Raven-Symoné is a certified nut job. She says that if she wouldn't hire any Black sounding names. Yet, her name is!
The View co-host is a very eccentric woman. The entertainer gave up the squeaky clean Cosby, Disney kid image and came out a raging lesbian and celebrity agitator. She's a kush rolling, Marlboro Light smoking, multi-hair dying, nutjob who fell off the wagon.
Since the Cheetah Girls broke up, Raven went wild. She had a secret pregnancy. She got involved with bisexual model/actress AzMarie Livingston and running her mouth like she's a genius of Black culture.
Raven-Symoné Pearlman joined The View in Spring 2015 along with Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Bahar, ABC's Paula Faris, comedian Michelle Collins, actress/activist Candace Cameron-Bure (of Full House fame).
The ladies debate the latest "HOT TOPICS" and often get a controversial theme going.
Today on Friday's episode of The View, Raven-Symoné does something that's not so Raven.
She pops off about the know-hows to an earning a career. She claims that having "Black names" won't get you hired.
On a segment titled "Are You Judged By Your Name?" the former Cheetah Girl, donning a fire engine-red mohawk, said she wouldn't hire anyone with a "black" sounding name.
“Can we take back 'racist' and say 'discriminatory,' because I think thats a better word," she said while laughing. "And I’m very discriminatory against the words like the ones they were saying in those names. I’m not going to hire you if your name is Watermelondrea. That’s just not going to happen. I’m not going to hire you.”
Cue the irony.....What's her name?
I bet you money, that if she wasn't a somewhat successful entertainer, I bet you she wouldn't get a job because she has a "BLACK" sounding name.
I miss them days when she played a "bubblehead" on television and not one in real life.
Actor Damon Wayans goes to the junk food media to defend his mentor, Bill Cosby.
The nation of Cosby collapsed after numerous accusations of rape and sexual assault allegations came forth. In a sworn testimony, Cosby admitted to using items that would make women extremely tired.
Wayans is not convinced that Cosby did this. He went on The Breakfast Club to defend him.
"If I was him, I would divorce my wife, wink-wink, give her all my money, and then I would go do a deposition," says the actor. "I'd have some wine and maybe a Quaalude, and I would just go off, because I don’t believe that he was raping."
"It’s a money hustle". Wayans continued, saying, "Forty years — listen, how big is his penis that it gives you amnesia for 40 years? If you listen to them talk, they go, ‘Well, the first time…’ The first time? Bitch, how many times did it happen? Just listen to what they’re saying and some of them really is unrape-able. I look at them and go, ‘You don’t want that. Get outta here.’”
Again understanding that rape is traumatic and 90% of the time, rape goes unreported.
Wayans is ignorant. Many rape victims often don't report their accuser because of power, the state of belief and money. Cosby obviously paid off women when he was caught doing it. I mean he's often trying to keep his legacy afloat. He would gladly silence an accuser if it stopped her from revealing his horrible deeds.
The famous Cosby frown.
Wayans don't see that some rape victims would commit suicide or have an unwanted pregnancy.
When Cosby was accused by a woman of fathering her child, he denied it. Shawn Upshaw, the mistress and her daughter Autumn Jackson tried to extort him. Jackson got some time in the iron college for this event. Many people sided with Cosby on that issue. Despite failed attempts to get a DNA test, Cosby refuses to acknowledge this.
Wayans should be very careful about his words. He could face some serious backlash for his comments. Trust me, rape is not funny or a rite of passage. It's a serious criminal act and it could land you in the iron college for LIFE or in some cases death.
In this gotcha media society, you have to have proof that a rape occurred.
Concern trolls often shame a rape victim.
"She shouldn't have dressed like that!"
"She always slept around!"
"She said that she wanted to have sex!"
"She cries rape to get attention!"
"He should be raped in prison!"
"He had it coming"
"Like, most high school boys, they don't care if they bang the teacher!"
Did you know the first Black family of comedy are the Wayans.
Keenen Ivory, Damon, Marlon, Shawn, Kim, Damon, Jr., Chaunte, and Damien Wayans are entertainers, comedians, writers and producers. They each had a hand in either a movie, a sitcom or animated series.
Keenen and Damon created In Living Color, the iconic sketch comedy on Fox. The show lasted for five seasons. It sparked the careers of Jennifer Lopez, Jim Carrey and Larry Wilmore.
Jared Fogle was fired out the cannon by fast food giant Subway after he admitted to harbor child porn.
Last month, the entertainment industry was rocked by a major celebrity for a fast food giant being caught up in sex scandal. Matter of fact, this scandal may have ended a longtime relationship with the company that motivated him to "Eat Fresh".
Jared Fogle made international buzz by losing 300 lbs after doing proper exercises and eating Subway sandwiches. He would visit his Subway store above his apartment near the campus of Indiana University.
Subway found their pitchman.
And for nearly 20 years, Jared was the man who told celebrities and young children to eat healthy.
He was a major celebrity. Around Indianapolis, his hometown, people knew who he was.
Or did they?
Well last month, the feds did a "NO KNOCK" and ordered an immediate seizure of Jared's computers, phone and television. Apparently there were some things on those devices that got the feds attention.
Now, as expected Jared has admitted to harboring child porn on his devices.
Jared was caught up in a tryst with a franchise owner and a 16 year old girl who he had an affair with.
So I am guessing that Jared wanted to a two piece. He also groomed this franchisee and girl to get a little nasty with him.
Jared also wanted to make a franchisee, her daughter and cousin join Craigslist to make $$$$$$.
We'll see when the charges net some federal time out or freezer burn. The news is shocking.
Subway had no choice but to fire him out the cannon. They've wiped Jared like they done Hulk Hogan and Bill Cosby.
Matter of fact, Jared made over $20 million in revenue, trademark and celebrity.
His family and lawyer offer no comment to the plea deal or the former business partner Russell Taylor.
Taylor was involved in the filming of children at his residence. When the feds came a knocking, the scenario became clear, there's more than just him. Taylor sung like a canary. Jared was fingered as the mastermind.
