Joining the ‘hoodie’ protest
State Sens. Emanuel Jones, D-Decatur, and Lester Jackson, D-Savannah, before they headed out to the Trayvon Martin protest just getting underway at the state Capitol:
Jim Galloway/AJC
Small note: The hoodies worn by the senators were only a recent fashion conversion. Price tags were still attached.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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74 comments Add your comment
Jerito
March 26th, 2012
11:37 pm
How bout I just let your woman pull on em since it seems like you think I have dreads.
dalstar
March 26th, 2012
11:40 pm
Why not protest this you bunch of racist idiots!!!
http://www.ajc.com/news/new-black-panther-leader-1398575.html?cxtype=rss_news_81963
BERT
March 26th, 2012
11:41 pm
dorito is a black panther clearly, with dreads, wears true religion jeans, wears a straight rim A hat, has his underwear sagging out of his pants, and drives a dodge charger with rims
Jerito
March 26th, 2012
11:44 pm
I guess you are just mad at something. Ill pray for you.!
BERT
March 26th, 2012
11:47 pm
mad at reverse racism, and then when you call people out they cant take it
Jerito
March 26th, 2012
11:55 pm
When did I ever include a race in any of my statements??? Please tell me.
BERT
March 27th, 2012
12:05 am
all the blacks rallying is reverse racism, trayvon martin is a thug look at his twitter page and pictures, kid was looking for trouble and found it, and you were the first to call everybody racist, takes one to know one
Jerito
March 27th, 2012
12:06 am
By all the comments I saw it is plain obvious of either race. If you can’t take what is being dished out log off.
E-Roll
March 27th, 2012
12:08 am
After the break-ins, Zimmerman’s calls to 911 seemed to shift, zeroing in on black males. Were black males actually responsible for any of the crimes reported in the Retreat? Impossible to say. Morgenstern, the police spokesman, said last week that he was too overwhelmed with media requests to get the arrest records on individual cases.
BERT
March 27th, 2012
12:11 am
dont cry e-roll when the guy is never convicted of murder
BERT
March 27th, 2012
12:12 am
i bet if whites and hispanics held a rally for zimmerman it would be crashed by all these blacks with violence and intimidation
Larry
March 27th, 2012
12:44 am
I think the one deserving of an arrest is the one who would name a human baby, Trayvon!
E-Roll
March 27th, 2012
1:16 am
Or Trig, Beau, Jed or Roscoe right Larry?
Eddie Hinman
March 27th, 2012
1:44 am
In Albany and lee county they have signs on the doors of convenice stores tha no hoodies can be worn in the stores.
Knight of White
March 27th, 2012
6:15 am
Well off to work and guess what, I am NOT wearing a hoodie. Wait for it…..because I am NOT a THUG! Stop your damn marching and get a job. Let’s all calm down and wait for justice and the system to work…you know like it did for OJ and Nicole. Oh, she’s dead at the hands of a black man -again THUG! Nobody marched and called for a bounty on OJ. Again, go yo ass to work. Your foodstamp President is about to get his ass beat in the election and then what will you do – riot?
American
March 27th, 2012
6:24 am
To all you KKK members who wrote your tired B*ll Sh*t in this blog. I hope that one day you wake up BLACK! Unless you can walk a day in a Black men shoes as I DID all I have to say is SHUT THE F**K UP!!!! This is why America still has this problem because of racists like YOU!!! Continuing your slave mentality that you are better, Sweet heart wake up your days are limited. I’ve said it before “NEVER ARGUE WITH AN IDIOT, THEY’LL DRAG YOU DOWN TO THEIR LEVEL AND BEAT YOU WITH EXPERIENCE!” I never underestimate the stupidity of IDIOTS! PEACE
KaCey Venning
March 27th, 2012
7:21 am
Do most of you respond just for entertainment? For you to come back and read the thread later to see who you were able to spark an adverse reaction from? Some of the comments made here are asinine, insensitive, rude, disrespectful and a complete showing of how ignorant, foolish, and ill-educated most of you are. It is really sad that most of us miss the point and that we magnify our own insecurities and discriminatory feelings in some of these comments.
But what I will say is this… go read a book! learn to decipher definitions. Blacks can’t be racist. To be racist means to illicit a an overwhelming ability to influence with power. Regardless of who is sitting in the White House, Blacks have yet to have any real power in this country. Are we at times a bit racially motivated? Yes, but if we are not, then who will be? Who will stand up for us? Clearly not most of you who believe that when Blacks rise up to defend and support one of our own, we become “racist”. I am not racist. I could care less what race ANY shooter, murderer, assassin is… I want justice for ALL people, of all races. However, the overwhelming majority who are least likely to get due process as an offender or victim, are people of color and more specifically Black people. So, don’t misinterpret our support and demand for justice as a racist gesture. It is us doing what the criminal justice, media, and you good ol’ citizens of the United States of America won’t do… #mydollarsworth
Bob
March 27th, 2012
8:11 am
Please show some recent pictures of Trayvon, not one from middle school.
Phil McGroin
March 27th, 2012
8:49 am
I like how his cousin tweeted “yu aint swung at no bus driver”
Also am intrigued by this kids “charater issues”.
Man all these hoodie wearing supporters are looking dumber and dumber. Duke Lacrosse anyone?
redcoat
March 27th, 2012
10:12 am
KaCey Venning……….Your words say one thing, actions and the words of others say the opposite. This is a tragedy, so many wrongs. Easy to say what people should have done or would have done. Wait on the facts. Is it now appropriate for one race to act and operate as those that a struggle was to overcome?
aGOODmemory
March 27th, 2012
12:18 pm
I think I remember seeing Treyvons mother at the CRAZY HORSE a years ago. I hope she has found BETTER WORK now.
aGOODmemory
March 27th, 2012
12:35 pm
I wish I had tipped her better.
Phil McGroin
March 27th, 2012
4:14 pm
GET YOUR OBAMA HOODIES!!! AMERICA DA HOME OF DA PLAYAZ!
American Citizen
March 27th, 2012
9:41 pm
Please support George Zimmerman. He is not a cold blooded killer. Please give George the benefit of your support as an American citizen. George was cleared of wrongdoing and now he will stand trial for you. But George is not a killer.