Monday, March 04, 2013

Dennis Rodman Style!



He's back!

The bad boy of basketball, self acclaimed reality star Dennis Rodman comes into the limelight for his goodwill mission to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). Rodman got an opportunity to meet the leader of the country, Kim Jon-Un. 

Kim Jon-Un is the son of the former leader Kim Jon-IL. At a young age of 28, Kim became the premier of the country and assumes all roles of the reclusive country.

Rodman along with the Harlem Globetrotters were invited guests.

Rodman went on to ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos to talk about his interaction with the young leader.

The United States has hostile relations with North Korea. The United States and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) are feuding with North Korea over nuclear weapons and alleged human rights abuse by the government. Many American travelers are warned not to do anything that could impede a war.

Rodman didn't do anything as far as share a moment with Kim.

Some of the photos released show that Rodman was having fun with Kim at a basketball event and had opportunity to explore the country.
The self-proclaimed bad boy of basketball goes to North Korea on a "basketball diplomacy" tour!
Rodman told Stephanopoulos that Kim doesn't want to go to war with the United States and is willing to work out a deal. The United States and many other nations have imposed sanctions which ban international imports from entering into the reclusive country.

Stephanopoulos had a testy interview with the oftentimes explosive tempered Rodman. But at best the video provided here shows an usually odd-ball flamboyant retired basketball star.
Rodman, wearing sunglasses indoors and dressed in a money jacket and blue polo baseball cap, said he did not talk about politics with Kim, sticking to basketball and having a good time.

Having a ball.
Mediaite reporter Garrett Quinn wrote that Stephanopoulos challenged Rodman repeatedly on his travel to North Korea and its atrocious human rights record but Rodman wasn't having it.


“I don’t condone that. I hate the fact that he’s doing that. I didn't talk about that. I saw people respected him, his family. He’s only 28. He’s not his dad. He’s not his grandpa. He is 28 years old. He’s very humble. He’s a very humble man. He don’t want war, that’s one thing he don’t want. He loves power. He loves control, because of his father, you know, stuff like that. But he’s just…he’s a great guy. He’s just a great guy. You sit down and talk to him,” said Rodman.

When Stephanopoulos went after Rodman on not talking about North Korean death camps he said, “[The United States does] the same things here.”

A dumbfounded Stephanopoulos replied, “We have prison camps here in the United States?”

“This is all politics right? He don’t want to do that,” said Rodman.

“It sounds like you’re apologizing for him?” said Stephanopoulos.

“No, I’m not apologizing for him. He was a great guy to me. He was my friend. I don’t condone what he does. But as a person to person, he’s my friend. What I did was history. He’s a friend to me. That’s about it,” said Rodman.

Before leaving Stephanopoulos handed him a human rights report on North Korea. Rodman thanked him for the report and left the show saying, “Don’t hate me.”

Born in Trenton, New Jersey, he was nicknamed "The Worm" and was known for his fierce defensive and rebounding abilities. Playing small forward in his early years before becoming a power forward, Rodman earned NBA All-Defensive First Team honors seven times and was voted NBA Defensive Player of the Year twice. He led the NBA in rebounds per game for a record seven consecutive years and won five NBA championships.

Besides basketball, Rodman appeared as a wrestler for the defunct WCW's faction nWo. He briefly married Carmen Electra. He dated Madonna. He also was married to two other women who raised his children. Rodman is the father of three children.

Sunday, March 03, 2013

Amazon Pulls Rape A B**** Shirts!

A real laugh riot! Nothing is funny about rape. I guess the company that allow this to appear is facing backlash.

The actual shirt were published by Solid Bomb Gold, a U.S. based clothing seller. After a weekend of firestorm from the shocking shirts, Amazon decided to pull the shirts.

There were three shirts that many deemed offensive. Some of these shirts had phrases like "keep calm and rape her alot", "keep calm and knife her" and "keep calm and grope a lot!"

Now think about how dumb these shirts are!

As a Black man, I find these shirts to be offensive.


