Barney Frank to Black Degree Recipient: ‘You Now Have a Hoodie You Can Wear & No One Will Shoot at You’
- Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:40am by
Billy Hallowell
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On Sunday, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) spoke at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth undergraduate commencement ceremony, where he unleashed a bizarre comment surrounding Trayvon Martin and a black recipient who was at the event to receive an honorary degree. Frank, who was given the Chancellor’s Distinguished Service Medal at the event, created such a surprise with his quip that the audience gasped (and some cheered) as a result.
So, what was it that the leftist lawmaker said that created such a stir? Frank, who seemed to be looking for laughs from those in attendance, commented about academic and social justice crusader Hubie Jones’ honorary degree. The politician, who was clearly attempting to invoke the racial elements surrounding the Martin incident, said that Jones now has an academic hoodie that he can wear without anyone shooting at him.
“One of the great men that I‘ve worked with Hubie for many years and I’m particularly pleased that Hubie got an honorary degree today,” Frank told the audience. “You know, when you get an honorary degree they give you one of these [Frank then held up his hoodie] and Hubie, I think you now have a hoodie you can wear and no one will shoot at you. So, I think you’ll feel, I hope, pretty protected by that.”
Watch Frank make the bizarre statement, below:
(H/T: Real Clear Politics)



















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PETTYDRAMA
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:09amNo one will shoot him except the right wing religious nuts that patrol this site and have a bible in one hand and a rifle in the other.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:22amHis picture would have been much better in Hustler and would not have had to be photoshopped!
Report Post »ComradeAdam
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:36amYup, only those violent, evil, hatemongering christians that are always trying to accept all others as sons and daughters of God are a threat to those that don’t look like them. Don’t forget, only those that are taught ‘thou shalt not kill’ would be willing to kill based on skin color.
Report Post »Please ignore the radical left there is nothing to see there. Afterall, the radical left was who pointed out that the hate was coming from those evil right wing christians.
yougottabekidding
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:38amActually I believe that their should be a prenatal test for his form of disease and his parents could have aborted him, of course when they saw him they still could have done it! As long as they did it soon after birth!
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:39amYaaaaawwwnnnn….
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:48amThat playbook is old and worn out and you sound prejudice.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:56amPettydrama. you are on a conservative site. You need to know the difference between liberal thinking and conservative thinking. Lib’s can make fun conservatives and it will have no effect at all. Conservatives can make fun and laugh at liberals, and the it has the opposite effect. Laughing at a liberal causes the lib to lash out. So if you just have the urge to fight go to Huffington Post, post as a conservative and laugh at one of your lib friends. You do not need a reason to laugh. just do it.
Report Post »go2mikerenzi
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:06ama registered hispanic democrat kills a black HOODLUM in self-defense and liberal pickile-smoochers are still trying to blame republicans?
Report Post »ShyMan
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:33amJust because I have a bible in one hand and a firearm in the other doesn’t give you the right to judge me. I was born AND raised this way.
If a hoodie or a flat bill or a pervert attacks me they’ll get a double barreled dose of scripture followed by a bullet or three. Or the other way around.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:35amShows how much you know about rifles. LOL
Report Post »Seede
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:45amMR> PETTYDRAMA
Report Post »Yep – your right. That’s exactly how you got this far in life. If it wasn’t for the guy with a bible in one hand and his rifle in the other you would still be cow pie in the barnyard of manure. In fact that’s probably where you will wind up. The enemy always comes for guys like you first.
JRook
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:52amBeyond the pretend drama here the comment was a correct representation of the absurdity of the original comment regarding Martin somehow being guilty of something or worthy of close scrutiny because he was wearing a hoodie. I guess individuals with long hair are communists and socialists too. Anyone who doesn’t think the US, perhaps the world, has been de-evoloving since 1980 has not been paying attention.
