Papa John’s founder said it was “a mistake” to resign after he used the n-word
It seemed like a reasonable consequence: After using the n-word during a conference call in part about racial sensitivity, John “Papa John” Schnatter was forced to step down as board chair of the pizza chain. But a new report from Julie Jargon at the Wall Street Journalsuggests that Schnatter doesn’t think he should have left his job last week.
The Wall Street Journal reviewed a letter to the directors in which Schnatter questioned the board’s request for him to resign. “The board asked me to step down as chairman without apparently doing any investigation. I agreed, though today I believe it was a mistake to do so,” he said. “I will not allow either my good name or the good name of the company I founded and love to be unfairly tainted.”
In his letter, Schnatter admitted to using the n-word. As he put it, he was asked if he was racist, and he said “no,” adding, “I then said something on the order of, Colonel Sanders used the word ‘N,’ (I actually used the word), that I would never use that word, and Papa John’s doesn’t use that word.” (As Barry Petchesky at Deadspin pointed out, it’s not clear why Schnatter is convinced that Colonel Sanders, of KFC fame, used the n-word; there’s no good evidence for it.)
The Papa John’s board, for its part, doesn’t seem convinced. It has now barred Schnatter from using office space at the pizza chain’s corporate headquarters, has told him to no longer make media appearances for Papa John’s, and plans to remove him from the company’s products.
This isn’t the first racial controversy for Schnatter; he had already resigned as Papa John’s CEO, but not chair, last year after blaming falling sales on the NFL’s inability to stop national anthem protests over systemic racism and police brutality. (Papa John’s was, but no longer is, the NFL’s official pizza.)
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Watch Michelle Obama Dance to Jay-Z With Beyonce’s Mom
The Carters also debuted their collaborative song “Apeshit” during second Paris show
danced joyously to Jay-Z‘s “On to the Next One” on Sunday during the rapper’s joint concert with Beyoncé in Paris, France. The former First Lady joined Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles Lawson, in the front row – and even getting a quick onstage smile from Jay-Z.
BEYONCÉ LEGION@BeyLegion.@MichelleObama & Ms. Tina dancing at Beyoncé & JAY-Z’s show in Paris tonight. #OTRII #Round2
Another video shows Obama and Knowles walking up to their VIP spots as husband-and-wife duo the Carters performed Beyoncé’s “Drunk in Love.” Fans erupted with screams and photo snaps after recognizing the celebrity guest.
The Carters also performed their single “Apeshit” live for the first time that night. They modified the song as the evening’s farewell, dropping verses to make space for “thank you”s and salutes to their band. “Please give it up for my beautiful husband,” Beyoncé said as a cinematic list of production credits scrolled across a massive screen.
The Carters and Obamas famously share a long-running bond. Last year, former President Barack Obama helped induct Jay-Z into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, calling the rapper a “true American original” in his speech. “I like to think Mr. Carter and I understand each other,” he said. “Nobody who met us when we were younger men would have expected us to be where we are today.”
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‘Have Another Stroke’: Azalea Banks Goes After Wendy Williams
Two days ago, Azalea Banks went after Nick Cannon and his MTV show Wildin Out. She accused the cast of blindsiding her with colorist, insensitive jokes – making her the dark skin punching bag (who cried on the show!).
(Cast members admitted to calling AB ugly but they insist that they did not dole out any colorist jokes.) Watch Lovelyti’s video on the situation:
Yesterday, Wendy Williams commented on the situation, where she shadily or unknowingly kept calling Azalea, Iggy.
Afterwards, Wendy listed some of the celebrities that Banks fought with over the years like Cardi B, Remy Ma, Rihanna, Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, Russell Crowe, Skai Jackson and Kendrick Lamar.
“My thought about Azealia Banks, I don’t know her, but she seems to be smart but angry and her anger seems to be the problem,” said Wendy. “A lot of times people would rather work with second best who’s not so angry than first best. And I’m not familiar with her music. I’m just familiar with her anger.”
Some might say that Wendy took it easy on Banks and didn’t come down on her like she has other celebs. But that didn’t stop the rapper from responding on Instagram.
“OMG, can Wendy Williams have another stroke on TV and finally drop dead?” wrote Banks. “I would love to see her die on air.”
If you didn’t know, the rapper’s message has to do with a 2017 Halloween episode where Williams fainted on live TV.
Meanwhile, Banks was working on her new album “Fantasea II: The Second Wave” but shelved it after her “Wild ‘N Out” experience. “Album is canceled,” she wrote on her Instagram story. “I need some time to relax and bounce on d–k. I’ll release new music when I feel like it.”
We are waiting with bated breath for this episode to air.
In the meantime check out AB’s new hit Treasure Island!
