A Kardashian Takes Another Inappropriate Photo (It’s Khloe This Time)
Khloe Kardashian posed in a photo shoot with a Black fashion model, Slick Woods, as part of an advertising campaign for the Kardashian’s clothing line: Good American Outfits. It is reported that the other pictures were decent, but the internet came together to deem this picture below as… (surprise) racist.
Khloe is pictured here looking down, lovingly, at her pet that is clutching her ivory thigh.
Here, Khloe is pictured looking down at Slick Woods, who is crouched around Khloe’s leg.
The picture seems to be reminiscent of slave children, under a Stockholm Syndrome spell, curled up around a slave master’s feet. At this point, I am not too sure whether or not this was done on purpose because even though the picture seems innocent enough, you would think that with all the (racist) controversy they have been involved in, the Kardashian Klan’s PR person would steer them clear of disrespecting the Ancestors, but no.
Here lies yet another Kardshian racist incident for The Big Book of Receipts.
Please note that this article is written by DayaLys and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of Lovelyti.
Share your thoughts below: is this picture in poor taste or do you think the internet reads too much into things?
Via: http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/the-internet-isnt-too-pleased-with-this-photo-of-khloe-kardashian-slick-woods#axzz4umr3LzHD
‘I was a brown woman with a hoodie’: Woman dragged off Southwest plane
Woman dragged off Southwest plane blames profiling: ‘I was a brown woman with a hoodie’
The Maryland woman who was forcibly removed from a Southwest Airlines plane in a dispute over dog allergies alleges she was subjected to disparaging treatment by the law enforcement officers who escorted her off the plane.
“For me, it was clear a lack of conflict-resolution skills with them,” Anila Daulatzai, 46, told ABC News of her interaction with the Maryland Transportation Authority Police (MDTA). “There’s something they just didn’t trust me with.”
She continued, “I was a brown woman with a hoodie.”
Daulatzai said she is two months pregnant and was traveling to Los Angeles to care for her elderly father Sept. 26 when the incident occurred. She was forcibly removed from the plane at the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Maryland after refusing to leave on her own.
ABC NewsVideo of the incident taken by a fellow passenger was widely shared on social media.
Daulatzai says the incident escalated after she asked whether there were any dogs on the plane.
“When I boarded the plane, the first thing I asked the flight attendant was, ‘How many dogs are going to be on this plane?'” she told ABC News, adding that she “never, never” told Southwest officials that her allergy to dogs was life-threatening.
Daulatzai, who holds a faculty appointment at the Maryland Institute College of Art, found a seat away from dogs on the flight. She says the flight’s captain continued to ask her about the allergy.
“He started by saying, ‘I’m uncomfortable with you being on this plane,’” she said. “I said, ‘I’m sorry. I’m the primary caretaker for my father. I need to be there. I’m asking you to reconsider.'”
Daulatzai was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, failure to obey a reasonable and lawful order, disturbing the peace, obstructing and hindering a police officer and resisting arrest, according to Maryland Transportation Authority Police.
Daulatzai and her lawyer, Arjun S. Sethi, said in a statement Wednesday that Daulatzai was questioned while grading papers on the flight.
“Despite trying to convince the crew that she would be completely fine on the plane, she was asked by another Southwest representative to leave the plane,” the statement said. “Shortly thereafter the Maryland Transportation Authority Police pulled her from her seat by her belt loop, dragged her through the aisle exposed with torn pants, and humiliated her for the world to see in a now viral video.”
The statement continued, “The Maryland Transportation Authority Police later disparaged her, accused her of lying about her pregnancy, and made racist remarks about immigrants.”
Daulatzai suffered physical injuries and mental trauma, according to her lawyer. They plan to take legal action against Southwest.
“We fear that when you Google her, the first thing that is going to come up are these criminal charges, which we plan to contest,” Sethi told ABC News.
Southwest Airlines and MDTA officials did not reply directly to Daulatzai’s allegations of racism on the flight when asked by ABC News.
Both Southwest Airlines and at least one fellow passenger contest Daulatzai’s claim that she never said her allergy to dogs was life-threatening.
Southwest Airlines officials told ABC News in a statement that they were “disheartened by the way this situation unfolded and the customer’s removal by local law enforcement officers.”
The airline added that it publicly apologized to Daulatzai and has “made several attempts” to contact her directly since the incident.
