Should Black Teen Boys Be Allowed to Wear Hoodies? – Mayor of Topeka and Geraldo Rivera Ask, in Light of Trayvon Martin
Rapper Lil' Wayne wears the scary and popular Rockafeller' Wear hoodie that many gangs are now using.
We’ve all been there before. Stuck alone in a store, getting some late night snacks or medicine for the baby at the local drug store or gas station. You’re standing there not much alert, when suddenly a group of young black men with hoodies walk in.
Your heart races and you’re terrified! There can be nothing but gangster menace and rap beating hooliganism hiding under those hoodies. If they were not guilty already, why would they be covering up their heads from the security cameras!
If they did not want to rob my purse and then throw me down to do terrible things, why would they be in such a large, scary group with face hidden clothing?
I can think of nothing more scary and terrifying than a black teen boy wearing a hoodie and many of you feel the same way. That’s absolutely fine.
I’m not racist, I’m just extremely terrified of black teenager people in hoodies. Many good people feel the same way too.
Take our good friend Mayor Bill Bunten in Topeka. This is the man whose city finally decriminalized domestic violence and gave tattle-tale wives nowhere to turn but God and their husband’s discipline.
Bunten introduced a potential law that would prevent young teen blacks from wearing hoodies in stores or any other place of business.
But is that good enough? With the new tragic case of misunderstanding that surrounds the young man Trayvon Martin, we must consider if all black teens should be blocked from wearing hoodies.
In addition to keeping them safer from us mistaking a good one from one of the many scary black rappers, car stealers and sex-crazed crack nosed maniacs who just take what they want, it will give good people like you and me from having to be scared and wonder if the next black teen in a hoodie will be our demise.
I dream of a day when black teens earn the right to wear hoodies, just like white men have been wearing non-scary hoods over their faces for years. But until we reach that point in time, for the sake of society black teens must sacrifice and stop wearing these terrifying hoodies.
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4:41 pm
I wore a hoodie out today. I didn’t buy any skittles or iced tea. Most ladies have a clitoral hoodie, but it doesn’t mean we want to buy skittles. Sometimes we just want Hershey kisses.
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6:43 pm
I don’t think I have seen your hoodie. Maybe this summer when our families go rafting you can show it off.
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8:32 am
Okay. What’s you point? I have wire hoodies outside and I didn’t buy skittles
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4:42 pm
Anytime I see any African American wearing a hoodie I shrug it off. I wear my hood all the time for no reason. Maybe if you weren’t so stereotype you wouldn’t be afraid.
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4:45 pm
Wait, blacks teens in hoodies scare you…Well that’s pointless…Just because a black kid is wearing a hoodie dosen’t mean they’re criminals and it dosen’t mean they are going to commit crimes either.
Also, the rapper in the pic isnt Lil Wayne, it’s Snoop Dogg…The two look nothing alike…
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5:13 pm
When I see Blacks wearing ghetto clothing like hoodies and baggy pants, I run for my life. Trayvon was asking for it because he was dressing like a thug, and I’m honestly not surprised that a brave, community-minded citizen took action to prevent global harm that could’ve erupted from Trayvon’s suspicious skittles or ice tea.
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5:17 pm
He was also using a mobile phone, maybe talking to drug dealers.
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5:22 pm
Do read what you type? You’re horrible! Just because someone wears hoodies or baggy pants dosen’t make them a gangsta!
Travyon wasn’t asking it! He was an innocent kid who was shot by some heartless bastard!
He wasnt a “brave, community-minded citizen” he’s a killer!
“prevent global harm that could’ve erupted from Trayvon’s suspicious skittles or ice tea.”
What harm?! Nothing could’ve been taken to cause harm! He was a kid who bought skittles and ice tea, why? Because he wanted to eat some skittles and dink some tea. Nothing wrong about it.
You never cease to surprise me how ignorant you people can be.
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5:37 pm
“Just because someone wears hoodies or baggy pants dosen’t make them a gangsta!”
I suppose you also have the attitude that because someone wears any other uniform that doesn’t make them a police officer or a soldier
These ghetto pond life wear a uniform – they even refer to themselves as the blackspeak bastardisation “soulja” so yes, when they wear the uniform then they identify with their criminal, drug-riddled cult. Because cult is what it is, they call it culture, but they want to remove culture and leave anarchy in place.
If they didn’t have these aims, they wouldn’t wear the uniform. Blacks wearing hoodies should be arrested without question, then our streets might be safe for decent, God-fearing people to walk at night.
