Gap Apologizes for Racially Charged GapKids x ED Ad
Image and representation is everything not everything we see in a magazine or TV ad has a racial malice intent. I have looked through all of the GAPS ad campaign ads and see nothing but creative abstract poses with different children of different ethnicities. Okay to say it’s problematic to use the for the white child to use the Black child as a prop is making much outta NOTHING.
@steviegenesis Apparently the only thing a Black Girl can do is bear the weight of White girls. https://t.co/UHTJn39o6w #ShowHerMagic
— The Therapy Diva (@TheTherapyDiva) April 3, 2016
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We must look at these campaign with a much border eye; REALLY look at what they ad is trying to tell us. As I was told by one of my followers on my Facebook page “In this instance, image matters more than intent”.
Let’s look at the intent of the campaign the intent was/is to show GIRL POWER letting young girls of ANY ethnicity that they can be themselves and do what makes them happy!
On Monday afternoon, Gap spokesperson Debbie Felix issued a statement to Co.Create. “As a brand with a proud 46-year history of championing diversity and inclusivity, we appreciate the conversation that has taken place and are sorry to anyone we’ve offended. This GapKids campaign highlights true stories of talented girls who are celebrating creative self-expression and sharing their messages of empowerment. We are replacing the image with a different shot from the campaign, which encourages girls (and boys) everywhere to be themselves and feel pride in what makes them unique.”
In this case I feel there was no need for an apology these social media hypocrites just took this to far!
Image is EVERYTHING I TRULY understand that but I think SOME of you who are going to “boycott” GAP for what you perceive as racist is just plan hypocritical A lot of you HYPICRITES don’t even understand what racism is, some of you don’t even know how to even make change all your doing is just venting your grievances on social media YOU KNOW DAMN WELL YOU NOT GONNA BOYCOTT NO GAP! You do know that GAP is an umbrella of Old Navy? I know for one thing I AINT BOYCOTTIN’ NOTHIN’ Shit Old Navy; GAP gots some good sales!
Source: http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2016/04/gap_apologizes_for_racially_charged_gapkids_x_ed_ad.html
More http://www.fastcocreate.com/3058611/gap-apologizes-for-kids-ad-controversy-swaps-image/1
And more http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2016/04/gapkids_ad_sparks_racially_charged_controversy.html?wpisrc=topstories
Eazy-He Action Figure a Eazy E tribute?
Eazy-He Action figure from Trap Toys
A collaboration project with Dan Evans
The back illustration
When I first saw this in one of my many Facebook Nerd Anime groups I thought this was a joke a photoshoped version of He Man I found out through Google that you can indeed buy this shit. This action figure of Eazy- He is I guess is supposed to be a tribute to Eazy E from the legendary hip hop group N.W.A? I think NOT this is the most stereotypical; racist toy I’ve seen in years! I’m laughing but it’s not funny it’s sad really. And you wonder why SOME white folks pigeonhole us; see as one big stereotype. How are we as a people going to get RESPECT if we let this one thing slide? In 2003 a parody board game of Monopoly was invented by David Chang of China and carried by retail store urban outfitters do to the outcry from the NAACP it was pulled quickly thereafter do to the stereotypical; racist natural of the game. Soon after Mr Chang was sued by Hasbro citing similarities of Hasbro’s beloved game Monopoly.
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Ghettopoly Board game invented by David Chang in 2003
As I look at this Eazy He action figure I shake my head and wonder whywould anyone think to illustrate something so offensive; racist? The cops are already on edge; ready to get they quota let’s not give them ANOTHER reason to mistake this disgusting action figure for a GUN!
I’ve been told that ALL the members of NWA didn’t drink 8 ball ( Old English malt liquor Beer) 24/7 365 nor would they go around shootin the police like cattle as they do us more then
likely they was running from the police. It just goes to show you people of color are not thought of as human beings, we are a stereotype, we are buffoons, we are nothing but entertainment to those that greenlight a program; a movie, as long as we sing and dance; rap how they want we good. As long as we allow toy distributors and makers create Toys like this we will always be grinning puppets to these people who have generational wealth. I HOPE MATTEL SUES THEY ASS !