I would never wear this type of outfit while dating a woman. If I would wear this shirt in the general public, I might have the police called on me!

That's the type of stuff a douche would wear in order to impress a group (i.e. jocks, fraternity, and Halloween costumes).

The Guardian from the United Kingdom reports that an apology from Solid Gold Bomb was issued before another public apology also appeared on Twitter. Solid Gold Bomb had its social networking accounts deactivated.

The American clothing company Solid Gold Bomb blamed an automated computer dictionary for its series of the items emblazoned with offensive phrases such as "Keep Calm and Rape a Lot" and "Keep Calm and Hit Her", based on the much reproduced "Keep Calm and Carry On" second world war poster.

The company said it had received death threats and its Twitter account was bombarded with scores of angry messages, many of which said: "Rape is not a joke."
Keep Calm and Hit Her T-shirt
Would you wear this shirt?
It closed its Facebook and other social media accounts on Saturday morning and left a message on its website which read in part: "We have been informed of the fact that we were selling an offensive T-shirt primarily in the UK. This has been immediately deleted as it was and had been automatically generated using a scripted computer process running against hundreds of thousands of dictionary words.

"Any offensive items that are remaining are certainly in the deletion queue and will be removed as soon as the processing is complete. Although we did not in any way deliberately create the offensive T-shirts in question and it was the result of a scripted programming process that was compiled by only one member of our staff, we accept the responsibility of the error and are doing our best to correct the issues at hand. We're sorry for the ill feeling this has caused!"

Based on Amazon's typical charges, the internet retailer was likely to be making just over £1 on each sale.

Amazon is no stranger to controversy. The site's U.S. operation faced criticism for briefly selling a book described as a pedophile's guide. In 2008 it had to pull from sale T-shirts lauding Nazi leaders.

Both companies were bombarded with complaints and Solid Gold Bomb later closed its Twitter account. The T-shirts were still on sale in Germany on Saturday.

Amazon deleted most of the offensive "Keep Calm" range but continued to promote the company's shop.

Detroit Goes For Broke!


Conservatives and the white supremacists are working the nexus of bigotry. They've already considered Detroit, Michigan a city ruined by the Niggers and the Nigger lovers in Washington, DC.

With Detroit being majority Black, it's always figured by some radical right wing extremist, the turmoils of the once booming manufacturing city being the faults of the Democratic Party, the unions, racial integration and liberalism.

Never blaming the corporations who shut down the factories putting hundreds out of work. Never understanding that White flight that plagues urban areas because of school busing and forced integration.

Now when I decided to go up to Detroit, my family always warn me that it's not safe going through the city at dark. Although, I don't fear any man, woman or beast, I always adhere to my surroundings.

Whenever I go to Detroit, I usually head to Windsor, Ontario in Canada. I love to see the skyscrapers of the city. Whenever I go to the Caesar's Windsor casino, I always take a look at the United States from the other side. I love to see the city from the Detroit River. Sometimes I like to ride around the neighborhoods of Grand River Avenue, Gratiot Avenue, Telegraph Road, and Eight Mile Road.

I've driven on many freeways in Detroit. I've traveled on the Chrysler Freeway/Fisher Freeway (Interstate 75), the Lodge Freeway (M-10) and Jeffries Freeway (Interstate 96) and Edsel Ford Freeway (Interstate 94).

Detroit may seem like a slum to those who never been there, but in my opinion, it's a nice city and I enjoy being there.

The Detroit metropolitan region currently holds roughly one-half of the state's population. With White people leaving en masse, most of Detroit is left in ruins while the young Blacks and Hispanic suffer in a future of crime and no way out.

Detroit remains one of the most racially segregated cities in the United States.

Blacks moved to the city en masse to escape Jim Crow laws in the south and find jobs.

However, they soon found themselves excluded from white areas of the city—through violence, laws, and economic discrimination (e.g., redlining).

White residents attacked black homes: breaking windows, starting fires, and exploding bombs.

The pattern of segregation was later magnified by white migration to the suburbs.

