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Sunday, June 30, 2019

The Roxbury(Boston) Murders: 40 Years Later: The Estuary Project

11 black women were murdered in Boston 40 years ago. A local artist is remembering them across the city.


These are six of eleven women who were slain in Boston.
They are young and beautiful Black women with futures ahead of them.


The following has been written by a good reporter by the name of Dialynn Dwywer of Boston.com in commemoration of the 40th year anniversary of the Boston Murders.  The unsolved serial murders of Black women have galvanized the Black community and the emergent Black feminist coalition, The Combahee River Collective and many known Black feminists around the country.  They were demanding accountability from the city, the police, and the citizens of Boston regarding the deaths of so many Black women in that city.  They discuss the misogynistic culture as well as the racism Boston is notorious for back in the 70s.

Here's the story of Kindra Hicks who is trying to commemorate the victims by erecting a collage of balloons at various locations where the women were murdered.  

Please read the story below:
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This is one of several balloon installments throughout Boston in commemoration of the women murdered in 1979

The artist behind the memorial project, Kindra Hicks


Forty years ago, the body of 29-year-old Daryal Ann Hargett was found by her landlord in her South End apartment.
The social worker, who was described as quiet and serious by those who knew her, had been stabbed to death. She was the fifth black woman to be murdered in Boston that year, and she wouldn’t be the last.
By the end of May 1979, the number of women murdered in Boston would rise to 12. All but one were black.
The bodies of the 11 black women — all between the ages of 15 and 34 — were found in Roxbury, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, the South End, and Back Bay. 
Kendra Hicks, a local artist and community organizer, will remember Hargett’s death on Thursday with a 24-hour art installation near where the 29-year-old’s body was found. Since January, Hicks has been putting up temporary artwork for each of the women who died in the rash of violence 40 years ago.
“One of the things I wanted to pose really was, ‘Who gets memorialized in the city and who’s allowed to be memorialized? Who has monuments erected in their name?’” Hicks told Boston.com.
A Boston native who grew up in Egleston Square, Hicks said she started doing community organizing work in her teens. Through her activism, she began studying black feminists and black feminism, which led her to discover the Combahee River Collective.
“The Combahee River Collective is a black, queer socialist collective that was here in Roxbury from 1974 to 1979, and they were one of the groups of women who basically responded to these murders when they were happening,” Hicks said. “They were creating literature for the women in the neighborhood when these murders were happening.”
It was about a year and a half ago that Hicks said she learned of the string of murders that rocked the black community at the time and decided to create artwork that would commemorate the 40th anniversary of the women’s deaths. With the help of a Kickstarter campaign and a crew of volunteers, she has been designing the installations for the 10-part memorial she calls “The Estuary Projects.”
“This is a guerrilla art project, so we don’t have any permits for them, so we’ve been putting them up and then going in and also taking them down,” Hicks said.
Putting up the artwork without permission is part of her message, she said.
“Taking space out in the city, on purpose in the public and without permission is very intentional as part of the project,” Hicks said. “Because I really do want to say that these black women do deserve to be memorialized.”
The installations go up early on the anniversary of each woman’s death near where they were found and come down 24 hours later.
“The other reason why I wanted to do installations is because the installations are really invitations for people in the community to remember our collective history but also what we survived in our community,” Hicks said. “So I knew that an installation right smack in the middle of where people are walking and spending their regular lives was going to be the way that I was going to be able to invoke that in people. To kind of spark that attention of, ‘Oh, what’s this thing that’s in the middle of my neighborhood and what does it mean?’ I wanted them to be very prominent and I wanted it to be visible and I wanted it to be public and I wanted it to be in the midst of people’s everyday doings.”