By the way, hackers got into Ashley Madison. The website is social dating website devoted to anonymous encounters between married couples or singles.
Josh Duggar, the former activist for the Focus on The Family destroyed his family's meal ticket.
The clown tent is full of clowns. Josh Duggar spoke and shook hands with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Wisconsin gov. Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum.
His allegations of molesting his younger brothers and sisters finally came to full circle when they decided to pull the plug on TLC's 19 and Counting.
JimBob and Michelle Duggar hid their oldest son Josh's transgressions involving him molesting his young siblings. That right there made the executives pull the plug on the mega hit reality show.
Now the big family from Northwestern Arkansas is now out of a job. They were fired out the cannon.
Megyn the Outrage Princess couldn't save this.
Last week Jared Fogle got dumped from Subway after allegations of child pornography surfaced.
Bill Cosby's nation collapse after the AP unearthed his last encounters in court. He admitted to drugging women and raping them.
Bill Cosby's best friend Whoopi Goldberg turned on him.
The nation of Cosby has collapsed. The controversy surrounding Bill Cosby has finally reached the breaking point. Many celebrities have dumped Cosby as a friend.
One celebrity is now peddling back her comments. She was defending Cosby and it happened to grab John Oliver's attention. So on Last Week Tonight, Oliver cataloged every event that The View host Whoopi Goldberg defending Cosby and other celebrities caught up in some crazy stuff.
While she agree that Cosby is innocent until proven guilty, the defense of him is now over.
"I gotta say all the information out there kind of points to guilt," she said. "It looks bad, Bill."
She went on The View to express disappointment in him. She also blasted the critics for not understanding how things are often taken out of context. Golberg said she wasn't defending his actions.
Cosby has went into hiding. He still denies that he's done wrong but he knows that his legacy is ruined.
Many Americans once looked to Bill Cosby as the perfect father figure. I mean I grew up watching The Cosby Show, Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids and A Diff'rent World.
Now every time I see Cosby's face, I just cringe!
I mean this is bigger than I've thought!
Before I move on I want to say that Rosie Perez is out. Perez had announced that she's bouncing off The View because of dysfunction between her and Rosie O'Donnell (who left earlier). Rosie will return to Broadway and probably do guest hosting.
The Cosby Show's alumni Raven Symone and comedian Michelle Collins recently joined The View.
They will formally be introduced in the Fall season.
TV icon Jared Fogle under investigation for child porn.
Jared Fogle lives outside of Indianapolis. He and his family didn't expect a "NO KNOCK" at 6am.
The spokesman for fast food giant Subway had his home raided this morning. Fogle became the face of Subway after his friend published the story of a 6'2'' 425 lb. Indiana University freshman taking action on his weight. Jared would visit the local Subway in his apartment building. He would take motives to lose the fat and stands proudly at 200 lbs.
Now you can say that he's lost his $$$$$$$ gig. Apparently he's been fired out the cannon.
He has been active in recruiting kids, athletes and entertainers in the Subway Challenge.
Subway restaurants are located within the United States, Canada, and 108 other countries.
I swear on my life, there's a Subway Restaurant within two blocks of one another. There are over 44,000 restaurants. You find the United States either in Walmart, a gas station, a truck stops, shopping malls, stand alone stores, college campuses, cruise ships, airports, and military bases.
My god, there everywhere.
He and his former business partner are under investigation for harboring child porn.
Subway had put the brakes on Jared for the time being.
The FBI raided the Zionsville home in the early. The 37 year old pitchman for the fast food giant is facing controversy over allegedly harboring child pornography. The investigation centered around Russell Taylor, a former business partner for The Jared Foundation, an organization devoted to ending childhood obesity. Taylor is already in the county lockup awaiting trial. He was busted two months ago for harboring porn.
First Lady Michelle Obama at Subway. Jared Fogle is on the far left.
Taylor tried to put the bed sheets over his neck but failed when correction guards got to him. Now on suicide watch, Taylor is spilling the beans. He is fingering Fogle as the ringleader.
So of course, that's why the NO KNOCK came.
Officials at Subway's Milford, Conn., corporate headquarters issued a statement expressing shock about the search.
“We are shocked about the news and believe it is related to a prior investigation of a former Jared Foundation employee," the statement read. "We are very concerned and will be monitoring the situation closely. We don’t have any more details at this point.”
The Indianapolis Star and the AP report that the controversy may have damaged Fogle's legacy.
Subway said in a statement that it is "very concerned" about the raid, which it believes "is related to a prior investigation" of a former employee of the Jared Foundation, an organization founded by Fogle to raise awareness about childhood obesity. Subway did not immediately say whether that employee was former foundation executive director Russell Taylor.
The company had removed references to Fogle from its website by late afternoon and issued another statement, saying the two "have mutually agreed to suspend their relationship due to the current investigation."
"Jared continues to cooperate with authorities and he expects no actions to be forthcoming," the company said. "Both Jared and Subway agree that this was the appropriate step to take."
Federal prosecutors in May filed a criminal complaint charging Taylor, 43, with seven counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. Fogle issued a statement after the charges were filed saying he was shocked by the allegations and was severing all ties with Taylor.
The Indianapolis Star photographed Fogle stepping out of a police evidence van parked outside his home Tuesday morning, and he left the house just after noon with attorney Ron Elberger. Fogle declined to comment, but Elberger later released a statement saying his client is cooperating with authorities.
"Jared has been cooperating, and continues to cooperate, with law enforcement in their investigation of unspecified charges, and looks forward to its conclusion," Elberger said.
During a search of Taylor's home this spring, federal investigators say they discovered a cache of sexually explicit photos and videos Taylor allegedly produced by secretly filming minor children at the home. They said they also allegedly found more than 400 videos of child pornography on computers and storage media recovered from Taylor's home office in his Indianapolis residence.
Taylor's attorney, Brad Banks, said Tuesday his client was briefly hospitalized after the allegations surfaced but is now in federal custody. Sheriff's officials have said Taylor tried to take his own life in jail.
"The only thing I can say is that I'm aware that there's an ongoing investigation," Banks said.