False Alarm: Chance the Rapper Says He’s Not Dropping an Album This Week
And the year of the surprise everything continues: Chance the Rapper has announced that he’s releasing an album this week. He let the news slip to the Chicago Tribune, revealing no other details about how the project will arrive other than it’ll drop “just in time” for his Special Olympics 50th anniversary concert (held on July 21). His last album, 2016’s Coloring Book, was an Apple Music exclusive that became the first streaming-only album to win a Grammy. He’s not sure now if he’ll choose to monetize his work. “I’ve never been against selling music. Music has value,” he says. “I put my music out there for free because I wanted people to see and notice it as a beacon for what I’m doing, in terms of how unorthodox I wanted my approach and my delivery of each piece of music to be.” He does, however, still sound to be anti–record labels, saying that his collaborations with bigger artists have been stifled by their labels: “It has been difficult for me to release music with artists who work with the majors. A lot of stuff I’ve worked on hasn’t come out since Coloring Book because it’s hard [when collaborating with artists limited by record deals].”
As for his upcoming separate project with Kanye West, which Chance previously teased, he says they made two songs weeks ago during the Wyoming sessions and will revisit that work shortly. “We’re up in the mountains around these wild animals — it’s very different out there — and we got some music done, and then he asked me if he could do an album with me,” Chance says. “I don’t know of a timeline on it yet, the trajectory of it, but he’s coming here to work on it some more. We’ve just started making it, but I don’t want to manipulate the situation and impose any time frame, because that can hinder you.”
Update, 11:30 a.m.: On second thought, don’t get your hopes up yet. Chance has tweeted a clarification to the Tribune story saying he’s not, in fact, putting an album out this week. But he does hint that there’s music coming … whenever that will be. The element of surprise is still alive!
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Ex-day care owner gets probation for trying to hang toddler
MINNEAPOLIS — A former Minneapolis day care owner was sentenced Monday to 10 years of probation for trying to kill a toddler in her home by hanging him. Nataliia Karia, 43, received her punishment in Hennepin County court after pleading guilty to attempted murder and third-degree assault earlier. She also pleaded guilty to criminal vehicular operation for hitting a pedestrian, a bicyclist and another driver as she fled from her home in a minivan in November 2016.
Karia abandoned a possible insanity defense before entering the guilty plea, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Karia also must follow court-ordered mental health treatment and will be on electronic home monitoring for at least two months, the Star Tribune reported. She will live with her adult son but cannot have unsupervised contact with her daughters or other minors.
According to the criminal complaint, a father was dropping off his son at Karia’s home when Karia led him toward the basement, where he saw the toddler hanging from a noose. He released the child and fled with him. The 16-month-old boy survived. Police reportedly said a week after the incident the child was doing fine physically after a hospitalization.
Judge Jay Quam agreed with the assessment by doctors that Karia was “a low risk” to reoffend. He called her actions “the perfect storm of factors unlikely to ever be repeated.”
Defense attorney Brockton Hunter expressed relief on behalf of Karia.
“We came in here with our hearts in our throats,” Hunter said.
He said Karia, who has spent 20 months in jail since the incident and will get credit for her time already served, will leave jail no later than Tuesday.
Karia, who arrived in the United States from Ukraine in 2006, promised to follow probation and said in court she was glad no one died. She said in a statement her husband abused her, forced her to work despite her psychological struggles and prevented her from getting medical attention, reports the Star-Tribune.
“I don’t want to push this terrible crime onto my husband. I just want to explain what happened,” she said through an interpreter, reports the paper. “Your Honor, my children need me … Give me a chance to resume a normal life.”
Prosecutor Christina Warren reportedly pushed for nearly 13 years of prison time. Warren raised doubts that Karia could be properly supervised outside of prison and receive the care she needs to restore her mental health.
In a court filing, Warren wrote that instead of being the person most able and willing to protect the boy from harm, Karia “left him hanging by a noose around his neck in her basement.”
The defense argued for probation, pointing out that Karia already has served time in jail and lost her child care career.
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Police Falsely Accuse Black Students of Dining-and-Dashing at Clayton, Mo., IHOP
If black people are treated white people like they treat us it be a national emergency.
Another day, another just-existing while black incident, where ten Washington University students — all black and incoming freshmen — got the welcome of their lives at a Clayton, Mo., IHOP after they were accused of dining and dashing.
Well, the “dashing” part is a strong reach. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the students were stopped by Clayton police earlier this month while walking to a MetroLink stop after their late-night dinner. That was when the students were told that they were being accused of leaving the IHOP restaurant without paying.
This is where it gets better (and by better, I mean invariably unconscionable). Some of the students presented their receipts to show that they had indeed paid for their meals, nonetheless, the police made them walk all the way back to the restaurant, following them with six squad cars. However, when they reached the restaurant, the manager informed officers that they had the wrong people, and they were not the ones who had left without paying.
The officers then dismissed them without apology.
So you can probably guess what happened, at least in the officers’ case here. The only word cops seemed to have pick up on was “black” and gathered the first group of black kids they could find, again despite the fact that these students presented receipts.
