University President Hosts ‘Black Meals’ W/ Cotton Stalk Centerpieces
I just don’t understand how this old white man couldn’t understand how this cotton stalk centerpiece was offensive to black people. SMDH This old white man is playing stupid. The fact the black guests stayed to eat makes me go Hmmmmm? If it was me I’d taken pics and video and left.
According to The Tennessean, the display put on by Lipscomb University President Randy Lowry has been slammed as offensive by students. To make matters even worse, in my opinion, this dinner was all about meeting and greeting students to chat more about their experiences at the majority-white school
Some of those students who attended, of course, were not impressed by the display. One student posted a picture to Instagram showing the centerpieces, adding in her caption that
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READ MORE: http://www.theroot.com/tenn-university-president-hosted-dinner-for-african-am-1818504176
Colin Kaepernick’s NFL Jersey Is Still Doing Well Even Though He Doesn’t Have An NFL Home
Colin Kaepernick still doesn’t have an NFL home, but that hasn’t ended his popularity as a former San Francisco 49ers quarterback. For a few months this year, he was leading the 49ers in jersey sales.
According to ESPN’s Darren Rovell, the free agent quarterback—a status that means he’s still available if the New York Jets or the Cleveland Browns admit that they need an upgrade at that position—led the 49ers in merchandise sales from March through May. I guess it doesn’t matter that Kaepernick is no longer with the team; his impact was felt over the five seasons he starred at quarterback.
Inmates broke out of jail to burglarize a Dollar General, then snuck back in to sell what they stole
A group of Mississippi inmates busted out of jail this week, burglarized a bargain store — and then broke back in and returned to their cells, according to a report.
The jailbirds, identified as Levontaye Ellington, Travis Baker, Maurice Robertson and Jacquiez Williams broke out of the Holmes-Humphreys County Correctional Facility in Lexington Tuesdayby hopping a fence, Mississippi News Now reported.
Once in the clear, the men walked less than a mile to a Dollar General chain store after closing and swiped anything they could grab.
“They stole cigarettes, cigarette lighters, phones and just items they felt they could sell in jail,” Lexington Police Chief Robert Kirklin said according to the report.
But rather than extend their newfound freedom, the foursome inexplicably snuck back into the jail, undetected, baffling police.
“You’re already in jail, but you want to break out and break back in?” the chief said. “That is just something. I heard it all.”
The inmates denied their involvement in the scheme, even though they were caught on store surveillance footage, according to the report.
“Just looking at the type of clothing they had on and just one of the bags they had put some of the merchandise in,” police were able to pin the inmates to the crime, Kirklin said.
The inmates were charged with commercial burglary.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/09/21/inmates-sneak-back-into-jail-after-breaking-out/
Ohio ‘Food Stamp Millionaire’ Found Guilty of Welfare Fraud
Interesting other white folks are making him an immigrant. IDGAF if he’s an immigrant or not he benefited off of looking like a white man with generational wealth. And SOME white folks say black folks and immigrants live off welfare and want hand outs. GTOH
white and wealthy Ohio man was found guilty of accepting more than $8,300 in food stamps and other welfare benefits, including Medicaid, over a two-year period for his suburban family.The question now is, will he actually spend time in jail, or will being rich and white win out yet again?
According to WKYC, Pascal Mahvi, who has been dubbed the “Food Stamp Millionaire,” was convicted Friday of two fraud-related charges stemming from his acceptance and use of all the welfare benefits that are usually meant to be provided to those in need.
His sentencing is expected to come within the next four to six weeks, and prosecutors are supposedly seeking jail….
READ MORE: http://www.theroot.com/ohio-food-stamp-millionaire-found-guilty-of-welfare-fra-1818585948
Darth Chad Shows Everyone Why He Was Fired From Goggle
SMDH The ignorance is REAL in this one.
In response to Trump’s anti-NFL rant, players’ union boss and Goodell trade statements; McCoy calls prez an ‘a–hole’
Hmmmmmm…..
Racism and bigotry does not make good business. Trust me their change of heart is not because of Kaep. These comments Trump made could hurt their money and viewership.
NFL and players’ union may have finally found some common ground. Donald Trump.
Both organizations released statements Saturday morning after Trump took aim at the league in an anti-NFL rant as part of a rambling speech during a campaign-style rally in Alabama Friday night.
“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, say, ‘Get that son of a b—- off the field right now,” Trump said. “Out, you’re fired!’”
“Total disrespect of our heritage, a total disrespect of everything that we stand for,” the commander-in-chief added about the peaceful protest movement started last season by Colin Kaepernick….
From NFL to Film and Art, Bernie Casey Was more than Blaxploitation
Original article Thursday September 14th 2017
With his commanding stature and distinct voice, any time Bernie Casey appeared in a movie scene, he left others in his shadow. From blaxploitation films like Cleopatra Jones to even comedies like Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures, Casey’s acting career ran the gamut. After a career that spanned more than 40 years, Casey, who was born in West Virginia and raised in Columbus, Ohio, died from an undisclosed illness Wednesday in Los Angeles at the age of 78.