Hicks said the project has become very personal for her. She started it off by communicating the names of the 11 victims in the Bay State Banner, hoping she would be able to reach family members and friends of the women.
Then she spent hours reading about the women in newspaper archives — learning how the young women lived and the details of their violent deaths.
“It becomes overwhelming for me because you get to know all these women, and I’m creating an installation for each of these women,” she said. “But you also have to familiarize yourself with how they were taken.”
That impact is why Hicks said each of the installations features an alter and starts with a 9 a.m. ceremony where attendees light candles, say prayers, and sing songs for the victim.
The moment of remembrance is a reflection of her own process through the project, she said.
“There is a political statement that I’m making with these installations,” she said. “But it’s not lost on me that these are people and that these are women whose lives were lost. So the ritual and the ceremony is a way to honor them and to honor them as people who are our ancestors and as people who were taken in these moments.”
As she was developing the project, Hicks heard from the families of two of the women, and then a family friend showed up at one of the installations and was able to connect her to a third family.
“People are stumbling on the installations and being like, ‘Oh I knew this woman or I was around during this time,’” Hicks said. “And they start telling stories and kind of remembering.”
The installations, which run through May, are just the first part of the project.
For part two, Hicks wants to bring people together who were moved by the installations and work together to develop “alternative systems” for the neighborhoods.
“The story of the project for me is that the end of the world has come for black and brown people multiple times again,” Hicks said. “We’ve experienced things that could be considered apocalyptic. Similar to the time that we are in now. We’re having a lot of conversations about what’s happening in the world — climate change, politics, family separation, state violence — and it feels like a lot. Everybody’s kind of like, ‘Oh my God, what’s going on, the world is crumbling around us.’ So the installations are a reminder — no actually we’ve been here before. We’ve survived these kinds of things, and we’ve done it by being creative, by coming together, and by creating new things. So for me, I really want us to see this ending, this ending of the world, as an opportunity for us to build the new world.”
That’s why she chose to call the works and process “The Estuary Projects” — it’s meant to symbolize an ending and beginning at the same time.
“The other thing with an estuary is an estuary has its own ecosystem,” Hicks  said. “And so actually at the moment where an ending and beginning meet, where the river and ocean meet, there’s something brand new that’s created there. There’s like a brand new ecosystem. So I’m trying to signal us to think of this as an estuary moment.”
Another memorial in a different location
After the installation for Hargett, works for six other women will follow through May: 17-year-old Desiree Denise Etheridge, 22-year-old Darlene Rogers, 31-year-old Lois Hood Nesbitt, 19-year-old Valyric Holland, 30-year-old Sandra Boulware, and 34-year-old Bobbie Jean Graham. Artworks remembering Christine Ricketts, 15, Andrea Foye, 17, Gwendolyn Yvette Stinson, 15, and Caren Prater, 25, have already gone up and been taken down.
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While we can't bring the victims of the Boston 1979 murders back, we can memorialize their lives and help their surviving family members and their loved ones to survive as well as to help young Black women, men, and their children to avoid pitfalls and to beat the odds stacked against them in this increasingly racist, polarizing society. We can do this by mentoring, nurturing potential talent of our young Black girls and boys, etc.
Here's a pamphlet we need to read:
Also, visit Kendra Hicks' website:
The victims:
  • Christine (Chris) Ricketts, 15
  • Andrea Foye, 17 
  • Gwendolyn Yvette Stinson,15
  • Caren Prater, 25
  • Daryal Ann Hargett, 29
  • Desiree Denise Etheridge, 17
  • Darlene Rogers, 22
  • Lois Hood Nesbitt, 31
  • Valyric Holland, 19
  • Sandra Boulware, 30
  • Bobbie Jean Graham, 34

