*Geraldo Rivera made some disparaging remarks after the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin swept the nation.
Are you a fan of EURweb? Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter.)
Basically he placed the blame on the victim because he was wearing a hoodie when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman.
Or, as he told the world on “Fox & Friends,” Trayvon’s hoodie was “just as responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.”
But now he’s apologizing.
“I apologize to anyone offended by what one prominent black conservative called my ‘very practical and potentially life-saving campaign urging black and Hispanic parents not to let their children go around wearing hoodies,’” Rivera said in an email to POLITICO Tuesday, citing a piece in the National Review penned by Thomas Sowell.
He took responsibility of his words, realizing that his comments took away from the tragedy and relieved society of its duty.
He said “by putting responsibility on what kids wear instead of how people react to them I have obscured the main point that someone shot and killed an unarmed teenager.”
Geraldo used to be a great journalist. Now he’s just old.
Geraldo meant well. Apology accepted.
I agree, he did mean well and he is “owning” his stupidity . . . . . . . . . . . .ok. come on out of the woodshed. . . . .BUT WATCH IT !!!!
To Late Geraldo.!!!! Next!!
G.D. right!…TOO fkn late! Yo!…if “the tide” was rolling the “other way”?, he would be THE 1st to have a fkn talk show, ‘on..”how Blacks are to blame for it all’!!! But “now”?, now that them 2 women have spoken AND there’s a fkn police video tape of Zimmerman BEING PROCESSED and AIN’T ONE FKN SCRATCH ‘ON HIM!!, contradicting the “he broke my nose” B.S.!!??, noooooooow G.R. is… sorry”! FK G.R.! Neeeeeeeext!
I don’t think he’s sorry. He just feels like the azz he already is for stepping out of line. Deep inside he has the same feelings. Just trying to clean it up.
I don’t accept Geraldo’s lame apology, he said what he meant and meant what he said, what a LOSER!