Damn that Henny got ni$@@as making bad decisions, like Kayne
R.I.P. Steve McNair, but this is bigger than the loss of a good man and a better QB. You are getting played bro, and you only have a few more days to come to your senses. We tried to warn you earlier, but you didn’t listen, so we will try this again.
Kim and Khloe at Australian Fashion show. Look at Khloe's face. That is the one that you will be waking up to every day....(except when you are on the road and you have your other jumpoffs, or by yourself, which you will come to enjoy....
I really don’t care that you are marrying Chyna. That is your business. But, I want you to remember that she has a thing for Black athletes. Maybe she wants to outdo Kim and have a man that actually can win something as a pro. You qualify.
Look at the Donald. He went broke, got rich again and didn't have to give out his stacks....
Not to have a prenuptial for a woman that you have only recently starting dating is a recipe for disaster. Do not forget that you are in CA, which means your sh!t is now her sh!t now too. E! Magazine tells the story of how Lamar Odom got emasculated.
Remember, you are not too far from this EVERYDAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
Khloé Kardashian has nothing to worry about.
Even at his bachelor party last night, Laker Lamar Odom was on his best behavior with his best bros.
While he decided to cancel the big bash at Les Deux that was originally planned, he opted for a small dinner party at STK with Joe Francis, Rob Kardashian, Scott Disick (aka Kourtney Kardashian’s baby daddy), fellow Lakers Ron Artest, Sasha Vujacic, Josh Powell and D.J. Mbenga.
Kobe stood you up? It’s because he knows you are making a mistake. For all that everyone says about Kobe, at least he has a family and his wife seems to be in charge of the family while Kobe is ballin outta control.
Say what you want about Vanessa, but the marriage is lasting hopefully NOT because of the fact that he is still playing and she has hella free time...Plus, look how cute she is. Marrying Chyna is not a good look for a Laker player in LA. That's not what a player would do
Lamar’s crew was even joined by some Clippers, including Baron Davis, Marcus Camby and rookie Blake Griffin, who just happened to be having their own party at the club.
Of course they came to the party, because they want to hang out with winners. You had the B team at your celebration.
Joe, Scott and Rob held court at a table in the main dining room, while Lamar mostly mingled with his basketball boys in the bar area.
Despite one pretty partyer who approached him, Lamar showed little interest in any ladies. Girls were even banned from their booths at Guys & Dolls later in the night. Way to regulate!
See? This is what I mean. You had Joe F. ready to throw you a huge blowout with strippers, hookers and…well what else do you want? Kobe and more of the Lakers might have shown up for the party if it was this type of party.
They like cars and I bet they like basketball
Or since he is Joe Francis of “Girls GOne Wild” maybe a party like this…
now that is the type of party I'm talking about
The only complaint guests might have?
Lamar was tardy to his own party! Teammate Derek Fisher showed at STK at 9 p.m. and waited for Lamar for an hour before ditching to head home to his wife and kids.
Before he left, though, Fisher said he planned to get Odom a whopper of a wedding present: “How about another [NBA championship] ring!”
After dinner, Lamar, Rob, Scott and some Lakers who stayed headed over to Guys & Dolls, where Ron made a toast to his teammate. The guys drank magnums of Ace of Spades champagne.
Lamar was in great spirits, dancing and taking photos with fans. Before calling it a night, he requested Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s “Bonnie and Clyde,” perhaps as a tribute to himself and the bride-to-be.
Another reason why I dislike what you are doing Lamar. Really? At least play the damn original with Tupac. The damn song is about gun love and Jay f’ed up the whole song. Listen to the REAL song.
Although there was a fight that broke out while the boys were inside partying, a source says they weren’t involved.
Remember that other fight that went down at Guys, between Jayde Nicole and Joe Francis?
Speaking of that lawsuit-inducing spat, Jayde’s boyfriend and defender, Brody Jenner, happens to be Khloé’s stepbrother, who wasn’t spotted at the bachelor party last night.
Since Joe threw the party last night, we’re assuming he’s invited to the wedding. And we know Brody’s attending.
The people making the seating chart should have their work cut out for them.
—Additional reporting by Amy Paffrath
Then you got put on blast by your jump-off. I have Bossip to thank for the letter and funny picture.
Really? LO, you can do much better
IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS, I HAVE BEEN WATCHING A CIRCUS UNFOLD. NOW THAT KHLOE KARDASHIAN HAS ANNOUNCED THE WEDDING, I CAN NO LONGER BE QUIET.
I HAVE BEEN WITH LAMAR FOR YEARS. YES WE F*CK. YES HE PAYS MY BILLS. YES…… I HAVE AN APARTMENT. YES HE HAS BOUGHT ME A CAR. YES I WAS WITH HIM EVEN WHEN HE WAS WITH HIS BABY MAMA. SOME PEOPLE CALL ME A JUMP OFF. I KNOW WE HAVE A CONNECTION. I HAVE NOT TALKED TO HIM IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS, BUT HE WILL BE BACK. HE ALWAYS COMES BACK.
Yes, you are a jump-off. You give him the freedom to roam like a free safety on Sunday.
I SEE THAT THE KARDASHIANS HAVE MANIPULATED THIS SITUATION, MADE THIS A FAIRYTALE.