A traditional boundary between black and white is Eight Mile Road, which separates the city from suburbs to the north.

Long a major population center and major engine of worldwide automobile manufacturing, Detroit has gone through a continuing economic decline.

Detroit reached its population peak in the 1950 census at over 1.8 million people, and as of the 2010 census has less than half that amount at just over 700,000 residents. The city has declined in population with each subsequent census since 1950, for a total loss exceeding 60 percent by 2010.

The New York Times reports that Republican governor Rick Synder issue a call for an emergency manager.

This person wield sweeping powers to reshape the city. This is attracting a great amount of controversy.

The hiring of an emergency manager underscored a long, troubling arc for Detroit. Once the cradle of the American auto industry and the nation’s fourth most populous city, it is now less than half the size it was decades ago and has a public sector plagued by more than $14 billion in long-term liabilities and annual worries of cash shortfalls.

The notion set off a flurry of pointed and sometimes emotional reactions here, including an unavoidable racial and political component. Detroit is a mostly black city dominated by Democrats in a mostly white state where Republicans, including Mr. Snyder, control the capital.

At a time when many municipalities are struggling financially, five cities and three school districts in Michigan alone are already under supervision from a state-appointed emergency financial manager. But municipal finance experts pointed out that Detroit is on a different scale. “Detroit is a huge and prominent American city, so anything that happens with Detroit will set a much bigger precedent,” said Matt Fabian, a managing director at Municipal Market Advisors. “There isn’t a lot of precedent with the state taking control of a city this size.”

For decades, states have used a range of methods, including oversight boards and appointed receivers, to step in and stabilize cities that appeared to be headed toward bankruptcy or default. The methods — and the powers and roles of those charged with overseeing a troubled city — vary widely from state to state, as do opinions about whether they work. A financial control board helped New York City return from the edge of crisis in the 1970s, but such intense state involvement is more often needed in smaller cities.

For more than a year, Detroit leaders had raced to ward off an emergency manager. With a similar possibility looming last spring, city officials entered into a legal deal, giving the state some oversight as Detroit tried to cut spending and staff members and collect more tax revenue. It was not enough, said state officials, who re-examined the city’s books in recent weeks and said they found a pattern of overly optimistic revenue estimates, poor and conflicting record-keeping and endless borrowing to make up for shortfalls.

“There have been many good people that have had many plans, many attempts to turn this around — they haven’t worked,” Mr. Snyder said on Friday during a town hall meeting broadcast on local television, the start of a concerted state effort to sell the notion of an outside manager to city residents. “The way I view it, today is a day to call all hands on deck.”

While some Detroit residents saw state intervention as one more very public indication of a city crumbling, others hailed it as the first promising sign of real repair. The city’s business leaders lauded the plan, noting that Detroit’s private sector had experienced tangible signs of growth and reinvestment — including newly filled downtown offices and young entrepreneurs opening dress shops — even as the public sector had lagged.

“Bring it on,” Sandy K. Baruah, the chairman of the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce, said of state management. “This sends a positive message to business that Detroit is fixing its problems.”

But Detroit city officials, who have 10 days to seek reconsideration from the governor before a state board formally appoints a manager as early as this month, objected strenuously. Under a much-debated state law, an appointed manager would ultimately hold powers to cut city spending, change contracts with labor unions, merge or eliminate city departments, urge the sale of city assets and even, if all else failed, recommend bankruptcy proceedings. In an election year for mayor and the City Council, many candidates, incumbents and community leaders denounced the move as an affront to democracy and a state takeover, and called for legal action.

“For one individual to be able to wipe out the duties of our duly-elected officials, that’s more or less a dictatorship, and it’s against everything that America is supposed to be about,” said the Rev. Wendell Anthony, the president of the local NAACP. “If you come into Detroit,” Mr. Anthony said, “you own Detroit. You own education. You own police and fire.”

Mayor Dave Bing, who has not said whether he would seek re-election, was more tempered than most in his critique, suggesting that while he opposed an emergency manager, there might be a way for the state and city to work together. “I will look at the impact of the governor’s decision as well as other options, to determine my next course of action,” he said.

