Geraldo: ‘The hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon’s death as Zimmerman

What a depressing case. Frankly I have no idea how to come down on it because I don't know exactly what happened. Did he get confronted and attack Zimmerman? Did Zimmerman attack him? Was Zimmerman intoxicated? Was Zimmerman mounted getting beat up as some reports say? He was busted up in his face. Was Zimmerman a latino racist? I think this will get very ugly as the case drags on, and the two sides try to paint the other.

But I can say, I've given my kids similar advice to what Geraldo is saying here. The Bible says avoid the "appearance of evil" not just evil itself. We saw a young man walking by our car with tattoos on his neck and hands. I told them, what an idiot. Now, because of one decision he made one day, he can never hide his tattoos. Had he been just a little brighter, he would have kept his tattoos where he could hide them if he needed to. Please don't get tattoos, but if you are dumb enough, please put them where they can be hidden!

Here's the video interview:
Geraldo: ‘The hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was’

I do agree with Florida's self-defense law. There's no reason someone can't defend themselves. That doesn't mean, Zimmerman is not guilty. It really depends on exactly what happened.

What say ye? Please keep input as fair and balanced as possible.

 

I really don't care about this issue. The mainstream media and all the liberals lost me as soon as they began calling the Hispanic shooter an evil, White-Supremacist, Nazi, (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*), (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)bag, bigot. Same deal with the Toulouse shootings where they blamed some Neo-Nazi "bigot" for killing those Jewish kids when it turned out to be another psychopathic Muslim. The media and everyone else is so anti-White I can't even take them seriously anymore. If the media had blamed black people for controversial killings and it turned out the killers weren't black everyone would be demanding an apology at riot-point.

When the media starts to report fairly and starts to shine a spotlight on the literally THOUSANDS of innocent White victims brutally murdered by blacks each and every year then I will start to care when a solitary black kid is gunned down by some Hispanic in self-defense. Afterall, it's a tragedy when ANYONE loses his/her life.

 

Far more whites are killed by blacks than the other way but the corporate media tells the public just the opposite.

 

I'm with ya on the media. The guy is latino, but I guess looks white enough for some people to make it a race thing. Go figure.

I just want to know the facts of the case, and not have the media drill into me their agenda.

 

I would suggest you stay away from the mainstream media and protest marches by blacks with a racist agenda if you want to know the facts. You can't trust liberals as far as you can throw them.

 

he should of obeyed the requests of the 911 operator, neighborhood watch folks are not to be vigilantes, they watch and report

 

Naturally, wearing a hoodie is evil. I totally get it now. I think people with thick mustaches are shady. I'll use my bat first and ask questions later...

 

Geraldo is off his rocker on this one...

No, the hoodie is not equally responsible as the guy who pursued and then shot an unarmed kid.

What an idiot.

 

And 99% of all murders are committed by men, should we now argue the case that most men have murderous intentions?

Wait a second....

 

So people on here playing the race card but cry when someone says young Mr. Martin was racialy profiled. Talk about liberal media but the media is asking relevant questions. So I guess if it was left up to some people their should be no investigation and the martin family shouldn't use there first amendment right and demand justice. And unlike lynch mobs of the past they want the murderer of their child arrested and not strung up on a tree beating burned and hung.

 

Wearing a hoodie is not evil, but definitely stupid of that's the same garb your local criminals are wearing.

Just like I told my kids, the guy with tattoos on this neck and hands was not evil either. Just really stupid.

Mini skirts are not evil either. But if you walk down the streets of compton (or wherever street walkers go, forgive my ignorance) at midnight in one (and you're not a ho) you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

 

Tom Selleck would not be pleased lol.

 

You've GOT to be kidding me. I'm a soccer mom that drives a minivan. I wear a hoodie because I frickin' love hoodies. Everyone loves hoodies. My daughters go to a Christian private school and guess what they have as part of the approved uniform?

A school hoodie.

So...I should assume that everyone who wears a suit is an evil, scotch-drinking, corporate comb-over, mistress having (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)?

How is it productive to buy into this idea that there are "uniforms" for categories of people?

 

Do you live in a neighborhood where the local criminals wear them to commit crimes? If so, and you still allow your boys to wear them when their on their own, in 90+ degree humid weather, you're simply not being smart.

Of course it's okay for you to wear a hoodie. DUH! You're a mom! You don't fit any other aspects of the profile.

 

I blame it on south park, Kenny wore a hoodie and they are always killing him

 

Geraldo saying something wildly controversial, to attempt to make himself relevant. The latino voice of failed reason.

 

Details have been mixed about this, at least in all the sources I've read.

Bottom line though is simple. Race is irrelevant, if Zimmerman was the agressor, he should go to prison. If he was honestly defending himself, and the evidence backs that up, then he shouldn't. Race has nothing to do with it because they are both human beings.

 

Absolutly and it is obvious looking at Zimmerman that he is Mexican with little, if any Spanish Ancestory. The Hoodie has very negative connontations of Gansta Rap and even the Black Mayor of Philadelphia has commented on them. Race has everything to do with this staring when MSM though he was a white Jew instead of a Mexican Catholic. Whites are watching the action including Rev. Al trying to spin this event between a Black and a Mexican that Al states share Common Cause under not white minorities.

 

Since when did a hoodie receive a pistol permit.

 

Black Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia shares Geraldo's opinion of hoodies. Come on folk, who has not seen the photos of 7-11s robberies, flash mobs stealing and imitating citizens wearing their gansta rap hoodies? What do folk think?

 

That kind of common sense is going to make you a lot of enemies.

 

They were just that, requests. There was no order, nothing legally binding.

 

I've seen many thieves with hoodies, and many non thieves with hoodies.

Maybe it all balances out. The gangsta with the hoodie and pants half way down his ass is easier to catch cuz he can't jack rabbit off on ya.

 

He's absolutely right. There are irresponsible lunatics out there that stereotype and in this case it became a lethal situation.
　
　
I love how they skipped over the droopy britches that was included in the dressing like a gangsta fad. If you dress like a civilized human being you will be perceived as civilized, same thing goes if you aspire to look like a punk gangsta.
　
　
Hell when we was young long hair automatically meant you were one of them druggie, hippietypepinkofags, and you had to be aware of which redneck bars you might go into, unless you were Jesus or Wild Bill Hickok… Oh wait Wild Bill was a druggie?? Sorry bad comparison.

 

well it was advice based on florida law that says you lose your right to self defense when you initiate the incident....which he did by following