Elfen’s TBT Music Video of the week 1985 Loose Ends Hangin’ on a String
At the time this music video was very creative and unique. The visuals are straight forward and goes along with the story.
Elfen’s TBT TOP 40 R&B of 1985 Loose Ends Hangin’ On A String
Loose Ends Album release date August 17 th 1985
The year was 1985. This is pre internet, smartphones, Twitter, Black Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Black folks of 1985 was listening to the radio or on the move with their Walkman. The R&B radio station I was bumpin’ to in my home city and state of Tacoma WA was 1250 Kfox am and one of the songs topping the 1# spot in the U.S R&B top 40 for 1 week was Hangin’ On A String by a British R&B Band called Loose Ends. Notice you can understand EVERY word. And the lead singers aren’t cussing and no one is saying nigga every few verses. The message is simple and to the point. Back in 1985 the radio personalities choose the song being played. They got to play what they liked and thought their listening audience might like it too. This song was on the niddle every time this song was requested. I even remember calling in to request this jam!
Ladies and gentlemen I bring you What the NFL franchise doesn’t want you to see
Original post by Shaun King.
I know the Super Bowl was three months ago but we still have to look at these things to realize this sport is killing our young black men .
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White Man Goes On Rant About People Speaking Spanish In NYC
The man tells an employee “Your staff is speaking Spanish to customers when they should be speaking English.”
A customer at a New York restaurant tried to chew out employees after he heard them speaking Spanish.
Instead, his fellow customers laughed at his rant, especially his threat to report the restaurant to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
A now-viral video posted to Facebook by Edward Suazo shows a very angry white man going ballistic when he overheard workers at Fresh Kitchen, a midtown eatery, speaking Spanish to customers.
In the video, the man tells an employee, “Your staff is speaking Spanish to customers when they should be speaking English… This is America.”
The employee attempted to explain that his co-workers were simply interacting with other customers.
That hardly satisfied the man, who can be seen pointing wildly around the room at everyone he said he overheard speaking Spanish.
After other customers laugh at his antics and taunt him, with one telling him he’s “fucked up,” the angry man becomes even angrier.
“My guess is, they’re not documented, so my next call is to ICE to have each one of [them] kicked out of my country,” he said. “They have the balls to come here and live off of my money I pay for their welfare, I pay for their ability to be here. The least they could do, the least they could do is speak English.”
In his Facebook post, Suazo said the video was taken by his wife and her best friend as they ordered lunch at the restaurant.
He added:
“I wish I was there because clearly this peace of shit need someone to punch him in his mouth !!
“What a big man talking down to couple of women and a helpless employee. I wish someone tells me I can’t speak in my native language ! First of all they wasn’t talking to you !! Asshole !
“My country !! Haha ?
“I love the way people are just throwing that world around lately !!
“If you love this country this much ! Why don’t you put on uniform and protect it !!”
If he was so offended because the waiter was speak in Spanish only because of a native person spoke to him in Spanish, why don’t he start waitering and he won’t have that issue and family stop getting Spanish nannies and stop getting Spanish people to farm and ………
You know where I’m getting !!”
The restaurant’s manager told The New York Daily News the ranting customer didn’t realize the woman speaking Spanish with his employee was a regular.
“They were speaking Spanish because they are friends,” the manager said. “He got mad, waiting in line for his food. He stormed out.”
The manager said the man’s rant infuriated him, but he refused to return the rancor.
“He’s a customer, so I had to stay professional and ask him to leave,” the manager said. “That’s what I did.”
As of Wednesday afternoon, Suazo’s video has been viewed more than 1.3 million times.
The ranting man was quickly identified as lawyer Aaron Schlossberg thanks to the magic of internet crowdsourcing, according to black rights activist Shaun King:
Shaun King✔@ShaunKingDear Midtown Manhattan Attorney Aaron M Schlossberg,
7 of your college classmates from @JohnsHopkins & @GWtweets contacted me and said this is you & they aren’t surprised.
I am asking the New York Bar Association (@nysba) to also look into your bigoted hate here & across NYC. https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/996725747711541249 …
Schlossberg seems to be an equal opportunity offender based on a video from last year that showed him yelling, “You are not a Jew” at Jewish people supporting Palestinian rights, according to Fast Company.
jordan✔@JordanUhlThe asshole lawyer caught on video mad about people speaking Spanish in NYC that @ShaunKing is calling out?@Ike_Saul caught him on video yelling “You are not a Jew” to Jewish people last year.