Report Post »Skee
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:01am@pettydrama
Report Post »That’s funny when the radical left holds the communist manifesto in one hand and a crowbar in the other, while destroying property. Hoping to escalate class warfare into real warfare. We show up to a crowbar fight with guns. Just because the majority of the left cannot purchase guns legally due to felonies and the law abiding right can, doesn‘t mean you should hate us just because we’ll kick your a$$ and stop your movement in it’s tracks.
Walkabout
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:04amPETTYDRAMA
My kids are non-white. So you believe that I will shoot them?
Go back to the Huffpo you mor0n.
Report Post »The_Postal
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:05amPettydrama.
Who gets a trophy for breathing and doesn’t have to have red ink used on them? Youuu doo… you’re so cute and perfect and you can do no wrong. Now go back to work and make me a big mac.
Report Post »mensa141
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:19am@Petty – I read some of your other comments. You sure have a hard on about religion. Were you abused as a child? As you seem so certain of yourself, a sure sign of low intelligence and self rightousness, ponder one question: can you actually prove that there is no God? I can‘t prove their is one and I can’t prove their isn’t one. I do choose to leave others alone that might believe their is a God as I choose to generally leave others alone that think their isn’t a God. A bit of advice you may want to consider.
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:35amYup you are right…All of us religious nuts are just looking for people to shoot….any communist volunteers? ;)
Report Post »Reagan_Patriot
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:44amIt‘s funny Bwaney Fwank would say that since poor lil’ Trayvon didn’t give a crap about his own education. Had he of, he would no doubt be alive.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:48amNow who would want to shoot Barney Rubble, he’s just a fictitious character.
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:09amMight as well ignore PETTYDRAMA.
He/she is a troll who has only been prowling around since last month. Every comment this troll makes is inflammatory, and significantly, you never see him/her respond.
A meaningless moron at best.
Report Post »DGuy
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:18amYou must be thinking of Islam… The religon of ‘peace’. Idiot.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:44amPETTYDRAMAQUEEN, Who’s threatening to shoot Barney…other than his boyfriend, in the ****, or up the ***?
Report Post »Is there any reason that turds like you just will not respond in like to those who respond to your posts which are just nothing more than hit and run insults? if you cannot or will not debate, you are then nothing more than a coward.
Still, that is an interesting picture of your boyfriend in that bikini.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:54amPETTYDRAMAQUEEN, LOL, forgot to mention.
Report Post »Most of us here would picture you as that left wing atheist nut that patrols this site and have a Communist Manifesto in one hand and free condoms in the other.
Volsense
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:58amPETTYDRAMA you are reiterating the mindless drivel that you leftwing nutjob lemmings have been brainwashed with. Religious nuts??? Check your history, kid. Tea Party = 100s of thousands of demonstrators with ZERO arrests. OWS = hundreds of demonstrators with nearly 7,000 arrests. Without racial hatred and class warfare, the left is simply inconsequential as I am sure you know. The lies and deceptions used to brainwash the lemmings on the left are so obvious that some of these lemmings are acually experienceing a rude awakenings.
Report Post »Molly_Pitcher
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:58am…Don’t forget Walmart & gas guzzlers….and all the other things (besides Bibles and guns) that you’re too good to rub elbows with.
Barney Frank – Classless.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:01pmYeah, Bawney Fwank.
They are safe, provided they are not beating a well-respected NEIGHBORHOOD CRIME WATCH CAPTAIN’S head into the sidewalk !!!!
How do you look in the mirror everyday, you pathetic goofball?
Report Post »Rattle13
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:03pmReally? Shouldn‘t you be over trolling MSNBC’s site getting “tingly” feelings Mathews or something?
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:39pm@PETTYDRAMA… apparently you know a lot about PETTY DRAMA
Report Post »1proudAmerican
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:55pmIt used to always be “Bush’s fault” but since that argument is getting more ridiculous as the years go by, it will just be “Republicans’ fault“ or ”Conservatives’ fault“ or ”Christians’ fault”. Dems can do no wrong……..in their own eyes.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:13pmPetty,
Report Post »I understand this not as entertaining as the
“kiddie porn”sites you’re used too!
We understand your need to love Barney.
Independent4233
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:44pmPETTYDRAMA
“No one will shoot him except the right wing religious nuts that patrol this site and have a bible in one hand and a rifle in the other.”
Right you are, El Twinko. So watch your ass.
I read your other posts. As usual with you radical leftists geeks, not one intelligent word of rebuttal….nor even one that makesany sense.
1200 militias and counting per Janet Napolitano.
“You Now Have a Hoodie You Can Wear & No One Will Shoot at You”
Unless, of course, you sucker punch him, jump on top and try to kill him. Then, darling boy, all bets are off.
Now don’t you feel honored to have received a diploma from a sick pervert?
Report Post »girving
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:32pm…another leftist, intolerant bigoted, statement from an America bashing Liberal.
Report Post »AUsername
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:23pmno the cops would
Report Post »bfavre71
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:23pmSend him to Occupy Wall St. where he can be drugged and raped, he’d enjoy that.
Report Post »foodforthought
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:46pmActually, 94% of black men are killed by other black men. So, if he’s going to get shot, it will most likely be by another black man, no matter what he’s wearing. In reality, Hubie was at a much higher risk of being aborted than being shot by a white-hispanic, since 40% of all abortions in this country are accounted for by black women. That would have been one helluva commencement comment, but, at least it would have been true. By the way, you are a hateful bigot, in case you weren’t aware.
Report Post »ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:57pmPETTYDRAMA How doe’t it feel to be Godless? I pity you for not knowing GOD. Oh I know you wanted something and you prayed to get it, and did mot, so now you demean everyone else that has a relationship with GOD. GROW UP DEAL WITH IT.
Report Post »jmgair
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:58pmAnd their cites are set on fools like yourself so make sure you are wearing your trayvon hoodie.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:11pmMr. Jones will never live this insult down and being made a laughing stock by an old toothlees Q_ueer. I bet he never turned his back or bent over aroung the old F_ag.
Report Post »korbin
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:49pmYour feelings hurt because your dream boat is an idiot? Anyone who sides with Bawney in any capacity has to be of questionable character. Your comment is stupid and it will not be long before people like you will be thankful for people like me, gun toting, bible thumping Constitution carrying freedom loving Americans saves your poo c little ass. By the way if I am not mistaking it is the left wing socialist who tend to be violent as those of us your words RIGHT WINGers abide by the law of the land, most of you can‘t legally own a firearm as you couldn’t pas the background check due to your violent pot smoking pasts,….
Report Post »bumfuzeled
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:26amWhat haters you anti-religion guys are. Just start with the idiot Barney himself. Undergraduate degrees are not awarded hoods, those are reserved for doctoral graduates. Assuming that someone would shoot someone just because of an article of clothing sounds more like a Mexican motorcycle gang not a Christian thing. So maybe assuming is making an ass out of both you and him.
Report Post »myway
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:08amA country he wants it to be! What a despicable low life. Why isn’t he in jail?
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:50amBecause we are presently living in insanity…under Barry’s administration one of the worst thieves in the world gets to speak at college graduations …looks like they have their liberal utopia..
Report Post »mensa141
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:10amAnd you wonder why we still have race problems in the US? Idiots like him, Al, and Jesse are always there to fan flames and thin the skin of anyone. Next time anyone complains about racism ask them to explain what they perceive as their problem.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:01pmThe Great Prophet of the Eonomic Disaster, caused by himself… has spoken… and you can take that to UnEmployment Office… where you will find other BulletProof Grads!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:05pmI listened to this twice just to make certain that I was hearing it right. Barney is just another one of those libs who continually separate the races when it suits his needs, and to be such a racist while doing so. It makes me think of JZS’s post last night regarding the Indian born German young man who solved the Sir Isaac Newton math riddle.
Report Post »JZS literally USED the young man’s race and skin color as a fulcrum to support his perceived leverage over most of us here just to again, insult us as being racist. JZS, your comment was so racist that I see The Blaze has seen fit to remove it, and my calling you out on that. I would think that you owe that young man an apology. Will never expect the same from you to us, since I expect you to continue to call us all racist. Go take a long hard look at yourself and see how you have become what you so easily call everybody else.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:23pmJZS, Sorry, was called away for a while and did not finish my thought.
Report Post »What I was getting at is basically this: In your overly self righteous, elitist mind, naturally your outcome does justify the means…correct.
Just said this to another lib poster, and will have to say it again. The lefty lib way again, “Do as I say, and not as I do.”
I’ll have to say that this time JZS have thoroughly disgusted me.
BillyPenn
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:07amTook a quick look at Bawney’s pic and for a moment thought he was in his wedding dress. Just saying !
Report Post »chips1
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:56amBawney has taken a few shots himself!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:40pmBILLYPENN, LOL, yeah it looked like he had his black wedding veil rolled up on top of his head.
Report Post »redbone007
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:59amWhat is wrong with these people and why would anyone say something like that? They are all sick in the evil spirit.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:10amOn the money, they will do anything to antagonize people into a race and hate filled war.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:33amDartmouth, is Barney the only person available to speak to the graduates? What a poor choice. No wonder our youth are out in the street with OWS.
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:59amI didnt think Barney Frank couldnt get any dumber but he proved me wrong. Congrats Barney.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:15amBawney’s got a set of red woolie long-johns (complete with trap door) ordered, and he’s circling his mailbox like a buzzard waiting for them to come in.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:24amHow did he ever keep getting re-elected…..it bogles the mind thinking about it
Report Post »Moozmom
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:51amUncle Art died in Italy in WWII for the Barney Franks and hoodie wearers everywhere. It’s amazing how much ignorance of the truth is out there parading their vision of a very sick America every day.
Report Post »Treaty
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:48amZimmerman is a registered Democrat.
Report Post »ComradeAdam
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:48amPlease ignore the above comment, it doesn’t fit the media narrative of blaming everything bad on the right wing.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:49am“Was”!!!!
Report Post »Ahmagettajob
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:46amWhat a despicable piece of human detritus this Bonnie Fwank is. How the poeple in this district could reelect him for so many terms is mind boggling.
Report Post »bmel
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:45amwhat a bizarre,little fellah.Is there any wonder why the Barwwney&dodd bills seem to always be scwewed up? Echoing thank God he’s leaving-What a democwat.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:05amThis is like going to your birthday party, a very happy occasion, and as you go down the road witness a traffic accident and wanting to help you run up to the cars and see things you never in your life wanted to see.
Report Post »A happy occasion that is turned to horror that you just can not get out of your head for the rest of your life! Including nightmares
Amazingoly
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:35amIt is such a relief having the creep out of Congress soon.
Report Post »gobnait
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:31amAnd it’s NOT the Democrats who foment racial division and hatred? Martin Luther King must be spinning in his grave to see what’s become of the progress he peacefully sought. Barney Frank is a despicable partisan whore.
Report Post »Legal Immigrant
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:29amWas Bawney tapping his foot as he spoke?
Report Post »DCSKIHOG
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:24amThe Commencement Speech You Need To Hear
Report Post »http://www.boortz.com/news/news/local-education/commencement-speech/nCG7H/
kickagrandma
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:23amWRONG! Just because someone has a degree does not exclude that event.
What university, college, advanced tech studies institution would PAY GOOD MONEY to hear such drivel from such a little man? Honest to Pete. If there was any doubt about the legitimate claims of the conservatives concerning the perversion of our institutions of higher learning, the list of speakers at graduations across the country would change minds.
As for me, I would have asked a CHRISTIAN Veteran to speak!
LORD, YOU YOURSELF have told us what to do. LEAD US ON, FATHER GOD IN JESUS’ precious and mighty name, amen.
GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Report Post »Ironmen
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:41amyou are incorrect homosexuals are not men . They are “its”.
Report Post »Justone View
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:21amBarney Frank, What a wordsmith!
Report Post »Way to inspire the minds of the future! I simply do not get what has happened to the human race?
We are devolving.
Blazingbakedbeans
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:19amIf he wanted to gets some laughs he should have “broke wind.” That worked once before for him.
Report Post »dublinthewagons
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:41amEvery speech Barney gives is ‘BREAKING WIND’
Report Post »2Smart2BaLib
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:17amWhat college or parent would want this moron speaking?
figures it was state run UMass
this man is a vile horrible man and needs to go away ASAP.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:24amIf I had been a parent or a student…I would have complained “big time”!
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:11amEducation is the doorway to success and upward mobility.
Rep. Frank is right.
Is this why you Keys hate education so much; that it gives the wrong kind of people a chance to succeed?
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:28am@marybethelizabeth
Today’s “education” system is largely an agency for the indoctrination of young Americans into becoming America hating leftists.
Certainly nothing to make a person feel smug and superior.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:41amFrank is a ridiculous pathetic leftist who isn’t funny and, oh by the way he has destroyed the banking industry and help decimate the poor. Kind of like Oblamer has done. Frank is like a mini Oblamer.
You ridiculous comment is race key not us, because if Frank was a straight Conservative then you would want his resignation.
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:56amTheblaze isn’t a news portal. It is an indoctrination center for crotchety senior citizens whose time would be better spent yelling at neighborhood kids to keep of their lawns.
Nobody hates America more than the people that resist making it a better place and want to keep repeating the same mistakes.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:15amTell that to people with master’s degrees flipping burgers or unemployed.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:19amNice Try Beth Beth, but your opinion is wrong. Nobody hates America more than the President as indicated by the destruction his reign of terror is causing. The earliest Conservative was just born and the oldest is well over 100 years old. You and your Leftist are shrinking.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:26amMBE – I don‘t think you have a clue what Bwaney’s favorite doorways and portals really are. YUCK!
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:16am@MARYBETHELIZABETH
Typical self-righteous, dull-witted comment as usual.
By the way, if the Blaze is “an indoctrination center for crotchety senior citizens whose time would be better spent yelling at neighborhood kids to keep of their lawns,” then why have you been making comments here since March 2011? Saving up to buy a lawn?
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:18pmShe might as well, NELBERT. Now she just sits around and watches her ass grow.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:54pmIf Barney could have a daughter, she would sound like you, marybethbeth.
Report Post »And as far as I know you may BE his daughter. Weird as that biological scheme may be.
reconmarine
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:08amThis is from the state that also brought us Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and Elizabeth “Pocohontas” Warren. You can expect nothing less from these people.
Report Post »lisalake
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:06amWow… the scariest thing about this is not that this buffoon is a congressman — but rather the general public who elected him over & over…. makes you wonder how there can be ANY hope to fix the mess we are in…
Report Post »john654
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:21amThat’s what I was going to say!
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:02am“Frank, who seemed to be looking for laughs from those in attendance,”
What Barney didn’t realize that everyone were already laughing at him until he said something stupid like that.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:14amEDIT:
“…were already laughing…”
Report Post »Should be
“…was already laughing…”
doomytram
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:00amFwank way to keep it classy you disgusting extremist pathetic leftist. I would fully expect Sharpton to try and run Fwanky away. Barbara Fwank did you stutter, yes?
Please leave the district of corruption Fwank. You have utterly destroyed the banking industry with your blind loyalty to Franklin Raines and Fannie Mae.
Fwank is a career crook and can’t quit stealing from the US Taxpayers soon enough.
Report Post »t00nces2
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:56amWhy that man still gets any type of recognition is beyond me. He should be sitting in the stir ala Bernie Madoff. Talk about a pyramid schemer.
Report Post »carl_in_ohio
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:52amwow, what an inappropriate thing to say.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:55amFrom that POS you couldn’t have expected anything better.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:42amRevys Sharpo and Jacko gave Bwarknee some notes for his speech.
Report Post »OMG 2012
LibsAndCopKillersALoveStory
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:49amBecause Frank knows all the facts in the case, and is not worried at all about further intensifying racial discord.
Report Post »So much for his honorary degree.
doomytram
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:09amThe cops acted stupidly, right?
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