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5:42 pm
Just because gangs tend to wear hoodies, dosen’t make them uniforms.
Hoodies and baggy are not signs of gang activity.
“. Blacks wearing hoodies should be arrested without question”
Teyd be arresting a helluva a lot of innocent people then.
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5:51 pm
So why do they always pull hoodies up in stores when they are ‘fend to rob’? Why do gangs all wear the same color clothing and hoodies as part of their uniforms?
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5:56 pm
They would soon learn to respect the law and show their faces – any of the few actual innocents (early in their careers when they just ape their criminal idols in dress, before they go on to rape, steal and murder) would soon stop following their idols.
You seem to suggest this would be a BAD thing when in reality it is saving tempted souls and guiding them back onto God’s path
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5:58 pm
“So why do they always pull hoodies up in stores when they are ‘fend to rob’?”
Not sure what you mean by this…
“Why do gangs all wear the same color clothing and hoodies as part of their uniforms?”
Because any kind of group tries their best to match. What makes this different from actual uniforms, is that ANYBODY can wear hoodies, not just gangs.
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6:03 pm
“You seem to suggest this would be a BAD thing”
Well no duh because it IS a BAD thing! You’re judging soneone’s criminal intent by their clothing and their skin color! Which is both extenely wrong and extremely racist!
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5:48 pm
If he was dressed in a nice pair of khaki pants and a polo shirt, and was in school and not wandering the streets where he doesn’t live, would this have happened?
It’s like when women wear nasty outfits to a bar and then get attacked. Would they not have been safer wearing nice clothing and where they belong at home with their husband and with their own peers?
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5:55 pm
Why do you guys assume he was up to something bad?
Just because he was wearing a hoodie and baggy pants dosen’t make him a bad person. Hell I wear hoodies and some of my pants are baggy, does that make me a bad person? NO!
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6:11 pm
“Hell I wear hoodies and some of my pants are baggy, does that make me a bad person?”
If you do not consider perpetuating gang imagery as somehow “desirable” as bad, then you are already lost
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6:13 pm
Are you African-American?
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6:17 pm
By wearing a hoodie, I am not endorsing gang activity, I am just wearing a hoodie.
@Adam: why would it matter? A hoodie is a hoodie, race dosen’t change that.
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6:30 pm
It changes everything. We’ve seen it time and time again. During WWII, President Roosevelt issued an executive order proving such. During the War on Terror, both President Bush and Mr. Obama have supported Gitmo and profiling. It is necessary.
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6:45 pm
baggy pants? what’s the matter with you? baggy pants aren’t cool.
http://media4.teenormous.com/items/www.landsnark.com/Shirts-ShirtPieces-Bowties–DZM.jpg
I’m sure we can agree with this image though
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7:03 pm
Travyon was in school but it was at night. And he did live there you jackrabbit.
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7:04 pm
That was not his neighborhood.
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12:50 pm
He was walking from a store back home, nothing wrong with that.
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1:12 pm
There is plenty wrong with that. Why on Earth did he have to wear that hoodie? Were there other gangs in the area that wore certain colors and hoodies? Maybe Zimmerman mistook him for a gang member that the Neighborhood Watch Program had on their most wanted and he was known to be armed and dangerous. It may have been a case of mistaken identity, marred because he was wearing the criminal’s uniform and Zimmerman could not clearly see his face.
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1:21 pm
“There is plenty wrong with that. Why on Earth did he have to wear that hoodie?”
Raining, cold, quite a number of reasons. Why would you ever wear a jacket?
“Were there other gangs in the area that wore certain colors and hoodies? Maybe Zimmerman mistook him for a gang member that the Neighborhood Watch Program had on their most wanted and he was known to be armed and dangerous.”
That’s one hell of a leap of a conclusion, especially when he still disobeyed the 911 operator. Doesn’t matter if Martin was apart of a gang or not when Zimmerman called 911 and didn’t follow the instructions of the operator since he decided to stalk Martin and then attack him without provocation. There’s also the fact that if Martin was apart of a gang, odds are that there’d be a weapon on him and more people with him who have weapons themselves. But what was found? A dead black kid with candy and a drink and a racially profiling racist murderer with a gun in his hand that belonged to Zimmerman and was shot by Zimmerman.
“It may have been a case of mistaken identity, marred because he was wearing the criminal’s uniform and Zimmerman could not clearly see his face.”
So ‘vigilante justice’ taken out on random black people is completely acceptable to you? Zimmerman called 911, was told to not follow Martin, and then leapt out and attacked him.
