take it as "dressing like a hoodlum." This is simply awful writing.
Who has done that? I haven't seen anyone posting fake photos of Zimmerman and trying to pass them off as real? What do you imagine is the motive for circulating a false claim that a photo of another black male with sagging pants is Martin?
Heretic;1130154 wrote:No shit. I wear hoodies fairly often. Keeps things like wind out of my ears. Which keeps me healthier. And a hoodlum, I guess. Only a fucking retard correlates "hoodie = thug".
tcarrier32;1130163 wrote:the world you were looking for is no.
Fly4Fun;1130179 wrote:I'm going to jump on board and also so that was a terrible article.
Just as bad as justifying rape because a girl was wearing a skirt and low-cut top.
justincredible;1130204 wrote:Seriously, when did hoodies become the uniform of thugs and hoodlums? I guess every fucking hipster on the planet is a thug.
You are no different than everyone else that only reads the first sentences of a story and forms an opinion. The hoodie don't mean shit. Try reading everything after the hoodie comment.
The man who shot the black teenager in Florida may be as guilty as sin, for all I know — or he may be innocent, for all I know. We pay taxes so that there can be judges and jurors who sort out the facts.
We do not need Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton or the president of the United States spouting off before the trial has even begun. Have we forgotten the media's rush to judgment in the Duke University "rape" case that blew up completely when the facts came out?
If the facts show that a teenager who was no threat to anyone was shot and killed, it will be time to call for the death penalty. But if the facts show that the shooter was innocent, then it will be time to call for people in the media and in politics to keep their big mouths shut until they know what they are talking about.
Playing with racial polarization is playing with fire.
Much has been made of the fact that the teenager was unarmed. The only time I have ever pointed a loaded gun at a human being, I had no idea whether he was armed or not. All I knew was that I could hear his footsteps sneaking up behind me at night.
Fortunately for both of us, he froze in his tracks when I pointed a gun at him. If he had made a false move, I would have shot him. And if it had turned out later that he was unarmed, I would not have lost a moment's sleep over it.
You know that someone was unarmed only after it is all over. If he attacks, you have to shoot, if only to keep the attacker from getting your gun.
It so happened that the man I pointed a gun at was white. But he could have been any color of the rainbow, and it would not have made the slightest difference.
Let the specific facts come out in the Florida case. That is why we have courts.
Have we forgotten the Jim Crow era, with courts making decisions based on the race of the defendants, rather than the facts of the case? That is part of the past that we need to leave in the past, not resurrect it under new racial management.
Who is really showing concern for the well-being of minority youngsters, Geraldo Rivera who is trying to save some lives, or Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and others who are hyping this tragic episode for their own benefit?
Race hustlers who hype paranoia and belligerence are doing no favor to minority youngsters. There is no way to know how many of these youngsters' confrontations with the police or others in authority have been needlessly aggravated by the steady drumbeat of racial hype they have been bombarded with by race hustlers.
