~Treyvon~ Would everyone take a deep breath please?

[+ glutes]

Folks, I just saw a US Congressman ejected from The House floor for wearing a hoodie. There are aspects of the Treyvon Martin shooting that we don't know, if ever. This story and the investigations will most certainly go into a long hot summer.

 

Everyone take a deep breath, I don't want this wonderful country to repeat the Rodney King riots.

 

(Moderators: I put this in The Lounge, not in the War / Religion / Political forum. None of the aspects of this tragedy fit into that forum, IMHO.)

 

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Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., lost his right to speak on the House floor after he violated rules by putting on a hoodie and sunglasses in honor of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teen shot last month.

 

"May God bless Trayvon Martin's soul, his family and -- [inaudible]" Rush said as he was removed from the House floor this morning for wearing a hoodie.

 

Rush was wearing a grey hoodie under his suit jacket. He took off his jacket, pulled the hood over his head and put on sunglasses while saying "racial profiling has to stop, Mr. Speaker. Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum," he said.

 

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/dem-pulled-house-floor-trayvon-hoodie/450891

[Guest]

If this doesn't belong in the political forum, I don't know what does.

[+ deej]

It was being properly ignored until you revived it.