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8:35 am
If I met you in real life, I would break your fucking nose you piece of shit. He was an innocent little boy. He was visiting his father. He went to go buy some skittles and ice tea and was shot but that Zimmerman piece of shit. He didn’t have any weapons. You can’t kill people because of how they are dressed. We will have this son of a bitch persecuted. I hope you die a horrible death.
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7:29 pm
i feel very srry for u. travon martin didnt diserve anything. he was a young boy walkin home. what someone saw u on the street an saw u suspicious because of their own irrational thinkin? no one diserve to die for being suspicious. i hope a ‘”brave” community minded citizen come for u.
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6:09 pm
If I see a minority wearing a hoodie with his hands in his pockets, I call the authorities. Anything less and I could be contributing to a crime.
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6:12 pm
Amen, August. The police should naturally profile people in hoodies. It’s like if you see an Arab in a terror head gear and he’s walking around a bus station. You just have to profile and do the right thing.
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8:36 am
Stop saying you aren’t racist. I wear a hoodie and have my hands in pockets all the time and I believe that robbing, rape, and murder and absolutely deplorable.
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6:38 pm
I wear a hoodie but I keep the hood down. I look good in a light jacket and I can’t just hide this gorgeous face of mine
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6:56 pm
My dear departed husband wore one of these hoodies. i dont see the big deal with them. Although I never thought it was attractive being all white and pointy like that. And with the eye slits I could never tell how he could walk around. But he did somehow.
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6:57 pm
But he and his friends would wear them out every other friday night. Strange how something like black kids clothing can bring up such memories.
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7:01 pm
I think I saw something about the KKK on the History channel. it was telling a story outside of the Lynching. beyond the knowledge that it was shying away from their atrocities I don’t know what it was portraying
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7:15 pm
That’s the thing. If I were to see your husband, rest his soul, in his hoodie I would not be scared at all. There would be no reason for that. But with these little hip hop wannabes, you just never know what sort of evil plots for thieving they have going on under those hoodies. I don’t see what the big deal is keeping everyone safe by making it illegal for these kids to wear hoodies.
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8:17 pm
” by making it illegal for these kids to wear hoodies”
Oh you want to make hoodies illegal? What’s next, a USA dress code?
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11:35 pm
are you still in contact with OddAtheist?
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1:12 am
Off and on.
He’s kinda a pain to get ahold of…
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8:15 pm
” being all white and pointy like that. And with the eye slits”
That’d be a KKK outfit…Not a hoodie…
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11:57 pm
I wear a hoodie and baggy pants when I walk to the store.
And I may as well say this, no matter if you believe in evolution or creation, or a mix of both, we are all decended from Africans so when you think about it, we’re all African American. Plus, the only truely white people are dead people, or Seattle-ites. Most people are pink or tanned in colour.
By the way, the thing about Seattle people is a joke
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12:52 am
dunno, I’m pretty white, but I hate the sun: it’s too damned bright
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1:48 am
Haha. Ohhh. Today woulda killed you xD It was nice and sunny and my friends and I were outside all day, loving the fact that we didn’t have to worry about one rain drop falling on our heads
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10:18 am
how can someone not like the rain? everything is so pretty during a storm
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12:39 am
So, let me get this straight. If a white man wears a cone shaped hoodie and walks around at night, it’s okay to call him a racist and profile him as a Civil Rights antagonist.
But if a black guy is wearing an all black or scarier red or blue hoodie, walking around with his baggy pants and listening to rap music, we’re supposed to act like that’s not scary. Especially at night?
You liberals are the worst with your reverse racism and double standards. I can’t even say any more on this issue. Everyone is jumping down Zimmerman’s throat without letting him have a fair shake and explain his side. What if he was scared and had to defend himself?
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1:07 am
You should have a reason to fear someone, not just for how they dress and their race. Black people had reason to fear people wearing a white sheet with eyes and a cone head. That was the way to identify the KKK and they normally brought death, turmoil, and destruction in their wake. Hoodies and baggy pants are comfortable and leave no reason for someone to fear the person wearing them
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1:22 am
No, they do not. Just like black people still give white people a hard time for having a shaved head or wearing a cone shaped hat, it’s their turn to realize they are scary and action has to be taken if they don’t stop scaring us. What right do black people have to wear hoodies, when that outfit identifies them as a gangster?