Tim Horty, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Indianapolis, said prosecutors "are moving forward" with the case against Taylor. He declined to comment on Tuesday's raid at Fogle's home.
Neighbors said Fogle and his wife entertained frequently and would say hello but that they didn't see the couple outside a lot.
Jacob Schrader, 19, who lives across from Fogle's house, said the pitchman seems "like a pretty private guy" and that he'd only seen him about a dozen times in the last five or six years.
"He's like an endangered species or something like that," Schrader said.
Subway, which is based in Milford, Connecticut, and is privately held, has struggled in recent years. Last year, industry tracker Technomic said average sales for Subway stores in the U.S. declined 3 percent from the previous year. The company has about 44,000 locations around the world.
Shocking. What's your thoughts on this controversy?
It just got worse. Now entertainer Bill Cosby officially loses his cash cow. The Cosby Show, A Diff'rent World, Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids and his movies are pulled from the roster.
The damage has now effected everything with his name on it suffers.
The law is searching for recent victims now that entertainer Bill Cosby admitted to spiking the punch.
He's facing an onslaught of lawsuits from women who claimed that he rape them. Some are telling the junk food media that he slips knock out drugs in the drinks. On occasions he inappropriately touch them. He was forced to pay up a couple of women in disclosed cases.
The AP got a hold of the disclosed cases. Cosby's attorneys were trying to keep them sealed. The judge ordered them unsealed and the AP broke the story last night.
Soon after the release, Cosby saw his world collapse before his eyes.
I Spy, The Bill Cosby Show, The New Bill Cosby Show, Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids, The Electric Company, The Cosby Show, A Diff'rent World, Kids Say The Darnedest Things, Little Bill, Fatherhood, Cosby and movies featuring entertainer Bill Cosby are off the air.
Every historically Black college dropped Cosby's name from the roster. His comedy tour is suspended indefinitely. Bookstores and music stores are pulling his comedy albums, his television shows on DVD, and his books.
Bounce TV pull everything Cosby. Bounce TV ends A Diff'rent World and Fat Albert. They will avoid playing movies featuring Cosby.
Viacom's Centric on BET, TV Land, Nick At Nite and MTV 2 dropped The Cosby Show and Cosby.
This could be the end for America's favorite TV dad!
Cosby was one of the best American TV dads. Now the embattled entertainer admits he's drugged women and raped women.
The devastating news about entertainer Bill Cosby comes out. It's true that the famed comedian drugged nearly three dozen women and had sex with them. This news was broken by the AP and the junk food media is reporting it.
I just finished listening to Michelle Miller of CBS do a report on it. She almost teared up in her report.
Bill Cosby admitted in 2005 that he got quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with, and that he gave the sedative to at least one woman and "other people," according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
That woman and a second woman testified in the same case that they knowingly took quaaludes from him, according to the unsealed documents.
The AP had gone to court to compel the release of the documents from the deposition in a sexual abuse lawsuit filed by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand — the first of a cascade of sexual abuse lawsuits against him. Cosby's lawyers had objected on the grounds that it would embarrass their client.
Cosby settled that lawsuit under confidential terms in 2006. His lawyers in the Philadelphia case did not immediately return phone calls Monday. Constand consented to be identified but did not want to comment, her lawyer said Monday.
Cosby, 77, has been accused by more than three dozen women of sexual misconduct, including allegations by many that he drugged and raped them in incidents dating back more than four decades. Cosby has never been criminally charged, and most of the accusations are barred by statutes of limitations.
Cosby, giving sworn testimony in the lawsuit accusing him of sexual assaulting Constand at his home in Pennsylvania in 2005, said he got seven quaalude prescriptions in the 1970s. The lawyer for Constand asked if he had kept the sedatives through the 1990s — after they were banned — but was frustrated by objections from Cosby's lawyer.
"When you got the quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?" lawyer Dolores M. Troiani asked.
"Yes," Cosby answered on Sept. 29, 2005.
Cosby's legacy is like Ghost Dad.
"Did you ever give any of these young women the quaaludes without their knowledge?"
Cosby's lawyer again objected, leading Troiani to petition the federal judge to force Cosby to cooperate.
Cosby later said he gave Constand three half-pills of Benadryl, although Troiani in the documents voices doubt that was the drug involved. The two other women who testified on Constand's behalf said they had knowingly been given quaaludes.
Three of the women accusing Cosby of sexually assaulting them have a defamation lawsuit pending against him in Massachusetts. They allege that he defamed them when his agents said their accusations were untrue. Cosby is trying to get their case thrown out before discovery.
Cosby had fought the AP's efforts to unseal the testimony, with his lawyer arguing the deposition could reveal details of Cosby's marriage, sex life and prescription drug use.
"It would be terribly embarrassing for this material to come out," lawyer George M. Gowen III argued in June. He said the public should not have access to what Cosby was forced to say as he answered questions under oath from the accuser's lawyer nearly a decade ago.
"Frankly ... it would embarrass him, (and) it would also prejudice him in eyes of the jury pool in Massachusetts," Gowen said.
U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno asked last month why Cosby was fighting the release of his sworn testimony, given that the accusations in the Temple woman's lawsuit were already in the public eye.
"Why would he be embarrassed by his own version of the facts?" Robreno said.
Cosby resigned in December from the board of trustees at Temple, where he was the popular face of the Philadelphia school in advertisements, fundraising campaigns and commencement speeches.
That's 36 to 40 women who claim that Cosby had claimed that the entertainer had drugged them and had sex with them. A handful of them are suing him.
Each of these lawsuits are aimed at the entertainer.
The statue of limitations may have stopped the law from cuffing him, There's going to be state laws eventually passed in his honor.
Here's what's worse in this whole ordeal. His name will be forever sealed in this. We'll still give him props for his charity, his entertainment legacy and his thoughts on Black America. But are you willing to see all that's given, are you willing to forgive him?
Cosby admitted to taking advantage of women. I don't think Cosby will recover from this controversy.
Most of the ones who accused him are White women. Automatically doomed.
His lifetime of work from movies, sitcoms, animation and comedy have now collapsed. His marriage is probably doomed and no one wants to associate with him anymore.
