R & B Diva Angie Stone is known for hitting some impressive notes with her soulful voice but according to Dekalb County Public Information she was recently arrested for hitting something else, her daughter.
Stone was arrested for aggravated assault for an altercation with her 30 year old daughter.
Long story short, Angie was fussing at her grown daughter who then got up in her face and laid hands resulting in Angie knocking her two front teeth out when she hit her with a metal stand after said daughter got physical with Momma.
Now what has not been revealed is that in that instant of hitting your mother the grown "A" daughter triggered a bad result of Stone's BMR (Black Momma Rage.)
If you have ever been present or on the receiving end of BMR then you know how intense such an episode can be. I remember rolling my eyes when my Mom was talking to me and the next thing I remember was the paramedics standing over me asking how many fingers were they holding up.
The paramedic said I was lucky to be alive and gave me a pamphlet on how to avoid episodes that would trigger my mom's BMR.
Just when you thought it was safe to use your double coupons on grocery day you get side swiped by Grandpa Walton.
A 92 year old man Russell Kerr was trying to get his minivan out of a Wisconsin Piggly Wiggly parking lot when his foot got stuck on the accelerator.
Bless his heart, Mr. Kerr panicked and went on a hit and run adventure in the parking lot resulting in 10 cars being smacked in less than one minute. Guess who's insurance premiums are going up next month?
“I can tell you in 23 years of law enforcement, I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Mayville Police Chief Christopher MacNeill.
Luckily no one was hurt but I bet folks are wishing they may have shopped at Food Lion that day.
We have a new victim of the “pray the gay away” propaganda machine. Some poor fool’s video has gone viral after declaring he has been cured in a come to Jesus, summer revival, Pentecostal display of and I use the term lightly “rediscovered heterosexuality” (Insert side eye).
Old boy is heard yelling, ““I’m not gay anymore. I’m delivered,” he said. “I don’t like mens anymore. I said I like women. Women, women, women….”
Boy please! Maybe if you keep chanting that you might still believe it but I am not convinced. Maybe it is the over the top antics…maybe it’s the fact that you found a paisley Liberace jacket in 2014 or maybe it was your next statement:
“I would not date a man,” the man continues. “I would not carry a purse. I would not put on makeup. I will love a woman.”
And if you were doing all that you were not just gay you were a drag queen.
I am so over folks thinking you should pray the gay away. You are gay you do not have cancer get over it and embrace who you are and walk in your own truth.
Apparently surveillance cameras captured McNair approaching his teacher from behind and putting his arms around her. The teacher filed a complaint that he allegedly pressed his cheeks and lips on her neck.
Was he hugging her or grinding?
Remember the good old days when you could interact with your teacher with out an attorney or hazmat suit?
McNair says that he frequently hugs his teachers so it seems he is just a big old love monster.
The teacher claims that she told McNair that hugs are inappropriate but McNair denies ever being told such a thing.
Have you been to some high schools lately? I have spoken at a few schools in my day and I am just glad I did not get shanked...lol. So it is kind of nice that we have a student who wants to express some appreciation with a hug.
The sad thing is here we have a young African-American male who is being suspended because he hugged a teacher. This is another case of African-American men having to understand their filters and how the world sees them and responds. As a man you cannot just invade a woman's space uninvited but that becomes even more complicated when you add race into the equation.
I am a product of a Historically Black College experience where we frequently hugged folks.
I have also been an educator for 20 years and was known for hugging my students, mainly because I am Southern but also this is a practice of folks who grew up in the church and part of African-American culture. But I had to learn to monitor who and where I hugged as some folks as different cultures are not as receptive to such intimate contact.
I think this young man just used poor judgment in approaching a teacher from behind and obviously did not read her correctly as she does not seem like the hugging type.
Maybe teachers should wear coded bracelets to identify who can be hugged and who should be approached with caution.
Campus Elementary School in Grand Rapids, MI is short one cafeteria worker because she was fired for apparently putting a hit out on a 4th grader.
Supposedly the 9 year old 4th grade boy mouthed off and said something to the cafeteria lady she did not like. It pissed her off so much that she decided to hire two other 4th graders to beat the kid up. The price for the hit was $1. Who knew you could put out a hit so cheap?
Now I remember some scary cafeteria workers back when I was in school but none of them were as gangster as this woman.