LET ME TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
LAMAR ODOM IS A DOG. HE CANNOT BE FAITHFUL TO ONE WOMAN. PERIOD. HE WILL WAKE UP IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND WILL REALIZE HE HAS F*CKED HIMSELF. LAMAR IS UNSTABLE. LAMAR IS BIPOLAR. LAMAR HAS GIRLS IN EVERY CITY. KHLOE AND HER FAMILY MAY THINK THEY HAVE STRUCK GOLD – BUT WHEN HE TRAVELS DURING THE SEASON, HE WILL F*CK AROUND. HE HAS F*CKED HER FRIENDS BEFORE THEY EVEN MET. I KNOW MY SITUATION AND I DEAL WITH IT, BUT I AM NOT OKAY WITH THE KARDASHIANS PRETENDING HE IS SOMETHING HE IS NOT.
I DO NOT LIKE HIS BABY MAMA, LIZA. BUT I KNOW HE DID HER DIRTY. WHEN HIS SON PASSED AWAY, HE WASN’T WITH HER. HE WAS WITH ME. HE DOESN’T SPEND TIME WITH THE KIDS. DOES NOT PAY CHILD SUPPORT. OBVIOUSLY, HE HAS LOST HIS MIND BECAUSE HE DOES NOT CARE THAT THE KIDS ARE IN SHOCK. WILL NOT ATTEND THEIR OWN DAD’S WEDDING. HE IS RUINING HIS FAMILY AND HIS CHILDREN’S LIVES FOR THIS TRICK NAMED KHLOE. NBA AND NFL D*CK HAS RAN THROUGH THAT. SIX DEGREES OF KHLOE KARDASHIAN. LOOK AT THEIR GOLD DIGGING MOTHER. SHE WHORES OUT HER OWN CHILDREN. I HEAR FROM HIS PEOPLE THAT THERE IS NO PRENUP. WHAT AN IDIOT. I HOPE HE IS BROKE FROM THIS. BETTER BELIEVE I WILL MAKE SURE I CASH OUT BEFORE ALL OF IT IS GONE. HE DID SIGN A HUGE CONTRACT, AFTER ALL.
Damn, Lamar, I didn't know you were this naive...
HIS FAMILY WILL HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM. HE IS TURNING HIS BACK ON HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. PUT IT LIKE THIS, IF YOU ARE BROKE AND BLACK – YOU ARE NO LONGER IN HIS LIFE. TRUE LOVE MY @SS. TAKE NOTE HOW NO BLACK PEOPLE WILL BE THERE. MAYBE A SPRINKLE OF THE ACCEPTABLE ONES THAT KRIS APPROVES OF.
LO, how are you just going to get your business out in the street? Even if the “wedding” is just a stunt for the failing ratings of the show, you are put on front street as a clown. STEP YOUR GAME UP! You are better than this!
Just remember this…not in order, although he was the last one soaking up your fiancees panties….
Khloe, and Derek Ward, RB
that was this year…
This was in MAY OF not 08, but yes of 2009
Then there was Rashad McCants, who more than likely beat the brakes off the box. But, that might have started her desire for basketball players. He is kinda scrubby, so you won’t have to worry about him talking about her on the court.
He was killing it for awhile...
I am not saying that you have to throw on a chastity belt and quit dating, but you should not have the next man’s seed in your shorts going to the next date, like you are Katelyn Faber…
Don’t take it from me, go here to see the merry-go-round.
Walkouts and Protests happening at UC Berkeley over budget cuts….Those who fail to learn history…
September 24, 2009
At least they are not here to stop Memorial Stadium from getting a facelift
Budget cuts in CA are no joke right now. Friends that I have that are working at public institutions have mandatory time off right now. People are being forced to work four day workweeks, in order to make the budget balance.
I thought that education was the key to a good life, but if you are a student and you can get the classes that you need to graduate, it become a catch-22. The classes that are the prereqs for other classes are filled and the ones that you need are not available because you don’t have the first one in the sequence.
(09-24) 15:47 PDT BERKELEY — Thousands of UC students marched through downtown Berkeley and the area around campus this afternoon, staging a sit-down protest and blocking traffic as part of a demonstration against cuts to the university budget and proposed fee increases.
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Wave at the haters Mike. They hate because they can't do what you do....
Why is this news? The guy was having a drink in the airport. He is not about to drive and he is an adult.
Tony Dungy scolds Michael Vick for public alcohol consumption
Michael Vick’s mentor, Tony Dungy, scolded the Eagles quarterback for drinking in public after the New York Post revealed he was drinking Grey Goose and pineapple juice in a Philadelphia airport bar.”Michael, you can’t do that,” Dungy told Vick, via SI.com’s Peter King.
A man can’t have a drink now? we are not talking about Donte’ Stallworth, who killed someone while driving drunk, he was in the airport relaxing. That is not a crime. Some people want to hate so bad on Vick, they really are looking for anything to try and end his football career.
Eagles spokesman Derek Boyko told the Philadelphia Inquirer that drinking alcohol is “not in conflict with terms of (Vick’s) probation or reinstatement with the NFL.”Dungy relayed to King that even though alcohol may not be completely banned, he must not present a negative image. Said King, “He can’t give the media or the public any ammunition to suggest he isn’t doing everything he can to live a clean life and devote himself totally to football.”
Don't look as the sauce as the reason....
