Family of Florida boy killed by Neighborhood Watch seeks arrest

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

WHAT THE FUCK DOES GERALDO HAVE AGAINST HOODIES???

Does he even know what the word means? It's a fucking SWEATSHIRT with a HOOD. Everybody wears them. Since when are hoodies "gangster"??

[Scribbly]

WHAT THE FUCK DOES GERALDO HAVE AGAINST HOODIES???

Does he even know what the word means? It's a fucking SWEATSHIRT with a HOOD. Everybody wears them. Since when are hoodies "gangster"??

Don't you understand Nigel? He was wearing a hoodie, he was asking for it.

ohgodIfeelsickjusttypingthat

[Juana]

Sounds like the "don't wear a short skirt if you don't want to be raped" thing.


MORE FUN:

Zimmerman, who was born in Virginia and studied criminal justice at Seminole State College, is the son of a retired Virginia Supreme Court magistrate and his wife, a longtime clerk of courts, according to his application to the citizen's academy.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

This is making the rounds on facebok

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Guns don't kill people, hoodies kill people.

[Da6s]

http://geraldoinahoodie.tumblr.com




I'm kind of surprised Obama's comments on the subject today haven't been posted here yet:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-trayvon-martin-20120323,0,2436446.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fpolitics+%28L.A.+Times+-+Politics%29

Reporting from Washington—
Declaring that "if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," President Obama chose a highly personal way to join the heated national debate over the death of Trayvon Martin, the black teenager fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida.

Obama took care to voice no opinion on the conduct of the shooter, George Zimmerman, or any legal aspect of the case beyond a call for a thorough investigation. "The attorney general reports to me so I've got to be careful about my statements to make sure that we're not impairing any investigation," he said.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I was going to post the Obama thing earlier, but this place was down for me for awhile and I forgot afterwards. 
But yeah, how can he NOT think that. About time he said something.

[Cain]

WHAT THE FUCK DOES GERALDO HAVE AGAINST HOODIES???

Does he even know what the word means? It's a fucking SWEATSHIRT with a HOOD. Everybody wears them. Since when are hoodies "gangster"??

Don't you understand Nigel? He was wearing a hoodie, he was asking for it.

ohgodIfeelsickjusttypingthat

Are we finally seeing a reversal in the transatlantic trade in Shitty Conservative Memes?

For a long time, the UK has been importing American memes, but the idea that wearing a hoodie is signifying potential involvement in gang culture is definitely a British trope.

I lived in one of the least urban, most white areas of the country, and I'd had a number of hoodies since about the age of 12 because, I don't know, sometimes it gets windy outside or you get unexpected showers?

Thug lyfe 4 realz. man.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

WHAT THE FUCK DOES GERALDO HAVE AGAINST HOODIES???

Does he even know what the word means? It's a fucking SWEATSHIRT with a HOOD. Everybody wears them. Since when are hoodies "gangster"??

Don't you understand Nigel? He was wearing a hoodie, he was asking for it.

ohgodIfeelsickjusttypingthat

Are we finally seeing a reversal in the transatlantic trade in Shitty Conservative Memes?

For a long time, the UK has been importing American memes, but the idea that wearing a hoodie is signifying potential involvement in gang culture is definitely a British trope.

I lived in one of the least urban, most white areas of the country, and I'd had a number of hoodies since about the age of 12 because, I don't know, sometimes it gets windy outside or you get unexpected showers?

Thug lyfe 4 realz. man.

Is that where it came from? Because it seriously had me mystified. For the last few decades here, hoodies have signified one of two things... "Dock worker" or "Hipster". For them to suddenly mean "gangster" just seemed so out of the blue.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

WHAT THE FUCK DOES GERALDO HAVE AGAINST HOODIES???

Does he even know what the word means? It's a fucking SWEATSHIRT with a HOOD. Everybody wears them. Since when are hoodies "gangster"??

Don't you understand Nigel? He was wearing a hoodie, he was asking for it.

ohgodIfeelsickjusttypingthat

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

A nice white lady posted on my FB wall that black kids grow up learning not to do certain things because it makes them seem threatening. Like wearing hoodies, or running.

[Cain]

WHAT THE FUCK DOES GERALDO HAVE AGAINST HOODIES???

Does he even know what the word means? It's a fucking SWEATSHIRT with a HOOD. Everybody wears them. Since when are hoodies "gangster"??

Don't you understand Nigel? He was wearing a hoodie, he was asking for it.

ohgodIfeelsickjusttypingthat

Are we finally seeing a reversal in the transatlantic trade in Shitty Conservative Memes?

For a long time, the UK has been importing American memes, but the idea that wearing a hoodie is signifying potential involvement in gang culture is definitely a British trope.

I lived in one of the least urban, most white areas of the country, and I'd had a number of hoodies since about the age of 12 because, I don't know, sometimes it gets windy outside or you get unexpected showers?

Thug lyfe 4 realz. man.

Is that where it came from? Because it seriously had me mystified. For the last few decades here, hoodies have signified one of two things... "Dock worker" or "Hipster". For them to suddenly mean "gangster" just seemed so out of the blue.

It's the only explanation I can think of.  Here are two typical examples of the genre:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-553633/Guilty-The-hoodie-gang-stabbed-boy-14-death-initiation-ritual.html

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/boy-18-stabbed-in-gang-brawl-with-50-hoodies-6725199.html

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

"Kids, rather than a hoodie like everyone else wears, I have bought you these nice argyle cardigans. Now, remember; when you're outside and a scary stranger accosts you, whatever you do, DON'T RUN. That's practically an invitation to be shot".

Yeah, I'm going to chalk that up under "conversations no one ever anticipates with their children".

[Juana]

Matches some of what I've heard - this tumblr talks about it sometimes. She says she's known Black guys who wear suits all the time so as to avoid the "thug" association our culture makes with Black men in casual clothing.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

WHAT THE FUCK DOES GERALDO HAVE AGAINST HOODIES???

Does he even know what the word means? It's a fucking SWEATSHIRT with a HOOD. Everybody wears them. Since when are hoodies "gangster"??

Don't you understand Nigel? He was wearing a hoodie, he was asking for it.

ohgodIfeelsickjusttypingthat

Are we finally seeing a reversal in the transatlantic trade in Shitty Conservative Memes?

For a long time, the UK has been importing American memes, but the idea that wearing a hoodie is signifying potential involvement in gang culture is definitely a British trope.

I lived in one of the least urban, most white areas of the country, and I'd had a number of hoodies since about the age of 12 because, I don't know, sometimes it gets windy outside or you get unexpected showers?

Thug lyfe 4 realz. man.

Is that where it came from? Because it seriously had me mystified. For the last few decades here, hoodies have signified one of two things... "Dock worker" or "Hipster". For them to suddenly mean "gangster" just seemed so out of the blue.

It's the only explanation I can think of.  Here are two typical examples of the genre:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-553633/Guilty-The-hoodie-gang-stabbed-boy-14-death-initiation-ritual.html

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/boy-18-stabbed-in-gang-brawl-with-50-hoodies-6725199.html

Oh, god, THAT'S SOME FUCKED-UP SHIT.

But yeah, it makes the hoodie thing make a little more sense. It also, however, makes me think that Geraldo just now became aware of that connotation of "hoodies" in the UK and thinks he's being all pop-culture.

Seriously? Hoodies?