There was a lady that worked the cafeteria when I taught at Clark Atlanta University. She never spoke but if you tried to put more than three veggies on your plate she would yell "One Meat Two Vegetables" like some sort of cafteria version of Rain man...lol
Now I don't know what this kid said to piss this cafeteria lady off so bad. Maybe he wanted extra tatter tots, maybe he was a vegetarian in the pork line or maybe he questioned the mystery meat under the brown sauce but whatever he did he put a price on his head for saying it.
Kids have to watch out for bullies at school now they have to keep an eye on the ganster cafeteria staff too....smh.
Rapper, mogul and entrepreneur Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent will mentor a transgender teen in an upcoming six part reality show series called "Dream School" which will appear on the Sundance Channel. WTH?
The show will highlight a program where youth who have dropped out can find a place to turn their lives around.
Now 50 Cent has come under fire for being historically homophobic which he denies.
There was some beef back in the day with Kanye where he all but called Kanye out as being gay.
50 Cent had a song 'Heartless Monster' that had some pretty homophobic lyrics:
"Niggas from the hood ain't supposed to wear no retro shit/I'm-a
tell my lil' niggas to start kickin' ya fuckin' ass/See ya out there wit that
funny shit on/Look him he's a faggot/Kick him/ Kick his fuckin' ass".
Not only does that sound homophobic but it also promotes violence against LGBT folks.
50 Cent also caught heat about three years ago when he tweeted three years ago, a hateful statement about the tragic suicide of gay teen Tyler Clementi, who jumped to his death from a bridge after he was outed, stating:
If you a man and your over 25 and you don’t eat pussy just kill your self damn it. The world will be a better place. Lol.
50 Cent has also admitted publicly that his mother before she died had same sex relationships so maybe he is a bit homophobic because he may thinks it is hitting to close to home.
"Niggas
from the hood ain't supposed to wear no retro shit/I'm-a tell my lil'
niggas to start kickin' ya fuckin' ass/See ya out there wit that funny
shit on/Look him he's a faggot/Kick him/ Kick his fuckin' ass". Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/kanye-west/42341#Py4OG2QC1kQR5olT.99
"Niggas
from the hood ain't supposed to wear no retro shit/I'm-a tell my lil'
niggas to start kickin' ya fuckin' ass/See ya out there wit that funny
shit on/Look him he's a faggot/Kick him/ Kick his fuckin' ass". Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/kanye-west/42341#Py4OG2QC1kQR5olT.99
"Niggas
from the hood ain't supposed to wear no retro shit/I'm-a tell my lil'
niggas to start kickin' ya fuckin' ass/See ya out there wit that funny
shit on/Look him he's a faggot/Kick him/ Kick his fuckin' ass". Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/kanye-west/42341#Py4OG2QC1kQR5olT.99
"Niggas
from the hood ain't supposed to wear no retro shit/I'm-a tell my lil'
niggas to start kickin' ya fuckin' ass/See ya out there wit that funny
shit on/Look him he's a faggot/Kick him/ Kick his fuckin' ass". Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/kanye-west/42341#Py4OG2QC1kQR5olT.99
I have seen 50 Cent on Oprah recently and I was very impressed with how spiritual this dude has become as he has matured and evolved. He seems to be trying to distance himself somewhat from the gangster, thug personna that made him rap royalty.
50 Cent denies being homophobic and explains his position: “I don’t have homophobia. I never did,” Jackson told The Wrap. “When you
actually make music that mirrors the environment, you use the
terminology,” he said. “You use the language. Like if you were making a
painting, and you were painting the American flag, if I told you to do
that, and not use red, not use the harsh terms or the tougher messages,
you would never successfully paint the flag.”
I have always said that as an artist and celebrity you have automony to express yourself any way you want but because you have such a high profile, you cannot cry foul when folks hold you accountable to what you say and do.
It's that same old crap about athletes and rappers claiming I am not a role model but you sale your brand and collateral marketing based on your profile. You cannot sale $200.00 sneakers and then say young folks should not pay attention to what you do and say.
I am not sure where 50 Cent's mind is these days but I need him to pick a character. Mentor to LGBT youth or ganster mysogynistic, homophobic rapper.
It will be interesting to see how 50 Cent mentors and interacts with the transgendered youth, Alan.