Here’s more
If you want to check out more from this toy store you can I don’t know why you’d want to but here you go! http://www.traptoys.com/#/easy-he/
N.W.A. Inducted Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; ‘We Belong Here,’ Ice Cube Says
Five decades of pop music history — along with a bit of hip-hop controversy — passed through the stage of the Barclays Center on Friday night for the 31st annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
The night celebrated hard rockers (Deep Purple), horn rockers (Chicago), and rap (N.W.A). Cheap Trick represented the garage rock era while inductee Steve Miller’s passage through Chicago blues clubs and San Francisco psychedelia before he became a multiplatinum selling stadium filler in the mid-1970s makes him a one-man rock encyclopedia. Among the people Miller thanked was his godfather, guitar legend Les Paul. Miller said he was a 5-year-old when he learned his first chords from Paul.
Throughout the night, the inductees’ introductions recounted the hard work, persistence and durability of each act despite deaths, disputes and personnel changes. The groups all performed with a studio like slickness undoubtedly honed by years of constant touring that continues today. N.W.A — which broke up in 1991 — only reunited to accept its award.
But N.W.A co-founder Ice Cube delivered the most stirring statement of the night in response to the suggestion from rock traditionalists that the groundbreaking group from Compton was too far outside the genre to deserve its honor.
via: http://ktla.com/2016/04/08/n-w-a-to-be-inducted-into-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-friday-night/
EBRSO: Woman left son at Walmart to have sex
Chenetra Washington 32 left her 5 year old son alone in Walmart to have sex with a friend
If you can’t take care of you; yourself keep or find a job, can’t pay your bills then why? Just why would you get knocked up and have not one but seven children by seven different men?
Of course the family is blaming mental health issues well then if you knew this WHY didn’t you as her so called FAMILY intervene sooner? Why is it that no one stepped to protect her baby when they saw the police come to the home? I see that one family member stepped in and took the other six children there’s only so much you can do. What I really wanna know is why in the hell would you this supposedly mentally ill woman to petition the court to get her children back when clearly she is not in her right mind. I tell you the court system is fucked up backwards! I HATE Walmart I truly do!
BATON ROUGE – According to documents obtained by The Investigative Unit, a woman accused of abandoning a child at the Cortana Mall Walmart Friday morning was served last week with papers in a lawsuit filed by someone trying to take custody of four of her children.
Chenetra Washington, 32, was booked with child desertion Friday.
According to the arrest report, Washington allegedly brought her 3-year-old son into the Walmart with her. Police say surveillance video shows her leave the store and get into the passenger side door of a car, without any attempt to find her son.
A Walmart employee found the boy, who….
Source: http://www.wbrz.com/news/ebrso-woman-left-son-at-walmart-to-have-sex/
DRAKE’S New Music
1. “Pop Style (CDQ)” — DRAKE FT. KANYE WEST & JAY Z (THE THRONE)
2. “One Dance (CDQ)” — DRAKE FT. WIZKID & KYLA
4 Men Arrested After 9-Year-Old Is Raped, while mother smoking meth in the next room
Four men have been arrested on suspicion of raping and sodomizing a 9-year-old girl on Easter Sunday in Utah while her mother was allegedly smoking methamphetamine in another room, police and KTLA sister station KSTU reported a week after the incident.
The young girl was with her mother, who was visiting a friend, when the pair left the child alone and sleeping on a couch to go into a Utah home’s garage and smoke methamphetamine on March 27, the Uintah County Sheriff’s Office stated in a news release on Sunday.
When the mother returned, she noticed her daughter’s clothing was in disarray, the girl seemed upset and wanted to go home, KSTU reported.
The following day the child told her mother four men had taken her into a bedroom and took turns raping and sodomizing her, and one threatened to kill her if she told anyone about the heinous acts, the TV station reported.
Police were notified and Larson RonDeau, 36, was detained on March 29 after the victim identified him from a picture.
Josiah RonDeau, 20; Jerry Flatlip, 29; and Randall Flatlip, 26 were later arrested on March 31 and April 1, according to police, who did not say if any of the men were related.
All four were booked on suspicion of first-degree felony counts of rape and sodomy.
Evidence; including bloodstained bedding, marijuana and drug paraphernalia; were also obtained when officers executed a search warrant, KSTU reported.
The 9-year-old girl was in state custody following the incident, which was still under investigation, according to police.
Father Leaves 9-Month-Old Girl in Car While Getting Lap Dance at North Hills Strip Club
A father accused of leaving his baby girl in a parked car outside a North Hills strip club so he could buy lap dances has been charged with child abuse.