Cosby's charitable work will now be questioned. Cosby's doctrines on family values are ignored. His public speaking tours are gone.
NBC cancelled all ties to Cosby last year after he kept denying it. At the time he was facing less than 10 women. Now he's bottomed up towards 40 women claiming that he's raped them.
ABC adds entertainer Raven-Symoné to The View. A throwback from her hit Disney series That's So Raven.
That's so Raven.
Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman professionally is an actress, singer, model and activist.
She was a Cheetah Girl. She was Hanging With Mr. Cooper. She was a Cosby kid. She was a singer who debuted an album at the young age of 7. Men drooled over her when she done the modeling gig.
Now during the daytime, she will give her opinion on the latest issues.
ABC announced that The View will continue another season with Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie Perez, Nicole Wallace and Raven-Symoné.
She is the youngest co-host so far to join the daytime program.
It's struggling since the departure of Barbara Walters and the recent cannon firings of Sherri Shepard, Jenny McCarthy and Rosie O'Donnell. O'Donnell's return was clouded with controversy.
Whoopi Goldberg, Nicole Wallace, Rosie Perez, and Raven-Symoné. ABC announced that Raven-Symoné will continue on as a co-host and have a formal debut in the Fall.
Whoopi was appointed as moderator and Rosie often clashed with her over that. The cannon fired her out again. Although O'Donnell stated that she's dealing with personal matters involving her estranged wife, the junk food media knew it was a matter of time before she was going to be loaded in the cannon.
CBS daytime is winning the war. The Talk is in striking distance of The View and this is concerning to Walters and co-executive producer Bill Wolff.
Adding Raven-Symoné could be beneficial. I mean she's extremely passionate about issues like McCarthy. So expect a dash of controversial statements from Raven.
Her recent features were on Fox's Empire and ABC's black-ish.
Gone are the Disney themed cliches and the normal. She is extremely eccentric but still a down to earth woman to meet.
She turned all that away. She picked up a pack of smokes, dyed her hair like Miley Cyrus and started the spiral. Like most Disney stars, they hated the image. They had to erase the image. Raven-Symoné is no different.
A few years back, the entertainer publicly acknowledged that she's a lesbian and told tales of being tired of the being a "label".
She resides in either Los Angeles or Atlanta with her daughter and girlfriend AzMarie Livingston.
black-ish deals with a family member coming out as a Republican.
ABC sitcom featuring Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross takes on Black conservatism.
black-ish is a go for a second season. The show is one of the very few Black sitcoms on right now.
It was created by Anderson, Kenya Barris, Laurence Fishburne and Larry Wilmore.
black-ish, Fresh off the Boat and Cristela were ABC freshman sitcoms that featured a diverse family.
In the end, two survived the cut. Cristela was cancelled.
black-ish is still strong despite a slight drop in ratings. Mostly due to the Fox juggernaut Empire hitting the 9pm spot. Modern Family and black-ish had strong lead ins before Empire took to the scene.
The cast of black-ish, a hit comedy on ABC.
In this episode, it certainly pokes fun at the Republican Party and Black conservatives. Even a jab at that cable news channel that scares White folks.
It also gives you an idea of Black voters and their support of the Democratic Party. The Republican Party still has trouble cracking over 20% of the vote. The party is struggling to pull in Black and Hispanic voters.
Stallmigos Ted Cruz (R-TX), Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Benjamin Carson are non-White candidates.
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal may declare his intentions. Another non-White candidate.
Carly Fiorina is a woman. A woman who is running besides Hillary Clinton.
But yet, they're not even appealing to Black voters.
In the words of black-ish: Republicans! We Just Don't Do That!
Reason you may ask!
The Republican Party comes off as condescending assholes. They don't understand the struggle. Even though many Black Americans are struggling with jobs, education and a sense of pride, the Black community continues to put their trust in the Democratic Party. The Democrats believe in the middle class, fairness and a leg up. They encourage hard work for equal pay and time off.
Many believe that the rich should pay a little more in taxes because it's the driving factor to why the middle class is shrinking. That's probably why Obama mentioned this during his Georgetown University speech.
Dre and Bow meet Junior's girlfriend's parents. They find out they're Black Republicans.
Republicans can say that Obama hasn't done anything for Black America. They are right. I mean he's got the My Brother's Keeper policy and it's hardly being mentioned by the junk food media.
He's proposed many ideas that would certainly help the middle class. The minimum wage, fair labor practices, banning non-gender/sexuality/criminal history hiring policies and an infrastructure bill were on the docket.
This stuff is stalled with a Republican congress. They're too busy trying to ban late term abortion and allowing a Canadian conglomerate to build a pipeline through the Midwest.
Republicans will say Obama's doing too much for Black America whenever he speaks on issues facing Black America. And for the record, it's been going on for over 50 years, it doesn't seem like it's going to change in the seven years of Obama's presidency nor in the years to come.
The first thing that comes out of the mouth of a Republican is the past. They can't admit that the Democratic Party changed its ways. The political party nominated twice the first Black candidate for president.
Second, many successful and failed Democratic nominees pull over 90% of the Black vote.
Republicans make race an issue now that Barack Obama wanted to run. They believe that passing restrictive voting measures may prevent those from voting on race, gender, and political affiliations.
They believe that Blacks are committing voter fraud and the such.
Yeah, Blacks are proud that we got the first and we're not ashamed to vote for Obama.
Republicans offer nothing of interest to the Black community.
In the minds of most Republicans and conservatives, they see Black people as criminals, lazy, immoral and believe race is over in America. Conservatives expects us to owe them for 159 years of their past Republican policies. Note the Republicans of yesterday are the Democrats today. The Democrats of yesterday are the Republicans now.
The Republican Party is like cocaine. It's 90% WHITE 10% EVERYTHING else.
This episode, Elephant in the Room is dealing with Dre (Andre) and (Rainbow) Bow's oldest son Junior joining the Young Republicans club. This revelation shocks the family.
Junior joins a political party club because of his views on issues and he's trying to win affection from a hot girl who is a member. Dre and Bow meet Junior's new girl's family. And things gone terribly wrong.