In a letter to Vick upon his conditional reinstatement on July 27, commissioner Roger Goodell told the quarterback that “prohibitions regarding drug and alcohol use” were included in as conditions.
Vick is eligible to play in this week’s preseason game against the Jaguars. Offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg said he expects head coach Andy Reid to make a decision on whether Vick will play on Tuesday.Update: NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told PFT of Vick: “I am not aware of any violations to the terms of his reinstatement.”
Update, 2: Aiello reiterated those sentiments to USA TODAY by e-mail on Monday. “I have received no indication from anyone that Michael Vick has violated the terms of his reinstatement,” he said.
The NFL finds nothing wrong with this but if you want to hate Vick, at least find a real reason….
Move over NYPD, This is the face of a RACIST COP
August 5, 2009
See, this is why N.W.A. can make the classic song Fuck the Police and have it still remain in the lexicon and rotation of most hip hop fans, since they can relate to the hatred some have for the cops. We talked about the NYPD during the Sean Bell murder and look what they did after the Sean Bell Case. They earned their spot as most hated. But, with the Professor Gates incident, it looks like they have some serious competition.
Just putting another racist on blast....
He even has that racist look in his eye, like “Nigger, I see you and you better be flying straight, or I will lock your ass up!” But, I wouldn’t put him on blast for nothing….The Daily News explains…
Suspended cop Justin Barrett who called Prof. Gates a ‘jungle monkey’ was turned in by fellow cops
Boston police officer Justin Barrett was suspended Wednesday, July 29, 2009, for using a racial slur to describe black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.The Boston cop suspended for calling Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates a “banana-eating jungle monkey” in a mass e-mail was turned in by fellow cops.
This is the one time where Keeping it Real would be justified. He really went there, didn’t he? Plus, doesn’t he know that emails leave a trace behind? The words on emails stick with you. Remember when we had to deal with this and President Obama?
The revelation that Officer Justin Barrett’s brothers in blue were also revolted by his hateful words came as the police commissioner tried to repair to reputation of Beantown’s police department.
“This type of venomous rhetoric is severely damaging,” Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis declared Thursday. “We will not allow the unacceptable actions of one member to define who we are.”
Davis said he has apologized to Gates on behalf of the department and they are now checking whether Barrett had any run-ins with blacks while on the job.
The only apology that I want is this guy never having the power of the badge again. Words are cheap in this scenario, since the power of the words are not backed by action/power.
Barrett is also not getting any love from the local police union, which has denounced his remarks as “offensive and hurtful.”
“He’s gone,” Boston Mayor Tom Menino said of Barrett, who has already been suspended. “G-o-n-e. I don’t care, it’s like cancer. You don’t keep those cancers around.”
Barrett, 36, a cop for two years, has also been suspended by the National Guard, where he holds the rank of captain.
Earlier, Barrett insisted he was not a racist and “did not mean to offend anyone.”“The words were being used to characterize behavior, not describe anyone,” Barrett told WCVB-TV.
Barrett conceded it was a “poor choice of words.”
“I didn’t mean it in a racist way,” he added. “I treat everyone with dignity and respect.”
Really? Why wouldn’t we think that you are racist? Jungle Bunny? That is not a racist term is it? This is the first image that comes up when you type in Jungle Bunny into Google…
there is clearly no racial connotation in this term....
But, I just slipped when I used the term cracker…
cracker ass cracker...but I meant that in a good way....
Barrett said he was “just venting” about the July 16 arrest of Gates by a white Cambridge cop that became a national discussion about race when President Obama said the officers acted “stupidly.”
“People are making it about race,” said Barrett, who vowed to fight any attempt to fire him. “It is not about race.”
But it may be about whether Barrett has any sense.Barrett got into hot water after he fired off the note to his buddies on the force, in the Guard – and, inexplicably, The Boston Globe.
In the email, Barrett called the Globe story “jungle monkey gibberish” and wrote that Gates’ “first priority should be to get off the phone and comply with police.”
“For if I was the officer he verbally assaulted like a … jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC deserving of his belligerent non-compliance,” Barrett wrote.
OC is pepper spray.
just some 1963 pepper spray curtesy of Bull Connor, Chief Racist
You N@##$RS stink, let me wash the black off you....
Yeah…I bet that you would use only pepper spray. That excuse hopefully doesn’t work and is not believed. Here is a guy trying to work a similar rouse. Hopefully, for Oscar Grant, his family and friends, excuses like that will not work.
Barrett went on to question Gates’ credentials, called him a “God damned fool,” and twice challenged the paper to “ax” him what he thinks.
“I am not a racist, but I am prejudice [sic] towards people who are stupid and pretend to stand up and preach for something they claim is freedom,” Barrett wrote.
People think this about Boston, since this is not the first time racial incidents have happened recently. We blogged about the student who was expelled from Harvard, because a killer was the same color as her. No, she didn’t commit the murders or help.
Remember the Ryan Moats fiasco? His mother in law was in the hospital dying on her last leg. He ran a red light to get the hospital. He waited, looked both wyas and ran it after seeing that there was no traffic. But, once he got to the hospital, the cop wanted to sweat him and drew his gun.
