"Perhaps, someday, blacks will win the right to be treated like volitional human beings. But not yet."
- Ann Coulter
(Trayvon Martin) was "an enraged black man-child"..."dope-smoking, dope-peddling, gangsta wannabe, Skittles hoodie boy."
- Ted draft-avoiding pants-pooping Nugent
The question needs to be asked, why is it that conservatives feel entitled to demand a different standard of behavior from people just because they CHOOSE to see them as 'other'? Why do they EXPECT that their irrational, unfair, and ludicrous prejudices should be indulged just because it makes them feel more comfortable?
Every one of us who has ever attended a block-watch meeting with police, or a self-defense class, has been taught by law enforcement and other safety experts that we should view being followed as threatening behavior. But I have yet to see one of the white conservative racists acknowledge that when a stranger - as George Zimmerman was - does this to someone, that it is threatening, provocative behavior.
Instead, we see conservatives accusing Trayvon Martin of dope smoking. We don't have any evidence that he did so; the trace amount of chemical in his body was too small to identify how it was ingested. As we know, it is possible to have trace amounts to substantial amounts of the active chemical in marijuana, even a contact high, from being around other people who are smoking pot, without a person themselves smoking it.
We have ZERO evidence that Trayvon Martin EVER sold marijuana to anyone. We have ZERO evidence that Trayvon Martin was a gangsta-wannabe either. That 'gangsta-wannabe' accusation is inconsistent with a kid who is making plans to go to college, who is participating in school sports, who is a good student, who is active in their church and who has a happy, close, supportive family life.
"skittles hoodie-boy"......Is there anything inherently wrong with either skittles or hoodies? NO, of course not, so therefore criticizing Trayvon Martin for wearing a hooded sweatshirt on a rainy night in February, where even in Florida it can become uncomfortably chill after dark is not justified, much less the 'crime' of bringing candy to a future step-brother. Let's call that what it is - kind, considerate, thoughtful and polite behavior.
dope-smoking, dope-peddling, gangsta wannabe, Skittles hoodie boy.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/868450/ted-nugent-stevie-wonder-is-brain-dead-for-defending-trayvon/#pbG8SU25ZJZafetg.99
dope-smoking, dope-peddling, gangsta wannabe, Skittles hoodie boy.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/868450/ted-nugent-stevie-wonder-is-brain-dead-for-defending-trayvon/#pbG8SU25ZJZafetg.99
an enraged black man-child” and a “dope-smoking, dope-peddling, gangsta wannabe, Skittles hoodie boy.”
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/868450/ted-nugent-stevie-wonder-is-brain-dead-for-defending-trayvon/#pbG8SU25ZJZafetg.99
an enraged black man-child” and a “dope-smoking, dope-peddling, gangsta wannabe, Skittles hoodie boy.”
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/868450/ted-nugent-stevie-wonder-is-brain-dead-for-defending-trayvon/#pbG8SU25ZJZafetg.99
an enraged black man-child” and a “dope-smoking, dope-peddling, gangsta wannabe, Skittles hoodie boy.”
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/868450/ted-nugent-stevie-wonder-is-brain-dead-for-defending-trayvon/#pbG8SU25ZJZafetg.99
an enraged black man-child” and a “dope-smoking, dope-peddling, gangsta wannabe, Skittles hoodie boy.”
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/868450/ted-nugent-stevie-wonder-is-brain-dead-for-defending-trayvon/#pbG8SU25ZJZafetg.99
an enraged black man-child” and a “dope-smoking, dope-peddling, gangsta wannabe, Skittles hoodie boy.”
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/868450/ted-nugent-stevie-wonder-is-brain-dead-for-defending-trayvon/#pbG8SU25ZJZafetg.99
Stephen Colbert calls it, and calls it out, demonstrating why the hoodie meme is a stupid stereotype:
The white majority would never accept having to tell their sons they can't wear hoodies, can't go to buy ice tea and candy after the sun goes down, or that they can't run to catch a movie if they're late, as was the example given by AG Eric Holder, describing an incident when he was stopped by police, earlier in his career as a federal prosecutor. Why would anyone then think it is acceptable that black people, or people of any other race or ethnicity should do so? If people, including male black teens, cannot go make a legal purchase, and walk home, without someone accusing them of being drunk, high, dangerous or criminal, they are not equally free people, the same as the white majority. Rather, they are second class Americans.
The only real question we should be asking is why white people still think holding these stereotypes is acceptable or reasonable, when so clearly they are not justified. If believing these stereotypes are not reasonable, then neither was the behavior of George Zimmerman in following Trayvon Martin, precipitating the threatening, genuinely scary behavior that caused the confrontation that led to his murder.
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