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Anita Baker: Silence Is Golden!

The Songstress is retiring from the music biz.

She brought me joy.

The Detroit born singer said on social media, it's a wrap.

Anita Baker, the famed R&B, jazz singer announced on Twitter that she is retiring from the music business. Her label Blue Note was completely unaware that she was not giving them the best she got.

It all went down last week when she posted a cryptic message to her fans.












She will celebrate her birthday this month.

I remember that she had an album that was supposed to be released some years back, but it was scrapped.

She is a four time platinum selling artist. She won eight Grammy's for her albums.

I wonder if the fuhrer Donald J. Trump's victory caused her to retire. Obviously, many entertainers are not keen on the pussy grabber winning the election.

Anita Baker, you're our angel. We hope the best for you. And retirement isn't going away! It's kind of taking a break from the hustle and bustle of the music industry.

Late Thread dedicated to Anita Baker.

Friday, January 13, 2017

Lady Liberty Gonna Be Black!

First time ever, a Black women will appear on a coin.

The U.S. Mint rolls out a new coin. The new $1.00 coin for the first time will feature a Black woman.

The mint will celebrate 225 years by minting this county with Lady Liberty depicted as a Black woman. The 24k gold coin will be the first of a series of coins that will also carry depictions of Asian-American, Hispanic-American, and Indian-American women, says the U.S. Mint.

The last gold coin was Sacagawea, the Native American woman who helped Meriwether Lewis and William Clark through the rugged United States. The last dollar coin was Susan B. Anthony, an American activist who fought for voting rights for women.

Then of course, our past presidents were on the dollar coins as well. The current living presidents and soon to be fuhrer won't be added on coins until death.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Bobby Brown Nails Nick Gordon To The Ground For Bobbi Kristina's Death!

Bobby Brown got redemption for his daughter Bobbi Kristina.
Bobby Brown won a major court case this week. He successfully sued Nick Gordon for the death of his daughter Bobbi Christina Brown.

Nick Gordon was ordered to pay $36 million for negligent demeanor in the death of his daughter.

Gordon denies any fault to her death and will appeal the decision.

The reality television star was found unconscious inside her Atlanta home.

They had to rush her to the hospital where she was placed on life support. After a few months on life support, they had to take her off after finding out she was brain dead. Her death became major news last year. Her death was eerily similar to her mother's tragic death in 2012.
Nick Gordon has to fork over his life to pay for Bobbi Kristina's.
Whitney Houston was found unconscious n a Beverly Hills hotel. They tried to revive her to no success. The news of her death was announced during a taping of the Grammys. It was so tragic because Bobbi Christina was very close to her mom. Bobbi Kristina went over the edge and Nick Gordon helped out.

Bobbi Kristina Brown was the only daughter of Whitney and Bobby.

Bobby Brown has at least eight children.

Bobby Brown confirms that his group New Edition is working on a movie about their rise to fame.

Bobby Brown grew up in the Boston area of Roxbury and lived in Dorchester before he joined the group. He currently lives in Atlanta.

Friday, November 18, 2016

Sharon Jones Passed Away!



In the late thread, we'll pay tribute to soul singer Sharon Jones. We just learned she died of pancreatic cancer. Jones was the leader of the soul group The Dap Kings.

The band announced the tragic news tonight.
Sharon Jones passed away. She was the lead singer of The Dap-Kings.
Jones was born in North Augusta, South Carolina and was the youngest of six children. Her parent gave her motivation. As she was a regular at the church, Sharon would enter talent shows and try out for bands as a background vocalist. While she was dreaming of being a singer, she spent days watching the interns at Rikers Island and being an armored car guard for money loads.

Sharon would get her break in the 1990s. In 1996, she would got a chance to break into the music scene with her 2002 debut Dap Dipping with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.

She was nominated for a Grammy in 2014. Sharon and her group's last album Give the People What They Want was a critically acclaimed album.

Friday, November 11, 2016

Late Thread: Bob Marley!



Listen to the words of a legend named Bob Marley. He spoke the music of the anti-establishment and the hate of the Western world.

No Woman No Cry - a ode to the strength of women.

Here's a song that soothes my mind.


Thursday, October 20, 2016

Flight Attendants Told Black Doctor To Not Aid Sick Passenger!

Dr, Tanuka Cross was told to sit down after she tried to assist an ailing airline passenger. She posted on Facebook about the experience and it went viral. 

A woman who flew on Delta Airlines is none too happy about her experience.

Dr. Tamika Cross was shoved aside by Delta's flight crew after a passenger was having a medical issue.

On a trip from Detroit to Chicago, Cross had told the crew that she's a doctor, but the flight crew ignored her. They believed that she wasn't legitimate.

They told her to sit down or be restrained.

So she hits social media to let the world know how Delta employees react to professionals.

I'm sure many of my fellow young, corporate America working women of color can all understand my frustration when I say I'm sick of being disrespected.

Was on Delta flight DL945 and someone 2 rows in front of me was screaming for help. Her husband was unresponsive. I naturally jumped into Doctor mode as no one else was getting up. Unbuckle my seatbelt and throw my tray table up and as I'm about to stand up, flight attendant says "everyone stay calm, it's just a night terror, he is alright". I continue to watch the scene closely.

