Putting a face on the statistics (part III)

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Okay, all the hatin' over the BET Awards show is really getting silly. Don't like BET? Then work on changing the culture FIRST. If you can change the culture, you will decrease demand for what you feel misrepresents Black folks. Do it the other way around, and more "BETs" will pop up. Need an example? Some of y'all may remember back in the day when local churches would stage protests in front of local porn shops. Did they manage to get a few of them shut down? Sure did. But how did the porn industry respond to meet demand? They moved ...

Flake fest

I think many of us knew that it would not take long for folks to suddenly act as if they have been ardent Michael Jackson supporters for years. Jackson was hammered repeatedly by critics for allegedly being ashamed of being Black due to all the plastic surgery and the mysterious lightening of his skin. Black folks slammed him on this and White folks were given full and complete license to also question his racial identity and joke about it. Then I remember what Jamie Foxx said the other day at the BET Awards show: "Michael Jackson was a black ...

Rushmore Drive bites the dust

I think a lot of us saw that coming from a mile away. From AdAge.com RushmoreDrive.com, the first black search engine, recently shut down only a year after its launch. This raised the question about whether there is a market for a black version of Google. Rushmore Drive was the brainchild of Barry Diller's IAC, which just reported a "first-quarter net loss of $28.4 million compared to a profit of $52.8 million in the same quarter a year ago." Too bad. Rushmore's failure is not only another negative statistic from the fallout of the economic downturn, but also from questionable planning. (more...) Kevin Walker, ...

“perv dad for fun”

From townhall.com "Frank Lombard is the associate director of Dukeâ€™s Center for Health Policy. The university administrator was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. I tried to contact Frank Lombard over the weekend to probe his expertise regarding the health benefits of raping small children. So far, heâ€™s declined to comment. University administrator Lombard is accused of logging on to a chat room online and describing himself as a â€œperv dad for fun.â€ The detective who wisely looked into the suspicious screen name says that Lombard admitted to molesting his own adopted ...

Defining “meddling”

Ever since the uprising in Iran over their recent elections, Americans have been somewhat mixed over if President Obama should move beyond his rather light and empty rhetoric over the situation. Some have insisted that the cry for democracy in Iran is none of our business and that the US should stop "meddling" in the affairs of another country, like Bush did. Apparently Somalia wasn't included in that memo. U.S. Has Sent 40 Tons of Munitions to Aid Somali Government washingtonpost.com The U.S. government has provided about 40 tons of weapons and ammunition to shore up the besieged government of Somalia in the past ...

(latimes.com) Jeremy Howard, 20, a black man, was shot in the back in the 6600 block of Myrrh Street in Paramount, and died at 9:18 p.m. May 26.

He had attended a prom or pre-graduation party thrown by two sisters in the 6600 block of Myrrh Street in Paramount Saturday evening at about 8 p.m. Howard had quarreled with some people at the party, and opted to walk away. He was leaving when the suspects, described as 18- to 20-year-old black young men, got in their car, drove by him as he moved toward his car, firing multiple shots after him. He was struck and killed. The assailants fled in what may have been an older-style Honda. Anyone with any tips or information is asked to call investigators at (323)890-5500.

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Posted by Duane On June - 1 - 2007

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It begins here

Flake fest

Rushmore Drive bites the dust

“perv dad for fun”

Defining “meddling”

Putting a face on the statistics (part III)

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