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pokerfan

(27,677 posts)
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 06:58 PM Jul 2013

Geraldo: Don't dress like a thug

I guess this means he's now retracted his apology to Trayvon's parents for his hoodie comments last year.

“All of the criticism I got was saying about this youngster, if you dress like a thug, people will treat you like a thug,” Rivera recalled to his Fox colleagues. “That’s true. I stand by that,” he added. “I got grief behind that, but that’s the reality: you don’t send your kids into the rainy night and then have them walking back alleys in troubled neighborhoods and expect a good result,” the Fox reporter asserted.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/geraldo-you-dress-like-a-thug-people-are-going-to-treat-you-like-a-thug-i-stand-by-that/

Fuck you, Geraldo.
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Geraldo: Don't dress like a thug (Original Post) pokerfan Jul 2013 OP
Me: Don't think like an asshole. (n/t) klook Jul 2013 #1
I am a middle-aged white gal who routinely wears hoodies Skittles Jul 2013 #2
and Trayvon was wearing khakis pokerfan Jul 2013 #6
CORRECT Skittles Jul 2013 #8
I was coming in this thread to type the exact same thing! gollygee Jul 2013 #34
For Success, like a Bankster! Octafish Jul 2013 #3
Wearing a hooded sweatshirt in the rain makes you a thug? Cali_Democrat Jul 2013 #4
I wear a hooded sweatshirt about six months out of the year pokerfan Jul 2013 #9
What's he got against khaki pants? nt nyquil_man Jul 2013 #5
they were fitted and folded khakis, and the hoodie looked like it could easily JI7 Jul 2013 #10
Hell, I wear khakis all the time. nyquil_man Jul 2013 #12
ugly mofo Geraldo with the ugly empty head. Whisp Jul 2013 #7
Worst criminals I ever encountered all wore suits and ties . . . Journeyman Jul 2013 #11
Lame BeyondGeography Jul 2013 #13
Hoodies are the official outfit here. Blue_In_AK Jul 2013 #14
If he was in a 3 piece suit NOLALady Jul 2013 #15
Sharks! Jets! Scurrilous Jul 2013 #16
Fuck you, Geraldo. CakeGrrl Jul 2013 #17
No freedom to wear clothes of choice.... defacto7 Jul 2013 #18
Jim Crow is alive and well HipChick Jul 2013 #19
The worst is when you dress like white people's idea of a thug while wielding a deadly sidewalk (nt) klook Jul 2013 #20
Geraldo is a super turd maggot olddots Jul 2013 #21
Wearing a hoodie at 7:16 on a Sunday evening Sheldon Cooper Jul 2013 #22
I bet Geraldo also believes a woman should be blamed for a rape because of the clothes she wears davidn3600 Jul 2013 #23
He's disgusting. nt. polly7 Jul 2013 #24
GERALDO DRESS'S LIKE A THUG...one in a suite and is really stupid uponit7771 Jul 2013 #25
Amazing the rationalizations and apologistic explanations a winger will make... Old and In the Way Jul 2013 #26
even after the Trayvon body photo was published? Enrique Jul 2013 #27
Hey Geraldo! Go search Al Capone's vault! muntrv Jul 2013 #28
"You don't send your daughter out in the night, chervilant Jul 2013 #29
Fuck you Jerry.... socialist_n_TN Jul 2013 #30
He sees himself in Zimmerman nt TomClash Jul 2013 #31
How fucking far is geraldo's head up his own ass? Cha Jul 2013 #32
Typical Fox fascist. Dawson Leery Jul 2013 #33
What neighborhood did Geraldo want Trayvon to be walking in? (nt) Nine Jul 2013 #35
Also, 7 pm is too late for a black kid to be outside. Got it. (nt) Nine Jul 2013 #36
I don't know. Most mafia thugs wear really expensive suits. Should we shoot Geraldo? on point Jul 2013 #37
Fucking jackass Bobbie Jo Jul 2013 #38
Back alleys in troubled neighborhoods? What the FUCK???? yardwork Jul 2013 #39
also known as the dog walk in a gated community... pokerfan Jul 2013 #40
How do thugs dress? treestar Jul 2013 #41

Skittles

(153,211 posts)
8. CORRECT
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:03 PM
Jul 2013

I work nights and stay up all night on my nights off so I am very often running around at night - I HAVE had cops size me up, but they assume my car is broken down somewhere and are checking on my welfare

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
34. I was coming in this thread to type the exact same thing!
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:35 PM
Jul 2013

Middle aged white woman, and I wear hoodies regularly when it's chilly and rainy like that. Routinely.

