Last month we ran this post on TMV joining the chorus of critics dismayed over Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera’s comment that 17 year old Trayvon Martin’s killing by George Zimmerman could be partly blamed by the fact the teen with the Skittles and iced tea was wearing a hoodied. Rivera took a lot of heat on that (one of his sons said he was ashamed of his Dad) and apologized — and now he has apologized to Martin’s parents in an interview with them on Fox.
Here’s the segment:
FOOTNOTE: Yesterday I drove from Oregon into California and at a rest stop right before I got into California it was notable the number of people wearing hoodies. And none of them were African-American or Latino. None at this rest stop were teens. They were younger kids, middle-aged people, and women. It was drizzling and some — like Martin — had their hoodies up. Looking at the group, the hoodies they wore did not even remotely seem like justifications or explanations for blowing any of them away.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.