Race still and always will matter. Recognize that there is racism and you become part of the solution instead of part of the problem…there are still people who refuse to rent to blacks…
Even things that might be racist so some and not to others causes issues. Look at the cartoon from the Post about the stimulus bill that Obama was pushing. Even if you don’t think that it (being the comic) is racist, look at the comment from the first poster. How does my complaint mean that I should move to Africa? That is why this is and should be an issue that we talk about, because when we allow it to bubble jsut below the source is when we have the most trouble when it erupts and it will…
So, please forgive me when I say I just don’t believe you when you say that you are not a racist….
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
June 9, 2009
Ever wonder where Elvis got his sound or Jonny Cash or Pete Townsend or just about any Rock and Roll artist. look no further. Here she is…
“If you look back at the most influential musicians of the 20th century, she’s probably in the top 10″ many have said.
How have I not heard of Sister Rosetta? It wasn’t until Wes woke me up this morning and said “You gotta check this out” I did, and I’ll never be the same. Thanx Wes.
Here’s some info I found about her.
“[This] was a young woman in the 1940s who came out of the gospel church playing with that rock and roll style,” says Wald. “If this woman was doing this in the 1940s, then you’d have to go back and re-write the whole story of rock and roll, and rock and roll guitar playing, specifically.”
Tharpe was a self-taught guitarist, and she strutted around a stage strumming windmills decades before Chuck Berry or Pete Townsend. Her 1945 crossover hit “Strange Things Happening Everyday” was later covered by Jerry Lee Lewis, and admired by Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Bob Dylan.
Born in Arkansas, Tharpe was raised in the Pentecostal Church. She honed her skills as a guitarist on street corners and at revivals before eventually hitting the gospel circuit. Tharpe met a lifelong friend, Roxie Moore, while performing in Baltimore.
“She could play a guitar like nobody else you’ve ever seen,” Moore says. “People would flock to see her. Everybody loved her.”
Around 1938, Tharpe decided to leave the Pentecostal Church and move to New York City, where she started playing in nightclubs and theaters. She alienated many of her church-going fans when she joined Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra, but the shift to secular music wasn’t her idea.
“[Millinder] promised her she’d only have to do gospel music,” says Moore. “But after she signed, he said she’d have to sing whatever. She was unhappy about that, but she did it.”
After Tharpe broke with Millinder, she went back to singing more spiritual material. But she was always flamboyant.
“She was a rock star,” recalls Ira Tucker Jr., who grew up watching Tharpe with his father’s gospel group in the 1940s and ’50s. “You know, like Beyonce today and people like that. That’s what Rosetta was to us.”
Tharpe certainly had a flair for the dramatic. She married her third husband in front of 20,000 paying fans at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Gayle Wald says that they billed the event as a wedding concert and sold tickets.
“Fans not only showed up and paid money, but they brought gifts. She played her electric guitar from center field…in her wedding dress.”
So, how did Sister Rosetta Tharpe fall so far? For one thing, she had a hard time competing with younger performers — white and black — who updated her style for their generation. Second, she wasn’t very good with money.
“She was easily taken advantage of,” says Moore. “She was kind to everybody. But anybody could use her.”
Tharpe settled in Philadelphia and made a living touring Europe, where she was revered. But at home, she was too sacred for the rock audience and too secular for many gospel fans.
“‘Cause see, the guitar still had the devil’s stamp on it to gospel singers and to a gospel audience,” says Tucker. “But Rosetta kept it with her. She didn’t care whether you liked that or not. She went out here and played her ax and that was it. She did what she knew how to do, and people loved it.”
I think that you can figure out the winners
That losing is hard and losers don’t take stock in their shortcomings…
That sounds harsh, and looking back at what I typed, without some context, you would think that might be somewhat misplaced. But, as a former debate type, I come with evidence of my claims.
1) McCain support.
Some of the PUMA factions loved up John McCain, after Hillary dropped out of the race. John McCain’s sacrifices are admirable for the country, and should not be forgotten. But, as the leader of the country, I would defeintely stop short before giving him the keys to the car. But, some PUMA supporters STRONGLY PUSHED FOR HIS ELECTION.
Pat Johnson, on January 1st, 2009 at 11:05 am Said:
Most of us Dems voted McCain/Palin in protest. This was something new to the party who expected “unity” no matter what or who the candidate was or offered. This is what set us apart. We never gave in.
What you fail to realize is that not only is that NOT a protest vote, you do actually what John points out here...
Fortunately, the one who makes the biggest stink isn’t the one who wins. Just because you have a cult like belief, doesn’t make your religion the right one for everyone.
What leader would urge you to protest your vote (something that they faught long and hard for the right for all of us to do so) to vote for the side that has done the least for your cause, historically and recently?
Politico talks about the boost that McCain received from Palin nomination.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate has electrified conservative activists, providing a boost of energy to the GOP nominee-in-waiting from a key constituency that previously had been lukewarm — at best — about him.
By tapping the anti-abortion and pro-gun Alaska governor just ahead of his convention, which is set to start here Monday, McCain hasn’t just won approval from a skeptical Republican base — he’s ignited a wave of elation and emotion that has led some grass-roots activists to weep with joy.
Now, dont you feel a little suspoicious about the pick? Are you so blinded about the choice that you fail to see why the choice was made? This had all feeling of a choice of conveinence and political gain. Kudos to McCain for attempting to get elected, but chosing him was a vote designed to punish your opponent. Again, for PUMAS, they live the “the enemy of my enemy is my friend…” to the fullest.
