Be safe this Halloween. Drink and party responsibly.
What's the deal with white people wearing racially offensive attire?
Two incidents that happened over the weekend has social media lit up. You know some White people believe it's funny to dress up in attire to represent a theme. It's pretty damn offensive when White people dress up in attire disrespecting Latinos, Muslims, Native Americans and Black people.
Then of course they play the hapless victim when they're called out for their subvert racism.
University of Central Arkansas had to put a student in the freezer after he posted on social media himself in blackface. He was mocking Bill Cosby, the disgrace media mogul who is accused of raping numerous women. He's facing a trail in one case.
A white University of Central Arkansas student has been expelled — and his fraternity chapter is now suspended — after he posted a photo on Instagram showing himself in blackface, apparently portraying Cosby.
The student, sophomore Brock Denton, said online he is “scared for my life” after facing death threats for the controversial costume.
Denton privately posted a photo on his Instagram page last week showing him in blackface and a Cosby-style sweater, standing with two other white men.
He wrote with the photo, “It was a bold night.”
Denton’s frat, Sigma Tau Gamma, held its Halloween party on Friday, according to The Echo student newspaper.
The school immediately cracked down, expelling Denton and suspending the campus' Sigma Tau Gamma chapter, pending an investigation into the post.
After his icing, Denton begged for forgiveness in a lengthy Instagram post filled with syntax errors.
“I have been sent death threats, threats to burn my house down. I am scared for my life,” he wrote.
“I am the farthest thing from discrimination (sic), as a matter of fact I fight for equality everyday, I’ve been writing a book for the past two years on what it really means to be a good person.”
He also blamed social media for creating a “corrupted society in regard to heated controversial topics such as this.”
“Please except my apology not because of me but because of the sake of this great nation (sic),” Denton wrote.
Before the sign was removed. Miami Jacobs Career College, a for-profit institution shuts down in the Dayton market.
A staple of Dayton, Ohio is about to close up shop. Miami Jacobs Career College is closing at the end of this year. It's going to put students in vine and staff out of jobs.
Miami Jacobs has operated out of the community for over 100 years.
The private college will no longer accept new students at its Dayton, Springboro, Troy and Sharonville campuses, remaining open there only to allow current students to finish their programs, said John Ware, executive director of State Board of Career Colleges and Schools.
The Columbus campus will remain open for the time being.
Many students who enrolled in the college can't transfer their time credits into Wright State University, Sinclair College and the University of Dayton.
Not sure if American National College and Brightwood will accept enrollees.
The school offers degrees in nursing, cosmetology, healthcare, accounting, criminal justice, and graphic design.
The doo wop group The Sha Na Na's have been a dominant force in the late 1960s to now.
A member of the group who has ties to my community passed away over the weekend. World News Today send our condolences to the family of Dennis Greene.
Born as Frederick Greene, he was an American singer who was a member of Sha Na Na who were formed in 1969 at Columbia University in New York as the Columbia Kingsmen. The name change to Sha Na Na occurred because of another group with a similar name, which was known for the song Louie Louie.
The Sha Na Na
The television show Sha Na Na aired from 1978 to 1981. Greene choreographed most of the moves for the show, on which he was known simply as Denny. Denny was portrayed in the series as the most intelligent member of Sha Na Na. He sang lead in the song "Tears on My Pillow" when he appeared with Sha Na Na in the movie Grease, in 1978.
He was born in New York City and took up studies in legal affairs. On the sidelines he was the principle member of the group.
Greene graduated from Yale Law School, he worked as Vice President of Production and Features at Columbia Pictures. Following that, he was President at Lenox/Greene films. He has taught at Florida A&M University and the University of Oregon, as well as being a visiting professor at several other universities including Ohio State University, Seton Hall University, and the University of Connecticut.
Greene also served on the board of directors for the Society of American Law Teachers and is listed in Who's Who Among African-Americans.
From December 2007 until his death, Greene was a Professor of Law at the University of Dayton School of Law, teaching classes such as Torts, Entertainment Law, and Constitutional Law.
