Geraldo: 'Hip-Hop Has Done More Damage' To Minorities Than Racism
Rivera suggested to host Josh Zepps it is nearly impossible to find "a Puerto Rican from the South Bronx or a black kid from Harlem" who has "been a success in life walking around with his pants around his ass and with, you know, visible tattoos."
He then took a moment to name-check Def Jam founder Russell Simmons, who he described as "a dear friend of mine."
But, he said, "At some point, those guys have to cop to the fact that by encouraging this distinctive culture that is removed from the mainstream, they have encouraged people to be so different from the mainstream that they can't participate other than, you know, the racks in the garment center and those entry-level jobs."
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Our swelling prison population should have listened to Pearl Jam instead of Wu Tang.
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Response to Throd (Reply #1)
- I am in my mid 50s now - the only people I ever, and I mean EVER saw with a tattoo or two were bikers, people who had served serious prison time and really hard-assed military veterans. And it was a tattoo or two on the upper arm, not something ordinarily visible. Too bad things didn't stay that way and get the hell off of my lawn. Most tattoos these days are uglier than sin. What the fuck are people (not) thinking?
My generation could at least deny that we ever wore the ugly clothes and hair styles that were the cat's ass in our misspent youth and nobody can prove us wrong, it wasn't immortalized.
Just three so far, and they're pretty (to me, anyway). 
Most women I hang around with and all of my sisters have them as well as most of my male friends - but I think the women here have more. It's going to get funny for the staff when we all hit the nursing homes.
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Tats aside, Geraldo's a jack-ass.
About country music and Jeff Foxworthy redneck jokes advancing southern causes. 
listening to Iggy Azalea. 
I'm totally kidding; it's just when I saw your post about it I couldn't stop laughing as after awhile you develop a certain perception of DU members, and that wasn't my perception of you.
I have a 13 and 8 year old, and they usually tell me to turn the music down in the car...except my daughter loves Taylor Swift, my son for reasons other than her music I'm sure. 
Seems like Geraldo has changed his tune:
Although public perceptions in the show's first season were leading to this dubious title, the episode that solidified Geraldo as "Trash TV" was the November 3, 1988, episode involving white supremacists, anti-racist skinheads, black activists, and Jewish activists. A confrontation between John Metzger (the son of Tom Metzger) and Roy Innis (in which Metzger goaded Innis by referring to him as "Uncle Tom"
led to Innis walking over to Metzger and forcefully grabbing him by the neck, and subsequently a full-scale brawl with chairs hurled and punches thrown. Audience members, several stage hands and Rivera himself got involved, throwing a few punches at a white supremacist. In the process, Rivera was struck in the face by a chair and wound up with a broken nose. He did not press charges, saying he did not wish to be "tied up with the roaches", and also claiming "if there ever was a case of deserved violence, this was it".
In August 1992, Rivera would scuffle with KKK members again at a Klan rally in Janesville, Wisconsin. Rivera suffered cuts and a bite to one of his thumbs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldo_(TV_series)
Geraldo is to journalism as Kinkaide was to art .
Just sayin'...