Most importantly for McCain, the two constituencies who are most energized by Palin just happen to be the twin grassroots pillars of the GOP: anti-abortion activists and pro-Second Amendment enthusiasts and sportsmen. Without these two camps making phone calls, stuffing envelopes and knocking on doors, Republican presidential candidates would severely lack for volunteers. They are critical to the health of the conservative coalition that has dominated Republican politics for a generation.
Republicans say the primary source for the passion can be found in Palin’s example and authenticity.
Not only is the 44-year-old governor opposed to abortion rights — but she carried and gave birth to a child with Down syndrome earlier this year, a profound and powerful motivating force to both opponents of abortion rights and the parents and relatives of special needs children.
Even if you think that Obama has not done all he can to get to abortion, the right wingers won with the murder of Dr. Tiller. Your reproduction rights would not have been safe.
Anti-Abortion forces win, with this murder, but isn't this (murder) what they are supposed to be against?
Here was McCain on Abortion from Time
McCain’s straightforward answer, along with his assertion that he would not have nominated any of the Supreme Court’s four liberal judges (notwithstanding that he voted to confirm all but John Paul Stevens, who was named before McCain was in the Senate), had social conservatives breathing sighs of relief. “I will be a pro-life president, and this presidency will have pro-life policies,” McCain said to cheers from the audience.
So, even if you think that Obama is not pro-choice enough, he is more than McCain. But, the usual story of Hillary supporters who voted for McCain make the argument that the candidate supported their views. That is a difficult one to reconcile.
2) Random Obama Hatred
Yes, he beat your choice. That happens all the time. But, this was the year that a small and vocal crowd never let up with their belief their candidate was the best one for the job and that she really won. I really would have respected a write in campaign for her, and allowed that to be the measuring stick of her power. Now, that the election is over, you don’t need to hate. Hate the ballot measures, no need to hate the man. You can go to any random post at the Confluence or other PUMA affliated sites and STILL see the pain that they face with Obama winning. They take the slogan hate the player not the game to a new level.
Sophie, on June 1st, 2009 at 7:46 am Said: The infatuation matters because Obama’s ambitions are so grand.
If only. I’m still reeling from yesterday, its history and significance. This last year has been the worst of my life and I lay it squarely at the feet of whoever this puppet master is. There really is no where for me to go politically in America. I disagree with the Republicans on 98% of the issues and I think the Democrats are too stupid to vote or govern their way out of a paper bag.Regency, on May 31st, 2009 at 5:59 pm Said: I thought I was crazy for still grieving over this day. I know now that I’m not. I keep feeling robbed and it’s just hard to even see the words “President Obama” knowing that the ending should have been very different. This was the turning point if there ever was one.
Just replace Star Trek with PUMA Convention and you get the idea...
Did the message get through? Well, consider this: people who voted early went overwhelmingly for Mr. Obama; those who made up their minds during the three days after the ad was broadcast voted heavily for Mrs. Clinton.
For more than a century, American politicians have played on racial fears to divide the electorate and mobilize xenophobic parties. Blacks have been the “domestic enemy,” the eternal outsider within, who could always inspire unity among “we whites.” Richard Nixon’s Southern strategy was built on this premise, using coded language — “law and order,” “silent majority” — to destroy the alliance between blacks and white labor that had been the foundation of the Democratic Party, and to bring about the Republican ascendancy of the past several decades. The Willie Horton ad that George H. W. Bush used against Michael Dukakis in 1988 was a crude manifestation of this strategy — as was the racist attack used against John McCain’s daughter, who was adopted from Bangladesh, in the South Carolina Republican primary in 2000.
It is possible that what I saw in the ad is different from what Mrs. Clinton and her operatives saw and intended. But as I watched it again and again I could not help but think of the sorry pass to which we may have come — that someone could be trading on the darkened memories of a twisted past that Mr. Obama has struggled to transcend.
It is significant that the Clinton campaign used its telephone ad in Texas, where a Fox poll conducted Feb. 26 to 28 showed that whites favored Mr. Obama over Mrs. Clinton 47 percent to 44 percent, and not in Ohio, where she held a comfortable 16-point lead among whites. Exit polls on March 4 showed the ad’s effect in Texas: a 12-point swing to 56 percent of white votes toward Mrs. Clinton. It is striking, too, that during the same weekend the ad was broadcast, Mrs. Clinton refused to state unambiguously that Mr. Obama is a Christian and has never been a Muslim.
bostonboomer, on May 5th, 2009 at 7:24 am Said: I think you’re right about the people who are using reaction formation as a defense. Many Obots voted for Obama *because* he is part African American and his skin is light brown, in order to assuage their own guilt and fear. Some of us were actually able to look at Obama’s past history and his stated policies instead of the color of his skin.Defense mechanisms are entirely unconscious, and that makes it very difficult for people to see their own behaviors and their consequences. The over-the-top reactions are the key. Overreaction that can easily be seen by others is typical of reaction formation.
Of course these Obots are also using projection–seeing their own extreme emotions in others.
The arguments being raised about Mr. Obama’s blackness — or his lack of blackness — seem positively antique at a time when Americans are moving away from the view of ancestry as a central demographic fact and toward a view that dispenses with those traditional boundaries. Even so, the complaints about Mr. Obama provide an interesting opportunity to examine the passing of the old and the rise of the new.
