Ignorance breeds on Fox News, as Geraldo Rivera said on Friday that he would “bet money” that Trayvon Martin wouldn’t have been fatally shot if he hadn’t been wearing a hoodie.
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The Fox News host’s comments drew fiery responses from Twitter. Many on the social media platform have been calling him a “moron.”
Geraldo said on Fox&Friends:
“I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.
I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.”
The ignorant comments continued as Geraldo stated:
“When you see a kid walking down the street, particularly a 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.”
He continued on to argue that there is an “instant association” with someone that is wearing a hoodie.
“It’s those crime scene surveillance tapes. Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, 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 going to be a gangsta wannabe? Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace.”
Doesn’t he realize that black kids get shot even when they’re not wearing hoodies? Fox News has dedicated no time to the Trayvon Martin case and as soon as they do, it’s the hoodie that got him killed.
The video is definitely worth a watch.
