Thug or American Icon?
If you saw this man running through the park, at full throttle, would you think “oh he has that ghetto hoodie look”, and that he’s a thug or would you think he's an American icon? Get real, you would probably not only think thug, but that he also just jacked someone, right? This is actually a photo of “The Italian Stallion” (a.k.a.Rocky). In 1976, Sylvester Stallone wrote, starred in, and directed the movie “Rocky” which nabbed Stallone an Academy Award for Best Picture. The movie Rocky was all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighbourhood-who also wore a hoodie. Since the murder of Trayvon Martin, racism has showed its ugly head with racists hurling racial epithets and posting appalling comments online and in public.
In the recent slew of hatred, Brian Beckmann a captain in the Miami Dade Fire Rescue Department who is currently under investigation after he posted some very alarming comments on Facebook. Allegedly, Brian Beckmann is blaming Trayvon’s shooting on the “shitbag parents” of “our urban youth,” and the “ghetto hoodie look” of young black men like Martin. Brian Beckmann posts the following comments on Facebook: “Listening to Prosecutor Corey blow herself and her staff for five minutes before pre-passing judgment on George Zimmerman”. And
“The state seeks reelection again, truth aside. I and my coworkers could rewrite the book on whether our urban youths are victims of racist profiling or products of their failed, shitbag, ignorant, pathetic, welfare-dependent excuses for parent. But like Mrs. Corey, we speak only the truth. They’re just misunderstood, little church-going angels and the ghetto hoodie look doesn’t have anything to do with why people wonder if they’re about to get jacked by a thug.” Brian Beckmann allegedly created the post on, the same day State Attorney Angela Corey announced that she would file second-degree murder charges against Martin’s killer. Beckmann made further comment, saying that he is a citizen just like anyone else and he has the right to make comments like any other private citizen. I fully agree with Brian Beckmann, he is a citizen just like anyone else, and like everyone else he too has an ass.
However, just because you have an "ass" does not give you the right to be an "asshole"!
What the hell, racisim must be in Florida water!
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This photo could be a white boy running down the street.Would you view him as nothing ass white boy? WHO HAS LAZZY PARENT.Wake up people see the picture there are still hater in our society and yes base on the color of a person skin color
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