Bumper Robinson plays a Black Republican father.
In a separate segment, oldest daughter Zoey gets a pair of glasses. And her younger siblings Jack and Diane hate the fact that she's getting more attention for wearing them.
It also features a clip of Real Time with Bill Maher.
The comedy series will rile up conservatives. Because of the liberal views of the characters and it certainly mocks Republicans notably Benjamin Carson, the only Black candidate so far running in the clown car.
The cast of black-ish was there for the White House Corespondents Dinner.
Located in Xenia Township, Ohio in the census designated town of Wilberforce is two historically Black universities are on the verge of fiscal and educational disaster.
Central State University is facing fiscal programs.
Wilberforce University established in 1856 is facing not only fiscal programs but the loss of educational accreditation.
Students and facility are pretty damn pissed about the conditions of the institution. They wanted to protest the ungodly conditions and call for the cannon to fire. In that cannon, comes the president, and head student facilities manager. Students want them fired out the cannon.
The student enrollment has dropped over 15% from the last decade and it seems like nothing is changing.
Wilberforce University is trying to plug the leaks. Because if the Ohio Department of Education repeals the school's academic standings, it's toast. It will be doomed and it will likely close.
Algeania Freeman is hoping that Wilberforce will keep its glory intact despite calls for her to bounce.
The two previous presidents were disastrous. Floyd Flake and Patricia Hardaway didn't give two about the college. They spent money on their friends and allowed the university to fall apart.
Central State University is about 1/4 mile down the road. It became a college in the 1887 and has a top ranked NCAA-II football team and famous marching band.
Both that could all be wiped away when the budget comes out.
The Ohio Board of Regents and State Auditor put CSU on fiscal watch. It's in danger of being taken over by the state. It has 90 days to get its act in order.
Central State University is located in Wilberforce, Ohio about 35 miles from Dayton.
CSU president Dr. Cynthia Jackson-Hammond is dismissing the possibility and is working on trying to keep the university above the water.
In a press release statement:
“Central State University is aggressively working to improve the University’s financial balance as we recruit and retain more college-ready Ohio students. Over the past two years (FY 2013 & FY 2014), independent, external audits have confirmed sound accounting practices. Those audits contained “no qualifications,” which indicate that this institution is fiscally sound and implements quality standards of its fiscal operations. The major contributor to the decrease in Central State’s Senate Bill 6 composite score is the decline in student enrollment, which is evident at many colleges across the nation. Although the University receives on average 5,500 applications a year, many of these high potential students are plagued by their limited ability to meet the parental/family contributions required by the Federal Pell Grant Program Changes to the Federal Pell Grant Program and also the Parent Plus Loan have negatively impacted college affordability for first-generation college students. Tuition and fees represent 46 percent of the University’s revenue streams annually; thus, there is a direct correlation between student enrollment and retention and university revenue.”
CSU has seen a decrease larger than Wilberforce. It had a drop 30% in registered students.
Both are Black historical colleges. Wilberforce University is oldest institution in country.
Wilberforce University is a private, coed, liberal arts historically black university (HBCU) located in Wilberforce, Ohio. Affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, it was the first college to be owned and operated by African Americans. It participates in the United Negro College Fund. It's a private university.
Central State University, commonly referred to as CSU, is a historically black university (HBCU) located in Wilberforce, Ohio, United States. Central State University is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. It's a public university.
Established by the state legislature in 1887 as a two-year program for normal (teacher) and industrial training, it was originally located with Wilberforce University, a four-year institution devoted to classical academic education. In 1941 the college gained a four-year curriculum, independent status in 1947, and was renamed as Central State College in 1951. With further development, it gained university status in 1965. In 2014, Central State University received designation as an 1890 Land-Grant Institution.
Mo'Nique got banned from Hollywood. Lee Daniels confirms that the Oscar award winning actress/comedian got shafted for being too much of a diva.
Empire is a big hit.
The Lee Daniels drama featuring Terrance Howard and Taraj P Henson is growing in viewership. For the latest episode, it drew 15.4 million viewers. This is one of the biggest success for the Fox network.
Lee Daniels also was the producer for Precious, a movie that featured Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, and Mariah Carey. This film marked the acting debut of Sidibe.
Sidibe is a featured guest on Empire.
Mariah Carey who is known by most to be a diva is being blackballed from movies. Joining her is the comedian and Oscar award winning actress Mo'Nique.
Mo'Nique who is one of the "Queens of Comedy" starred in the UPN sitcom The Parkers and her late night show on BET.
Lee Daniels, the producer of The Butler, Precious and television series Empire.
Mo'Nique is a diva. She doesn't apologize for being self confident and determined. But in Hollywood, if you're too much of a diva, you're going to be shut out of the industry. And it seems to follow a deep trend of Black entertainers being doomed after success.
The entertainer talked to Inside Edition to tell her fans that she's doing "fine". She was telling the reporter that Lee Daniels told her that movie executives are "done" with her.
Lee Daniels put it in simple terms: Mo'Nique was too much of a headache. She would make demands and throw around the Black. She couldn't figure the politics of Hollywood. She got shut down.
Although Lee Daniels praised her for her talents, he said that she self-inflicted herself. It's not his fault. He didn't throw her under the bus.
Empire is the money maker for the time being.
Mo'Nique fired back. “It wasn’t that I was blackballed like Mr. Daniels said… the phone was ringing and the scripts were coming but the offers that were associated with them made me say ‘I can’t accept that,’” she explained, adding that taking such offers would have sent a negative message to other African-American women.
“If we continue to accept these low offers, how do we make a change?” she asked.
It seems like this is a feud. Mo'Nique believes Daniels told executives that she's trouble.
And with that said, here's the video of Mo'Nique responding to the controversy
Empire is on Fox and it's a go! They already got this green light for a second season. It will finish the season with 10 episodes.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama meet the Jackie Robinson West All Stars.
Bit of sad news in Chicago. The miracle little league baseball team The Jackie Robinson West All Stars were stripped of their U.S. Little League title. The controversy ensued after it was revealed that some of their players came from other areas of Chicago.