A couple mins later he is unresponsive again and the flight attendant yells "call overhead for a physician on board". I raised my hand to grab her attention. She said to me "oh no sweetie put ur hand down, we are looking for actual physicians or nurses or some type of medical personnel, we don't have time to talk to you" I tried to inform her that I was a physician but I was continually cut off by condescending remarks.

Then overhead they paged "any physician on board please press your button". I stare at her as I go to press my button. She said "oh wow you're an actual physician?" I reply yes. She said "let me see your credentials. What type of Doctor are you? Where do you work? Why were you in Detroit?" (Please remember this man is still in need of help and she is blocking my row from even standing up while
Bombarding me with questions).

I respond "OBGYN, work in Houston, in Detroit for a wedding, but believe it or not they DO HAVE doctors in Detroit. Now excuse me so I can help the man in need". Another "seasoned" white male approaches the row and says he is a physician as well. She says to me "thanks for your help but he can help us, and he has his credentials". (Mind you he hasn't shown anything to her. Just showed up and fit the "description of a doctor") I stay seated. Mind blown. Blood boiling. (Man is responding the his questions and is seemingly better now Thank God)

Then this heifer has the nerve to ask for my input on what to do next about 10 mins later. I tell her we need vitals and blood sugar. She comes back to report to me a BP of 80/50 (super low, to my non medical peeps) and they can't find a glucometer. We continue down that pathway of medical work up, but the point is she needed my help and I continued to help despite the choice words I had saved up for her. The patient and his wife weren't the problem, they needed help and we were mid flight.

She came and apologized to me several times and offering me skymiles. I kindly refused. This is going higher than her. I don't want skymiles in exchange for blatant discrimination. Whether this was race, age, gender discrimination, it's not right. She will not get away with this....and I will still get my skymiles....



It sparked #WhatADoctorLooksLike movement on social media. It also sparked discussion about how Black doctors are treated in the general public.

Delta was none too happy about the situation. And of course, conservatives are trying to discredit her story by trying to claim she made it up for attention.

Delta released a statement over this.

Delta continues to investigate a story surfaced by Dr. Tamika Cross in a recent post on Facebook.

We are troubled by any accusations of discrimination and take them very seriously. The experience Dr. Cross has described is not reflective of Delta’s culture or of the values our employees live out every day. We are in the process of conducting a full investigation. We’ve reached out to Dr. Cross to speak with her directly, talked with our crew members and we’re reaching out to customers who were on board to gather as much information as we can.

While there is much we can’t share because our investigation involves confidential personnel matters, we do want to share what we can.

Three medical professionals identified themselves on the flight in question. Only one was able to produce documentation of medical training and that is the doctor who was asked to assist the customer onboard. In addition, paramedics met the flight to assist the customer further.

Flight attendants are trained to collect information from medical volunteers offering to assist with an onboard medical emergency. When an individual’s medical identification isn’t available, they’re instructed to ask questions such as where medical training was received or whether an individual has a business card or other documentation and ultimately to use their best judgment.

Delta's commitment to diversity, inclusion and respect of all of our customers worldwide is rooted deeply in our company’s values and culture. As a global carrier with a diverse workforce, serving a diverse customer base, we are committed to treating all passengers with kindness and respect.

Thursday, September 01, 2016

Zendaya: Being Mary Jane!

Zendaya will play Mary Jane Watson in the Sony movie, Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Actress and singer Zendaya is best known for playing the Disney's sitcoms Shake It Up and K.C. Undercover. She is a slated to play Mary Jane Watson, in the upcoming movie Spider-Man: Homecoming. 

Marvel Entertainment and Sony Pictures will reboot the Spider-Man franchise with a movie slated for release in 2017 with British actor Tom Holland playing the role of the Spider-Man.

Also in the movie Robert Downey, Jr., who will reprise his role as Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) and Marisa Tomei who will play May Parker. Tyne Daly of Cagney and Lacey fame will have a role in the movie as well.

The actress confirms that she will be one of the love interest of Peter Parker (aka Spider-Man). At least one draft has clues that Zendaya playing the role of Mary Jane Watson. 

In the beginning, she was supposed to play Michelle, a classmate of Peter's. They changed that role and promoted Zendaya to play Mary Jane. 

Stan Lee, the legendary creator of Spider-Man and co-founder of Marvel Comics said Zendaya will do "great" in the role. 