“Needless to say, the students were shaken and upset,” Rob Wild, associate vice chancellor for student transition and engagement wrote in an email last week to other administrators at Washington University. “This is obviously extremely disappointing. Not how any of us would like to welcome our new students.”
Wild said in his email that the students “did not really appear to fit the description of the suspects other than being black.”
Source: https://www.theroot.com/police-falsely-accuse-black-students-of-dining-and-dash-1827652438?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=theroot_facebook
A Black Woman Just Won Miss Universe Great Britain For The First Time Ever
it’s time “girls of all ethnicities can see that this is something for everybody, not just some of us.”
Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers made history on Saturday.
Kentish-Rogers, 25, is the first black woman to be crowned Miss Universe Great Britain since the pageant’s inception in 1952. The newly crowned beauty queen hails from Anguilla, a British territory, and will go on to represent Anguilla and the United Kingdom at the international Miss Universe competition, which will take place in the Philippines in December.
“It’s really humbling and I think it’s also a privilege for me to become the first black woman who is crowned Miss Universe Great Britain,” she told BuzzFeed News. “I believe that this is the direction that the pageant has been going in for the last couple of years because Britain is a diverse nation, we are a multicultural society and it is time that that diversity is seen on a stage where other young black girls and girls of all ethnicities can see that this is something for everybody not just some of us.”
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Kentish-Rogers, who was crowned Miss Anguilla last year, is also a competitive athlete, winning a silver medal in heptathlon in the Central American and Caribbean Games and a bronze medal in the CARIFTA Games.
Before her win, Kentish-Rogers told Pageants News that she believes she is the first woman to compete in Miss Universe Great Britain with locs.
“To my knowledge, I am the first dreadlocked woman to walk across a Miss Universe Great Britain stage and that is absolutely most exciting to me,” she said.
The national director for Miss Universe Great Britain, Paula Abbandonato, told BuzzFeed that she is “absolutely delighted” by Kentish-Rogers’ win.
“I took over this role in 2008 and I can honestly say there is no better gift [than] having our first black winner to celebrate 10 years in the job,” she said. “Dee-Ann is a true role model for all women of all skin colours and with her dynamism off the stage, coupled with her presence on the stage, I genuinely believe Great Britain has a chance at the Miss Universe crown this year.”
Fans congratulated Kentish-Rogers on Twitter after she was crowned Miss Universe Great Britain.
“I loveeee when people break ‘beauty standards’, especially my fellow dark skin women. Our uniqueness should be celebrated, not merely tolerated,” one Twitter user wrote.
Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dee-ann-rogers-first-black-miss-universe-great-britain_us_5b4cdfbbe4b0e7c958fe361f?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_source=main_fb&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_medium=facebook
Elfen’s Neosoul Hip Hop New Music Tuesday. London Funk Allstars
London Funk Allstars Vol 1 release date 1995
This weeks what’s new to me old to you. What’s old to you is new to me. Comes all the way from London. I present to you two albums from London Funk Allstars! From 1995 The Album London Funk Allstars Vol 1. And 1996 London Funk Allstars Fleash Eating Disco zombies Versus the Bionic Hookers from Mars.
I got turned on to these two Kats back in 2006. The band members are Mad Doctor X and Stefen Turner. I love their choice of sound bites and musical samples. When you go to Apple Music or Spotify you will not be disappointed. See you next week!!
London Funk Allstars Album Fleash Eating Disco zombies Versus the Bionic Hookers from Mars release date 1996
D.L Hugley on How not to get shot: And other Advise from white people and much more.
BIGBOY interview with D.L Hugley If there’s an audiobook I’m getting it
New York Daily News Scorches ‘Treason’ Trump With Brutal New Cover
Trump is a trader to our country.
The New York Daily News hammered President Donald Trump with its Tuesday cover, suggesting that his refusal to publicly condemn Russian leader Vladimir Putin was treason.
During a news conference Monday in Helsinki, Finland, Trump would not blame Russia or Putin for interference in the 2016 U.S. election, saying “we’re all to blame” for poor relations between the two countries. U.S. intelligence and government officials have concluded that the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
So the New York Daily News reacted to Trump’s remarks with a brutal illustration and headline, accusing the president of siding with an enemy over his own country. The illustration alluded to a statement Trump made during his presidential campaign that he could shoot someone on New York’s Fifth Avenue and not lose voters.
.@realdonaldtrump derides reports with which he disagrees as “fake news,” then buys the Russian narrative hook, line, sinker, pole and boat. https://t.co/TGHurpVDKy
An early look at Tuesday's front… pic.twitter.com/BXsoZsIT4B
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 16, 2018
Trump’s comments after his meeting with Putin sparked outrage Monday, with even Republican leaders and Fox News hosts slamming the president.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said, “No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.” Fox Business host Neil Cavuto called Trump’s behavior “disgusting.”