The claim that the candidate isn’t really black because his mother is white carries little weight under either system. It makes no sense at all to the young Americans who checked more than one box when identifying themselves by race in the last census. They subscribe to a fluid notion of race and seem perfectly willing to let people describe themselves racially any way they choose.
Nor does the charge make sense in the black community itself. That community has historically and eagerly embraced as black anyone and everyone with any African ancestry to speak of. That embrace often included interracial families, who lived in black communities long before they were accepted elsewhere. It included even blue-eyed, sandy-haired people like the civil rights leader Walter White, whose black ancestry was imperceptible to the naked eye.
The carpetbagging black Republican Alan Keyes opened up this racialist can of worms when he opposed Mr. Obama in the Illinois Senate race back in 2004. Badly outmatched and reaching for any brick he could find, Mr. Keyes blurted out that Mr. Obama was not black because he was not descended from slaves. The Daily News columnist Stanley Crouch later seemed to second that view, saying that Mr. Obama had not “lived the life of a black American.”
His critics are at least right when they describe his journey as a departure from the customary stereotype. But they are fundamentally wrong when they try to argue that the journey described in his affecting 1995 memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” is somehow incompatible with blackness.
At bottom, the hue and cry over Barack Obama’s identity stems from a failure by black traditionalists to recognize multiracial versions of themselves. Soon enough, perhaps by year’s end, however, the Obama story, which seems so exotic to so many people now, will have found its place among all the other stories of the sprawling black diaspora.
Joanelle, on October 31st, 2008 at 10:43 am Said: Oh, boy, I went to an awards dinner last night and ended up being invited to sit at the “reserved” table (head table) but when I sat I found that five out of the seven of us were Obots – who carefully assured us all that Obama will be elected next week so we had nothing to worry about. The other three of us just sat there and smiled – mainly because we knew they were wrong but didn’t want to ruin their meal.
You MEANT that you HOPED that they were wrong, but they ended up being right.
The Prologue: Where do they go from here?
If I was the Confluence, I would stop the label of PUMA. It was a funny, off the cuff quip that has lost its flavor like a piece of gum that that has been chewed for an hour. It’s stale and the rhetoric is stale around the Confluence house. Change the diapers of the baby!
You have some things that are defientely worth saving. Most of the people there are not ignorant, in fact they are mostly very bright individuals who are so tied up into their cause, they reject others with ad-homs. Gotta build bridges, not continue to build trenches around your position. If you have beliefes, don’t shy away from debate.
The tradition in the blog-o-sphere is to aviod debate and limit discussion of various topics if they are opposite than yours. It should be exaclty the opposite. If someone has a different view, invite them to debate. Facts will stand at the end of the debate. You should never feel the need to ban discussion or commentors unless they can only go to ad-homs, which some frontpagers are great at. (You know who…lol)
Here is what I am going to do…you should too…
“You won’t believe what Tia told me…Officer Ricky..!!!!” Rick Ross is a cheap bastard
April 30, 2009
How and more importantly why did this chick get with Officer Ricky?
This is how you get your hustle on.
We all know that 50 KILLED Rick Ross. There is only Officer Ricky now. Tia Kemp, his babys mama begins to spill the dirt on William Roberts. The truth comes about about Officer Ricky and his pettiness.
I looked at my watch, it was 4:30pm on January 21, 2009, the day I had been waiting to come for eight months. It was the day of the deposition in the child support case I had filed against the father of my third son, William Leonard Roberts Jr. also known as the big-time rapper (not the notorious drug dealer, don’t get them confused) Rick Ross.
Here is the story of the “Real” Rick Ross. William, I would be ready to make a deal with Ricky Ross for stealing his life story. Just because you call yourself something, doesn’t make it true. Countless times here at Too Old, we tell you, “Gloss is to be earned, you don’t get to make it up yourself….” A nickname is something that someone else bestows on you, you don’t get to make one up and hope it sticks, which is what William did. Wiki breaks it down…
I wouldn't want to fuck with this man. Even now, I do not doubt he could have me or you killed with a phone call
Ricky Donnell Ross (born May 3, 1960), also known as “Freeway” Ricky Ross , is a drug trafficker best known for the “drug empire” that he presided over in Los Angeles, in the early 1980s.[1] The nickname “Freeway” came from Ross owning several properties along the Harbor Freeway.[2] During the height of his drug dealing, Ross claims to have made “2-3 million dollars a week”.
In 1996, Ross was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of trying to purchase more than 100 kilograms of cocaine from a federal agent. Ross became the subject of controversy later that year when a series of articles by journalist Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News brought to light a connection between one of Ross’s cocaine sources, Danilo Blandon, and the CIA as part of the Iran-Contra scandal.[3] The decision in Ross’s case was brought to a federal court of appeals where his sentence was reduced to 20 years. His sentence has since been reduced further for being a model prisoner and he is currently scheduled to be moved to a halfway house in California in March 2009,[citation needed] and to be released on September 29, 2009.[4]
You better be ready…someone is getting out and you might have to answer to higher ups about your “theft…”
AllHipHop.com: You’ve mentioned having spoken to Rick Ross a few times before, what were the conversations about and what did you take from them, as far as his character? Did you ever implicitly say you were not okay with him using your name?
Freeway Ricky Ross: The conversation was basically about him using my name. The first couple of times he talked real cool. I really couldn’t talk to him the way I wanted to because all my phone calls are monitored and I was under investigation at the time. But I told him it would be best that we have a sit down. He [explained] to me how he picked my name and that he definitely owed me. He said that the first thing he did was mention my name on a record. And when he did that people’s ears perked.No I never told him it was ok to use my name. I told him I wasn’t trippin but we needed to sit down and talk. Cause I would never be involved with a Millie Vanilli. I built this name to what it is today to where I can go to any prison in this country and get saluted.
Here is where William really goes sideways and cements the fact that he has a death wish. He goes and calls the REAL Rick Ross a snitch…lol…
AllHipHop.com: You also mentioned the artist Rick Ross going as far as calling you a snitch. Did you see that coming?
Freeway Ricky Ross: Yeah he did an article in the Ozone Magazine. No I never thought he would call me a snitch. That’s a serious jacket to put on somebody. And from what I did,150 soldiers got out of prison. It was cops that was planting drugs on innocent people and I had no problem taking them down. But I can understand why he don’t like cops to go down. (emphasis added by me…because Freeway Ricky Ross made a tight, slick joke…) You can read the rest of this interview here
Now, we are ready to hear the story that Tia is going to tell. She has provided some excerpts of her book about the biggest boss correctional officer in the rap game.
I had started this battle against William 17 months earlier after our tumultuous four-year relationship filled with passion and pain. My lawyer Ileana M. Almeida had spent the last eight months trying to get Will’s lawyer Allan Zamren to make Will do the deposition for the case. They’d canceled two times already so I was surprised that William had finally showed up and was glad we were gonna to get things going. Ever since he’d become a celebrity, Will had been a different person. That mixed with his touring and promotions schedule and the life of a rap star is what made it so hard for anything in the child support case to move forward. His attitude also made things difficult.
William, why you got attitude now? You “make” so much money from dealing weight, how are you not going to break off your kid?
It was a long and frustrating day. From the beginning Will was nervous and uncomfortable and so was I. For over six hours with a short lunch break in between, Ileana drilled Will and she covered a lot of ground. As the day went on the cagier he got. His partial financial records we had been given made no sense and as Ileana asked him to explain certain items, Will would refuse to elaborate. He claimed in his financial affidavit he spent $50 a month on clothing total yet I knew Will was a clothing and sneaker freak, always buying himself and Lil’ Will the newest gear. The baby had new Gucci sneakers every month. Ileana had a list of Will’s charges at the Gucci store, and other clothing stores and brand name chains for thousands of dollars at a time and William would explain that it was his mother and sister using his card to shop, not him. When Ileana asked him about the expense of his custom diamond chains, pieces and jewelry, Will swerved around the questions saying he didn’t buy anything, it was either his boy Gun Play’s jewelry or it was promotional stuff he got from jewelers, that he would swap out. Even the custom diamond piece of his actual face. Who would want to swap that? He wouldn’t say what he paid for one piece of jewelry. The affidavit said Will spent $200 a month on food. I know how that man ate, $200 wasn’t gonna make a dent no matter how much McDonalds he said he ate.
The book sounds like cross-examination 101. She seemingly got you on the ropes. Unless your moms wears XXXXL, then those Gucci purchases are yours. She also kills him on the Mickey D’s line. How is 200 dollars going to get it done? Maybe if you were talking that is what you spend in one session at McD’s. Even if you are one of these…
You still will not be able to come in under 200 a month. So, you just look like a liar, which you are…shame, shame…This is the reason to limit McD’s trips
I bet they are Officer Ricky fans…
I wont actually cop the book, but I will read the hell outta it when I go to a Barnes and Noble…
One of the reasons that I chose social studies instead of English to get my credential in is that I can’t speak English, so why would I want to teach it…? While you take a minute to soak that one up ( I actully passed all the preliminary examinations for acceptance) I did it because I like History, especially US History.
Working now makes me a little sad, as I teach World History. But, teaching World History teaches me that ignorance and racism are everyone, not just centrally located in the States.
This use to pass for humor and an accurate caricature of Blacks in America
The problem becomes when re get overly sensitive and look for racism in everything that we do or see. Race is a problem… Just look at the comments of other stories that deal with race here like this one…
It makes the charge of racism ring hollow when people argue and call this photo racist and make this comparative assessment.
because of course, all blacks like the white meat...
But, this IS RACIST, and will always be racist.
Well, that is why I will just stay at home and collect welfare...
But, on a serious note, this type of ridiculous behavior is still happening in 2009. Black president or not, we still have racists… The Buffalo News proves this point today…
Falls police say woman put up racist sign
NIAGARA FALLS—Two days after a man was sentenced to probation and community service for putting up a sign as a “joke” in a public works garage that said “whites only” on a drinking fountain, city police were called to a home in the 600 block of 25th Street on Sunday to investigate another racially charged sign.
This one was clearly no joke.
No charges were filed Sunday, but police told the woman she must take down the handwritten sign on a fence on her property saying, “I rent three bedrooms [at her address to] white people Niagara Falls.”
The 53-year-old woman told police she put up the sign after someone tried to break into her house and added, “I can do what I want. I live in America,” according to a police report.
Police said they received complaints and she must take the sign down. An officer at the scene said the woman agreed to take down the sign under protest. The officer said the woman already had seven more signs she was planning to hang up.