Michigan’s emergency manager law — and the possibility that Detroit, the state’s largest city, might be affected by it — has been a matter of contention for several years. After Mr. Snyder became governor in 2010, he and the Republican-held Legislature approved changes to the state’s two-decade-old law, giving such managers more wide-reaching powers, including the ability to drop union contracts with cities. In November, voters rejected that new version of the law, but the Legislature quickly passed a third version, which also allows relatively broad powers to change the terms of labor contracts and which will take effect this month.

But many here wonder whether any emergency manager, under any version of the law, will be enough to solve Detroit’s woes, which are in some way a reflection of the city’s own story. Beyond the nagging budget questions and the mounting debt is a place that grew with the auto industry into a city of more than 1.8 million residents and 139 square miles, then shrank decade after decade even as the city’s boundaries and infrastructure did not. With a tax base of some among about 713,000 remaining residents, Detroiters complain of late buses, high crime and darkened streetlights.

Saturday, March 02, 2013

Man Poses With Murdered Mother's Head! [NSFW]

How could someone do something to his mother and smirk about it?

A sure guarantee for the conservative/white supremacist bubble. The conservative agitating media will quickly blame President Barack Obama, the Black community, Trayvon Martin, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Attorney General Eric Holder, and all African traditions for one sick individual.

No man should hit a woman let alone his own mother. But it's a theme that's common among our young individuals.

How could anyone (i.e. Adam Lanza, Bashid McLean and others) kill their own mother?

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Tanya Byrd and other woman killed by abuse men.

Before we go into the details of this senseless tragedy, I share with you an incident of a few years back.

I remember in March 2011, my friend Glenn Walker, Jr. was accused of killing his mother. Walker, was once a former co-worker who went through the same personal demons my best friend Charles Barrett suffered.

Walker wanted to be a rapper and script writer for movies. He also was the charmer. He always seems to win over women with his smooth talk and bravado of his private parts.

He dated two of my friends and spurned them during a period where all of them were dating other people.

Walker was struggling to find a job. He was into drugs and frequently would space out over things.

Walker was implicated in the murder his mother Michelle Walker on March 16, 2011. The FBI and U.S. marshals were searching for him. They managed to catch him at the public library nearby on the computer posting comments to others on Facebook. His family and friends stated that he suffered from a mental illness and felt compassion for his own mother. It took a year for the trial and eventual conviction.

After a grand jury found Walker guilty of the murder of his mother, he was sentence 15 to life without a chance of parole.

This individual today makes it clear that for every incident that involves Black men, it's certain that it's agitation for conservatives and white supremacists.
Smiles: Byrd, pictured, met a grisly death and her son, Bashid McLean, 22, is the only suspect at this point in the investigation
Tanya Byrd was murdered by her son Bashid McLean. He decapitated her head and posted it on social networks via his cell phone. The police arrest this individual.
The New York Daily News and other media outlets report on 23-year old Bashid McLean murdering his mother 45-year old Tanya Bryd. A man walking his dog discovered the dismembered remains of Byrd at a park.

The break in the case came when the son Bashid McLean appears in a photograph he shared on social networks being "almost gleeful" holding the severed head of his mother.

He has reportedly confessed to the charges and has been placed on suicide watch.

Friends and family say that McLean developed some jealousy over his mother giving preferential treatment to his other siblings. Byrd who worked as a home health aide and was described as a "beautiful mother" and a "hard worker" by her sister.

McLean however, has been said to have been troubled for some time.

His lawyer says McLean's been off his medication for days, and according to the Daily News, McLean is schizophrenic.

McLean scouring the Internet for how to tips on covering up a murder and that he later created a MySpace page called 'Kill the b**** Tanya.'

Police say McLean murdered his mother because she 'wanted him to grow up and move out and be a man.'
Beautiful woman Tanya Byrd was murdered by callous son Bashid McLean.
McLean's father discussed his son's history of violent tendencies and said, "He did destructive things. He set fires. Nobody could control him."