Auwin Dargin, 24, of Van Nuys pleaded not guilty Monday to one count of child abuse and now faces up to six years in state prison if convicted, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Dargin allegedly locked his 9-month-old girl in the car and left her in the parking lot of the Synn Gentlemen’s Club on Sepulveda Boulevard for roughly an hour in the middle of the afternoon on March 9.
Matthew Nadeau, the assistant manager at the club, told the Los Angeles Times he became suspicious after seeing one of his patrons leave and re-enter the club every 15 minutes.
He went to investigate and says he heard the child’s cries coming from inside the vehicle about 2 p.m.
Nadeau and employees from a neighboring business worked to free the infant by unlocking the door through a small gap in the window. A waitress got water for the little girl, who felt warm and appeared upset, Nadeau said.
Nadeau then alerted his manager, who he said went inside to locate the child’s father and found Dargin in the middle of a lap dance.
“Just give me my baby and I know I am messing up,” Dargin said, according to Nadeau.
When Nadeau refused to hand over the infant, however, Dargin allegedly ran out of the club, abandoning his daughter.
Los Angeles police arrested him as he was leaving.
The DA’s office announced the charges against Dargin in a news release issued Tuesday.
Man Faces Life In Prison For Stealing $31 Worth Of Candy
A New Orleans man could spend the rest of his life in jail after allegedly shoving “$31 worth of candy bars into his pockets at a Dollar General store.”
The man, 34-year-old Jacobia Grimes, is being charged by prosecutors under the state’s “habitual-offender law.”
Grimes has five prior convictions for theft. All of Grimes convictions “involved thefts of less than $500.” His last conviction was for stealing “some socks and trousers.”
Grimes appeared in court last week and pled not guilty. He faces a potential sentence of 20 years to life. He has already spent 9 years in jail for his previous convictions.
The decision to come down hard on Grimes met a skeptical audience from Judge Franz Zibilich, who is overseeing the case.
“It’s not even funny, 20 years to life for a Snickers bar, or two or three or four,” Zibilich said. If Grimes is found guilty, Louisiana law could leave Zibilich little discretion over the sentence.
Louisiana’s habitual offender law has been in place for 30 years. The result has been that “[s]entences of several decades, or even life, for nonviolent crimes are not unusual in Louisiana.” In other states, individuals convicted of similar crimes “would have received a much shorter sentence or no jail time at all.”
Grimes’ case is an example of how Louisiana became the “world’s prison capital.” A 2012 expose by The Times-Picayune found that the state imprisons more of its citizens than any other states and its incarceration rate is “nearly five times Iran’s, 13 times China’s and 20 times Germany’s.”
A major factor driving Louisiana’s massive inmate population is money. Each prisoner costs Lousiana an average of $18,800 per year. Sending Grimes to prison for 20 years would cost the state around $376,000.
“A majority of Louisiana inmates are housed in for-profit facilities, which must be supplied with a constant influx of human beings or a $182 million industry will go bankrupt,” The Times-Picayune reported.
Idaho mom calls police to report she’d found her missing son — and cops come smash the boy’s face
12 year old Idaho Falls boys teeth after cop slammed him into a car
I hate to write it but now that white folks are starting to report police brutality amongst their own maybe just maybe we as people of color will get the justice; the empathy we so desperately need. Are black men are regarded as thugs; they’re some that say that if they hadn’t been out committing crimes he wouldn’t [fill in the blank] all together forgetting that that, that black man was a human being that was loved. Maybe if more white teens; preteens are regarded as thugs just maybe we’ll see some police reform we will see psych evaluations BEFORE hiring of police officers, if more white woman are arrested and end up dead in their jail cell and their family told by that she committed suicide with a thinly made garbage bag if only the police would make their quota in the white neighborhoods; businesses maybe we just might see change!
I could go on if only people weren’t so selective on what they see and hear.
A local woman claims an Idaho Falls police officer assaulted her 12-year-old son.
The mother is now starting the process to take legal action against IFPD.
Amy Olzak’s attorney sent a tort claim to IFPD last week.
It claims that an IFPD officer used unnecessary and excessive force on Olzak’s minor son.
The damages stated on that claim are broken teeth, a possible concussion, and bruising and trauma to the neck and facial area.
“He walked over to my son and then he put my son’s hand behind his back and like lifted him up in the air and slammed his face into the trunk of a car,” Olzak said…..
Source : http://www.localnews8.com/news/local-woman-claims-ifpd-officer-assaulted-her-12yearold-son/38830126
Teen Is Suing Katt Williams For $5 Million Dollars Over Their Fight; Claiming Emotional Distress