Article via: http://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-dragged-off-southwest-plane-blames-profiling-brown/story?id=50291389
Cam Newton Disses ‘Female’ Reporter
*Le sigh*
The proverbial foot in mouth syndrome strikes again.
Cam Newton, a Carolina Panthers QB, was taking questions from the media when Jourdan Rodrigue asked how he felt about WR Devin Funchess being more physical when running his routes.
Newton laughed and then said, “It’s funny to hear a female talk about routes.”
Jourdan — who covers the Panthers for the Charlotte Observer — replied on Twitter, “I don’t think it’s ‘funny’ to be a female and talk about routes. I think it’s my job.”
When asked if anyone spoke with Cam after the incident she said, “I spoke with him after and it was worse.”
“I chose not to share, because I have an actual job to do today and one he will not keep me from.”
Article via: http://www.tmz.com/2017/10/04/cam-newton-disses-female-reporter/
Keri Hilson Reminds Us That She Is FLAWLESS ;)
Keri Hilson is back (hopefully to stay this time).
After Keri Hilson graced us with countless hits, especially from the Pussycat Dolls, Jennifer Lopez, Mary J Blige, and even her own hits such as Energy, Knock You Down and more, Hilson has gone and dropped her natural beauty bombs all over our timelines – and everyone is here for it.
Check out her unedited pictures below:“1st time shooting w/ my natural hair,” Keri captioned a picture of her looks. “Natural light on 35mm film. Straight from the darkroom—no edits/retouches. Rawly, me.”
#PrettyGirlsRock!
Article via Bossip.com
Gabrielle Union’s New Book: “I Have Had Eight or Nine Miscarriages
In two weeks, actress Gabrielle Union will release her first ever memoir, titled “We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True.”
Even though Union and Dwayne Wade are raising Wade’s two sons and his nephew, and another son that is not allowed in any family pictures, Union and Wade don’t have any biological children together.
Now Union opens up about her infertility issues. On Wednesday, PEOPLE magazine released an exclusive excerpt of the new memoir, where the actress details her infertility issues in several attempts to have a baby with NBA star husband, Dwyane Wade.
“I have had eight or nine miscarriages,” the Union wrote. “For three years, my body has been a prisoner of trying to get pregnant – I’ve either been about to go into an IVF cycle, in the middle of an IVF cycle, or coming out of an IVF cycle.”
Although the actress has opened up about IVF before, she declined to detail the struggles she has faced after three years of failed cycles. But, throughout the heartbreaking trauma, she revealed that she and her husband “remain bursting with love and ready to do anything to meet the child we’ve both dreamed of.”
“For so many women, and not just women in the spotlight, people feel very entitled to know, ‘Do you want kids?’” she told PEOPLE, after revealing that she never wanted to have children until she became a stepmom to her husband’s three sons and nephew. “A lot of people, especially people that have fertility issues, just say ‘no’ because that’s a lot easier than being honest about whatever is actually going on. People mean so well, but they have no idea the harm or frustration it can cause.”
We wish Union and Wade
Read more via: http://balleralert.com/profiles/blogs/gabrielle-union-talks-fertility-issues-new-book-eight-nine-miscarriages/
Seventeen Year Old Daughter and Boyfriend Are Assaulted With Hammer
In a statement to police, Fathema claimed she was forced into living two lives: one to appease her strict Islamic father at home and the other life that continued outside her home.
According to testimonies heard in court, Soruth Ali was woken up at 5am by noises coming from his daughter’s bedroom and opened the door to find her and boyfriend James Martin in bed together. He then grabbed a hammer and hit Martin over the head. After that, he punched and kicked his daughter Fathema before dragging her out of her bedroom by the hair while her family begged him to stop. The court heard that on the night of the incident, Fathema snuck her boyfriend in the house thinking her parents were away, but when they returned he hid in her bedroom for the night.
The assault took place August 21, and Ali has now been jailed for 14 months after he admitted to bodily harm and common assault. The 42-year-old’s daughter is in police protection after the incident and has now been placed in care to keep her away from her “very religious and very controlling” father.
After his sentencing, it surfaced that when Ali was 22 he served seven years in 1995 for the rape of a 15-year-old girl (assaulted when she was in her school uniform). Hmm, so this assault seems less about trying to protect his daughter from the world’s dangers, and more about the abuse of women (so anyone trying to defend this guy can save it).