It’s just like if a woman is wearing a short skirt and looking hookerish, she needs to recognize she’s wearing a hooker’s uniform. The comedian David Chappelle expands on this concept, so you cannot call me racist.
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1:45 am
Black people aren’t scary though! Honestly, 40-year-old men scare me more than a teenage African American male. A hoodie is not “thuggish”. It is a comfortable article of clothing worn by almost all teenagers, no matter what their race or “occupation”, and even by young children and adults.
An African American has every right to dress the same as a white person. We’re all created equal and it doesn’t matter what the law says in the South. To God, we’re all hischildren and if some are given special treatment, the others feel wronged. And the Constitution stares that, “All men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain, unalienable, rights.”
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1:57 am
Ravynne,
I think you’ll find that that “constitution” stuff of yours is in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
And it certainly didn’t apply to black people at the time — just ask Sally Hemings.
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2:02 am
Sorry. U.S. History was 8th grade so I’m a bit rusty on things :/
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2:08 am
No need to apologise. The point is that neither the Constitution nor the Declaration of Independence was written with the intent of asserting that blacks and whites are equal.
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7:31 pm
thank u man u speak the truth. at leat u have a good noggin on your soulders. keep it up man
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7:37 pm
thts what u percieve. and perception isnt realty. all black ppl arent the same and thts what u fail to see. a white person mexican person ANY person has the same capability to kill hurt steal; or anything other kind of sin. and its sad tht u spit on goods creation his children.
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2:00 am
Sure, and wearing a balaclava is just to keep your face warm while you’re robbing a back.
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2:03 am
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12:48 pm
“So, let me get this straight. If a white man wears a cone shaped hoodie and walks around at night, it’s okay to call him a racist and profile him as a Civil Rights antagonist.
But if a black guy is wearing an all black or scarier red or blue hoodie, walking around with his baggy pants and listening to rap music, we’re supposed to act like that’s not scary. Especially at night?”
One is clothing typically associated with people who specifically hate black people, the other is clothing typically associated with people who want to keep warm or keep rain off of them. The fact that you’re scared when a black person is wearing a hoodie and not a white person shows that you’re racist.
“You liberals are the worst with your reverse racism and double standards.”
Admittedly there are faults with the views of racism, yet you’re flat-out racist while claiming you aren’t, and are quite bad with your own double standards.
“I can’t even say any more on this issue. Everyone is jumping down Zimmerman’s throat without letting him have a fair shake and explain his side. What if he was scared and had to defend himself?”
He stalked a kid who had Skittles and an iced tea walking home, was nowhere near Zimmerman until Zimmerman himself walked up to him, disobeyed the operator when calling 911, and there’s even a recording of Zimmerman calling him a ‘fucking coon’. The kid had no weapon on him, and Zimmerman was the one with the gun and a bullet went into Martin. There’s no need for him to explain himself, the evidence is quite clear. Why and how would he have to defend himself from someone who was quite clearly away from him without any weapon on his person? Zimmerman was the one who clearly started shit, and if anything, Martin was trying to defend himself.
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1:17 pm
How on Earth do you even sleep at night. You are such a hypocrite! So, if I put on a cone shaped hoodie and go out at night, you’re giving blacks a carte blanc to say I’m a klansman? But people who have the life experience of blacks wearing hoodies being in gangs, if they say ‘if he’s in a hoodie, he’s probably in a gang’ they are racist for thinking that?
You are being closeminded and not considering everyone’s world view. There are areas of the country where blacks wear hoodies because they are in gangs. Just like if you plucked a black man from 1957 and put him 20 yards away from a group of white people gathered in white hoodies, his heart would race, he would feel his life with threatened and he would probably run away. This day and age, it’s certain neighborhoods being targetted by black teen boys in hoodies. There is a legal precedent to defend yourself if you feel your life is in danger in Florida. It’s plausible that’s what happened here. So, the logical solution is just to be patient and wait for this to come to trial, and in the meantime, just make it illegal for black teens and to be safe, all black men in that area of Florida to wear hoodies. I guarantee you, one of them being shot down for wearing a hoodie would not happen, because they won’t be wearing them! How hard is that to understand.
Even better, cops can arrest anyone violating that rule and therefore, again protect them from being shot in an act of Civilian justice.
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1:38 pm
You’re still trying to equate hoodies with KKK outfits. You fail in that regard because hoodies can be worn by anyone and were not created, nor are they created for the purpose of ‘gang clothing’, while the KKK cone head outfits were created and are worn specifically to conceal the identities of people who wanted to commit hate crimes against black people.