Greene died in Columbus, Ohio on September 5, 2015.
The principal of a school in Georgia got fired out the cannon after she was recorded making a racial insult.
Now I see "all the Black people" are leaving.
Oh, damn, I'm leaving too....!
The words of a former Georgia principal after she made an outright snark at attendees at a commencement speech. She screwed up on the scheduling and told the audience to wait until a valedictorian spoke.
People were exiting the auditorium. She went off and it was recorded on camera.
“You people are being so rude to not listen to this speech,” Nancy Gordeuk told the crowd. “It was my fault that we missed it in the program. Look who’s leaving — all the black people.”
Gordeuk apologized for her comments over the weekend, claiming the “devil was in the house.” However, on Monday, she defended them and said she wasn't racist.
Look who's leaving, all the Black people!
“People always think the worst,” Gordeuk said. “You know, oh you say the word 'black,' you know, was I supposed to say ‘African American?’ Were they all born in Africa? No, they’re Americans. And, they live here. And, but just, I’m not a racist. People that know me, I've worked with disadvantaged kids like this that couldn't get through school, we help them get a high school diploma.”
It drove all the attendees to bounce. She told the junk food media that she screwed up and it lead to her getting her share of death threats and ridicule.
Nancy Gorduek was fired out the cannon after days of discussion. That discussion led to the board of directors at TNT Academy in Stone Mountain decided that it was way worse than expected.
View the video and judge for yourself. Was she out of line?
The mega producer Pharrell Williams (center) and pop singer Robin Thicke (left) got to break dollars to the estate of Marvin Gaye. T.I. (right) was a featured act in the hit song Blurred Lines.
The R&B/pop singer and mega producer are pissed that they owe up. The greedy family of Marvin Gaye managed to win over the U.S. federal court. They claimed that the mega-hit Blurred Lines sounds similar to Got to Give It Up, a song that was a hit when their father Marvin was alive.
Robin Thicke already facing legal drama with his ex-wife Paula Patton is now shelving cash for using stealing the legendary R&B singer's soul.
Nora Gaye is an entertainer and daughter of Marvin.
The impact could damage the reputation of Pharrell Williams. He is the producer of many hits including his own "Happy" which got nominated for an Oscar.
I am going to be honest. I am not happy about this. I don't hear no similarities to the songs. But to a federal jury and federal judge, the difference is clear: They jacked Marvin Gaye.
But Marvin's daughter Noah Gaye, a singer and actress in her own right is happy. She was one of the many family members who brought up the lawsuit to U.S. federal district.
The family won $8 million in royalties.
The AP reports that the Gaye family is satisfied with the decision. We don't know if Robin Thicke or Pharrell will appeal the decision.
"Right now, I feel free," Nona Gaye said after the verdict. "Free from ... Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke's chains and what they tried to keep on us and the lies that were told."
An attorney for Thicke and Williams has said a decision in favor of Gaye's heirs could have a chilling effect on musicians who try to emulate an era or another artist's sound.
The Gayes' lawyer branded Williams and Thicke liars who went beyond trying to emulate the sound of Gaye's late-1970s music and copied the R&B legend's hit "Got to Give It Up" outright.
"They fought this fight despite every odd being against them," Busch said of the Gaye family outside court.
Thicke told jurors he didn't write "Blurred Lines," which Williams testified he crafted in about an hour in mid-2012.
Williams told jurors that Gaye's music was part of the soundtrack of his youth. But the seven-time Grammy winner said he didn't use any of it to create "Blurred Lines."
Gaye's children -- Nona, Frankie and Marvin Gaye III -- sued the singers in 2013 and were present when the verdict was read.
The verdict may face years of appeals.
"Blurred Lines" has sold more than 7.3 million copies in the U.S. alone, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures. It earned a Grammy Awards nomination and netted Williams and Thicke millions of dollars.
The case was a struggle between two of music's biggest names: Williams has sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his career as a singer-producer, and Gaye performed hits such as "Sexual Healing" and "How Sweet It Is (To be Loved by You)" remain popular.
