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All schools and classrooms should be this way !

Point well taken and in this case I think Giraldo is right.

I've seen kids wearing hoodies in 90 degree weather with the hood up. What are they trying to conceal?

I wear a rain jacket with a hood when it's raining and I'm taking my walk with the hood up for protection. I don't walk around with the hood up all the time.

I also wear a baseball cap and I don't wear that cap backwards but with the bill forward to shield my eyes as it was designed. When I see kids with the cap worm backasswards I know they are followers, stupid, and trouble makers. I've not been deceived yet.

Maybe - the world around them? Maybe you view the concealment from the wrong direction?

Why don't we all just wait until the Grand Jury rules on this case, and quit speculating?

None of us know the real story, so we ALL oughta just "stifle" ourselves until we DO know what happened.


Of course, this IS the campfire, and all that...............

Nope, facts have no importance in this one.

Anyone comes around here wearing a hoodie will face the same fate as the black kid did. I don't cotton to thugs or run from them. I will advance on them and if they choose to not run then it will serve to give me all the authority I need to do what must be done. Unwanted kids grow up to be unwanted adults. Better and cheaper the sooner it happens as it will eventually anyway. Thugs are not welcome in a society with morals and that is certain.

If that was the case the kid would have offed himself. No, this kid was up to no good and he found what he was looking for. Basically he got what his mama wanted for him which was a life and death of thuggery.

Didn't expect you to get it, and wasn't addressing you anyway. That was the last of your posts that I will see. Congrats. Your circle of influence just got smaller.

This is far too good of a post for this topic. Reasonable and no agenda. You have it nailed but it will be only appreciated by a few. Thanks for putting it up.

Hmmm, all it takes is no evidence it wasn't self-defense? Damn.

Having had long experience with the LA Times, I'm not surprised that they chose to spin the story that way. Before anyone leaps to conclusions purely on the basis of what has been reported thus far by mainstream media, you might catch up on latest developments -- specifically, reports that there was an eyewitness who saw the young man on top of Zimmerman, on the ground... that Zimmerman was the one yelling for help, and that he had multiple cuts, lacerations and a broken nose... and that the witness account is in the original police report. Of course, such facts, if true, aren't all that relevant to MSN or CNN or other mainstream outlets in how they're reporting on the incident. The latest CNN story I read buried that information deep in their story.

Bottom line: it's shameful that so many, including Obama and most of the crop of republican presidential candidates, have weighed in with premature opinions based solely upon the story slant taken by the mainstream media. I, for one, will continue to withold judgement until all the facts are established by the judicial process -- not the agenda-driven mainstream media.

Rancho_Loco: Maybe you have spent to much time in Montana and do not understand what the "hoody" type clothing is for and about?
Visualize an urban city corner where 10 to 20 "urban youths" are "congregating", along comes a drug customer or an unsuspecting robbery victim - crimes get committed - THEN the victims and the police have to sort out which "hoodied" urban youth may be responsible.
This "hoody" clothing is urban "camoflage" to describe it in a way you might understand?
And its purpose is aiding and abetting crime.
Back to our scenario - eventually maybe as long as two years later the "urban youth" comes to trial and the questioning of the victim and the investigating police officers go like this:
"well officer/victim can you describe how my client (the upstanding young church goer!) was dressed..... uh-huh well weren't there 12 to 20 other young men dressed EXACTLY like my client who was just out buying candy for his brother etc etc etc blah blah blah!!!!
The "hoody" camoflage is also designed to put a question into the minds of jurors - if you can understand that concept as well?
These "hoody" uniforms are also described (by gangstas and urban "yutes"!) as "felony clothes".
As in, phone taps I have overheard, wherein urban youth #1 calls urban youth #2 on their cell phones and the conversation goes like this "we are gonna caper tonight so be sure to wear your felony clothes (hoody!)!
The favored color of the hoody and the accompanying baggy pants is flat black (non-reflective when hiding from police flashlights and searchlights etc etc etc).
Hoody's don't get the urban youths "raped" it helps them get away with crimes and victimizing the citizenry.
Now having said this - not every urban turd wearing a hoody is a criminal BUT the percentage chance he is a criminal is higher than a "normally" dressed youth.
If any of my 4 children (now all aged over 24 years) ever came home wearing felony clothes (hoody) I would disrobe said child and burn those clothes then and there - I, for once, agree with Grelado on the not wearing "felony clothes".
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

You [bleep] idiot.

I grew up in Southern California, lived in LA for years, was working a couple of blocks away from Korea Town when the Rodney King riots started. I've spent more time than you imagine working and playing in areas where cops don't like to get out of their cars.. Los Angeles, Chicago, Philly, San Francisco, San Jose.

I know what hood rats look like, and when to be concerned.

Okay, just so you know Scott, I would be one day I hope coming to see your farm, not your "Form"

A hoody is no more gangsta' as a baseball hat is gangsta'..at least to non-phvcking idiots with half a clue. It's how the clothes are worn.

I have a hoody and anyone that thinks I'm was a Gangsta' when I wear it would be considered a phvcking idiot.

My son has a hoody as do every other kid on his football team (100% white kids) and I'd dare any internet tough guy to call my son a gangsta' in my presence.

Here ya go. https://spiritschoolapparel.com/sch...-hoodies?sku=S8580P59PI59PC6D2DC13DP1Y12

I wear hoodies a lot. Never worried about getting killed because of it though.

You look like a gangsta' just like me in that hoody.

dang hoodies.. things are always dying when I wear them. I must be gangsta.

I promise to keep my cloths on!

Awww Schittt!!

A hoodie AND a Glock,.....somebody better call for a SWAT team....