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1:51 pm
They are used for gang clothing. A red shirt with red pants, or a blue shirt with blue pants, were not designed to be gang clothing. But guess what: they are. Law enforcement uses those clothing combinations to easily identify and profile potential gang members in trouble spots. If Trayvon was wearing an outfit that is used to distinguish potential gang members, he may have been unfortunately targetted. It’s not a matter of race or hate crimes, it’s just a matter of common sense. You don’t wear those items of clothing if you don’t want to be identified as such in certain neighborhoods. Let me ask you something, LN. Would you ever dare wear an all red outfit and walk down a street in South Central Los Angeles?
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2:26 pm
“They are used for gang clothing. A red shirt with red pants, or a blue shirt with blue pants, were not designed to be gang clothing. But guess what: they are.”
A style adopted by gang members, not made specifically for them. Still a big difference between a hoodie and a Klan outfit.
“Law enforcement uses those clothing combinations to easily identify and profile potential gang members in trouble spots.”
For the purposes of observing, maybe, but what officer in his or her right mind would see a black person in a hoodie and decide that they’re instantly a danger and should be killed?
“If Trayvon was wearing an outfit that is used to distinguish potential gang members, he may have been unfortunately targetted. It’s not a matter of race or hate crimes, it’s just a matter of common sense.”
Again, for the purposes of observing, maybe, but there’s a difference between following someone or keeping an eye on them to make sure they aren’t up to something, and actively stalking them with the intent to kill, which was exactly what Zimmerman did. He went up and instigated the situation and shot Martin on a mere SUSPICION. You’re trying to excuse a murder by saying that Martin was guilty of being SUSPICIOUS. You can say Martin was suspicious looking all you want, that doesn’t take away the fact that Zimmerman stalked him, disobeyed the operator, and then engaged Martin on his own.
“You don’t wear those items of clothing if you don’t want to be identified as such in certain neighborhoods. Let me ask you something, LN. Would you ever dare wear an all red outfit and walk down a street in South Central Los Angeles?”
Probably not, but you’re seriously stretching comparisons. Wearing all red is COMMONLY, not ALWAYS associated with gangs, and the same goes with hoodies. You’re trying to stretch the point that Martin may or may not have been in a gang and using that to justify his murder, even though that there’s no real evidence outside of ONE article of clothing and PLENTY of evidence that it was flat-out murder, and even a piece of evidence that it was racially motivated.
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5:47 pm
It is not illegal to disobey the operator. You cannot just make up laws as you want, LN. Now Mr. Zimmerman could still protect his life if he was threatened. That’s how the law works in Florida. Why are you so quick to violate Mr. Zimmerman’s right to be innocent until proven guilty?
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6:26 pm
“It is not illegal to disobey the operator.”
Illegal? No. A very bad idea, especially when you are informed that police are on their way and you’re told to stay away from the ‘suspect’? Oh so very much.
“You cannot just make up laws as you want, LN.”
You seem to think you can on other subjects, I’m just saying that Zimmerman was told by an operator, who had already dispatched officers to meet up with him, to NOT follow Martin was a mistake that resulted in him committing murder.
“Now Mr. Zimmerman could still protect his life if he was threatened. That’s how the law works in Florida.”
Again, running up to someone who you SUSPECT of a crime, not even knowing what crime in particular, and gunning them down when they’re completely unarmed after stalking them is NOT self-defense.
“Why are you so quick to violate Mr. Zimmerman’s right to be innocent until proven guilty?”
Because we’re clearly past that point; he is indeed guilty thanks to the mountain of evidence against him: disobeying an operator and followed Martin back to his house, using a racial slur when talking about him while on the phone, Martin being clearly unarmed, and Zimmerman running up to him with a gun. You can’t claim self-defense when YOU are the one who instigates a situation!
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7:12 pm
Do you know the circumstances here? You’re still trying to claim that a phone operator has some legal authority. With this law, you can defend yourself. There is room for citizen defense in Florida law, or else Zimmerman would already be arrested. So maybe before you try to violate the spirit of the American legal system, you should give him a break. Put yourself in his shoes.
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7:18 pm
“Do you know the circumstances here? You’re still trying to claim that a phone operator has some legal authority.”
Uh, no, no I’m not. You’re the one that’s thinking that, trying to defend a racist man who committed a hate crime. I’m saying that by not listening to a phone operator and taking the situation into his own hands, he showed that he doesn’t actually care about the law since he was told to specifically leave Martin alone. That is EVIDENCE against him.