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Angry White Dude’s Rant About People Speaking Spanish In NYC Goes Viral
‘Things could have gone much worse’: Ex-student shot by officer during gunfire exchange at Dixon High School
police officer working at Dixon High School on Wednesday shot a former student who fired a gun near the school’s gym and later tried to shoot the officer Wednesday, officials said.
The incident began about 8 a.m., according to officials speaking at a late-morning news conference. Students had gathered at the gym for graduation practice.
Dixon police Chief Steven Howell said the suspect, a 19-year-old man, “fired several shots” near the gym.
The school resource officer, identified as Mark Dallas, confronted the suspect, who then fled from the school with the officer in pursuit, Howell said. During the pursuit, the suspect fired several shots at the officer but did not strike him.
The officer returned fire and struck the suspect, who was then taken into custody just west of the school, Howell said. He was taken to a hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening. No one else was injured.
An earlier news account said the gunfire exchange took place in the gym.
Howell and other officials praised the officer for saving lives.
“From the angle I’m looking at right now, at lot of things went right today when a great many of them could have (gone) wrong,” Dixon Mayor Liandro Arellano Jr. said. “Things could have gone much worse.”
“He saved an enormous amount of lives,” Lee County Sheriff John Simonton.
Gov. Bruce Rauner in a statement credited “school resource officer Mark Dallas for his bravery and quick action.”
Authorities have not provided the gunman’s name.
According to WGN-TV, a woman who identified herself as the gunman’s mother told reporters: “My son has been very, very sad for a long time.”
She said her son was bullied and ostracized at school, and was beaten up in October. She said she doesn’t know know where her son got a gun, according to WGN.
Devin Scott, 18, a senior, said he and 150 others students were in gym at 8 a.m. They heard what sounded like firecrackers. Gym teacher Andrew McKay came running into gym and shouted that everyone should get out, Scott said.
“We all got up, and everyone started running toward the doors,” Scott said. “Some people didn’t take it seriously. They thought it was firecrackers. Some people did. They started crying as they were running.”
The students ran out of the building and went to a National Guard armory a short distance from the gymnasium. They didn’t know if the shooting was real or not until other students started pouring into the armory.
Scott said the experience didn’t begin to sink in until his adrenaline began to wear off.
“I almost started crying,” he said. “It was scary. My life could have ended.”
He and his brother, Skylar, 16, a junior, credited Officer Dallas and their teacher, McKay, for preventing what could have been a horrible tragedy.
“I feel like he (Dallas) is a hero. I feel like Mr. McKay is a hero,” Devin Scott said.
Russ Shuck, 65, owner of Russ’ Automotive Service & Towing, said he began to notice something was amiss when students started pouring out from between the houses that separate him from the high school.
“I was sitting here in the office with a couple of other guys drinking Pepsi and shooting the bull,” he said. “We were wondering what was going on. Then we heard the sirens.”
Shuck expressed surprise that a school shooting could happen in a town like Dixon.
“It’s just kinda of shocking that it happened in Dixon,” he said. “Never thought I’d see it around here.”
Authorities say students did exactly as they were trained to do in such situations. Officials said they were pleased to discover that students had barricaded themselves into classrooms by blocking doorways with chairs, desks and other furniture.
Police have not said why the former student came to the school.
Police said they believe the gunman acted alone and that there was no further threat to anyone in the area. Howell declined to discuss why the former student brought a gun to the school.
According to the city of Dixon website, the school resource officer position was started by the Dixon Police Department in 2000 to help prevent school violence.
Officials said all schools in Dixon, which is about 100 miles west of Chicago, were placed on lockdown in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. The other schools reopened after officials determined the gunman acted alone.
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U.S.C. Admits Fault in Response to Complaints Against Gynecologist
LOS ANGELES — For decades, medical staff at the University of Southern California complained about inappropriate touching of students during pelvic exams by a gynecologist at the campus health center. On Tuesday, the university admitted it failed to respond to the accusations strongly or quickly enough.
The scandal comes at a difficult time for the university, which was rocked last year by reports that the former dean of the medical school had spent months partying with criminals and using drugs on campus, and was forced to resign.
In 2016, the university conducted an internal investigation, which concluded that the doctor’s pelvic exams may have been inappropriate and that he had repeatedly made racially and sexually offensive remarks to patients. The doctor, George Tyndall, agreed to retire under a separation agreement last summer, a year after he was suspended, U.S.C. officials said Tuesday.