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)
9. I wear a hooded sweatshirt about six months out of the year
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:04 PM
Jul 2013

but I'm white so I don't have to worry about some wannabe policeman superhero crimefighter profiling me.

JI7

(89,276 posts)
10. they were fitted and folded khakis, and the hoodie looked like it could easily
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:04 PM
Jul 2013

be part of a school uniform or one of those tops passed out to large groups of kids during things like school trips to make it easy to see them and keep them from getting lost.

Journeyman

(15,042 posts)
11. Worst criminals I ever encountered all wore suits and ties . . .
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:05 PM
Jul 2013

As the lyric says, "You can steal more with a briefcase than a gun."

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
14. Hoodies are the official outfit here.
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:06 PM
Jul 2013

Perfect weight for spring and fall and most summers (except this one, which is particularly warm). In the winter we layer them up with our parkas. No one thinks "gangsta" when they see a hoodie. Geraldo is talking crazy talk.

NOLALady

(4,003 posts)
15. If he was in a 3 piece suit
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:08 PM
Jul 2013

with Black skin, he would have still been seen as suspicious.

Geraldo does not live in the real world.

CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)
17. Fuck you, Geraldo.
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:09 PM
Jul 2013

All this asshat did was give the thumbs-up to racial profiling. To hell with him.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
18. No freedom to wear clothes of choice....
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:11 PM
Jul 2013

You mean you can't wear clothes to protect you from the rain? No freedom from rain?

....not in this country, huh Geraldo?

Who is to decide what clothes a black child can wear?

Are white children allowed to protect themselves from the weather?

Who decides which rain gear is thugery?

Do we now live in Maoist China and all wear the same clothing or die?

klook

(12,171 posts)
20. The worst is when you dress like white people's idea of a thug while wielding a deadly sidewalk (nt)
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:13 PM
Jul 2013
 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
21. Geraldo is a super turd maggot
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:14 PM
Jul 2013

he got his rep with his work exposing a mental facility that was eventually shut down , he was a real journalist then got turned into what he has become by you guessed it GREED .
The guy will do and say anything for money which is sad because he is not as stupid as the slugs he surrounds himself with.
This makes him a super turd maggot.

Sheldon Cooper

(3,724 posts)
22. Wearing a hoodie at 7:16 on a Sunday evening
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:18 PM
Jul 2013

on the main streets of a gated community means you deserve to be killed? No Geraldo, there's only one person who deserves to be killed. It wasn't Trayvon.

Old and In the Way

(37,540 posts)
26. Amazing the rationalizations and apologistic explanations a winger will make...
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:30 PM
Jul 2013

to keep that Fox News check coming. Another profile in courage...not.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
27. even after the Trayvon body photo was published?
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:31 PM
Jul 2013

he still stands by these words, even after the world saw Trayvon in his skinny khakis?

chervilant

(8,267 posts)
29. "You don't send your daughter out in the night,
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:38 PM
Jul 2013

wearing a miniskirt, and expect a good result..."

Way to blame anyone BUT the perp, Geraldo.

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)
30. Fuck you Jerry....
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:43 PM
Jul 2013

What's next? Jeans and tees. Is that going to make you look like a thug too?

And since when did what you wear become a cause for execution?

Cha

(297,772 posts)
32. How fucking far is geraldo's head up his own ass?
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:25 PM
Jul 2013

That's racist asshole talk to excuse fucking monster zimmerman.

I really shouldn't read stupid shit coming from idtiots' holes.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
41. How do thugs dress?
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 10:14 PM
Jul 2013

WTF was wrong with a hoodie? People wear them all the time. Geez, my teen nephews must be thugs too. I didn't know that.

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