Yes, lady, you are right, this is America. But its 2009 and not 1909, where that would be the sign of the times. The funny thing is that she has seven more signs that she wanted to put up. I wonder what they would have said, if we gave her total and complete freedom of expression?
Don't get it twisted, if you are high yella or light skinned, you are still a nigger to me...
Octopulet Mom may have mental health issues…
February 23, 2009
Really? What gave that one away?
Sometimes, we have fun with the topic and other times it is spot on. Now, would be the latter.
There has to be something wrong if you want a family that big, and please, I am not making fun of the Mormons, although they would make an easy target, since I spent a lot of time with them. Come to think of it, if she was Morman, AT least we would know the babies would be taken care of, beceause the one thing that the Mormons have is a network of welfare that inusres their own are taken care of.
I got 99 problems and Oprah aint one...She is not a doctor, but her money could solve a lot of problems
CHICAGO — The father of the California woman who recently gave birth to octuplets told Oprah Winfrey that he hopes people don’t punish his grandchildren for his daughter’s irresponsible behavior.
Ed Doud said in an interview taped Thursday for “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that the actions of his daughter, Nadya Suleman, and her doctor were “absolutely irresponsible.”
The doctor will have his calling, for medical malfeasance, and the mother will have to go to so many parent teacher conferences, her head would will explode. The children are just the innocent pawns of a very devious mother.
But he also issued a plea for the public’s help, according to excerpts of the interview released by Harpo Productions Inc.
“You know what? She needs help. I say to everybody now – people – we do need help,” Doud said.
“Do not punish my daughter for what she had done and do not punish the babies, because they were given by God.”
I would clarify the statement here to say that the Doctor, playing God made it possible for the mother to have that many babies. But, the important part of the message is that the woman clearly needs physiological and psychological help.
A California-based nonprofit called Angels in Waiting has offered Suleman round-the-clock care and a place to stay with her 14 children.
It would cost about $135,000 a month to provide the 12 caretakers necessary for the children, money that would have to come from public donations, founder Linda West Conforti said in Los Angeles.
The organization has the trained nursing personnel and experience in caring for very sick children, she said. The group, however, could only provide care for a limited time without the donations, she said.
Suleman, a 33-year-old single mother from Whittier, Calif., already had six children when she gave birth to octuplets in late January after undergoing in vitro fertilization.
She is unemployed and lives with her mother in a three-bedroom home. Property records show Suleman’s mother, Angela, owns the home and is $23,225 behind in her mortgage payments.
The house could be sold at auction beginning May 5.
Great, except you are not the one taking on the burden...
Congratulations, you have officially bankrupted your parents with your actions. You do not have a job and you have not finished your education, so how are you going to be able to support all the kids you have? Great! On the backs of others. At least get out there and start hustling to pay for your kids.
In response to a question about whether he thinks his daughter is mentally stable, Doud said, “Now I’m no psychiatrist, but I question her mental situation.”
Doud said he hopes Suleman will finish her education and start working so she can help support the family.
The show is scheduled to air Tuesday.
Well GranDad, I hope it works out and she is not able to suck you and your savings dry. Six children and then the audicity to have 8 more has to be a sign of mental instability.
Hopefully, she will listen. Plus, the box has been stretched out to unbelievable lengths. Grab a board and tie it around your waist and hope you do not fall in...
A lesson in slavery?
December 6, 2008
Scooped from our friends at MTO comes this shocking tale of a middle school history lesson gone awry. what the fuck was this woman thinking?
Reporting
Tony Aiello
HAVERSTRAW, N.Y. (CBS) ― Reenactments and demonstrations can be helpful teaching tools, but did a Rockland County teacher take that approach too far? She’s under fire for binding the hands of black students and having them sit under a desk during a lesson on slavery.
Christine Shand says it was a terrible experience for her daughter, Gaby, descended, like most Jamaicans, from slaves.
“She burst into tears, she was crying and she was horrified,” Shand told CBS 2 HD.
In a social studies class at Haverstraw Middle School, teacher Eileen Bernstein chose Gaby and another girl for a demonstration of conditions on ships that carried slaves out of Africa.
One African-American student raised her hand to volunteer for the demonstration. Gaby did not volunteer, but was chosen anyway.
“She taped their hands together, taped their feet together, and she had them crawl under the desk as if they were on a slave ship,” her mother told CBS 2.
Mrs. Shand said Gaby was traumatized. She questions the teacher’s judgment.
“There are other ways to demonstrate slavery. There’s movies, you don’t actually have to grab two kids and like put shackles on them,” she said.
Wilbur Aldridge, the regional NAACP director, went with the Shands Thursday to meet Bernstein.
“She said she apologized for causing any problems for the child, but she was not apologizing for using that simulation during the class,” Aldridge said.
But Principal Avis Shelby apologized, calling the slave ship demonstration a “bad decision.”
“And we have things in place to make sure it doesn’t occur again,” Shelby added.
Mrs. Shand said she’s still not satisfied and is mulling her options, worrying about how Gaby will perform the rest of the school year.
In the meantime, Mrs. Bernstein has remained in the classroom. Because it’s a personnel issue, school officials won’t say if she’s been disciplined or reprimanded.
And this woman seriously hasn’t been fired yet? and won’t be? she isn’t apologizing for using the simulation in class? how does she just randomly pick the other black student? Steve is a middle school history teacher and I’m pretty sure that’s not his teaching style. I don’t even know where to begin with this…