"Homecoming" tells the story of Peter Parker as he deals with life as a crime-fighter and an ordinary high school student in Queens. 

Sony once again taking a gamble. The Interview and Ghostbusters were controversial movies were epic disasters at the box office.

The Interview was a controversial movie from Seth Rogen,James Franco and Randall Park. The country of North Korea hacked into the Sony accounts and shamed the executives. The CEO of Sony America was forced to apologize to President Barack Obama after it was revealed that she had said some racially offensive comments about him. The North Korean government warned the actors to never show their faces in the country. 

The Ghostbusters remake was released this year. The movie was sponsored by Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig. The movie reboot had females leading the role. It flopped at the box office. Hackers got into co-star Leslie Jones. It led to the actress being hit with racial attacks and nude pictures being leaked.

Zendaya is coping with her parents divorcing. Her mom Claire Stoermer and father Kazembe Coleman have filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences. 

She took to social media to confirm the news. "My parents ain't been together for a long time, y'all didn't know cause we private+still homies. #lateassnews". 

Any thoughts on Spider-Man: Homecoming having a Black "Mary Jane Watson"?

Monday, August 29, 2016

Royalty Be Thy Queen Bey!

The Queen of Pop and her daughter at the VMAs.
Guess who stole the show?

No. It wasn't Kanye West.

It was the Queen.......!

Beyonce managed to win the night at the MTV VMA's. Her performance was praised by the fans and the media critics.

She even brought the "Mothers of the Movement" to the VMAs.

Queen Bey walked the red carpet with several of the women featured in the "Lemonade" visual album -- mothers of gun violence victims among them. Midway through the show, Serena Williams introduced Beyoncé for an unexpected performance of several of her "Lemonade" hits. The album scored Beyoncé eight Moon Man trophies -- including Video of the Year for "Formation."

Of course her performance was criticized by that dirtbag Rudy Giuliani.

Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and failed presidential candidate is a resident critic of Jay-Z, and Beyonce. He believes they're pandering anti-White and anti-cop rhetoric.

Giuliani is a former drag queen and three time divorced politico/pundit.

Monday, August 15, 2016

Golden!

These young women are golden.

Although I haven't watched the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, I want to give big ups to the two young woman who became a part of American history. Two young African American women achieved a goal that others strived for.

I want to personally congratulate them on their success and their Olympic Gold.

Simone Biles












Simone Manuel




















Gabby Douglas












World News Today congratulates these young woman on the Gold Medals in the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Monday, May 23, 2016

Black Women Are Leading In Education!



I happened to pick up a story from Addicting Info. This website that I frequently go had a story that made me smile. The negative images of Black women are being spread around the internet by conservative and racial agitators.

Addicting Info got word hat the National Center for Education Statistics has a report online about the futures of Black women achieving the dream.

“From 1999–2000 to 2009–10, the percentage of degrees earned by females remained between approximately 60 and 62 percent for associate’s degrees and between 57 and 58 percent for bachelor’s degrees. In contrast, the percentages of both master’s and doctor’s degrees earned by females increased from 1999–2000 to 2009–10. Within each racial/ethnic group, women earned the majority of degrees at all levels in 2009–10. For example, among U.S. residents, Black females earned 68 percent of associate’s degrees, 66 percent of bachelor’s degrees, 71 percent of master’s degrees, and 65 percent of all doctor’s degrees awarded to Black students.”

Black women are unappreciated and underprivileged. They are often looked upon as "unwed mothers", "welfare queens", "monkeys" and "bitches".

This comes as no surprise. Usually conservatives attack Black women who are powerful.

First Lady Michelle Obama is one of the most frequent targets of ridicule of conservatives. Mrs. Obama is a highly educated Black woman.
Krystal Lake, a well educated women was reprimanded for wearing a political hat at Home Depot. She got death threats and calls for a cannon firing after she spoke her mind about Donald Trump.
In my last posting, a satirist drew an offensive caricature of Mrs. Obama looking like a man with a bulge and broad shoulders next to the bubbly smiling Melania Trump. The satirist drew Trump in a negative fashion as well. Instead of calling her a business executive, he basically labeled her a trophy wife and bimbo.