Ali will not be allowed to contact his daughter for three years, under the terms of a restraining order.
Share your thoughts below.
Please note that this article was written by DayaLys, and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Lovelyti.
Local Missing Virginia College Student Found Dead In North Carolina
The body of a woman found in Charlotte on Friday has been identified as that of a missing 19-year-old college student who disappeared Sept. 18 in the Virginia Beach area.
Authorities said the Mecklenburg County medical examiner’s office identified the body discovered behind a church Friday morning as that of Ashanti Billie, a student at a culinary school in Virginia Beach, who was last seen Sept. 18 about 5 a.m. as she entered a military base, where she worked at a sandwich shop.
Investigators did not release a cause or manner of death and gave no indications of how Billie’s body ended up more than 300 miles from where she was last seen.
At a news conference Saturday evening, Billie’s parents thanked those who sent prayers and messages of support from across the country and helped search for their daughter and locate her body. Then her mother, Brandy Johnson Billie, delivered pointed words for whoever was responsible for her Ashanti’s death.
“The person or persons that decided they wanted to take my baby away from us . . . you are a coward. You don’t deserve to breathe the air that she breathed,” Johnson Billie said.
Meltony Billie, the teenager’s father, urged the public to help other missing people find their way home.
“We say to everyone, stay encouraged,” he said. “This was not one of the outcomes we were seeking, but yet still we stay in the fight because there are other young people who are out there missing. Our desire and our prayers were answered. She’s home. She’s home with God.”
“I, along with the entire investigative team, offer our most sincere condolences to the Billie family, especially Ashanti’s parents Brandy and Tony. Our thoughts and prayers are with you,” said Martin Culbreth, special agent in charge of the Norfolk Division of the FBI. “Our community should know that our work does not end here. Now our mission is to bring justice for Ashanti, and we will be relentless in our efforts to find who did this to her.”
Billie, who graduated from Henry A. Wise Jr. High School in Prince George’s County, moved to Virginia to attend the Art Institute of Virginia Beach, where she studied culinary arts. She had recently started working at a Blimpie sub restaurant at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story.
In interviews before her body was discovered, Billie’s parents said she loved cooking and dreamed of opening a bakery or becoming an executive chef. Meltony Billie said his daughter made him crepes for Father’s Day and described her as “a comical young lady” who also loved dogs, especially their 10-year-old Shih Tzu named Rahab.
“I thought it was more of a secure environment, so I was excited for her to work on base,” he said.
Investigators said Billie entered the base about 5 a.m. on Sept. 18 but never arrived at work. A short while later, video shows her Mini Cooper leaving the base, but it was not clear whether Billie was in it, officials said previously.
Authorities recovered her cellphone in a dumpster in the Norfolk area, and on Sept. 23 they recovered her car in Norfolk as well.
The FBI and Blimpie have combined to offer a $20,000 reward for information that helps solve this case. Anyone with information is encouraged to call Virginia Beach Police at 757-385-5000, CrimeLine at 1-888-Lock-U-Up or FBI Norfolk at 757-455-0100.
Flutes possibly contaminated with semen given to California students, schools warn
Schools Warn: Flutes Possibly Contaminated With Semen Given To California Students
Saturday, September 30th, parents were warned of the possibility of a music teacher handing out flutes – tainted with his semen – to the school children.
A state and federal investigation was under way into whether the students at schools around Southern California may have received tainted flutes.
The Los Angeles Unified School District said it was cooperating in an investigation of alleged “inappropriate sexual conduct involving a musical performer” that affected at least 13 school districts.
“One LAUSD school may have been involved”, the district said in a statement.
Several other Southern California districts notified parents by email on Friday and Saturday that a performer associated with the nonprofit group Flutes Across the World was being investigated.
“The performer distributes a flute-like musical instrument made of PVC pipe or bamboo to students during a music lesson, and the allegation is that he contaminated some of these instruments with semen,” Joan Lucid, superintendent of the Saugus Union School District, notified parents on Saturday, the Orange County Register reported.
The performer was not immediately identified.
Messages seeking comment from John Zeretzke, founder of Flutes Across the World, were not immediately returned Saturday night.