DNAinfo reports McLean allegedly fatally hit his mother while she was sleeping before stealing money from her to purchase a saw to cut up her corpse.

McLean was placed in a foster home while his mother was battling a drug problem. He came back to live with her when he was 18. He was also suspected of abusing his younger brother, whose body began displaying bruises.

His friend, William Harris, 26, allegedly helped him get rid of the body. The pair were reportedly caught on surveillance video at a nearby hardware store where they bought a power saw with cash.

A blade and a box were found in the apartment McLean shared with his mother while the saw - 2-foot-long Black and Decker jigsaw - was found at Harris' home, sources said.

Cassandra McLean labelled the 23-year-old a 'monster' who had been plotting his mother's murder. 'My nephew is a monster,' she told the Daily News. 'This murder was premeditated.'

Looking gangsta! Friends and family feared that McLean would harm people.
She said he deserves the death penalty. 'He took away one of God's angels, and for that he deserves to go to hell.'

Even his father said he was a bad egg.

A photograph on his Facebook page shows him burning a scarf.

His sister, Porsche Lovett, said he wasn't remotely sorry for what he'd done. 'He looked me in the eyes and told me he did nothing wrong when he killed her,' she told the Daily News. 'I don't know who he is.'

McLean confessed to the sickening crime after police found a shower curtain missing at his apartment, which wreaked of bleach. The shower curtain was later found wrapped around his mom's body parts in one of the bags dumped on the curb for collection.

McLean was charged yesterday with second-degree murder and he and Harris were also booked on charges of hindering prosecution and the unlawful dissection of a human body.

When they were questioned they both blames the murder on the other. Harris, who has been arrested 12 times prior to yesterday's booking, told police McLean confessed to the slaying on the subway and begged for his help. Meanwhile, McLean, who was on probation after attacking two police officers with a knife in 2010, said Harris killed the woman at their apartment.

'Bashid had a problem controlling his rage,' a neighbor told the New York Daily News. 'He had creepy eyes. Didn't like to look you in the eye — but when he did, they went right through you.'

McLean confessed to the crime late on Tuesday after cops found the electric saw and other carving implements.

Police were overwhelmed by the stench of bleach when they entered the apartment Bahsid McLean shared with his mother and little brother. He was led out of the house in handcuffs.

Byrd's body parts were found strewn around at least four different curbside locations within a half-mile of the pair's Morrisania home in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The pieces - which include her head, torso, right leg and hands - were found zipped into travel bags or stuffed into plastic garbage bags.

McLean, who suffers learning disabilities, admitted to the crime during questioning by NYPD officers.

Investigators spent Tuesday scouring through piles of trash in the South Bronx neighborhood after a horrified dog-walker discovered the human remains in a travel bag at around 4:30am and called police.
NYPD arrest man who axed his mother.
One-by-one, Byrd's decapitated head, right leg, torso and hands have been unearthed in the area around Eagle Avenue, 158th Street, 156th Street and Cauldwell Avenue.

Some of Byrd's body parts were still wearing the clothes she was in when she was slaughtered, police sources told the Daily News.

A neighbor told the paper: 'I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Bashid killed her. She was afraid of that boy... He was a hellion.'

Byrd's sister, Cassandra McLean, initially defended her nephew, believing Byrd's allegedly abusive ex-boyfriend was responsible for her ghastly murder and dismemberment.
Police confirmed Byrd's son reported her missing at the Bronx's 40th precinct station.

He found a photograph of her, which they matched to the decapitated head found in one of the bags, when police showed up at his house. This is when they discovered the carving equipment.

He reportedly told police he hadn't been able to contact his mother for at least a day.

Cassandra McLean said her nephew suffered learning difficulties from an early age.

She said Bahsid McLean told her Byrd's former boyfriend dropped by on Monday and that was the last time he saw her.

'He (the ex-boyfriend) came over yesterday and walked out with her in the morning, yesterday morning,' McLean said on Tuesday. 'That’s what her son told me on the phone just now.'