During closing arguments, Busch accused Thicke and Williams of lying about how the song was created. He told jurors they could award Gaye's children millions of dollars if they determined the copyright to "Got to Give It Up" was infringed.
Howard King, lead attorney for Williams and Thicke, told the panel that a verdict in favor of the Gaye family would have a chilling effect on musicians who were trying to recreate a genre or homage to another artist's sound.
King denied there were any substantial similarities between "Blurred Lines" and the sheet music Gaye submitted to obtain copyright protection.
Williams has become a household name -- known simply as Pharrell -- thanks to his hit song "Happy" and his work as a judge on the "The Voice." He wrote the majority of "Blurred Lines" and recorded it in one night with Thicke. A segment by rapper T.I. was added later.
Williams, 41, also signed a document stating he didn't use any other artists' work in the music and would be responsible if a successful copyright claim was raised.
Thicke testified he wasn't present when the song was written, despite receiving credit.
The trial focused on detailed analyses of chords and notes in both "Blurred Lines" and "Got to Give It Up."
Marvin Gaye was a legendary musician who touched the world. He was gunned down by his own father in 1984.
Jurors repeatedly heard the upbeat song "Blurred Lines" and saw snippets of its music video, but Gaye's music was represented during the trial in a less polished form. Jurors did not hear "Got to Give It Up" as Gaye recorded it, but rather a version created based solely on sheet music submitted to gain copyright protection.
That version lacked many of the elements -- including Gaye's voice -- that helped make the song a hit in 1977. Busch derisively called the version used in court a "Frankenstein-like monster" that didn't accurately represent Gaye's work.
An expert for the Gaye family said there were eight distinct elements from "Got to Give It Up" that were used in "Blurred Lines," but an expert for Williams and Thicke denied those similarities existed.
Gaye died in April 1984, leaving his children the copyrights to his music.
Pharrell responds to the verdict.
While we respect the judicial process, we are extremely disappointed in the ruling made today, which sets a horrible precedent for music and creativity going forward. Pharrell created 'Blurred Lines' from his heart, mind and soul and the song was not taken from anyone or anywhere else. We are reviewing the decision, considering our options and you will hear more from us soon about this matter.
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. and Pharrell) (Interscope/NuAmerica/Star Trak Records)
Someone really hates ΣΑΕ (Sigma Alpha Epsilom). The president of the Sooners, David Boren kicked the assholes out of their fraternity, knocked them out of their home and told them all to be prepared to face the consequences.
Me and S. Baldwin have covered this controversy in Norman. The University of Oklahoma is under fire. Their frat boys are making a total embarrassment of their campus. Now more videos unearthed more idiocy.
Beauton Gilbow is a ΣΑΕ "Mom" and in a social media video she appears to say NIGGER more than her fair share of times. And it appears that she may be intoxicated. But nonetheless, it was said and she got fired out the cannon. She condemned the frat boys and tearfully apologized for her actions.
The New York Daily News ragged that Gilbow was NIGGER chanting while the frat boys were listening to Think It's A Game artist Trinidad James. It was "All Gold Everything".
The video kind of put the brakes on some of ΣΑΕ's remorseful members aiding her in her sudden loss of job.
The ΣΑΕ's Black cook had to suffer. The man named "Howard" was the cook for the frat boys.
He was totally devastated by this news. Especially for the fact that some of his "family" were so boldly acting like this.
With this controversy surfacing the damages became apparent when Boren kicked everyone off the campus, he meant everyone. The cook is out of a job. Some of the remorseful members created a GoFundMe page to help him gain a job and financial assistance.
These leaks of videos comes like drips. The online activism from Anonymous comes to mind. It has all the traces of it. But then it could be a disgruntled (likely ΣΑΕ) member of the frat.
And to make this worse, a college football team with strong recognition is being passed off.
Most of them football standouts are Black and they're passing on the Sooners.
That pass on could hurt the campus. Those standouts are the money makers. The NCAA could put the hammer on the football and basketball teams. Obviously these events bring in major dollars.
