03-23-2012, 11:43 AM
Just wondering what everyone thinks about Rivera's comments...
Geraldo: Trayvon Martin Killed Due To 'Hoodie'
Fox Host Urges Parents To Stop Kids From Dressing That Way
Fox News host Geraldo Rivera said Friday he believes Trayvon Martin wouldn't have been fatally shot by a neighborhood watch captain had he not been wearing a "hoodie" sweatshirt.
Rivera called on parents to stop their kids from going out in public dressed that way, Politico reported.
"I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies," Rivera wrote on the Fox News website. "I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was."
Martin, a black teenager from Florida, was shot and killed last month by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain who was armed with a handgun.
The Justice Department announced earlier this week that it would launch an independent investigation into the shooting, as mobs of furious protesters are demanding that Zimmerman -- who claimed he shot Martin in self-defense -- be arrested, CNN reported.
In his column Friday, Rivera claimed that wearing a hoodie can draw "dark-skinned" kids unwanted attention because of the negative associations attached to people that dress to look like "a gangsta."
"When you see a kid walking down the street, particularly a dark-skinned kid like my son Cruz, who I constantly yelled at when he was going out wearing a damn hoodie or those pants around his ankles," Rivera wrote. "It's those crime scene surveillance tapes. Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, the kid'swearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it's a kid wearing a hoodie. You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangsta --you're going to be a gangsta wannabe? Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace," he wrote.
Read more: http://www.kmbc.com/news/30746162/detail...z1pxHE6s3P
Geraldo: Trayvon Martin Killed Due To 'Hoodie'
Fox Host Urges Parents To Stop Kids From Dressing That Way
Fox News host Geraldo Rivera said Friday he believes Trayvon Martin wouldn't have been fatally shot by a neighborhood watch captain had he not been wearing a "hoodie" sweatshirt.
Rivera called on parents to stop their kids from going out in public dressed that way, Politico reported.
"I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies," Rivera wrote on the Fox News website. "I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was."
Martin, a black teenager from Florida, was shot and killed last month by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain who was armed with a handgun.
The Justice Department announced earlier this week that it would launch an independent investigation into the shooting, as mobs of furious protesters are demanding that Zimmerman -- who claimed he shot Martin in self-defense -- be arrested, CNN reported.
In his column Friday, Rivera claimed that wearing a hoodie can draw "dark-skinned" kids unwanted attention because of the negative associations attached to people that dress to look like "a gangsta."
"When you see a kid walking down the street, particularly a dark-skinned kid like my son Cruz, who I constantly yelled at when he was going out wearing a damn hoodie or those pants around his ankles," Rivera wrote. "It's those crime scene surveillance tapes. Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, the kid'swearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it's a kid wearing a hoodie. You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangsta --you're going to be a gangsta wannabe? Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace," he wrote.
Read more: http://www.kmbc.com/news/30746162/detail...z1pxHE6s3P