She told DNAInfo that Byrd's ex-boyfriend was trouble.

'I told my sister to stay away from him, but she said he's harmless and not to worry.'

McLean added of her sister: 'She was a loving mother and very devoted to her son. That's what she lived for. That's her joy in life.'

Friday, March 01, 2013

It's A Coming.....

President Barack Obama speaks to the press about the sequester. He's visibly angry about the Republicans refusal to support tax increases alongside spending cuts.

President Barack Obama, the Democrats and Republican lawmakers are pointing fingers at one another.

The sequester is going to take effect putting our nation's military, our government workers and our country's needy at risk of losing benefits and their jobs.

President Barack Obama and the Democrats want Republicans to give up the fight on protecting tax breaks for the wealthy. The Republicans want the president and Democrats to give up on entitlements and scaring the public with catastrophic themes.

House Speaker John Boehner and the Republican House members still are infighting over how to address the sequester. Some members are willing to tax the rich, but fear a primary challenge from a more conservative candidate. Boehner fears he may lose his speakership if he gives the president what he wants.

The public is on the president's side and the conservative media are trying there best to make it seem like the president wanted the military to be "weaken" and the growth of the government.


Now they can't understand the fact that our government hasn't grown since President Barack Obama been in office. They'll say anything that will stick to the wall. And of course, the president's political foes are tone deaf to anything he says.

Bob Woodward, the famed Washington Post journalist who rose to fame with Carl Bernstein to expose Republican president Richard Nixon's dirty deeds during his presidency. In the midst of his second term, Watergate happened and it force Nixon to resign and Gerald Ford to become the president. Ford's presidency was marred with controversy. His biggest failure was pardoning Nixon.

Woodward isn't a fan of the president. He went through the media cycle exaggerating an interview with a top Obama official. The official got heated over misinformation made by Woodward on the president.

Woodward went to CNN to tell the country that the Obama Administration threatened him.

The conservative media went totally bonkers on it. Sean Hannity was so eager to have him on to explain his side of the controversy.

Most Washington insiders figured that Woodward is trying to stay relevant by creating a scandal where there's none. And most people read the email exchange between the official and Woodward. They saw no controversy.

But since it's went viral, conservatives regardless will assume the president is hostile to the media. A media they've once claimed was in the tank for him.

It's funny that President Barack Obama won easily against that perennial loser Mitt Romney. Despite the sluggish economic conditions, the American people felt that the president's policies are working. The stock market reached 14,000 and the people are feeling good about the future.

Today, some of the steam was let out of the good times. Due to the ineptness of Congress, the government workers and people who contribute to the nation are going to suffer for a bunch of hyper partisan idiots.

My mission from this point is to be the activist. We need to get the Republicans out of the House of Representatives. They're not working for the American people. They're working for the corporations, religious fanatics and reactionary bigots.

Conservatism is on the decline. A new age is dawning. Progressive movement is rising and the conservatives aren't getting their country back!

The Democrats and Republicans who stand against progress better get their asses together or else face the gauntlet of the voter.


Fist Full Of Dollars!



Racial stereotypes are common within the Black community. Many conservative White males think of Blacks as natural born criminals. Many in the conservative/white supremacist bubble think Black men want to grow up to be rappers, athletes, drug dealers, thugs and "gubmint gibbs mes". The believe Black men are the inductees of the iron college (prison), or the pop skip (dead beat parent).

Many in the conservative/white supremacist bubble think of Black women as ugly, fat, ghetto, ignorant, attitude rousing, baby making factories who worship the penis and not the employer.

Besides the stereotypes, racial slurs come down the pipe. Blacks are referred as monkeys, primates, Niggers, coons, bootlips, Obama's children, enslaved to the Democrat plantation or whatever else coming out of the conservative/white supremacist bubble.

Mediaite brings to attention a controversial cover. The Bloomberg Businessweek magazine cover shows a Black family in a house full of money. Meenal Vamburkar uncovers this one.

She writes that Bloomberg Businessweek became part of its own story today — through its controversial cover. It wasn't long before the magazine was accused of crossing the line with a “racist” portrayal of the issue.

Now I am all for freedom of speech. But so far, my thoughts of how the media portrays the Black family and President Barack Obama overstepped its boundaries.

Of course you know the outrage is pretty big right now!

For those in the conservative/white supremacist bubble, this is just PC (political correctness) outrage over nothing. It's just those lefties and civil right agitators making a mountain out of a mole hill.

The Raw Story also reports that the cover depicts people of color with a house full of cash. The “father” is barefoot and leering, depicted as an African-American, leaning out a window to clutch at a stream of dollar bills. The “mother” figure has brown skin and cartoonish, oversized lips. Upstairs we see a black boy and a Hispanic teenage girl, each grotesquely caricatured and shown reclining on big piles of money. All of the characters are grabbing for money while talking on cell phones or Bluetooth devices. Even the family cat, floating on a pillow in a sea of money downstairs, is depicted as black.

According to the Columbia Journalism Review, the image reinforces race-blaming right wing tropes about the mortgage crisis. “The narrative of the crash on the right has been the blame-minority-borrowers line , sometimes via dog whistle, often via bullhorn,” wrote CJR’s Ryan Chittum.

“In fact, though, the record is clear: minorities were disproportionately targeted by predatory lending, which has always gone hand in hand with subprime. Even when they qualified for prime loans that similar-circumstance whites got, they were pushed into higher-interest subprimes.”

Rinku Sen, president of the Applied Research Center, a nonprofit dedicated to “racial justice through media, research and activism,” called the artwork “egregious,” “straightforwardly racist” and “an extreme take on the ‘freeloader’ image.”

Sen said that while many will feel the temptation to call for symbolic firings and to demand some sort of disciplinary action toward whatever editorial personnel let this drawing by, the judgment error on the magazine’s part presents an opportunity to the public.

“It’s upsetting,” she said, “but it’s a really good opportunity to have a discussion with Bloomberg News about how they understand racial dynamics in the economy and how they make editorial choices that have racial implications.”

“What’s sad about this cover is that it’s obsessed with perpetuating racial stereotypes rather than telling the truth. Greed did bring down the housing market but it was the rapaciousness of Wall Street rather than communities of color,” said Imara Jones, the economic justice contributor at Colorlines.com.

”As financial institutions, such as Bank of America and Wells Fargo have admitted to the Justice Department in court settlements, their predatory lending practices of steering credit worthy blacks and Latinos into bogus financial products is what collapsed our economic system. According to Wall Street itself, racism is what destroyed the American dream for millions.”

Bloomberg apologized for the cover.

The magazine is a part of the vast media empire created by Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City. He was a Republican until 2007. He left the party and became an independent. Bloomberg endorsed President Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential election.

Mississippi Mayoral Candidate Killed! | Las Vegas Shooting Kills Inspiring Rapper!

Marco McMillian (left) and Kenny Clutch's (right) lives were gunned down by individuals who didn't care about their inspiring careers. These two made the national news.

Another twofer. Two urban tragedies in a week made the national news.

Of course these stories made it to the national circuit. The conservative/white supremacist bubble practically saw two individuals who happen to be Black. One being a rapper and another being a gay man running for office.

The conservative/white supremacists thoughts of a Black murder victim.

In the conservative/white supremacist bubble, you'll expect the word vomit of hate to flow down a comment section. The usual word vomit includes racial slurs, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Trayvon Martin, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson. They insert political warfare and the usual blame the Niggers not the guns excuse. 

And there you have it, a reactionary bigot responding to a tragedy in the Black community.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to Kenny Clutch, Michael Bolden, Sandra Sutton-Wasmund and Marco McMillian. Each of these victims died in senseless tragedies.

First we'll start with the victim of the Las Vegas shooting. Kenny Clutch, born Kenneth Cherry, Jr. was a 26 year old inspiring rapper who was gunned down. His shooter and person of interest were finally caught.

Clutch and the shooter were in a high speed chase and the gunman shot at his Maserati. The Maserati crashed into a taxi cab killing the driver and a passenger.

Ammar Harris was caught by the FBI.
CBS News reports that Ammar Harris, suspect in a Las Vegas Strip shooting and subsequent fiery car crash that left three dead, has been arrested in Los Angeles, according to police.

Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Jones says Ammar Harris, a felon, was arrested Thursday by a team of police and federal agents in Studio City.

The 26-year-old is a self-described pimp who was the subject of a multi-state manhunt following the Feb. 21 gunfire and chain-reaction crash that killed three and injured at least five.

Police say he fired at least five shots into a Maserati sports car, killing aspiring rapper Wayne Cherry Jr. who he argued with earlier in the valet area of a Las Vegas Strip resort.

Mortally wounded, Cherry accelerated and slammed into a taxi cab that burst into flames, killing cab driver Michael Boldon and his passenger, Sandra Sutton-Wasmund of Maple Valley, Washington.

According to CBS Miami, Harris was arrested in Miami Beach last December for reckless driving. Police say he was also cited for driving without a valid license.

The FBI is also looking into Harris' history as a "self-proclaimed" pimp. He is also under investigation for child abuse, sexual assault and weapons possession.


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Yeah, another tragedy. An openly gay mayoral candidate was gunned down near his home. This is a controversy brewing down in Mississippi. The mayoral candidate by the name of Marco McMillian was found dead. The prospect of this individual running for higher office was shattered by a gun tragedy. The shooter was caught and the FBI and Coahoma County Sheriff are wondering what inspired this individual to kill a man with a promising career.

CBS News reports that a 22-year-old man (assuming McMillian's boyfriend) was charged with murder Thursday in the death of a mayoral candidate in the Mississippi Delta.

The Coahoma County Sheriff's Department said in a news release that Lawrence Reed of Shelby was charged in the death of Marco McMillian. McMillian, 34, was a candidate for mayor of Clarksdale and was well-known in the community and beyond.

An investigation began Tuesday when a man crashed McMillian's SUV into another car on U.S. Highway 49 near the Coahoma and Tallahatchie county lines. The candidate wasn't in the car.

McMillian's body was found near the Mississippi River levee Wednesday morning between Sherard and Rena Lara, Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith has said.
Lawrence Reed, 22, is charged with the murder of Marco McMillian
Lawrence Reed was arrested in the death of Marco McMillian
The body was sent for an autopsy, and the cause of death hasn't been made public.

"There's a lot of people upset about it," said Dennis Thomas, 33, who works at Abe's Barbeque.

"Why would somebody want to do something like that to somebody of that caliber? He was a highly respected person in town," Thomas said.

The sheriff's department has not released a possible motive for the crime.

Campaign spokesman Jarod Keith has said McMillian's campaign was noteworthy because he may have been the first openly gay man to be a viable candidate for public office in Mississippi.

McMillian, who was black, had forged ties while serving for four years as international executive director of the historically black Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. Photos on McMillian's website and Facebook page show him with a younger Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and with U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat.

McMillian was CEO of MWM & Associates, described on its website as a consulting firm for nonprofit organizations. In addition to his role at the fraternity from 2007 to 2011, McMillian had previously worked to raise funds as executive assistant to the president at Alabama A&M University and as assistant to the vice president at Jackson State University, according to his campaign.

A statement from the fraternity said he had secured the first federal contract to raise awareness about the impact of HIV and AIDS on communities of color. It noted that Ebony Magazine had recognized him in 2004 as one of the nation's "30 up-and-coming African Americans" under age 30.

Supporters say McMillian — a 1997 graduate of Clarksdale High School who graduated magna cum laude from Jackson State and held a master's degree from St. Mary's University in Minnesota in philanthropy and development — had big ideas for Clarksdale, a town of about 17,800 people.

The town is well known to blues fans as the home of the crossroads, where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil for skills with a guitar. Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi native Morgan Freeman is part owner of the Ground Zero Blues Club in town. Clarksdale also is hounded by the poverty typical of the Mississippi Delta.

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