Of course, the hockey, lacrosse, baseball and wrestling suffer. Their marching band suffers.
Mary Fallin, the current Republican governor of Oklahoma and U.S. Senator James Lankford (R-OK) were shocked and told the junk food media that "racism" has no place in Oklahoma.
“The racist words chanted by the students in this video do not represent OU values or Oklahoma values. As the outrage among Oklahomans has demonstrated, we are a state that does not tolerate that kind of disrespectful behavior. I appreciate President Boren as well as OU’s faculty, staff and students for quickly condemning these hurtful words and demonstrating the true nature of our Oklahoma community, which is diverse, compassionate and respectful," said Governor Mary Fallin.
Lankford said “The hateful video of some fraternity students that surfaced over the weekend is disgusting and does not reflect the values of the state of Oklahoma. This is not who we are. We are a state that embraces cultural and ethnic diversity at every level. We must clearly speak out against this type of bigotry. Our state has made significant strides since the Tulsa race riots and the days when Clara Luper led our state out of ignorance; we must continue that progress.”
No sign of comment from Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK). He's too busy bringing snowballs to the Senate floor to deny climate change.
Wink and nod....
These Republicans support this nonsense. It looks good to be on camera condemning racism. Because it's in their backyard. When the cameras are not running, I bet you that these Republican elected leaders are chanting "Ol they'll never be a NIGGER!"
Republicans are in need of some major improvement.
When it comes to race, the Republicans are too busy trying to undermining the first Black president and the millions of people of color.
Fallin is one of many supporters of the controversial lawsuit trying to gut the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). She signed on to suing the government over the president's executive order to ease restrictions on young undocumented immigrants.
Lankford was one of the 47 senators who supported Stallmigo Tom Cotton's (R-AR) threatening letter to Iran.
The White House weigh in on the controversy. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden said that OU president Boren's actions were appropriate. This is a reminder that the long road ahead in equal rights for all Americans.
They'll never be a fraternity that chants racism at the Sooner Nation. The University of Oklahoma puts the brakes on frat boys and their chapter.
Okie Dokie! Here's a controversy riding the horse. The University of Oklahoma had to do some apologizing for one of its fraternities and their "epic fail".
Sigma Alpha Epsilon got a major pull out! The Sooners had to pull the plug on the fraternity after it was revealed a disturbing video of White frat boys shouting and jigging on NIGGERS.
The frat boys' freedom of speech was captured on camera phone. They were chanting, "They'll Never Be A NIGGER here at ΣΑΕ (Sigma Alpha Epsilon)".
They'll never be a NIGGER in ΣΑΕ (clap your hands)
They'll never be a NIGGER in ΣΑΕ (clap your hands)
They'll never be a NIGGER
They'll never be a NIGGER
They'll never be a NIGGER in ΣΑΕ
You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me
They'll never be a NIGGER in ΣΑΕ!
The national organization of Sigma Alpha Epsilon closed the Oklahoma Kappa chapter at the University of Oklahoma after a video surfaced showing members singing a racist, unsanctioned chant. The students were boisterously singing and taking the NIGGER to the woodshed.
They parodied the popular children's song, "If You're Happy and You Know It."
The Sooners put protest in silence.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon quickly suspended the charter of the involved chapter and suspended it's members on Sunday, March 8, 2015.
The University of Oklahoma president, David Boren, subsequently evicted the fraternity members, leaving until the following midnight, on Monday, March 9 for all members to vacate the fraternity's campus dwellings.
This is the conservative movement in full swing. That's why it's dubbed the racist right.
This is privileged White people telling America, that NIGGERS have no place in college or America.
Loserville co-host claims rape victims deserve their fate because they get drunk and act naughty.
Black Republican actress and agitator makes the claim that rape victims are "naughty girls" who flaunt around asking for it.
Stacey Dash continues to make the news for all the wrong reasons. She's been with Loserville for nearly a year now and is the co-host on this show called Outnumbered. She is the celebrity gossip and Black issues specialist.
Long way from them days as being that girl who made her breakout hit Clueless.
