LOL...Republicans gone wild!
Posted on 03/23/2012 1:16:34 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
No, where I live hoodies are used to intimidate ordinary citizens and to hide the heads of the criminals who gather in our world-famous wolf packs. I’ve lived through the pimp look and the stupid pimp roll, the drop trou look, the drug-dealer stocking cap and the hoodie. I can assure you these people don’t wear “military” hoodies.
I also plan to wait until all the evidence is presented in this case before I join the lynch mob.
I am not up on this case, other than waking up to Geraldo warning people to tell their kids not to wear hoodies, as he told his kids. Trust me, Geraldo's home is not in the ghetto.
In other words, no one should wear a hoody because a teenager was shot dead in a gated community by a neighborhood watch person. IMO, it was a ridiculous statement. My prediction, by next week Geraldo will be interviewing Rev. Sharpton.
BTW, the pic I saw of the teenager in a hoody did not look like he was of any wolf pack. I agree, I'd like to hear the facts first.
LOL...Republicans gone wild!
'57 is my year too!!!CMHS, Waukesha, Wis. the style was ivy league...button down shirt collars, pegged slacks (black) and "spade or snap-jack" shoes...VERY SHARP. My clothing in my after school mode was far classier than what I see kids wearing to school today. When will schools figure out that clothing can control much behavior and that the school, not the crumb-crunchers, make the rules.
I also use to peg my own slacks on my mothers sewing machine...it was a good peg if you could just fit your foot into the bottom of the slacks..from there they were pegged looser up a little past to the knee...good golly, its been decades OUCH. Us girls pegged our slacks, and yep black slacks..OUCHY AGAIN. over 1/2 century ago.....Yikes..
Met my future husband in high school, he was a senior and I was in the 10th grade. He loved his blue suede shoes and one of the girls in music appreciation class loved flopping her rosin bag on his shoes during class...She wore the white bucks.....
Music appreciation was a class for extra credit...(I needed the extra credit, he took it to avoid a study hall)
That class was the first time I heard "Its cherry pink and apple blossom white" I think it was Pres Prado sp/ record...anyone could bring in their favorite record and then the class discussed that record...Haven't thought of that in decades either...LOL
As Bob Hope use to say,.....thanks for the memories. :O)
The problem is we don't, and never will, live in a perfect world. The difference is that conservatives are smart enough to realize it, while liberals think if they just try hard enough stamp out the unbelievers they can make the world perfect.
Trust me, Geraldo lives in my neighborhood in NJ (or used to) and works in Manhattan. I’m no fan of that idiot but I’m sure he knows all about the ghetto. Any of us who have lived and worked in New York City know all about ghetto people and their menacing styles of dress and behavior. You can be walking on Park Avenue - or just come down the elevator of your duplex apartment - and meet one of them.
This is not about middle class women wearing hoodies while exercising in their suburban neighborhoods. The hoodie is also used by hoodlums (many of them black teens).
If these kids gave up their punk attire, and dressed like halfway normal people, their lives would be a lot safer.
You know, even some middle-class women/men wearing hoodies and driving expensive cars can't be trusted.
So much for you waiting for the facts. One fact being that the police were on there way, and they told the shooter to back off. This never came out until the victim's family demanded some answers. I'm still waiting to hear the rest of the story.
Um...I made no such remark about whether Zimmerman is innocent or guilty. I was simply saying in my posts that Geraldo was right in discouraging his children from wearing thug attire. I will also add that black people need to stop giving their kids bizarre names that turn off employers.
And...um...I have lived on the edge of at least two dangerous inner cities, bub. One was the west side of Asbury Park, NJ and the other was Spanish Harlem. Let’s throw in (for good measure) Avenue C in NYC in the late 1970s.
Then leave it at that. The part about hoodies and what people name their kids will not prove George Zimmerman's innocence or guilt.
Trayvon Martin's family has every right to demand answers, regardless of his color or the shooter's ethnic background. BUT, Zimmerman's actions should be investigated.
Oh, and I am not a bub, far from a teenager, and I am going to get my hoody on, because I am getting a chill.
Since free speech is what FR is all about, I don’t need to be instructed by you to “leave it at that.”
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