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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeraldo: 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. Thats true. I stand by that, he added. I got grief behind that, but thats the reality: you dont 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.
klook
(12,171 posts)Skittles
(153,211 posts)yes, in the dark, in the rain!!! WTF
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)What Geraldo really means is don't walk around in black skin.
Skittles
(153,211 posts)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)Middle aged white woman, and I wear hoodies regularly when it's chilly and rainy like that. Routinely.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Wag the Wallet.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)pokerfan
(27,677 posts)but I'm white so I don't have to worry about some wannabe policeman superhero crimefighter profiling me.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)JI7
(89,276 posts)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.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)I didn't know I was livin' the thug life.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)fuck you to 25 hells and back you p.o.s.!
Journeyman
(15,042 posts)As the lyric says, "You can steal more with a briefcase than a gun."
BeyondGeography
(39,384 posts)Even for Geraldo.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)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)with Black skin, he would have still been seen as suspicious.
Geraldo does not live in the real world.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)All this asshat did was give the thumbs-up to racial profiling. To hell with him.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)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?
HipChick
(25,485 posts)and wearing a Brooks Brothers suit..
klook
(12,171 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)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)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.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)to keep that Fox News check coming. Another profile in courage...not.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)he still stands by these words, even after the world saw Trayvon in his skinny khakis?
muntrv
(14,505 posts)chervilant
(8,267 posts)wearing a miniskirt, and expect a good result..."
Way to blame anyone BUT the perp, Geraldo.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)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?
TomClash
(11,344 posts)Cha
(297,772 posts)That's racist asshole talk to excuse fucking monster zimmerman.
I really shouldn't read stupid shit coming from idtiots' holes.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)"Freedom" only applies to certain people.
Nine
(1,741 posts)Nine
(1,741 posts)on point
(2,506 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)Doesn't he have a vault to open somewhere?
This loser became irrelevant eons ago.
yardwork
(61,712 posts)Fuck you, Geraldo. What an asshole.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)He is so full of shit...
treestar
(82,383 posts)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.