Dash turned from sweet and sexy to just old and ignorant. She made the news being the first openly Black entertainer to endorse the perennial loser Mitt Romney and his ill fated bid for the White House.
Dash once again brought herself into the spotlight in regards to the Vanderbilt University rape case and the University of Virginia rape scandal. Two football players from Vanderbilt were found guilty in the rape of a woman. According to some, the victim was the girlfriend of one of the suspects.
Dash would recall the Rolling Stone article that was criticized for being not credible.
“I think — the girls, I think it’s a good thing for the good girls, okay — women — to be told ‘stay home, be safe.’ The other bad girls — bad women — are the ones who like to be naughty, might go out and play and get hurt, and then, y’know… But the other thing about this, is that it then blames the alcohol and not the person, who over-drinks. So, you know, it’s like the same thing with guns. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Alcohol doesn’t get you drunk, you get yourself drunk.”
This network is by far the worse when it comes to getting it right. In this great country, I guess you have the freedom of speech to be wrong and at often times extremely controversial.
But I guess according to their audience, we have to have exact proof there was a rape. We don't often believe drunk girls. They tell lies on athletes and intellectuals.
UNDERSTAND THIS. RAPE IS RAPE. RAPE IS NO JOKE. RAPE IS NO ACHIEVEMENT. RAPE IS A CRIME. IT WILL PUT YOU IN THE IRON COLLEGE FOR LIFE. IT WILL RUIN YOUR REPUTATION IF YOU'RE FOUND GUILTY OF A SEXUAL ASSAULT.
Central Ohio Transit Authority is under fire after a driver booted a woman off. That woman would become a victim of rape.
College rape is real. It's not funny and it's not a badge of honor. Many adults who are often raped never even knew it happen because of the atmosphere of drugs and alcohol.
It's known that women are likely raped when they're under the influence. A victim would be taken advantage of whenever the perpetator uses advances of weakness.
In Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State University officers and Franklin County sheriff are investigating an incident near the campus. A young woman got raped after she was booted off the public transit for having one of her shoes fall apart. The attacker preyed upon her naivety to find shelter from the weather.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that Central Ohio Transit Authority is facing a scandal. The scandal gotten some major airplay in the city.
The young woman said she was kicked off a city bus because of a broken sandal before she was raped about 1:50 a.m. on Saturday near the Ohio State University campus, according to a Columbus police report.
Sexual predator raped college student.
The woman, 21, told police she was taking a southbound Central Ohio Transit Authority bus from Worthington when she noticed that her flip-flop was broken. What transpired between her and the bus driver is unclear, but she said the driver told her she was required to wear shoes on the bus.
“She said the bus driver told her she had to get off the bus,” detective James Ashenhurst of the police sexual-assault squad said Saturday night.
She got out on N. High Street near 12th Avenue and went to a nearby United Dairy Farmers store to get something to fix her shoe. It is unclear whether it then was too late for her to connect with the bus Downtown that would have taken her the rest of the way to Grove City.
She got something to eat in the area, and while there she met Randy M. Graham Jr., Ashenhurst said.
When it started to rain, Graham suggested taking shelter in empty garages in a nearby alley. He then forced her into one of the garages and began raping her, she told police.
The garages, which are more like a row of attached carports, open on the alley behind 30 E. 12th Ave.
Two Columbus bike patrol officers were checking the alley and came upon a man and woman having sexual intercourse in one of the garages, police said. The woman told them she was being raped.
Graham, 36, was charged with kidnapping and rape. Graham, who is homeless according to court records, was being held in the Franklin County jail and was scheduled to appear in municipal court today.
Court records show Graham has a lengthy list of convictions dating to 2000, including several disorderly conduct charges, menacing, aggressive panhandling, assault and soliciting for prostitution.
“There was a big police presence in the area because of the (Ohio State-Virginia Tech) game, and the officers were doing their due diligence checking the alley and the garages,” Ashenhurst said.
“The officers intervened early in the assault,” Ashenhurst said. “I’m sure it could have been a lot worse if they hadn’t.”