Beyonce is a passionate activist and successful pop singer. She often reacts like most Americans to issues that face Black citizens. She made a video that reacted to the rage Black America has against a system that often is against them. To conservatives, they attack her for being anti-cop, a bad role model and talentless.

And of course, Romeo Rose, the loser who wants women to love him. He would degrade Black women as primates and said their lips look like rubber bands.

The conservatives and those in the Republican Party delegitimize people they don't like. They impose the fear and distrust towards others. Black women in power such as Baltimore city prosecutor Marilyn Mosby are often ridiculed as "cop-killers" and not professionals who are entitled to charge individuals for criminal acts.

Matter of fact, a young Black woman who wore an anti-Trump hat got attacked by trolls on social media. The Home Depot worker wore a "America was never great" hat to protest Donald Trump's ignorance and the conservatives went ape shit on her. Krystal Lake of Staten Island got death threats and calls for her cannon firing after she posted it on social media.

Black women are often look passed for jobs and education. Black women make less than White men and women combined.

Again, I can't stand Republicans! I don't like the Democrats either. Conservatives are racists and they don't hide the fact they are. Liberals are racists who pretend to be your friends and pretend to acted concerned when the issue becomes a matter of media attention.

Neither party cares about the needs of women of color.

Monday, April 25, 2016

BeyHive Going After Rachel Roy For Tagging Jay!

Celebrity fashion designer accused of having an affair with Jay-Z. Rachel Roy got stung by the BeyHive.

Don't mess with the BeyHive. They will sting you....and they never forget!

Queen Bey celebrates another platinum album. The album Lemonade was declared platinum this weekend. The album is a hit. Of course, the album is filled with cryptic messages aimed at several individuals.

One person singled out is her husband, rapper/media mogul Shawn Corey Carter, known to the world as Jay-Z.

A fashion designer was singled out as the alleged mistress in Beyonce's album. The rumors are spreading and the junk food media is covering the cheating allegations by Jay-Z.

Rachel Roy is getting stung by the BeyHive after her name turned up in the little black book.

Beyonce released her new visual album on Saturday, entitled "Lemonade." In some of the lyrics, Beyonce refers to Jay Z’s mistress as "Becky with the good hair."
Bey is going to hammer the Jiggaman if cheating allegations are proven true.
Fans token Rachel Roy as "Becky".

Fans came for Rachel Roy after her Instagram post, saying she taunted Beyonce. Roy caption said, "good hair don't care, but we will take good lighting, for our selfies, or self truths, always."

Roy who was married to Jay-Z's former partner Dame Dash is under scrutiny for having multiple affairs. Roy's alleged affair with Jay-Z caused Dash and her to split up. Dash is suing for custody of his children and breach of contract in their joint business venues.

Jay-Z had alleged affairs with Mya, celebrity agitator Free and Rihanna.

His cheating affairs may have been the reason why Queen Bey's sister Solange gave the Jigga man a five finger roll.



Friday, April 15, 2016

The Daily Show Takes On Sexual Racism Though Online Dating!


Pretty honest aren't we!
The good folks over at The Daily Show took on online dating. The websites OKCupid, POF.com, Badoo, Tinder, and MeetMe are popular websites for singles.

I've told you before that I've dated women who have checkered past. I've vented through World News Today. Some of the women I've dating in the past were Black, White and Hispanic. Age doesn't matter to me. Interesting conversation and a good heart is the only thing I ask for.

Trevor Noah and his crack team of investigators make the case for why it's so hard for certain singles to find love. Jessica Williams and Ronny Chieng brought attention to social media and online dating.

To this day, Black women and Asian men are often ignored by people searching for love.

"There is kind of a systemic racial bias pretty much in every dating site I've ever looked at," said Christian Rudder, co-founder of OkCupid. He tells Williams and Chieng that "dataclysm" is primarily a factor to the unprecedented bias and often ignored requests.

"We found that 82 percent of non-Black men have some bias against Black women... And Asian men get the fewest messages and the worst ratings of any group of guys."

Jessica Williams and Ronny Chieng take on social media and the bigots online looking for love.
Isn't it OK to have preferences when it comes to finding a partner?

As "The Daily Show" segment explained, the discriminatory behavior exhibited by many online daters appeared to stem not from "preferences" at all, but from deep-rooted stereotypes evident in statements like, "[you're] pretty for a black girl" or in outrageous assumptions such as all Asian men having small penises.

In an outtake posted to social media, Williams and Chieng shared other offensive comments made on online dating profiles with writer Zach Stafford.

"Vanilla or spice, no chocolate or rice," read one, with "chocolate" being a reference to black people and "rice" being a reference to Asians.

"People really like using food to talk about their racism," Stafford quipped.

Romeo Rose faced scrutiny after he placed on his dating profile he will not date Black women. He said that Black women look like monkeys and if he was ever in a relationship with any women who dated a Black person, he would dump the beast.
Remember Romeo Rose. He still looking for the right woman who is willing to date him. The hapless idiot from Austin is still trolling online dating websites. This was the guy who is looking for a woman who is Blonde, height 5'3" to 5'9", under 120lbs, conservative-minded and talented. He won't date any woman who has slept with Black men or have male friends that are Black. He will not date any Black women. He believes that Black women are monkeys and women who slept with Black men are fucking animals.

A real winner, ladies.

The idiot insulted host Caitlyn Becker on her looks on HuffPost Live. Since then, he has gained infamy for being one of the most disgusting human beings to ever exist. He gets a fair share of death threats and swipes to the left on Tinder.

Word of advice for the singles who's looking for the special someone: DON'T ACT LIKE A RACIST!


Thursday, April 07, 2016

A Lil' Damita Jo?

Janet Jackson cancels tour. The media claims that she's pregnant and expecting.

Some news made the rounds today. A famous pop singer decided to end a world tour for personal matters and her fans are excited about it. Janet Jackson might have a little bun in the oven.

"My husband and I are planning our family," she said, beaming in a video posted to Twitter.

Her doctors have ordered her to rest up, which means she's postponing the second leg of her Unbreakable world tour indefinitely.

"We're in the second leg of the tour and there actually has been a sudden change," she announced in the video. "I thought it was important that you would be the first to know my husband and I are planning our family, so I'm going to have to delay the tour. Please, if you can try to understand that it's important that I do this now. I have to rest up, doctor's orders. But I have not forgotten about you. I will continue to tour as soon as I possibly can."




Janet Jackson and her billionaire husband Wissam Al Mana are considering raising children and many in the junk food media speculate that Janet is pregnant.
Janet and her husband Wissam Al Mana.
The announcement does not make it abundantly clear whether the couple is already expecting a baby, trying to start a family or process of adopting a child. USA TODAY's request for clarification was not immediately answered.

In December, she announced she would have to move the tour back to the spring so she could undergo an unspecified surgery. A month later, she had to shoot down rumors that she was going to have to postpone her tour because she had cancer, and warned fans not to believe any news about her health unless it came from her own lips.

We wish Janet well on her journey.

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Republicans Vote Against Naming A Post Office After Maya Angelou!

President Barack Obama awards The Medal of Freedom to poet Maya Angelou. She passed away in 2014.

When Maya Angelou passed away in 2014, many in America praised the poet for her upbringing towards greatness. Her dynamic stories of growing up in a racially-divided South have become literary masterpieces.

Her praise was going to be notarized on a post office. Although it passed through the Congress without much controversy, the Huffington Post notes that a handful of insurgent lawmakers voted against it.

The post office was going to be named in her hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

The lawamakers who voted against the naming were Andy Harris (R-MD), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Ken Buck (R-CO), Michael Burgess (R-TX), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Glen Grothman (R-WI), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Alex Mooney (R-WV) and Steven Palazzo (R-MS), and Rep. Don Young (R-AK).

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Pro-confederate lawmaker Mo Brooks
Notably the Republican lawmakers such as Brooks, Burgess and Rep. Steve King (R-IA) are scheduled to speak at the CNUTS Convention this weekend.

The so-called party of Civil Rights once again at work, trying to destroy itself.

The reason to why they opposed the naming of a post office is because Maya Angelou said positive things about Fidel Castro, the former president of Cuba.

As NBC points out, the bill was debated just after the House unanimously voted to rename a California post office. The 114th Congress has voted to rename at least two dozen other public buildings.

One of the congressmen who voted against the Maya Angelou Memorial Post Office called the poet "a communist sympathizer."