Just in time for the absolute cooption of culture where you see pop princess celebrity Miley Cyrus make twerking a mainstream phenomenon, well one small town has had enough.
Yes if you get the urge to twerk you could be facing 30 days in jail.
I wonder if there is a lesser sentence for crumping?
I mean is twerking that rampant in this small town? Are folks twerking at the bus stops, farmers market, on the sidewalks and at the express lines at the local Piggly Wiggly?
Maynard Wilkens, the Mayor of DeQuincy, spoke to CNN about the ban that will go into effect on September 19 and issues a statement:
“Twerking is a defiant act against Jesus and his teachings. The rest of the country can keep their heads in the sand about this s****l act before marriage, but not the great city of DeQuincy,” Wilkens said. “We will still allow dancing in DeQuincy, just no jigglin’, shakin’ and ‘dry humping’ anywhere in our city limits.”
Wow I know I did not do very well in Bible school but I think I cannot recall the passage that specifically addresses Jesus's dissatisfaction with twerking.
I also have heard of dry counties but now we have a no "dry humping" county!
I guess this means DeQuincy will be out of the running for the twerking grandmother's convention scheduled later this year....LOL.
Well it looks like the hush money Bishop Eddie Long paid to his accusers was not enough to buy their silence. One of his accusers Centino Kemp has decided to release a tell all book documenting his relationship with the power house minister Long.
Kemp shares that he met Bishop Long when he was 16 and had just moved to the states from Barbados. He also shares that he was so close to the Long that he had his name tattoed on his wrist.
The book is entitled "First Lady." Well alright Ms. Lady someone is thinking very high of themselves...lol.
Seriously so much energy has been given to demonizing these young men especially by their so called church family.
I have been very out spoken about the fact that this entire scandal was less about Long's sexuality but more about his absolute abuse of power as a mentor and spiritual leader.
I just hope that Kemp telling his side of the story will help him in the healing process.
Senate Democats wanted to move the gay-marriage bill as a standalone during the first session but faced some procedural challenges that slowed their efforts. According to the Windy City Times they will use a new tactic by attaching the legislation to a bill dealing with car rentals that will be up for vote.
Their efforts even got some help from President Obama who signaled his support over the holidays. "Were the President still in the Illinois State Legislature, he would
support this measure that would treat all Illinois couples equally," a
spokesman told the Chicago Sun-Timeslast week.
This is good news but if we really want to see some change take place we need for at least one southern state to get with the program. North Carolina is in the Bible belt so I'm not sure we will see folks have a change of heart and all of a sudden become progressive in their thinking. Many members of the religious community have been very much against gay marriage.
Anway we celebrate the victory for our gay brothers and sisters in the LGBT communities who live in more open minded areas of the country.
Shortly after much of the nation began to come to grips with the unthinkable shooting and tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conneticut the gunman was identifed as Ryan Lanza, shown below as police escorted him for questioning.
But after further investigation Ryan Lanza of Hoboken, NJ was at work in New York City almost 60 miles away when the shooting took place.
Adam Lanza, shown to the left, started that morning by killing his mother Nancy, drove her car to Sandy Hooks Elementary where he was armed with two handguns and a
semi-automatic rifle. Adam then shot and killed 20 innocent children and finally turned his gun on himself.
Ryan Lanza was very freaked out when he saw his name in the news and what people begin to put on his Facebook page so he turned to social media in an attempt to tell the truth, "IT WASN'T ME I WAS AT WORK IT WASN'T ME," said one message. Then, two
minutes later: "I'm on the bus home now it wasn't me." Finally, three
minutes after that, he posted an obscenity and repeated, "it wasn't me."
The shooting at this elementary school in this sleepy rural small town
is beleived to be the worst mass killing at an elementary school in our
nations history.
This tragedy brings up two major issues we need to address in our country and that is mental health and gun control. I am from Texas which is a gun loving state but it is amazing that you have to take a test to get a drivers license but in many states purchasing a gun is a pretty simple process.
I am not talking about taking away your right to own a gun but there should be some screening process to see if you are in your right mind and not crazy before we just hand over lethal weapons.
And surely there must have been signs that this young man was deeply disturbed. People just don't wake up one morning and think I am going to commit mass murder, there has to be a process that leads up to such acts. We may never know.
We will continue to pray for the families of everyone involved in this senseless and unthinkable act of violence.