But university officials did not make a report about Dr. Tyndall to the California Medical Board until earlier this year, after he wrote a letter asking the university for reinstatement. Officials now say that was a mistake. The university made the investigation public after it was contacted by The Los Angeles Times, which first reported the complaints about Dr. Tyndall on Tuesday.
“In hindsight, we should have made this report eight months earlier when he separated from the university,” C. L. Max Nikias, the president of U.S.C., wrote in a letter sent to all students and staff earlier Tuesday.
Mr. Nikias said that there had been repeated complaints about Dr. Tyndall dating back to 2000, which “were concerning enough that it is not clear today why the former health center director permitted Tyndall to remain in his position.”
In its report, The Los Angeles Times found that Dr. Tyndall was not suspended until a frustrated nurse turned to the rape crisis center on campus in 2016.
In its statement, the university did not directly address the most serious allegations of misconduct unearthed by The Los Angeles Times, which were based on extensive interviews with students and university employees as well as documents. The newspaper reported that Dr. Tyndall often photographed women’s genitals, moved his fingers in and out during pelvic exams, and in one case asked a woman if he could keep the IUD he had just removed from her. In recent years, Dr. Tyndall appeared to be targeting students from China.
Dr. Tyndall denied any wrongdoing to The Los Angeles Times and did not return phone calls on Tuesday.
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Rapper T.I. calls arrest outside his gated community ‘nonsense,’ blames ‘white cops’
Atlanta rapper and actor T.I., who reinvented himself as an activist and political force after time in federal prison and years of trouble with the law, was arrested early Wednesday outside his gated community in Henry County, authorities said.
The music star, whose legal name is Clifford Harris Jr., was arrested after returning to the Eagle’s Landing Country Club community in the 100 block of Eagle’s Landing Way around 4 a.m.
T.I. did not have his key and argued with a security guard who would not grant him access, Henry County police said. At some point, the rapper called a friend who eventually joined him.
T.I. was arrested on misdemeanor charges of simple assault, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. His friend, Marquinarius Holmes, 40, of Stockbridge, was arrested on outstanding charges out of Clayton County and for not having proof of car insurance, the sheriff’s office told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Via a live Instagram video, T.I. addressed the arrest as “nonsense” and “small potatoes,” adding that God will take care of it. He appeared in the video while celebrating his son’s 10th birthday at his home.
Later Wednesday, he told TheBlast.com that law enforcement in the county are “white cops in a very white area.”
He was released from the Henry County Jail about 8 a.m. Wednesday after posting $2,250 bond. He did not appear before a judge.
In a statement to The AJC, attorney Steve Sadow said T.I. “was wrongfully arrested” and accused the guard of refusing him entry into his own home after the superstar’s wife confirmed he “should be let in immediately.”
Tyisha Fernandes
✔@TyishaWSB
BREAKING: Just got this from T.I’s attorney about this morning’s arrest
According to Sadow, police were not interested in hearing T.I.’s side of the story when they arrived on the scene and “wrongfully chose to end the situation by arresting” him. Henry police have not addressed the comments from T.I.’s attorney.
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Woman fired after cops seize laxative-laced brownies
DANG??? Are you mad??? I wonder did she use Pepto or Kaopectate? LMBFAO
SALINE, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan engineering company employee has been fired after police determined she baked laxatives into brownies intended for a departing colleague’s send-off.
Saline police Chief Jerrod Hart says officers confiscated the tainted confections May 3 after another employee tipped off management. No one ate the brownies.
The Ann Arbor News reports that Hart says the 47-year-old woman initially denied putting laxatives in the brownies, but after learning investigators would test them she admitted she had. Her name hasn’t been released……
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Rapper T.I. misplaced house keys and the security guard T.I. arested
DAYUM THIS IS AMERICA.
After a Tuesday night out, Atlanta based rapper T.I. attempted to reenter his gated community home, but realized he misplaced his keys. Apparently the security guard wasn’t interested in letting him into his home, and an altercation occurred, which ended up in T.I. being arrested at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
According to the Associated Press, T.I. (born Clifford Harris) was hit with disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and simple assault charges. Before his arrest, T.I. attempted to contact a friend, who came out to assist, who also ended up being arrested because of an outstanding warrant.
Henry County Police says the rapper was released from the Henry County Jail about 8 a.m. Wednesday after posting $2,250 bond. He did not appear before a judge.
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