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11 Bravo

(23,926 posts) Fri Mar 23, 2012, 06:03 PM Mar 2012

I'm a white father who also fears for his sons in light of the Trayvon Martin killing.

Particularly my eldest. He's 19, and a college baseball player. He's tall and slender, and walks with the casual, loose-limbed arrogance of a trained athlete. He spends most of his time hanging out with his teammates - white and black. He wears his jeans in that halfway-down-his-ass fashion that leads me to tell him that he looks like a butt crack salesman. He also favors hoodies, as do most of his teammates. His team has traveled to Florida for games on several occasions, and it terrifies me that some mouth-breathing, cop wannabe asshole might feel "threatened" by him one rainy night and decide to shoot first and ask questions later.

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I'm a white father who also fears for his sons in light of the Trayvon Martin killing. (Original Post) 11 Bravo Mar 2012 OP

As an old lady in Florida, I have had to defend myself for wearing a hoodie HockeyMom Mar 2012 #1

I believe worrying about unstable people with firearms Rex Mar 2012 #2

Blame the NRA lobby and those who glorify them and take their money. It's only going to get worse nanabugg Mar 2012 #3

You have hit the nail on the head HockeyMom Mar 2012 #6

I am related to people just like Invader Zim. Rex Mar 2012 #7

Americans are needlessly put at risk by laws, policies, people, and organizations that promote indepat Mar 2012 #4

The local authorities are entitled to their prejudices down here, Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #5

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)

1. As an old lady in Florida, I have had to defend myself for wearing a hoodie

Reply to 11 Bravo (Original post)

Fri Mar 23, 2012, 06:10 PM

Mar 2012

and not dressing "gangsta", i.e, from up North. If anyone tells you Florida isn't the South and has these discriminatory attitudes, try again.

Rex

(65,616 posts)

2. I believe worrying about unstable people with firearms

Reply to 11 Bravo (Original post)

Fri Mar 23, 2012, 06:12 PM

Mar 2012

and in public, should be a concern to us all. Zimmerman apparently saw a 'bad guy' behind every tree and shrub. If the wind blew, he was on the phone calling the cops. I blame the PD as much as I blame him, they evidently could have stopped this from happening imo.

nanabugg

(2,198 posts)

3. Blame the NRA lobby and those who glorify them and take their money. It's only going to get worse

Reply to Rex (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 23, 2012, 06:17 PM

Mar 2012

unless we Occupy the Gun!

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)

6. You have hit the nail on the head

Reply to Rex (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 23, 2012, 06:37 PM

Mar 2012

Yes, this is what they think. I speak my experience having a paranoid. Fox loving, NRA supporting, Republican husband. You can even seen this attitude right here on DU. People who are SO AFRAID somebody is going to kill them or take away their guns rights. I often wonder. How many of them have actually had to defend their lives? My guess is very few, but the boogey man is just around the next corner waiting to shoot them.