Parents in some districts were urged to put the flutes in paper bags and turn them in to authorities for testing.
KNBC-TV reported that a parent identified only as Nate went to the police station in Fountain Valley on Friday night to turn in a flute given to his child, who attends Courreges Elementary School.
“It’s disgusting, it’s unreal, you can’t even really fathom it,” another parent, who wished to not be named, told the station. “It made me sick to my stomach.”
Flutes Across the World has provided musical presentations at several local school districts. The Fullerton School District said fourth- through sixth-graders at two schools had the program in the 2016-2017 school year.
Presenters at such programs “are never alone with children” but the performer won’t return to the district out of “an abundance of caution,” the district said on its website.
The district said the music program was sponsored by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County.
The society sponsored Flutes Across the World to bring the program to six classrooms in three years, spokesman Chantel Uchida told the Register.
“We’re so shocked and disgusted,” Uchida said of the allegations. “We will be stepping back from this. There are no plans to continue it in the future.”
O.J. Simpson is released from prison early Sunday morning
Quietly, O.J. Simpson Is Released From Prison Early Sunday Morning, October 1, 2017 After Serving Nine Years For A 2007 Robbery And Kidnapping Incident In Las Vegas.
The Hall of Fame football player left Lovelock Correctional Center with an unidentified driver at 12:08 a.m., Brooke Keast, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Corrections told The Los Angeles Times, saying simply: “He is out.”
“[The release] was incident free, nobody followed, it was exactly what we’d hoped we could do for public safety,” Keast told reporters. “It was a public safety concern. To make it quiet, under the radar and incident free.”
Simpson, originally sentenced to nine-to-33 years in prison for conducting a sting to retrieve memorabilia from his sports career, was granted parole in July, with a date of “on or after Oct. 1″ set. He had reacted emotionally, mouthing a “thank you” as four members of the Nevada Board of Prisons delivered their votes for parole.
“Floridians are well aware of Mr. Simpson’s background, his wanton disregard for the lives of others, and of his scofflaw attitude with respect to the heinous acts for which he has been found civilly liable,” Pam Bondi wrote in the letter (via Associated Press). “Our state should not become a country club for this convicted criminal.”
Whatever the future holds for Simpson, it is likely to be somewhat surreal, given his past and the circumstances surrounding his parole hearing.
Offered the chance to make a statement, Simpson apologized. “I’ve come here and spent nine years making no excuses about anything. I am sorry things turned out the way they did. … I tell inmates all the time ‘Don’t complain about your grind. Do your time.’ … I believe in the jury system. I will honor the decision. … I have done my time and I’d like to get back to my friends. And believe it or not I do have some friends. I don’t think anyone could have honored this institution better. … I’m sorry it happened.”
Will Simpson live in California, where he was acquitted of double murder in the “trial” of the century in 1995, or will he go to Florida, where he was living before his arrest? And how will he be received after being the subject of a popular miniseries and documentary on his murder trial? Only time will tell.
Man shouting “Allahu Akbar” kills two at French train station
Man Shouting What Could Have Been “Allahu Akbar”, And Kills Two At French Train Station Before Being Shot Dead
Two women were stabbed to death and their assailant shot dead by soldiers in the southern French port city of Marseille on Sunday in what police sources described as a “likely terrorist act”.
Three police sources said the suspect had shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) as he carried out his attack at Marseille’s main railway station.
The two victims – one aged 17 and the other 20 – suffered gory injuries, two police sources said, saying one had her throat slit while the other was stabbed in the stomach.
“If the military had not been there, we would have had a lot more deaths,” Samia Ghali, lawmaker for the Marseille region, told France Bleu Province radio.
Some 200 police officers had cordoned off the area and all roads were closed to traffic, with security forces saying the operation was still ongoing.
The Paris prosecutor opened a counter-terrorism probe.
France has been in a state of emergency following a spate of attacks by Islamist militants over the last two years, including attacks in Paris in November 2015 which killed 130 people. Other countries, including Britain, Germany and Belgium, have also suffered attacks using knives, guns, explosives and vehicles.
A witness told Reuters she saw a man take out a knife from his sleeve and then stab a young girl and then a second woman, shouting what could have been “Allahu Akbar”.
She added that she saw soldiers from France’s Sentinelle force who were patrolling in the area arrive on the public square at the Gare Saint-Charles station.