"His parents escaped communism and he feels that he cannot vote to name a post office in the United States in honor of someone who supported the communist Castro revolution in Cuba," a spokesperson for Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) told NBC. According to his campaign website, Harris' father was born in Hungary and his mother's birthplace was Poland.

In 2015 a United States Postal Service stamp was issued commemorating Maya Angelou with the Joan Walsh Anglund quote "A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song", though the stamp mistakenly attributes the quote to Angelou. The quote is from Anglund's book of poems A Cup of Sun (1967).

The Republican revisionist history says that Ronald Reagan was friend of Black America.

The Republican revisionist history says that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.

The Democrats passed the Jim Crow laws. The Democrats founded the Klan. Even with a Democratic President like that "racist" Lyndon B Johnson, the Democrats didn't passed the Civil Rights Act. It was the Republicans.



Wednesday, February 24, 2016

HIV On The Rise!

Black men who are gay or bisexual face the threat of HIV infection at greater rates.

Users of heroin and Black men are driving the HIV epidemic back up to record highs.

You heard of the "down low".

Urban slang for Black men who are secretly "bisexual" or "gay". They want to give the impression that they're "straight" but are trying to repress their feelings towards men or transgender women.

Men love sex. They don't care what happens as long as they get their sexual fantasies off, the men are satisfied.

They end up having sex with men and women at numerous rates. Some are willing to spread the HIV virus in malicious ways to their partners or spouses.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that one in 64 men and one in 227 women in the United States will be diagnosed with HIV at current rates. For black and Hispanic people, however, that risk increases dramatically.

The Daily Beast reports that the dangers are still prevalent in the Black and Hispanic communities. Regardless of sexual orientation, one in 20 black men and one in 48 black women will be diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS in their lifetimes, according to the CDC. For Hispanic men and women, the risks are one in 48 and one in 227, respectively.

White people have the lowest chance of an HIV diagnosis, with an overall lifetime risk of less than one percent. Gay and bisexual white men still have a lifetime risk of one in 11, though.

The CDC’s projections are based on data about HIV diagnoses and death rates collected from 2009 to 2013, and they assume that rates of new diagnoses remain constant. If that’s the case, one in six men who have sex with other men will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes.

“These estimates are a sobering reminder that gay and bisexual men face an unacceptably high risk for HIV—and of the urgent need for action,” said Dr. Eugene McCray, director of the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. “If we work to ensure that every American has access to the prevention tools we know work, we can avoid the outcomes projected in this study.”

For Hispanic people living in the United States, the CDC has already outlined an array of factors behind the alarming rate of new infections: a high prevalence of HIV, poverty and lack of health insurance coverage, “machismo” that can encourage men to engage in risky sexual behavior as a show of strength, and reluctance to access prevention services for fear of revealing one’s immigration status.

For black people, CDC resources show, prevention challenges are similar: poverty, stigma, barriers to health care access, and too few people knowing their status. Risk in black communities is especially high, the CDC notes, because “African Americans tend to have sex with partners of the same race/ethnicity mean[ing] that [they] face a greater risk of HIV infection with each new sexual encounter.”

According to the CDC’s new projections, all of the states with the highest lifetime risk for HIV are in the South, with the exceptions of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. All of these states and the South tend to have large black and Hispanic populations, higher rates of poverty, and less health-insurance coverage.

The CDC estimates that HIV risk is highest in Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida, with about 2 percent of these states’ populations believed to test HIV positive eventually.

No single area may be worst-hit than Washington, D.C., which is nearly 50 percent black and 10 percent Latino. According to the CDC’s projections, a staggering one in 13 D.C. residents will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes.

But the CDC doesn’t want its projections to be interpreted as a death sentence.

“As alarming as these lifetime risk estimates are, they are not a foregone conclusion. They are a call to action,” said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention.

If the U.S. can reduce new infections, those lifetime risk numbers will go down, too. The CDC’s current prevention approach emphasizes HIV testing, condom use, treatment for those who have already been diagnosed, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a daily medication that has been shown to reduce risk by more than 90 percent when used correctly.

“The prevention and care strategies we have at our disposal today provide a promising outlook for future reductions of HIV infections and disparities in the U.S.,” said Dr. Mermin, “but hundreds of thousands of people will be diagnosed in their lifetime if we don’t scale up efforts now.”

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