The Jackie Robinson West All Stars went to the World Series and lost to South Korea. But their story was going to be a movie. It seems like it may be on hold.
The coach, the manager and promotional staffers were suspended indefinitely.
Their movie inspired rise came to a crushing end. The team was even recognized by their hometown resident, the president Barack Obama.
Wow, this is heartbreaking.
CBS reports that officials from the Illinois and Nevada teams spoke to CBS News before the league announced its decision.
"Little League has very specific rules in terms of where somebody should live in order to play for a particular little league," Evergreen Park Little League Vice President Chris Janes of Illinois said. "JRW's boundaries are very specific and do not extend into any suburbs."
Nevada's Mountain Ridge made it all the way to the U.S. final, eventually losing to Jackie Robinson West.
"They tricked people, and they blindsided others, and they did those things that were strategic but illegal," Mountain Ridge coach Ashton Cave said.
The legacy is tarnished.
"It's just a matter of integrity and dignity, and it's just awful," Mountain Ridge parent Kristi Black said.
An inquiry by Little League International last year exonerated the Jackie Robinson squad, but new information reopened the residency wrangle, much to the consternation of the Chicago team's boosters.
"We had to provide birth certificates, proof of schools, light bills, so we had to prove our residency in order to join the team," Jackie Robinson West parent Venisa Green said before Wednesday's decision.
At Wednesday's press conference, Green said she was "blindsided" by the league's decision and that she heard about it on the radio as she was driving her son Brandon to school.
"It is amazing to me that whenever African-Americans exceed the expectations that there is always going to be fault," Green said.
Jackson called on the Las Vegas team to not accept its newly awarded championship, saying the team "did not earn" it
Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke is the new toy for the racist right.
Oh, great! Another Black leader trying to tells "US BLACK FOLK" how to act!
Another condescending jackass who runs to cameras piss pouring on the Black community while playing the role of a Black leader.
David A. Clarke, Jr. has appeared on Loserville and some of the radio agitators last year and it seems like he's none tired of being in the spotlight. He's the racist right's new toy. He's the Black conservative who gets praise for attacking Black America.
Clarke is an African American sheriff for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
He is a registered DEMOCRAT (or seriously an independent). He could actually be a Republican trying to win as a Democrat. Yeah, that's what's up! He's the police head of a county that has 1.4 million residents. He's Black and he's doing the Bill Cosby talk to "US BLACK MEN".
He's a damn good snake oil salesman too. While I do respect the way he goes off on them feral Black teens and young men, his approach almost sounds similar to the very agitators who make their reputation on vomiting the garbage this guy is sniffing through.
It's almost like Clarke is a White guy saying things that degrade a whole community. And he gets away with it because he's Black.
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the shooting that happened last year involving two officers killing an unarmed suspect.
Clarke is no fan of President Barack Obama. He calls the president, Rev. Perm, Attorney General Eric Holder and New York mayor Bill de Blasio a bunch of racial agitators.
He spoke to the agitators telling them that these people need to apologize to the police.
For what?
Because the president sympathizes with being profiled when he was a nobody. Or Rev. Perm on the fact he calls for justice for all unarmed citizens killed by police and vigilantes such as George Zimmerman. Or de Blasio telling his biracial son that the world looks at you different when you're black and the law pulls you over. Or Holder telling the nation that we're cowards when it comes to discussing race.
Clarke loves the cameras. He appears on Megyn The Outrage Princess and her primetime gig.
Since when is criticizing the law a crime?
For one, the president has the right criticize the law. He thought that racial profiling on Black men is probably one of the reasons to why some in the community refuse to tell the cops about serious crimes. The very fact that profiling leads to some not telling the law about criminal acts.
Obama felt that passion when Henry "Skip" Gates was arrested in his own home by Cambridge police. They didn't recognize him as a professor and reality television star. They saw him as a man trying to break into a home. Even though he told the officers that he locked himself out.
The president felt the very same way about Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. They were individuals who were unarmed but the junk food media turned them into criminals who deserve their fate.
Clarke has the right to say whatever the fuck he wants. He's given the power. The only people who love this stuff are the White extremists who felt that "one NIGGER" got in line. He knows how White folks feel when it comes to Blacks crying racism in America.
Clarke is an agitator. He is preparing to throw bombs in the potential run for Milwaukee mayor. He's going against failed gubernatorial candidate and current mayor Tom Barrett in 2016. He will run as an independent with support of Republicans.
World's most famous comedian and satirist Chris Rock has announced that he had filed for divorce.
Ahem, the entertainer is leaving nearly 20 years of marriage to his wife Malaak Compton-Rock.
Just on the peak of his successful movie this news. Now that makes the list of 2014.
The Daily Mail reports that Malaak Compton-Rock is the founder and executive director of StyleWorks, a non-profit, full-service salon that provides free services for women leaving welfare and entering the workforce.
The couple lived in Alpine, New Jersey with their two daughters, Lola Simone (born 2002) and Zahra Savannah (born 2004).
The split, announce via a statement from both parties, had been in the works for months with Rock reportedly deciding to officially end the marriage.
A source told People 'This was a long time coming. Chris has known it wasn't salvageable for a while. He was the one to file because he knew it was time to just move forward already.'
On Sunday Malaak Compton announced the split saying: 'After much contemplation and 19 years of marriage, Chris and I have decided to go our separate ways,' she said in a statement.
'Chris Rock has filed for divorce from his wife, Malaak,' he said in a statement.
'This is a personal matter and Chris requests privacy as he and Malaak work through this process and focus on their family.'
The two wed in 1996. In 2010 they were plagued by reports that Rock had fathered a child out of wedlock.
In 2007 there was speculation that they were on the rocks, but Rock defended they were 'happy.'
'The best part is just having a partner,' the Madagascar star said in 2007. 'There is no real worst part.
I'm not going to say there's a worst part. I mean, I'm a comedian – comedians like to work alone. So maybe I'm not the ideal guy to be married to, in that sense.'
