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Shampoobra

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33. I'm a middle-age white man and I wear a hoodie just about every day. Why?

Fri Mar 23, 2012, 03:32 PM

Mar 2012

Because I live in a windy, rainy climate, but a thick hood from a winter jacket gives my hair something resembling bed-head (while the hoodie does not).

When I'm wearing it, no one ever looks at me as if I'm some sort of menace. Why? Because I'm a middle-age white man.

So in response to Geraldo's warning to parents regarding how their children dress, I have to question how much progress we as a country have made in the area of racial equality, when I get to wear the same kind of hood, with impunity, that could get a young black man shot.

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Geraldo: My Own Son Is 'Ashamed' Of My Hoodie Quote [View all] kpete Mar 2012 OP

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