“With this law, you can defend yourself.”
Again, stalking and killing someone who had candy and a drink is NOT defending yourself.
“There is room for citizen defense in Florida law, or else Zimmerman would already be arrested.”
Or maybe because Florida’s law enforcement is corrupt as all fuck and has allowed quite a number of hate crimes to go completely scot-free.
“So maybe before you try to violate the spirit of the American legal system, you should give him a break. Put yourself in his shoes.”
Oh yeah, I should TOTALLY give a guy who FUCKING STALKED AND MURDERED SOMEONE WITHOUT PROVOCATION a break!
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1:12 pm
LN, why are you calling Zimmerman a racist? You are trying to paint him as a bad person and are attacking his personal character. You are being a social court bully. Let’s give him a fair chance. From what I’ve heard, he’s given to the black community and is not a racist.
Is it inconceivable to you that he was scared or being attacked?
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3:20 pm
“LN, why are you calling Zimmerman a racist?”
Did you NOT catch the part where Zimmerman calls Martin a ‘fucking coon’?
“You are trying to paint him as a bad person and are attacking his personal character.”
Because his personal character motivated him to murder an innocent youth.
“You are being a social court bully. Let’s give him a fair chance.”
A fair chance? What, and observe the evidence that proves his innocence? Well then, let’s take a look at it:
Claims of self-defense (a grown man with a weapon claims self-defense when going up against a young man without a weapon after he, Zimmerman, was stalking the young man)
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Well, that’s about it, actually, and that bit was dis-proven quite some time ago.
“From what I’ve heard, he’s given to the black community and is not a racist.”
Oh? Proof that he’s given to the black community would be real nice, especially when he uses racial slurs towards black people.
“Is it inconceivable to you that he was scared or being attacked?”
Yes, it is, considering how he decided to STALK MARTIN ON HIS OWN. He instigated the attacks and you’re completely over looking that fact in favor of your own innate racism wanting to cover for another racist.
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3:27 pm
You liberals are so predictable. Oh, let’s all gather round and sing Kumbaya and kiss a black fellow. Whenever something happens, you all want to be the VICTIM. Stop being so pathetic and get over yourselves. The kid was lurking and up to no good so he got shot. It happens EVERY DAY. Get over yourselves.
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3:40 pm
You want to play yourselves up as the victim of Obama’s decisions and gay marriage all the damn time, and whenever you all commit racist acts, you act completely offended that someone pointed out that you’re racist and hateful. You’d rather say ‘he looked funny so he should die’ and not take ANY evidence into account rather than look at the situation and realize that, yes, his murderer was INDEED racist! It’s like you want to bring back the Salem Witch Trials and bitch about how you don’t have any power. All YOU are capable of doing is bitch, moaning, and whining, and instead of trying to handle things with SOME respect or dignity, you’d rather just blow shit up with complete disregard for human life!
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4:24 pm
I was pointing out how predictable YOU people are by getting all involved in someone else’s business. If this kid was white YOU people would not care, but you get all upset because you want to prove you LOVE black people like you’re all such fantastic liberals. You don’t give a crap about any one, but you just are trying to make this entire situation about YOU and YOUR EMOTIONS! Stop playing the liberal victims here people.
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4:30 pm
“I was pointing out how predictable YOU people are by getting all involved in someone else’s business. If this kid was white YOU people would not care, but you get all upset because you want to prove you LOVE black people like you’re all such fantastic liberals.”
Actually, I WOULD care, a life loss is a tragic thing no matter what, but racially motivated murders make things worse.
“You don’t give a crap about any one, but you just are trying to make this entire situation about YOU and YOUR EMOTIONS! Stop playing the liberal victims here people.”
Wow, you seriously shouldn’t be talking anymore, considering you’re the one that’s guilty of doing just that. You try to manipulate people into thinking that homosexuality or liberalism is a bad thing by using religious views against them.
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5:40 pm
CLaire princess I’ve been trying to be nice to you since you’re a girl but sometimes YOU REALLY GET ON MY NERVES! So why don’t you pipe down FOR ONCE and let the men tell you how to think, okay?
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5:48 pm
Billings, how about you shut the hell up and admit that you’re a racist, misogynistic little bastard?
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6:26 pm
“women are intellectually equal to men”
ROFLOL…ol knee slapper….that was a good one.
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9:20 am
Claire is your cut and paste femi-nazi. I wonder if she wears the uniform?
