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theadvancedapes  ·  4152 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: #JusticeForTrayvon

That is the saddest aspect of this decision. Geraldo Rivera actually proposed that minorities should stop "wearing hoodies". So ridiculous. That is pretty much telling minorities to: "Accept the institutional injustice. Just shut up and take it."

Here is important food for thought provided by the anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot:

    What matters here is how the changing construction of whiteness intersects with the maintenance of a white/black divide that structures all race relations in the United States. Whether significant numbers of the people now called Latinos or Asian Americans–or the significant numbers of their known “mixed” offspring with whites–will become probationary whites and thus reinforce the structure is an important indicator of the future of race relations in the United States.




lil  ·  4152 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Geraldo Rivera actually proposed that minorities should stop "wearing hoodies".
Anyone else see this comment by Rivera as analogous to blaming women for being assaulted because of how they dress. This is how the annual slutwalks started:
    The rallies began when Constable Michael Sanguinetti, a Toronto Police officer, suggested that to remain safe, "women should avoid dressing like sluts
humanodon  ·  4152 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm a minority in America, but part of the global majority. What do I do?! I guess I could get hoods sewn on to my t-shirts . . .