Rolling Stone magazine with Lady Gaga as a feature. The entertainer admits that she was a victim of rape on the Howard Stern show on SiriusXM radio.
The Rolling Stone magazine is doing some damage control after one of its writers wrote a damning story about a woman being allegedly raped by members of a fraternity at the University of Virginia.
The managing editor for Rolling Stone, Will Dana apologized for factual discrepancies between a story that was run about an apparent Gang rape in the University of Virgina's campus. The Magazine stated that it had misplaced its trust on 'Jackie', the nickname of the student who asserted she was raped at a fraternity's party in 2012.
Dana also admitted that Rolling Stone never attempted to contact the accused, at the request of Jackie. The fraternity in question said that it did not have an officially sanctioned party on the date described, nor was the person accused actually a member of said fraternity.
The University of Virgina president Teresa Sullivan commented that the developments will not alter the university’s focus on “one of the most difficult and critical issues facing higher education today: sexual violence on college campuses.
College rape is real.
Somehow the issues of college rape falls on deaf ears when the victim is being questioned by those who believe it's a hoax. Rape allegations are serious. There's nothing funny about an accusation of rape. People are often afraid to go to the law in fear of repercussions by those who have power.
See the controversy with Bill Cosby went unheard until 2014. There's been allegations for years that Cosby has cheated on his wife. But most ignored it and often thought that as human beings, this was a personal matter. But some often question the accuser because they believe its extortion. The attempt to wrestle namesake and dollars out of the accused.
Understand that rape is rape. Nothing funny. It's a serious crime. A crime that should often carry a severe punishment of time in the iron college. Some states advocate the pills and gas for some who may end up giving the victim a STD or ending up killing their victim.
Filing a false report is also a serious crime. The time spent to solve a crime is costly. When an accuser wrongfully and willingly files a report, it can ruin the reputation of the accused.
The racist right only accepts the accused when they're mostly WHITE and privileged.
Charles C. Johnson of Got News.
For you see the agitators of the racist right, namely Charles C. Johnson of GotNews threatening to post the actual name of the alleged rape victim. Really, this is the narrative of the racist right.
BLAME THE VICTIM FOR THE CRIME THAT OCCURRED!
Johnson is totally unapologetic about releasing the name. He is getting death threats from those who believe he's crossed the line.
I'm giving Jackie until later tonight to tell the truth and then I'm going to start revealing everything about her past.
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 7, 2014
Yes they've tried to hack my site and threaten to kill me but I wasn't raised by pussies. So I'm going to continue.
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 8, 2014
Charles C. Johnson was too nutty for Breitfart and The Blaze, so he struck it out on his own. He created the GotNews website to promote the narrative that liberals are contributing to victimhood.
Some of the stories posted by Johnson usually involve victim shaming stories that the conservative agitators use to debunk the victim's claims.
It's been done in the Trayvon Martin shooting. It's been done in the Michael Brown shooting. It's been done in the Eric Garner shooting. It's being done right now in the Tamir Rice shooting.
Each of these individuals were either unarmed or in their right to operate a firearm. But to the racist right and those who support them, they're nothing but THUGS and NIGGERS who had it coming.
This victim allegedly named "JACKIE" and a picture surfaced of the victim, I don't want to post the picture. It's not worth it. I mean posting of the name by the agitator is sickening enough. I mean I even cringe when the name was posted.
While I couldn't squeeze all the things happening during the weekend. I wanted to briefly cover some of the musings.
A pregnant woman in Ferguson, Missouri loss sight in her left eye after a non-lethal bean bag projectile went through a glass of her boyfriend's vehicle. She was protesting the decision. Her boyfriend's car was decorated with tributes to Michael Brown.
A Michigan man was stopped in Pontiac, Michigan by an officer on a call that he was looking "suspicious" by having his hands in his pocket. I'm not sure if this was staged or not, but it made me concerned.
We wait for the grand jury decision (not holding my breathe) on the Eric Garner case. Garner was placed in a chokehold by a NYPD officer. The grand jury is looking into whether excessive force and involuntary manslaughter should be placed on the officer. Garner was unarmed and officer Daniel Pantale grabbed him. Garner told the arresting officers he couldn't breathe and it didn't stop the wrangling down. After two minutes he was unconscious. They waited another three minutes before they could get medical assistance. He was pronounced dead upon arrival to the hospital. Bill de Blasio and the NYPD police chief are trying to calm the potential for a public backlash.
As Republican state attorney general Mike DeWine gets involved in the Cleveland police shooting of Tamir Rice, the public believes that the two officers who shot Rice will not be indicted.
The Black Friday sales were at a low. Trouble looms for struggling big box stores. Too many discounts happened before Black Friday. Some businesses opened on Thanksgiving to serve customers.
Congressman Pete King (R-NY) and Rat Face Mark Levin want the president to apologize to Darren Wilson. The controversial agitator and his Islamophobic lawmaker buddy wants the president to invite the shooter of Michael Brown to the White House to public acknowledge he was wrong. Again the Republicans want the president to apologize. The very same ones who believe he apologizes for America. C'mon be serious.
Florida Republican official went to the social networks to say that Darren Wilson should be given a medal and the protesters should get their asses showered with the water cannons.
Bill Cosby was one of the most trusted individuals in the world. He ranked really high. But after allegations of rape by numerous women came forth, his stock tumbled. Nickelodeon pulled the plug on The Cosby Show. All shows that feature Bill Cosby are pulled. That means Fat Albert, iSpy, The Bill Cosby Show, A Diff'rent World, Cosby, Little Bill are off the roster. He recently resigned as an adviser to Temple University. The colleges cut ties with him. Some comedy clubs have banned him. Years of work, down the drain for the world's most favorite dad and complainer of the Black community.
Agitator says that Blacks kills more people than anyone else.
The failed 2008 presidential candidate has his nerve. Mr. 9/11 himself, Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor got his talking points straight off the racist right web,
In a heated debate on GOP Sundays with Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Mr. 9/11 caused a stir.
The racist right was cheering the statements made by Mr. 9/11.