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8:15 am
actually, that KKK outfit looks pretty snazzy. if it was painted black it’d look like a executioner. OOH maybe I can carry around a large axe, too: and go around people’s houses and chopping down mailboxes screaming “your reign of tyranny is at an end AEP!”
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8:40 am
I do hope you know zimmerman was a grown man with a loaded pistol while Trayvon was a 17 year old boy with skittles and an ice tea
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1:16 am
I don’t think anyone should wear hoodies. Just think how easy it is to be mistaken for a gangster and shot dead by either the Police, other gangsters or even just good citizens defending their homes.
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1:49 am
“Honestly, 40-year-old men scare me more than a teenage African American male.”
Why do 40 year old men scare you? What about 40 year old black men with hoodies and baggy pants and scarred faces?
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2:00 am
I easily could have been raped over the summer, had I been a little slower and had my mum not happened to drive up and pick me up.
Someone with a scarred face does not scare me. In fact, I immediately think of the military and wonder if he fought for America. Comfy clothes mean nothing. And honestly, African American men who are older are typically much kinder to me than many older white men.
I wasn’t raised in a racist part of the country. I was raised to give everyone a chance and that they’re innocent until proven guilty. My faith is the reason I try to look at everyone as a person. Not by their race or gender, but who they are. I try to see what God does, knowing that I glimpes only a small portion of who they are.
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3:21 am
That seems a bit naive, its well-known that teenagers are much more dangerous than middle-aged people, just look at the crime statistics. Most people mellow out by the time they get older, if they don’t they end up dead or in prison.
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12:06 pm
In my town, I don’t have to worry if I see a group of black kids while walking to the store. I’ll smile, say “hi” and go on my way. Sometimes they’ll converse with me but most of the time not. I don’t mind.
There may be more statistics for teen crime, but that is because teens are targeted by the police. At my school, we aren’t allowed to leave campus in groups larger than four because it makes us suspcious. However, it doesn’t matter if it’s a small group of teens hanging out at a local park or a larger group wandering around town, we are targeted by the police. They are intent on proving us guilty while letting adults who are commiting crimes do what they please. I was told, by a police officer, that my mum can do whatever she pleases to me as long as it did not leave a permanent mark on my body. The police IGNORE adult crimes and focus their attention on the younger generation
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3:28 am
“scarred faces?”
Wait, what’s wrong with scarred faces?
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6:01 am
“Wait, what’s wrong with scarred faces?”
That’s a rather strange question. Obviously what’s wrong with them is that they are disfigured. People generally have negative reactions to scarred faces, whether the scarred person is a thug or the unfortunate victim of an accident or attack.
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10:22 am
I don’t know what you are talking about. scars make people look badass.
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1:16 pm
If someone has negative reaction to scars, it just means they’re assuming something bad about the person.
@apricot: agreed, scars do make a person look badass.
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1:55 pm
“If someone has negative reaction to scars, it just means they’re assuming something bad about the person.”
Thanks for pointing out the obvious, but it’s part of human nature, so stop denying that it happens.
“scars do make a person look badass.”
Congratulations, you managed to contradict yourself there.
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2:10 pm
Not really contradictory, I find scars badass, most people find them negative. I am not one of the people who haS negative reactions to scars
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2:41 pm
“I find scars badass, most people find them negative.”
Badass is negative. Are you on drugs or something?
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3:02 pm
Badass is a compliment. It pretty much means the same as “cool” I’m not being negative about it.
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4:11 pm
“Badass is a compliment. It pretty much means the same as “cool” I’m not being negative about it.”
Why don’t you tell the next person you meet who has a scar on their face that it looks really “badass” and see how much of a compliment they take it as? You’re out of your mind.
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4:27 pm
I could just look in a mirror and tell myself I’m badass
Also, I’m not going to go up to some random person and call them a badass, it’s not a compliment you use on just anyone.
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7:47 pm
I have lots of scars from bleeding
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12:40 pm
“Also, I’m not going to go up to some random person and call them a badass, it’s not a compliment you use on just anyone.”
I didn’t mean random strangers, I’m not trying to get you beaten up. I said “the next person you meet who has a scar on their face,” which could mean any family member, friend or acquaintance. Try it on one of those people and watch their face drop.
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2:54 am
I would like the people of christwire to look over these 2 sites and tell me if this young man deserve to die or be harm in anyway.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/trayvon-martin-case-timeline-of-events/
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2:54 am
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/23/slain-teens-friends-say-h_n_1376135.html
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8:03 pm
I can’t believe there are people so fucking retarded.
you don’t shoot an unarmed person in “self defense” that’s escalated right into entity removal.
he couldn’t pistol whip him? in self defense it serves the same purpose as a gunshot without casualty. hell there’s only a few lethal places to shoot someone once: it’s possible to survive getting peppered by an SMG. it’s clear the “neighborhood watchman” had the full intention of murdering the boy.
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3:12 am
No one is saying he deserved to die, just that if he wasn’t wearing a hoodie maybe all of this would have been avoided. People are going to profile, so why should these kids be in harm’s way by insisting on wearing a piece of clothing? Just make it illegal for black kids to wear hoodies and this all goes away. Why make it harder than it needs to be?
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3:22 am
Maybe it’s not the hoodies that is the problem. Maybe it’s the stupid people that are profiling them based on what they are wearing.
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4:29 am
No, I’m fine and a productive member of society. It’s the people in hoodies who dont’ work and wander the street, looking for trouble who are the problem. They are the ones who get free healthcare, free food, are shooting up prison costs when we have to arrest them, selling/doing drugs, creating welfare babies and all the like.
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10:27 am
excuse me, but I’m a productive member of… wait, society can kiss my ass.
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11:26 am
I wear hoodies, yet I’m looking for a job. My mum wears hoodies and she’s as straight edge as they come. Blanche stated that she wears hoodies too.
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2:42 pm
You’re seriously trying to make him out to be even partially in a gang just because of his clothing and trying to excuse a murderer for using that logic. Never mind that he didn’t bring up that he thought it was a gang member, never mind that he disobeyed the operator on the phone and stalked and engaged martin, never mind that he even called him a ‘fucking coon’ on the phone. Nope, he just confused him for a potential gang member just based on ONE PIECE OF CLOTHING. Are you SERIOUSLY trying to say that THAT is why Zimmerman stalked and killed Martin?
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5:41 pm
There was gang activity in the area. That’s why Mr. Zimmerman was in the neighborhood watch program. Someone came in looking like Mr. Baggypants Hoodie, he felt scared and the laaw gives him permission to react.
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6:19 pm
The law doesn’t give him permission to stalk and kill someone. You seem to be under the impression that Martin went up to Zimmerman; it was the other way around.
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11:41 am
“I wear hoodies, yet I’m looking for a job.”
Well I hope you don’t do both at the same time.
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11:55 am
Actually, I do because I go straight from school to job hunting with my friends and I wear a hoodie to school
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1:49 pm
A little bit of advice then, if you actually want to get a job. Don’t go job-hunting with your friends, and don’t wear a hoodie.
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3:00 pm
I’m in high school and looking at Safeway and places like that! I’m not going to get dressed up yo pick up applications. and also, my friends don’t come in with me. We go into seperate stores and meet up at our hang out spot
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8:16 pm
http://e621.net/data/af/ab/afabe4b2d3119916463fe63288aea2f0.jpg?1332071063
Pinkamena is Mandatory
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7:16 pm
Maybe it is time to put all blacks in protective custody?
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7:21 pm
Why are you so racist? Why do you hate black people so much?
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7:25 pm
Why are you so irrelevant?
And the post clearly said “protective”.
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7:28 pm
And yet we all know how people would be under your version of ‘protective custody’.
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12:12 pm
I just have a question, why are my comments about me getting a job “condemned”? They were respectful and I was simply stating what I do. In no way do they deserve to be condemned.
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3:35 pm
Good luck on obtaining employment.
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3:42 pm
Have you thought about my offer?
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5:43 pm
Allright, so all you assholes who are close minded, here is why you are scared of black people wearing hoodies. It is because you are ignorant. How many of you have actually taken the time to form a positive relation with a black person? I have. Good black people seem to have the same trait. They are reliable, efficient and strong. The reason they are feared is because of years of propaganda starting with slavery. The people who wanted to own other people decided that they had to make that type of people look like they were less than human. Unfortunately, we still get retards like you who may call themselves “Christians” and are still racist. I tell you what, Jesus specifically said love others as i have loved you. Did you miss read that? Or are you choosing what is best for what you WANT to believe? I go o Church, and if anybody had some of the comments that you duchebags have, our priest would kick their ass. Because he is a black man preaching in a white church. And by the way, you dumb bitch, that is fucking Snoop Dogg. PEACE!
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8:09 pm
im not even going trip because for the people who r just so nasty rude mean heartless will soon meet their end. jesus is holding them accountable for thier actions
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