Before even stepping foot in Hollywood, Casey was an accomplished athlete, going from playing for Bowling Green University to playing in the NFL for eight seasons. Casey’s athletic prowess would also eventually prove to be an asset on-screen.
READ MORE: https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/from-the-nfl-to-film-and-art-bernie-casey-was-more-tha-1818613711
Sicko convicted of raping, murdering young nursing student and bragging about it
SAVANNAH, Tenn. — A Tennessee man was convicted Friday of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 20-year-old nursing student who disappeared from her home six years ago.
Zachary Adams was found guilty after an 11-day trial in Savannah, Tennessee. He had pleaded not guilty to the charges. Holly Bobo was 20 when she was reported missing from her home in rural Parsons on April 13, 2011.
Bobo’s disappearance led to a massive search and her case received national attention. Her remains were found in September 2014 in woods not far from her home in Decatur County, about 100 miles southwest of Nashville.
After the jury was let out of the courtroom, Bobo’s mother Karen hugged prosecutor Jennifer Nichols and Bobo’s father Dana hugged Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn.
A sentencing hearing involving the same jury that decided the verdict will begin Saturday. The murder charge can carry the death penalty.
Rickey Alexander, a Bobo family friend, said the verdict was “6 1/2 years in the making.” Alexander noted that Bobo used to sing at church. “She finally has the peace in the valley that she sang about.”
Thompson, the defense attorney, said she was extremely disappointed in the verdict, and she said Adams was very upset. “He was really shaking his head. He was white as a ghost.”
Judge C. Creed McGinley moved the trial from Decatur County to neighboring Hardin County in search of an unbiased jury. The jury deliberated 3½ hours Thursday and about seven hours Friday before reaching a verdict.
“I’m not sure you can get an unbiased jury” in a case that has received so much attention in the area, Thompson said.
Prosecutor Paul Hagerman declined comment.
Two other men, Jason Autry and Adams’ brother John Dylan Adams, also face charges of kidnapping, raping and killing Bobo.
Autry testified against Adams, telling jurors that Adams told him that he, his brother and their friend Shayne Austin had raped Bobo. Autry also said that he served as a lookout as Adams shot Bobo near a river in the day she was reported missing.
Autry was on a list of witnesses who were offered immunity in the case. He said he testified because he wanted leniency.
Autry’s lawyer has told the judge that a trial does not need to be set for Autry, indicating he has reached a deal with prosecutors. A trial date has not been set for John Dylan Adams.
The TBI has said that the Bobo investigation is the most exhaustive and expensive in the agency’s history.
But investigators found no DNA evidence connecting Bobo to any of the men. Instead, they relied on Autry’s story and other testimony from friends and jail inmates who said Adams spoke of harming Bobo.
Thompson had accused Autry of selling his “tall tale” to prosecutors in return for the death penalty.
“A lot of people believed that if you say something, it must be true,” Thompson said.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/09/22/sicko-convicted-of-raping-murdering-young-nursing-student/
Trio charged in killing of teen found sexually mutilated, burned
Three people have been charged in the murder of a Missouri teen whose body was found burned and sexually mutilated.
Police charged a man and two women Thursday in the killing of 17-year-old Joseph Steinfeld, the Houston Herald reported. The suspects were identified as Andrew Vrba, 18; Isis Schauer, 18; and Briana Calderas, 24.
All three were charged with first-degree murder and abandonment of a corpse. Vrba and his girlfriend, Isis Schauer, were also slapped with armed criminal action charges.
The break in the case came when police discovered the female suspects had messaged each other on Facebook about the murder.
Vrba confessed to officers that he stabbed the teen to death and burned his body with the help of the women.
The female suspects told police that Vrba had bragged about sexually mutilating the teen and gouging his eyes out, according to the Houston Herald.
“It is a grisly terrible series of heinous acts by the accused,” Texas County Prosecutor Parke Stevens Jr. told the Houston Herald.
All three suspects are being held without bail.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/09/22/trio-charged-in-killing-of-teen-found-sexually-mutilated-burned/
Homeless Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Using Butcher Knife to Kill South L.A. Woman Who Took Him in
A homeless man who used a butcher knife to fatally stab a woman who had taken him into her South Los Angeles home was sentenced to life in prison, officials announced Friday.
Laevin Weatherspoon, 31, was convicted of first degree last month in connection with the December 2013 slaying of Wanda Threadgill, a 45-year-old grandmother of four.
The victim’s decomposing body was found wrapped in a blanket after her daughter broke into her home on Dec. 17, 2013. Threadgill’s family had not heard from her for about two weeks after her Dec. 4 birthday, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors believe that Threadgill was stabbed to death on or around Dec. 5, 2013.
Weatherspoon stabbed Threadgill 27 times before fleeing to Chicago, according to the evidence presented at trial.
The victim apparently had allowed Weatherspoon to live in her home. He admitted to stabbing Threadgill on the stand, but the motive behind the crime was not made clear Friday.