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mercuryblues

(16,426 posts)
16. I wear
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 02:30 PM
Mar 2012

hoodies to my son's baseball games. It gets a little chilly at night. So I guess If someone shoots me I deserve it because of my choice in clothing. The concession stand even sells those dangerous weapons, AKA Skittles.

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Good for the kid. Fuck Geraldo. Robb Mar 2012 #1
If Geraldo is mistaken for a pedophile and shot, will we blame his mustache? n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #2
DING!!! Wait Wut Mar 2012 #5
LOL!!!!! fascisthunter Mar 2012 #57
"the hoodie is as much responsible"??? The hoodie pulled the trigger? polichick Mar 2012 #3
"It's not blaming the victim" gratuitous Mar 2012 #4
The son gets it. Lone_Star_Dem Mar 2012 #6
I have trouble telling Geraldo and Borat apart. MineralMan Mar 2012 #7
one of them is a comedian CreekDog Mar 2012 #37
Ah...it is clear to me now. MineralMan Mar 2012 #40
wtf? Geraldo has outdone himself this time. yardwork Mar 2012 #8
So a hoodie is "gangsta"? I guess I'm married to a "gangsta" librarian because my wife wears hoodies WhollyHeretic Mar 2012 #9
Oh, you've got to watch out for the gangsta librarians. tanyev Mar 2012 #35
My wife and I both wear our hoodies when it's cool auburngrad82 Mar 2012 #10
Fox News: Talk first, think later. savalez Mar 2012 #11
I Had A Similar Conversation w/ My Son otohara Mar 2012 #12
You are the only one in this thread who is trying to look at this from both sides. murielm99 Mar 2012 #19
Doesn't Seem To Make Much Difference otohara Mar 2012 #32
My kids are about as white as they come. murielm99 Mar 2012 #45
I don't know JonLP24 Mar 2012 #38
Without Guns, There'd Be No Fear of Clothes otohara Mar 2012 #44
Thank You RobinA Mar 2012 #41
I'm not sure what the not liking reality JonLP24 Mar 2012 #48
I just heard a black cop... butterfly77 Mar 2012 #13
That's the thinking that blames women for being raped malaise Mar 2012 #14
Good - I'm tired of the blame everything but the guns crowd. Initech Mar 2012 #15
I wear mercuryblues Mar 2012 #16
really. barbtries Mar 2012 #17
I wear hoodies. ohheckyeah Mar 2012 #18
Geraldo is quadrupling down on his hoodie remark pokerfan Mar 2012 #20
He keeps climbing out of the hole then jumping back in again. SolutionisSolidarity Mar 2012 #53
Zimmerman would have followed him anyway because he was black. nt Incitatus Mar 2012 #21
How true. NOLALady Mar 2012 #43
Maybe this apple fell and rolled away from the tree. Incitatus Mar 2012 #22
Sound very much like trying to blame a rape on the clothes the victim was wearing. I thought we jwirr Mar 2012 #23
+1 What an asshole SomethingFishy Mar 2012 #25
this just in-Capone's vault is still empty nt bart95 Mar 2012 #24
LOL...I was just about to write: deutsey Mar 2012 #29
I wear hoodies and I am a 73-year-old white blonde female. RebelOne Mar 2012 #26
I wear them too dana_b Mar 2012 #28
GANGSTA!!!! deutsey Mar 2012 #30
I'm a 30-something blonde white female Aerows Mar 2012 #56
really, Geraldo? dana_b Mar 2012 #27
He just had to insert himself into the story somehow. What a Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2012 #31
I'm a middle-age white man and I wear a hoodie just about every day. Why? Shampoobra Mar 2012 #33
so over 75 percent of school kids are just asking to be shot JI7 Mar 2012 #34
Should we blame the manufacturers of hoodies? IggleDoer Mar 2012 #36
the problem is that without the hoodie, the kid was harassed CreekDog Mar 2012 #39
What did Shaun Slannity say...`` butterfly77 Mar 2012 #42
So if Trayvon wasn't wearing a hoodie vankuria Mar 2012 #46
He should be ashamed! Hatchling Mar 2012 #47
He was probably also wearing pants. surrealAmerican Mar 2012 #49
Geraldo in a hoodie DesertRat Mar 2012 #50
I used to think Heraldo made sense when he was young aint_no_life_nowhere Mar 2012 #51
Most decent paying "pundit" openings are in corporate media daleo Mar 2012 #54
Wow, someone should have shot me down in cold blood a few decades ago LynneSin Mar 2012 #52
Does Geraldo see the same problems with this? Patsy Stone Mar 2012 #55
I really hope... greytdemocrat Mar 2012 #58
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