Why I Won’t Wear a Hoodie Reason #4,080: My Fear of Being Shot by Geraldo Rivera

Mar 24, 2012 7 Comments by Rippa

On some real talk: this Trayvon Martin thing has become exhausting. No seriously, I’m at the point where it’s hard for me to even respond to all the stupid talk about the situation. If it isn’t the idiocy of Dr. Boyce Watkins and his article bashing president Obama for not calling Trayvon’s mom because unlike Sandra Fluke, she’s Black. It’s the tons of side-eye provoking comments all over social media. Yep, everybody is talking; and some of them have more stinking opinions than assholes.

Thankfully, there are more people “doing” instead of talking. Thankfully there are more people willing to attend rallies all across the country in the interest of demanding justice for the innocently killed 17-year-old by an over-zealous ~~Officer Tackleberry~~ do-gooder down in Sanford, Florida. Yes, there is so much energy being outpoured in support for his family that it’s almost contagious. Like I said, everybody is talking about Trayvon Martin. Some make more sense than others, but Geraldo Rivera isn’t one of them with the mental capacity to do so in a constructively congruent manner:

You know, I think Geraldo just saved my life. I was just sitting here thinking about being a “follower” in the interest of justice and joining the Million Hoodie March, but now I think I’ll forego such an undertaking. Hell, the last thing my family needs is for me to be shot dead by a suit and tie wearing Geraldo Rivera, or maybe even al-Queda. After all, there’s a war going on out there and it nothing to do with race, right? Shoot, everybody knows Oscar Grant was killed by a police officer concerned about the threat his choice in attire posed a threat to the community at large, right?

Hey, Geraldo: The Unabomber wore a Hoodie for Years and He Never Got Shot!

Listen, unlike Geraldo I’m not afraid of African American or Latino men wearing hoodies and baggy jeans. Truth be told, I’m more fearful of white men and women wearing black robes more than anything else. Shit, I could be wearing a friggin three piece suit and standing in front of a judge and it won’t make me less criminal, or even less of a threat to society. Hell, there are studies to prove just what I’m saying; so, that self-loathing, tight-buttcheek-holding, kneecap-licking, sellout called Geraldo Rivera can kiss my ass. He clearly has forgotten his color on this one; but hey, it happens and it won’t be the first or last time. So yeah, II’m not afraid of the Klan or anyone who chooses to wear those pointy headed white hoodies. Nope, we black folk have guns for that these days.

Yes Geraldo, we should arrest the hoodie…

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Blame the Hoodie? GIVE ME A BREAK. It was raining …. the kid was running …..and being stalked …….and ….SORRY, but we don’t ALL use Totes umbrellas when going to the corner grocery store for a snack. Nor should we risk losing our very lives while doing so! Mr. Rivera: you should be ashamed of your inane, insensitive comments about Trayvon, and your attempts to create “excuses” for the inexcusable actions of judge-jury-and-executioner George Zimmerman (and those that would imitate him). We are becoming a society that seeks and sees threats under every rock; a frightened society that sees danger with every “other” that is not just like us; a manipulated society with control-freaks running rampant (whether politicians or mayors or police chiefs or individuals). Power-hungry people that are only too eager to take advantage of our fears; that are only too willing to get away with anything and everything that they can, as they deprive us of our our liberty (and sometimes our lives)…..all in the name of defending it. What a shell game. But were it only a game. For it includes the worst provisions of the Patriot Act, the police spying on innocent people, “papers-please” and stop&frisk gone wild, the “right” to indefinitely detain Americans without trial, and out-of-control homicidal vigilantes such as we have tragically seen here. It’s a slippery slope that ultimately leads to a police state/Orwellian mentality that is more typical of places such as China or Cuba – NOT the America that I know and love. We USED to stand proud and free, and contrasted our open society to such sorry places. Now we imitate them. Our country is better than this. Our values are better than this. WE are better than this. Don’t blame the hoodie……blame what we are becoming, and allowing, and doing as a society. As Shakespeare once said: the fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves: For we have come to accept things that should NEVER be accepted by a freedom-loving people. It’s time… it’s way past time, to reverse course.
Joseph Winfield

Rivera is a straight up racist. Wants blacks to dress as dull as hr does. It won’t work. Enough of trying to tell us howto dress, or what to eat, or believing the history how it was re-written. Kill the racism crap. We are done with your type of people
sayntj

Thank you for writing something on this because I dont think anyone wants me to post what is on my mind about this incident.
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The spew of a media whore needing attention. That’s the sum total worth of this comment to me. Faux has not even been covering the story and when the head of network realizes that it is now a major part of the national conversation they decide to make up by unleashing their version of the village idiot.

I am not in the mood to spare around with these little diversionary ass wipes any more. A young black woman died today from a gunshot wound to her head. The shooter was a Chicago detective. She wasn’t wearing a hoodie at all. From the details that I have read so far, there is something not connecting right in this story either. She got struck by a bullet that supposedly was meant for a man holding a gun. Only the gun was his frickin’ cellphone. There were a lot of cones on the street. Too many in reality to even begin to believe that the detective aimed directly at the shooter in the first place. It’s not a damn hoodie. It’s the messed up mentality of people that is the reason for this shyt.
LOVE IMANI

AER YOU AND THE MURRDER BRITHERS LIKE TF WAT A HODDIE HAS TO DO WITH IS