GOP Sundays focused on the president's immigration actions, the Cosby scandal and the looming decision by a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, the president, Stallmigo Ted Cruz (R-TX), Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) all had an opportunity to discuss these issues.
After they exit the stage, here comes the agitators. Giuliani, who makes a living selling LifeLock comes to GOP Sundays to wank off about black-on-black crime. He appears on Meet The Press.
He has the guts to say “Ninety-three percent of blacks are killed by other blacks. I would like to see the attention paid to that that you are paying to this.”
That led to a heated Obama News contributor Dyson to disspell the false equivalency.
“Black people who kill black people go to jail,” Dyson said. “White people who are policemen who kill black people do not go to jail.”
Chuck Todd is testing the waters and hoping he doesn't drown in them. The ratings from NBC News is sinking badly. Face The Nation is on the rise and This Week is in striking distance. It seems like the best way to keep relevant is bring on agitators, washed up politicians, unaccomplished politicians and policy wonks,
The racist right of course will talk about it. They will welcome Mr. 9/11 with open arms on their programs. They have no shame.
The decision could come any day now. Darren Wilson's fate rest on the decision.
More fallout from the controversy surrounding entertainer Bill Cosby. The entertainer is facing numerous accusations of rape by more than one woman. Count two hands and three fingers.
Over 14 women came out against America's dad and chief complainer of the Black community.
The 79-year old entertainer has gotten the pink slip. NBC pulls the plug on the untitled sitcom that Cosby was developing for the struggling network.
On top of that he's been even more silent on the new round of accusations from actress Janice Dickerson.
It wasn't clear how far along the NBC project was, with the Hollywood Reporter saying that the network had never gotten a final script. Cosby was expected to play another "family patriarch" type of role, one that revolved around three married daughters. An NBC spokesperson would say only that it's "no longer under development." The network's move follows a decision by Netflix to scrap its own Cosby project.
Dickinson became one, and the most visible, of a number of women who accused comedian Bill Cosby of committing sexual harassment and rape years before in multiple separate incidents.
Numerous women have recently come forward with similar allegations, with the incidents allegedly spread over almost 40 years of the comedian's career. While many of the stories being told by the women are remarkably consistent in their accounts.
Criminal charges have not been filed against Cosby, although he is known to have settled out of court in confidential agreements with one woman making similar accusations in 2006.
Dickinson has not asked for any financial or other type of compensation.
Quite ironic, that Family Guy mocked Bill Cosby and the situation.
Comedian Hannibal Buress did a comedy routine where Buress called Cosby a serial rapist, artist Barbara Bowman repeated her long-standing accusations that Cosby drugged, sexually assaulted and raped her over a two year period beginning in 1985 when she was 17 years old.
Hollywood Elsewhere published an essay by journalist Joan Tarshis claiming that Cosby raped her in 1969 when she was 19 years old.
Netflix pulled the plug on the Bill Cosby special.
Some of the performances and college speaking tours that he was going to do while on tour are postponed.
In a NPR interview, the host asked Cosby about the scandal. He clammed up and shook his head. By his silence he made it worse.
Allegations of rape are circulating against America's dad and chief complainer of the Black community.
The allegations against entertainer Bill Cosby are bigger than expected. I didn't even know about this, but I am going to cover this. We will follow this controversy on Journal de la Reyna.
The allegations resurfaced Monday, thanks to a Twitter campaign that immediately backfired. Followers were asked to "meme" photos of Cosby, but all the memes that flooded in were about rape.
Barbara Bowman says she reported her alleged rape at the time, but no one took her seriously.
In a CNN interview, Bowman claimed she was drugged then raped, though she said she never saw drugs. When she woke up, she was not wearing her clothes and knew she had been touched by Cosby.
"I didn't really talk about it much because nobody was believing it. And it was just, I was in a situation, I was in New York, my job was to work hard, go to classes, don't ask questions. Just be grateful for this amazing opportunity. Don't mess it up," she said.
Bowman says she was 17 and an aspiring actress when she met Cosby in 1985. She considered him to be her mentor. She said the sexual abuse began after she turned 18.
"When these things started happening, I wasn't silent. I told my agent what was going down," she said.
Bowman is one of 14 women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by the comedian.
Cosby's representative said they don't want to respond to old, resurfacing allegations. Over the years, Cosby has repeatedly denied sexually assaulting anyone and has never been charged with a crime.
"In 1989 though, I did go to a lawyer. A friend talked me into doing that, eventually. He laughed me right out of the office. It was terrible. It was humiliating. It was scary," Bowman said.
Wikipedia explains his achievements and the controversy surrounding the entertainer.
Dr. William Henry Cosby, Jr. (professionally known as Bill Cosby) is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer, educator, musician and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at the hungry i in San Francisco and various other clubs, then landed a starring role in the 1960s action show I Spy. He later starred in his own sitcom, The Bill Cosby Show. He was one of the major performers on the children's television series The Electric Company during its first two seasons, and created the educational cartoon comedy series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, about a group of young friends growing up in the city. Cosby also acted in a number of films.
During the 1980s, Cosby produced and starred in one of the decade's defining sitcoms, The Cosby Show, which aired eight seasons from 1984 to 1992. It was the number one show in America for five straight years (1985–89). The sitcom highlighted the experiences and growth of an affluent African-American family. He also produced the spin-off sitcom A Different World, which became second to The Cosby Show in ratings. He starred in the sitcom Cosby from 1996 to 2000 and hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things for two seasons.
In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included him in his book The 100 Greatest African Americans.
In 1976, Cosby earned a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His dissertation discussed the use of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids as a teaching tool in elementary schools.
NBC was working with the Cos to develop a sitcom. They probably pulled the plug on that one.
David Letterman pulled the plug on an appearance from Cosby. Letterman got Regis Philbin as a guest.
This is a huge freaking controversy. Remember a few years back, Kevin Clash, the puppeteer who voiced Sesame Street's Elmo for twenty years. He was caught up in a scandal. He was being sued by three men who accused him of rape. These men said they were young and people didn't believe them. They said that Clash had a major influence on Sesame Street. That forced him to announce he was gay. He settled with some of his accusers and went into hiding.
