Trayvon Martin

• Heretic

  

  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.

  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".
• 2kool4skool

  

  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".

  Drove by OSU campus today. Around 17th ave there seemed to be a gang of skinny, overly tanned white chicks up to no good. All wearing the same colored hoodies with some sort of 3 letter abbreviation on them. I assumed it stood for which sect of the bloods or crips they were "repping" so I shot and killed them on site.
  
  You're welcome Columbus, for making your streets safer.
• tcarrier32

  

  password;1130113 wrote:Here is a good story with NO racist accusations and a little common sense about the whole incident.
  
  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Trayvon-Martin-Geraldo-Zimmerman/2012/03/27/id/434002?PROMO_CODE=E428-1&utm_source=Outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Newsfront

  the world you were looking for is no.
• Fly4Fun

  

  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.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  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.

  You can't say though that if a girl dresses that way she's not looking for the extra sexual attention. Even if she wasn't, she shouldn't be naive enough to think people won't perceive her as easy. I feel it's no different than dressing thug-ish. You may not be a thug, but don't bring on the extra attention by dressing like one.
• Fab1b

  

  Hoodies are not an indicator to me of any potential thugness, however if your damn pants are pulled down to your thighs and your ass/underwear are out I will think you are thug! Racist? Don't care on that front!
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  Fab1b;1130192 wrote:Hoodies are not an indicator to me of any potential thugness, however if your damn pants are pulled down to your thighs and your ass/underwear are out I will think you are thug! Racist? Don't care on that front!

  I agree - if you don't want to be considered a thug, slut, whatever, don't put on that front.
• 2kool4skool

  

  Fab1b;1130192 wrote:Hoodies are not an indicator to me of any potential thugness, however if your damn pants are pulled down to your thighs and your ass/underwear are out I will think you are thug! Racist? Don't care on that front!

  Whose pants were down to their thighs?
• justincredible

  

  Raw Dawgin' it;1130191 wrote:You can't say though that if a girl dresses that way she's not looking for the extra sexual attention. Even if she wasn't, she shouldn't be naive enough to think people won't perceive her as easy. I feel it's no different than dressing thug-ish. You may not be a thug, but don't bring on the extra attention by dressing like one.

  So you're saying dressing like a "slut" justifies rape?
• Curly J

  

  justincredible;1130197 wrote:So you're saying dressing like a "slut" justifies rape?

  "I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it." - Bobby Knight.
• justincredible

  

  Seriously, when did hoodies become the uniform of thugs and hoodlums? I guess every fucking hipster on the planet is a thug.
• Fab1b

  

  2kool4skool;1130196 wrote:Whose pants were down to their thighs?

  I wasn't saying it to match this situation I meant in general when profiling for a thug
• 2kool4skool

  

  Fab1b;1130206 wrote:I wasn't saying it to match this situation I meant in general when profiling for a thug

  I would think a guy with a goatee would want to avoid stereotypes based on appearance.
• Fab1b

  

  2kool4skool;1130214 wrote:I would think a guy with a goatee would want to avoid stereotypes based on appearance.

  I am covered in Tats and yes my bald head and goat, I know people look at me in that way at times. It is what it is! Does that mean when I see someone with their pants down like a stated I would call the cops on them and follow then, etc...nope I just make sure I know my surroundings when I am somewhere and who is around me that is my point.
  
  Doesn't make it right but everyone does it with certain things, there isn't a person out there that could say they don't or I wouldn't believe them.
• password

  

  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.
  

• GOONx19

  

  ^ What does all that other stuff have to do with hoodies? We're having a hoodie discussion here.
• 2kool4skool

  

  password;1130219 wrote: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 title of the article is: "Geraldo Right About the Hoodie"
  
  If you don't want people to focus on the premise of the article, then post a different article. I'm sure you're asking yourself why nearly everyone is jumping on you for being an idiot. It's not a conspiracy, the reason is because you're posting idiotic things.
• fish82

  

  2kool4skool;1130148 wrote:.....
  
  
  
  :laugh::laugh::laugh:

  Uh...okay? :rolleyes:
• Early Cuyler

  

  2kool4skool;1130158 wrote:Drove by OSU campus today. Around 17th ave there seemed to be a gang of skinny, overly tanned white chicks up to no good. All wearing the same colored hoodies with some sort of 3 letter abbreviation on them. I assumed it stood for which sect of the bloods or crips they were "repping" so I shot and killed them on site.
  
  You're welcome Columbus, for making your streets safer.

  you got jokes. congratz
• justincredible

  

  I'm wearing a hoodie right now. I hope I don't get shot while grilling my steaks. But if I do, I absolutely deserved it.
• Fab1b

  

  If you put A-1 on them steaks hoodie or not, getting shot!
• mcburg93

  

  justincredible;1130248 wrote:I'm wearing a hoodie right now. I hope I don't get shot while grilling my steaks. But if I do, I absolutely deserved it.

  Are you running? If not your fine. If your running from inside to out you might have to worry.
• justincredible

  

  Fab1b;1130250 wrote:If you put A-1 on them steaks hoodie or not, getting shot!

  Eww. No.
• majorspark

  

  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.

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• password

  

  2kool4skool;1130234 wrote:The title of the article is: "Geraldo Right About the Hoodie"
  
  If you don't want people to focus on the premise of the article, then post a different article. I'm sure you're asking yourself why nearly everyone is jumping on you for being an idiot. It's not a conspiracy, the reason is because you're posting idiotic things.

  
  
  See one of the differences between you and me is I don't really give a shit what you or anyone else thinks about me. I voice my opinion without worrying about who will agree or who will be upset because I didn't agree with them. When you start paying my bills and running my businesses then you might have an opinion that matters to me, until then GFY.