He said Graham did not resist arrest and the woman, who is not an OSU student, was taken to a hospital to be examined.
COTA’s policy requires riders to wear shoes, but “we would never ask operators to enforce a policy ... if the customer was going to be placed in an unsafe situation,” said Marty Stutz, COTA spokesman.
Buses are equipped with video cameras and audio near the driver’s seat. Stutz said those devices would be reviewed to determine what transpired.
Graham got to fork out $200k for the get outta free card.
COTA is one of Ohio's largest bus lines. It has over 60 routes and it operates within the metropolitan Columbus area. It extends into Franklin County and portions of Delaware, Fairfield, Union county and Licking Counties.
Ole Miss students hold a peaceful protest after a riot broke out the night President Barack Obama won reelection.
We haven't taken a day off!
But it seems like the conservatives haven't come to grips with the reelection of President Barack Obama. In two incidents that were reported by the news agitators online comes two universities in the South getting a little bit hasty over the notion of the Black president beating back an onslaught of racial ignorance from Republicans and their nominee Mitt Romney.
University of Mississippi and Hampden-Sydney both had issues where protesters launched into a tirade over the president's victory. The students tossed around racial slurs and bottles at other students.
Alexis Webb at Afro Magazine Online reports Election-night unrest aimed at Black students flared on two college campuses Nov. 6 after President Obama’s re-election victory, triggering two arrests at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and an internal investigation at Hampden-Sydney College near Farmville, Va.
In apparently unrelated incidents, racial slurs were directed at Black student organizations on both Southern campuses. No violence was reported in the post-election episodes.
Virginia's Hampden-Sydney College student protesters shouted racial slurs after Obama winning reelection.
About 40 students at Hampden-Sydney set off fireworks, tossed bottles and shouted racial slurs at the building housing’s the campus’ Minority Student Union, the Associated Press reported.
When threats of physical violence were heard at the impromptu rally, students in the building called campus officials to report a crowd outside of their house, according to the AP. The crowd dispersed without further incidents after campus police arrived.
A forum to discuss bigotry and racism was held the next day after Dr. Christopher Howard, Hampden-Sydney’s first African American president, in an e-mail sent to parents, noted that the school will investigate the incident.
“I am terribly disappointed with the students who participated in this harmful, senseless episode including those men who stood idly by and watched it happen,” he said in the message.
Howard called the incident “a perfect storm of a tense nation, an uptight” nation and a campus of young men. “We love our men, but they're young men,” he said. “Young men sometimes act before they think.”
“There is no room for bigotry or racism,” he said, on Hampden- Sydney’s campus where an honor code is required of each student and the curriculum includes a focus on the use of language.
Black students are nine percent of the 1,080-student liberal arts college for men, one of the oldest colleges in the nation. Chartered in 1783, Hampden-Sydney is one of only three all-male institutions in the nation. The school also has no history of racial discrimination.
In Mississippi, the size of the protest grew from a crowd of about 40 to roughly 400 within 20 minutes of the Obama victory announcement at Ole Miss’s student union, the university said. Police dispersed the crowd after demonstrators shouted what officials called “political statements” and burned an Obama campaign poster.
A second crowd formed 25 minutes later, according to a university statement. Campus police arrested two persons for disorderly conduct—one for public intoxication and another for failure to comply with police orders.
One of the country's oldest institution overcame racial issues.
“While we are grateful that there were no injuries and there was no property damage, we are very disappointed in those students who took a very immature and uncivil approach to expressing their views about the election,” said University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones. “The gathering seems to have been fueled by social media, and the conversation should have stayed there.”
A peaceful counter-protest was held on the Oxford, Miss. campus Nov. 7. In a candlelight march 600 students gathered, many of them telling onlookers that they endorsed “respect and dignity of each person.”
The incident occurred in the wake of the observance of the 50th anniversary of bloody rioting on the campus when the state was forced to accept Black students.
University of Louisiana at Monroe. Reva McMillan received her bachelor's degree in sociology and Maria McMillan received the bachelor's degree in health sciences she needed to become a registered nurse. Read more here:
