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Geraldo Rivera‘s Son Turns On Him for ’Hoodie’ Comments

Geraldo Rivera recently made some controversial remarks blaming the wardrobe choices of dead Florida teen Trayvon Martin for Martin’s shooting. On Fox and Friends this morning, Rivera told the hosts that “I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.” He continued with the following:

When you see a kid walking down the street, particularly dark-skinned kid like my son Cruz — who I constantly yelled at when he was going out wearing a damn hoodie or those pants around his ankles. “Take that hood off!” People look at you and what’s the instant identification, what’s the instant association? It’s those crime scene surveillance tapes. Every time you see someone stickin’ up a 7-11, the kid’s wearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it’s a kid wearing a hoodie. You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a “gangsta”… You’re gonna be a gangsta wanna? Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace. That’s what happens. It is an instant reflexive action.

Remember Juan Williams, our colleague? Our brilliant colleague? He got in trouble with NPR because he said Muslims in formal garb at the airport conjure a certain response in him. That’s an automatic reflex; Juan wasn’t defending it. He was explaining that’s what happened when he sees these particular people in that particular place. When you see a black or Latino youngster, particularly on the street, you walk to the other side of the street. You try to avoid that confrontation. Trayvon Martin, you know God bless him, he was an innocent kid, a wonderful kid, a box of Skittles in his hands. He didn’t deserve to die. But I’ll bet you money, if he didn’t have that hoodie on, that nutty neighborhood watch guy wouldn’t have responded in that violent and aggressive way.

These comments, which have been perceived by many as blaming the victim, have engendered severe blowback against Rivera. In fact, the anchor took to Twitter shortly afterwards to announce that his own son had disowned the comments:

Geraldo Riveras Son Says Hoodie Comments Have Gone Viral For All The Wrong ReasonsHe also added:

Geraldo Riveras Son Says Hoodie Comments Have Gone Viral For All The Wrong Reasons

Rivera has since remained steadfast, claiming he’s trying to tell parents of minority children how to keep their children safe from assault. He has repeated this explanation to his son, telling Politico:

“I wrote him, and I’m telling you that my mission is to save kids’ lives in the real world,” the Fox News host said. “We can bluster and posture all day long about the injustice of it all, but despite what Roland Martin or even my son Gabriel Miguel Rivera says, every hoodie should come with a warning like cigarettes, ‘caution wearing this could get you killed.”[...]

“Gabriel wrote back to say I’ve gone viral for all the wrong reasons,” Rivera wrote in another email, with an unhappy face icon at the end of the sentence.[...]

But even despite his son’s anger (Cruz, unlike his older brother, isn’t mad at him about the comments, Rivera said), the TV and radio personality said he has no intention of taking back what he said. “No I don’t retract a word of it because I’m concerned with saving kids lives,” he said

Is Rivera’s remark really just hard-nosed realism, and even if it is, has his means of expressing it actually furthered the message? Weigh in below.

(h/t Mediaite)

Comments (137)

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  • BirthofaNation
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:14am

    For conservative white people, the dominant fear is of someday living without the privilege that comes with whiteness. Polite conservatives defend the primacy of “Western civilization.” More reactionary whites are openly racist about the threat that non-white peoples pose to “our way of life.” Both versions defend the existing distribution of wealth and power, even though many of the working-class and poor whites who endorse such views have access to precious little wealth or power. Race is used by white elites today, just as it was in the nation’s formative years, to drive a wedge between people who would otherwise come together to challenge those elites. Divide-and-conquer strategies, it seems, never go out of style.

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    • Sheepdog911
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:21am

      “Race is used by white elites today, just as it was in the nation’s formative years, to drive a wedge between people who would otherwise come together to challenge those elites.“ The only people playing the ”Race Card” are non-whites and white liberals. I suppose that since I’m a black conservative woman, I’m not really black … oops, I mean “African American.“ Liberals see me a ”uppity”, conservatives see me as a breath of fresh air. I see myself as being able to think for myself. The elites that want to keep you in your place are the liberal elites. The KKK was an action arm of the Democatic Party for over a hunder years. After the Civil War, most blacks were Republicans (conservatives), until liberals convinced you (you African Americans – not me black) that whitey owes you because muslims and other blacks sold our ancestors into slavery (historical fact). Democrats are the ones that lament the demise of the old South. Democrats are the ones who offer you “something for nothing.” If you believe that someone owes you something and that government handouts of crumbs are a good thing, then you have sold youslelf back into slavery. You want to Rise Up and be free? Join me in the Tea Party. America owes me nothing but what she’s given me … the opportunity to make something of myself and the opportunity succeed – despite the best efforts of the liberal elites.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:00am

    Geraldo’s son does not have any business publically going against him. Geraldo’s son should listen to his father and speak with him in private about it. I dislike it when children or sons and daughters think they know more than their parents who gave them life and opportunities they have today. Sons and daughters today think they know more than their parents, and 99 percent of the time, they do not. They will never be as old or as experienced as their parents. Just like we will never be as old and experienced as God.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:30am

      His son “publicly” went against him? We wouldn‘t know what his son said if GERALDO hadn’t repeated it…

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    • TheCoffinMaker
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:59am

      Geraldo nailed it.

      The majority of Americans dress like gangsters and sluts.

      Notice how many women are wearing those spandex tights everywhere, even with their kids in hand.

      Sluts, tramps, and whores.

      Gangsters, pimps, pushers.

      Obamaville.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:35am

      I also agree with Geraldo what happens when your sporting a red bandana in a blue or green bandana neighbor hood. Or someone in a uniform it infers a group, gang or unit.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 7:03am

      Hoodies don’t kill people. People kill people.

      Hoodies don’t kill people any more than hoochie dresses or push-up bras cause rape.
      That being said, IT SURE DON’T HELP !!!

      If kids are taught to respect themselves, to aspire to be good adults, then they will want to do the things that lead to being a good adult, instead of doing the things that lead to being a gangsta’ or a ******.

      Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ”

      The fascist answer? Eliminate guns, and hoodie control laws.
      It is no surprise Geraldo jumps to blame someTHING instead of assigning human accountability and responsibility.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 7:20am

      Come on pal, If Geraldo was your father…you’d be ashamed of him too! LOL

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    • JohnofOregon
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 11:41am

      Everyone wears a uniform. The Unabomber, liquor store robbers, gangsta rappers and park rapist proudly dress up late at night in their hoodies.

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    • BarackStalin
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 1:38pm

      The purpose of wearing a hoodie is to cover your face…

      Anyone covering their face in public will be viewed as suspicious regardless of race, especially young people…

      I’d bet if I took to wearing a ski mask around the neighborhood, I would be viewed as suspicious too.

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    • JohnofOregon
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:14am

      @barakstalin right on. I would dare someone to wonder around a bank in a hoodie and hands in their pockets.

      Her is the real challenge. I dare anyone to walk down penn. ave. in front of obamas house hiding their face in a hoodie with hands in thier pockets. Yea, do have any idea how many loaded weapons would be pointed at you? Oh hell, try that out front of polosi’s place and see how long security lets you stand.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:48pm

    People are playing Hollywood games and gansta games at the risk of their own lives. It is time to wise up and know this world is no longer safe. These times are lawless and justice is not always easily found. Even juries are blinded by something in cases such as when Kaylee Anthony was murdered and the O.J. Simpson murder. There are things we all have to realize is not right, but there may be things we can all do to make our selves safer from those who are criminals or just trigger happy. Then there are the home invasions. It is hard to believe what is happening, but it is. It is not a race thing, but a spiritual thing and evil is among us seeking those to devour.

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    • naturalizedcitizen
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:10am

      sigh,,,,,,I am not a fan of Geraldo, never have been. I get headaches whenever he is on and want to throw things at him. For once in Geraldo’s carreer, I am 99 per cent with him with the “hoodie” comments. ” First impressions usually is your last impression of an individual. What you look like defines what people think you are.

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    • 13th Generation American
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:41am

      Quit being so negative and stand up like a Man and a true American. Since when did you lose control of your own destiny or thought and reason. Don’t live your life believing in what is reported (LOL) here of all places. Beck is only concerned about clicks on this site for money.

      He said it himself in Forbes that he doesn’t give a flying flip about politics but controversay is like printing your own money.

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    • jeffersonmac
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:30am

      While my heartfelt sympathies and prayers go out to the TM family, I am amazed that the nation protests in the streets over one madman killing a child all the while it is being twisted into a racial issue by this administration, J Jackson and A Sharpton and yet they are doing and saying nothing about our rights being stripped from us on a daily basis. One would think that losing our country would be just as important to the sheeple.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 10:01am

      zimmermanas a predator looking to kill someone. hence his call to 911was a cover and in it he makes racist comments-uses a racial slur that hasn’t been heard for 40yrs[starting with the letter cand ending with the letter n]the first thing he says to the 911dispatcher is hey-like he’s cool ,calm and collected and goes against the dispatchers telling hin the olice will meet him at a certain place-as he has every intention to want to go after and murder this child. The call was his coover.He’s a sadistic murderer as screams are heard coming from trey.He straddled trey who was lying face down and shot him in the back of the head.This law is a free for all to murder with impunity provided there are no witnesses.Zimmerman is a sadist -a allan west type guy-same viciousness in his face .

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    • JohnofOregon
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 11:46am

      Rose-Ellen , good to hear your hate again. Still think the us military are all murderers and rapist? Still think all cops are criminals, still think George bush should be tried for murder?

      Did you get your medication balanced?

      Kill any Jews with your mind this month?

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    • angelcat
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:39pm

      Is it me/ I have trouble understanding what Rose in saying. I think she needs to work on her writing skills. There is no point in writing something when it doesn’t clearly expressing the thought you are trying to get across.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:43pm

    I truly dislike Geraldo, but he is right about this. I do wonder if he would have said it though if the kid was Hispanic? Maybe, maybe not. Everyone seems to have an agenda. It is not what he wore so much as where he wore it that was not wise. People want freedom, but they do not want the sacrifices that go with it. We do not have the protection we need to do as we all want. Like the preacher imprisoned in Syria. He knew the risk and took it. Young people do not heed warnings and often feel it is their right to do this or that. True it is a right many times but that does not keep you safe.
    A drunk woman walking barefoot in a meat packing district has every right to do so, is raped and/or killed had the perfect right to do so, but her rights did not keep her from danger. People are misguided, some mean, some wanting confrontation or appearing to is asking for trouble in this world that has more than its share of people ready, willing and able to do harm. Common sense as far as I can see. Maybe the kid was not aware of the danger, or maybe he felt he had a right to be where he was, and he perfectly did have the right, but many people are in a serious stage of mistrust especially when others are causing crime and mayhem. No one can very well ask or tell by looking, so many are prepared to act. It is a sad state of affairs. The investigation will be done and everyone else needs to calm their selves down because it is only causing more mistrust.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:49pm

      Now you are seeing the beginnings of the Lord dividing the dividers.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:56pm

      See, because the way God splits the mountains depends on how many walls men over the years have built in those mountains. Pretend a 2×2 card board box is the mountains, and it becomes split in two you have two equal sides, two half sides, one full side and a half bottom. But it’s not that simple, now add in before it was split about 100 crossing dividers inside, and maybe another 50 going the other direction, and then split it in half. Everyone will become divided before it’s over with.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:04am

      That’s what Thomas Jefferson was hoping Americans would figure out before it was too late. But you didn’t did you? Nope, you’ve built one hell of a lot of walls instead of Liberty.

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    • naturalizedcitizen
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:38am

      You articulated what I could not. Very well stated sir.

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  • 13th Generation American
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:33pm

    The fact that Geraldo makes a valid point suggests that human beings and Americans among others are going in reverse. I am beginning to think we hit our stride with our Grandparents and Parents.

    This country and the views expressed are getting uglier by the day. When people running for political office suggest that going to college is snobbery or just blatant outright lying about issues for profit is mainstream, we’re done.

    The 7 deadly sins are now considered acceptable discourse when dealing with our issues as a country and willful ignorance is applauded as exceptional.

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  • WeveAlreadyWon
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:32pm

    I don‘t Generally agree with Geraldo on most points but I don’t understand why any intelligent person can‘t understand the point he’s making here. If you are walking down the street and you see someone with a hoodie on late at night and panst hanging down YOU will assume this person is at least trying to look like a Gangsta if they are not one. who are you to approach them to try to determine the difference at your own risk? For the Blacks to make a Million “Hoodie” march to try to defend the Hoodie is insane. What is next? the million “Pants Hangin’ Down” march? Where is the President saying let’s let the facts come out and let justice be done? He’s saying this kid could look like mine? That’s it? Soul search ourselves? i didn’t have anything to do with this. This Administration is BENT on dividing us..

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    • Restored One
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:07am

      I want to hear from Bill Cosby. He is the only black man who can slap down the black man. Too many of our black leaders (and you know who I am talking about) will only take this sad story and turn it into a “Poor Us” story with an agenda that only puts them persoally on a pedestal. It is so unfortunate that the followers of these fools don’t realize that they are the scape goats of their own “race.”

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  • Baja
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:29pm

    Geraldo and Williams are right. Would you open your front door for someone in a hoodie?
    If you’re offended you are a fool. Political correctness will get you hurt. Grow some grapes and start living in the real world.

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  • Motorinstructor
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:12pm

    Back in the sixties as a teenager, I had long hair. The police used to harass me at times. Once I was strip searched for no reason and another time a cop planted drugs on me and yelled to his partner ” See what I found?” Yes, I understand totally where Geraldo is coming from. He also grew up in the sixties and has been around the block a few times. In ten years, his son may feel the same way!

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    • Restored One
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:40pm

      Geraldo is an idiot MOST of the time, however, he is right. It does not matter the situation. A white young man wearing wranglers driving at truck = a hick. A girl (white or black) dressed like a ho is a ho. A white youth with hat sideways, jeans baggy below the butt is a wigger, a black youth dressed the same way is a gangsta. It is all about an impression. If you look like a hick, you must be a hick, if you look like a ho, you must be a ho, if you like a gangsta, you must be gansta. This is not about race! It is about the youth following a “trend.” We as parents should do EXACTLY what Geraldo says. If the trend stereo types you as violent person, then deal with it. I look back to my youth and thought being called a Valley Girl was offensive. Those of us who grew up in the 80′s dealt with the Jocks, Hicks, Stoners and Punk Rockers. I wish that was all we had to deal with today, a friggin hair style.

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  • vic138
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:11pm

    Maybe his son will listen to the words of Brother Iz. He was a much better leader than Obama or Geraldo (Jerry Rivera) ever will be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYy_M4lrH54

    RIP…

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  • Saved777
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:53pm

    Come on Geraldo, your smarter than that… You know those comments were going to be taken out of context , and now you will be defending yourself from now until Christmas, Foxx will have to let you go, The MSM will not forget, and will not retreat until you are finished.

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  • dinadp
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:37pm

    Geraldo Rivera = dumbass

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:29pm

    Yep the media in America is evil, but then again I can‘t remember a time it wasn’t. And I can‘t remember a time way back in school that I didn’t sense a wicked agenda. Oh well, Bye America, you snooze you lose, because God has been saying “Hey, hey, hey, look at this and that” for the longest time.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:39pm

      It’s funny how people beg God to save their country. Look in the Bible, God cares about individual people who love him and do the things he wants, and he doesn’t give a damn about countries.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:44pm

      Remember, the number is 144,000.

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    • Nick84
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:27pm

      Are you this crazy in real life or only when you post comments online? Seriously, they probably make some medicine that could help you.

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  • Zoe
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:25pm

    Geraldo’s gets air time…..

    I only see this narrow feed of band width we’re getting….

    He has a point….

    He doesn‘t seem to be part of the problem unless you feel he’s torquing off the Occupy Today’s Agenda Crowd?

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  • lukerw
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:13pm

    Geraldo… should know… a Radical cannot be Reasonable… or the Piranah will eat him!

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:25pm

      exactly. common sense isnt common on the left and for once I actually agree with geraldo. my day has continued to be off since then

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    • Onowicit
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:02pm

      Be verwy verwy quiet. I’m hunting hoodies. One with the white hoodie one with the black hoodie, my daddy taught me good.

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  • hogtrashhd
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:11pm

    how sad.. even geraldo’s son has no respect for him… i feel sorry for him .. poor geraldo.. he is made fun of by everyone .. he’s such a wanker..

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  • jinnywalz
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:06pm

    Thank you Geraldo for having the courage and sensibilities for stating what most average Americans think and feel. As a former teacher of middle school it was a real challenge to get kids to understand the perception they were projecting – one of “up-to-no-good” demeanor. Every parent should take Geraldo’s comments as the opportunity to stand firm with their children and point to a man who probably has lived a harder life and knows what must be done to rise above the reality of such and the perception of it as well.

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  • ensemble
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:51pm

    This is a tough call, I kind of get where Geraldo is coming from, yet at the same time, isn’t like saying that a girl in a mini-skirt should get sexually assaulted because of what she is wearing?

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    • Cosmos102
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:03pm

      @Ensemble.

      No. The comparison of a rape victim in a mini skirt being the cause of her rape, and a young person wearing a hoodie is like comparing apples to oranges. Law enforcement officers are trained to be hyper alert to signs of probable trouble. Hoodies being a gang dress code or symbol. Women wearing mini skirts are not raped by decent men, but rather by low lifes with psychological problems.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:06pm

      Great point. I just don’t understand why some of the youth these days want to look like gangsters with their pants down to their knees and hoodies, but last time I checked we still have the freedom to wear what we want.

