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Juan Williams Jumps On The Trayvon Martin Blame-The-Hoodie Bandwagon

Posted by Ellen -7842.60pc on July 14, 2012 · Flag

Guest hosting last night’s O’Reilly Factor, Juan Williams suggested that African Americans had deliberately and wrongly race-baited in the Trayvon Martin case when they alleged Martin had been racially profiled by neighborhood watch zealot, George Zimmerman. Williams also adopted the rhetoric of his Fox News colleague Geraldo Rivera by suggesting that Martin’s hoodie was at least partly to blame in fostering Zimmerman's suspicions.

In his introduction, Williams said condemningly, “Many immediately jumped to conclusions and accused Zimmerman of being a racist!” He then played a clip that any regular Fox News regular has seen a zillion times: Congressional Black Caucus members saying that Martin was shot and killed because he was black.

Williams continued, “But a new FBI report paints a different picture. The report, which was based on interviews with nearly three dozen people says there was no evidence Zimmerman was motivated by race when he shot Trayvon Martin.”

Williams is no dummy and has previously challenged Fox News’ race-baiting in the Martin case. So surely he knows that just because there’s no “evidence Zimmerman was motivated by race” when he shot Martin doesn’t mean that race played no role in the tragic events or that Martin’s race had no role in arousing Zimmerman’s initial suspicions.

In fact, Williams alluded to that when he asked one his guests, “What if it’s the case that he thought this young man – again, being black, wearing a hoodie – was suspicious?”

Apparently, Williams has bought into Rivera's argument that Martin was dressed like a thug because he wore a hoodie.

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Gary L. Kaplan commented 2012-07-15 13:59:42 -0400 · Flag
It is getting harder and harder to dress like a thug. Some thugs are thugs and want everybody to know they are bad. What are they going to wear this fall fashion seasons? Guns and bullets are always appropriate, AK-47’s are very thug fashionable, but now hoodies, tattoos and gold grills are mainstream.
Face tattoos may be in, big scars have their fans but what can a thug that wants to be stylish do? Black ski masks might work, but they are hot and itchy.
mlp ! commented 2012-07-15 00:44:19 -0400 · Flag
“Grampa Juan, it must have been so exciting to be alive when Barack Obama became the first black president of America! How did you celebrate?”

“well, uh….erm….uh….I worked for Fox News…..”

“Fox News???? What was that, Grampa?”
mlp ! commented 2012-07-15 00:44:18 -0400 · Flag
“Grampa Juan, it must have been so exciting to be alive when Barack Obama became the first black president of America! How did you celebrate?”

“well, uh….erm….uh….I worked for Fox News…..”

“Fox News???? What was that, Grampa?”
truman commented 2012-07-14 20:39:42 -0400 · Flag
If an armed black adult vigilante stalked, provoked and shot to death an unarmed white teenager, how long would it be before Whorealdo, Juan and the rest of Fux Noise injected blatant racism into the discourse?
Nancy Green commented 2012-07-14 17:33:50 -0400 · Flag
I think that Bill Cosby was right when he blamed the gun. I don’t think that George Zimmerman went out planning to commit murder, but he was scared, he had a gun, and he had seen the script a thousand times. Trayvon Martin was cast in the role of the criminal. It wasn’t supposed to end with an unarmed, innocent teenager shot dead while walking home to his father’s house.

It’s strange to ask if Zimmerman is racist. Our whole society is racist. And when you construct the law so that anyone can buy a gun, and has permission to shoot anyone who makes them nervous, we will see pre-emptive violence passing as self-defense.








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