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    • The Giver
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:08pm

      Very different. Prostitutes get paid. Gangsters can risk their lives with other gangsters. How you dress says a lot about you. These were words of wisdom from our parents. They are now dismissed as old fashioned. I have to admit that I AGREE WITH HERALDO THIS ONE TIME! There, I said it. Might never say those words again.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 7:36am

      @cemo – Where do the kids get the money for those clothes? Aren’t parents buying the attire? Since youth unemployment is outrageously high, the majority can’t be buying them with their own money so the parents must be providing it.

      We have the society we have because we have tolerated and celebrated the most banal elements of our humanity.

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:49pm

    Who cares? Geraldo is an obamaslut – regardless of what he spews at any given moment. Geraldo’s son (Jr.?) is just upset because his idiot father has accidentally spoken the truth (violating his sworn oath to Dear Leader), perhaps for the first time ever. Liberals are highly allergic to the truth.

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    • The Giver
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:10pm

      Love your picture. I used to watch the Munster all the time: )

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:11pm

      Yes .. but it is kind of interesting to watch .. when the truth slips out.

      OMG 2012!

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:47pm

    Daddy issues? I thought only strippers suffered that malady.

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  • Msgt Ret
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:43pm

    PS: The Brits’ didnt even have hoodies on, or have a gun!

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  • Zeke48
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:42pm

    Geraldo is such wimp. Ever notice when he goes to a combat zone, he always happens to be in the right place for a sniper to take a shot at him. how many combat reporters do you remember during the Iraq war that seemed to spend months there for Fox, and never once got sniped at, but not Geraldo, he always is getting shot at. what a jerk. he is such a foney POS. He has this need to make people think he is in the thick of things. I hope he never has another show of his own.

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  • Msgt Ret
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:40pm

    So, are there protest for the two Brittish tourist that were gunned down by the black man in Florida because they had no money? Oh, sorry it could not be racist because they were white and the thug was black…he is authorized!

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    • Zoe
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:13pm

      You wear a suit

      You wear a diaper on your head

      You where a uniform

      You wear a badge

      Pants on the ground

      9/11

      Pearl Harbor

      Mother Teresa

      Pac Man

      ……………………………………….. You see an image

      Your gonna relate to something……………….of course his death is tragic

      As are all the unjust crimes committed buy every race in The USA

      Agenda Traction

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    • DPK325
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:51pm

      Hey ****** – the reason they are protesting is because Zimmerman hasn’t even been arrested or charged with anything. I guarantee that if the police decided to let the black man who shot the tourists go free, there would be protests.

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    • DPK325
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:04pm

      Sorry – I shouldn’t call names. I went a little overboard. We can agree to disagree

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    • Msgt Ret
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:22am

      DPK325: I can see just a tad bit of a difference here. Were talking a cold blooded murder of two men with their pants down begging for their lives, no doubt it was intentional VS. someone who claims he was protecting himself and his property along with the 911 call he made etc. I can see why the police are taking time INVESTIGATING what happen, not jumping to conclusions like SOME are doing?

      Zimmerman will face charges, wait and see.

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    • DPK325
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 10:53am

      You make a good point. If all the protesters want is an investigation, then I see their side, as long as they are peaceful…but they should give it a chance first. As long as there is an investigation then they should be satisfied, because it may very well turn out that it was self defense, and if it was self defense, then it really doesn’t matter what race anyone was. Again, sorry about the name-calling…I must have been cranky last night, lol

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  • Kathleen3
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:38pm

    I find Geraldo Rivera to be repugnant. However, on this issue I agree with him. As they turned on Bill Cosby for speaking the truth so, too, are the people responsible for the coarseness and vulgarity pervasive in our society today turning on Rivera for speaking the truth.

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  • MeteoricLimbo
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:35pm

    those darn mirror sunglasses are a tip off too…..Thug-ware?

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  • txjb
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:26pm

    Since I’m white I will say there was a white male in town walking , temp was 79 deg. with a hoody over the head. Really not cool .

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  • WeveAlreadyWon
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:37pm

    you’re missing the point… they were’n carrying Glocks and Hoodies are a lot different than Ducktails.. Ducktails mean don’t mess with me or I will hit you…Hoodies mean I will Rob you and shoot you.. if you don’t see the difference then you Please take a walk down Betty Lane in Clearwater, Florida and THEN you tell me how a Hoodie is the same as a Ducktail Friend… Talk on a website is one thing.. you go to the Hood and walk down the street at 3 am in an area where there were a lot of robberies.. I’ll bet you would crap in your panties.

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  • Msgt Ret
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:26am

    It’s against the law to wear a hood in Florida?

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