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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Conservatives Hate Detroit!

Conservatives and white supremacists treat an American city like its a "third world" country.
Conservatives and White supremacists hate Detroit, Michigan as much as they hate President Barack Obama. If you look at the situation, it's mainly a race issue for why they hate on this American city.

Detroit, Michigan was once the fifth largest city in the United States. With a population of 1.4 million people, the Michigan city was the hub of industry boom and the worker's unions. The city is home of the three largest car companies in the world. Ford, Chrysler, General Motors all have offices there and many blue collar workers were making a living in the city.

Dave Bing, retired NBA star is current mayor of Detroit.
Detroit was dubbed the "Motor City" and the "Rock City" by many because of the manufacturing of cars, trucks and buses. The city also gave the world Motown, Faygo soda, Kid Rock, Sonny Bono, Tim Allen, Stevie Wonder, Ted Nugent, Madonna, Aaliyah, Anita Baker, Big Sean, Royce Da 5'9", The Insane Clown Posse and Eminem. Detroit was once the hometown of perennial loser Mitt Romney.

Now as the year turns, Detroit is struggling in bankruptcy. The major industries shipped out to foreign nations, population decrease, White flight, crime and blight plague the city. The population is 712,000 and ranked among the bottom 20 of major cities.

The core of the city is close approximately towards Canada. The Detroit River separates the city from neighboring Windsor, Ontario. Windsor is the base city/suburb of the greater Detroit area. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, city of Warren, Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Wayne County, Coleman Young International Airport, Windsor International Airport, the Detroit River, Lake Erie, Lake St. Clair and the city of Port Huron make up the major Detroit area. Interstate 75 (into downtown), Interstate 94 (through midtown) and Interstate 96 (from the eastern and southern quadrant) carry transportation through the city. The Ambassador Bridge and the D-W (Detroit/Windsor) Tunnel see traffic into the United States and Canada frequently.

Detroit has been the scorn of conservatives for sometime now. Every time an issue of Black crime, gun violence, protesters against Republican-led right to work laws, and the automotive industry bailout, most Republicans and their conservative allies in the media turn to Detroit.
Union protesters in Lansing, Michigan. They're protesting Governor Rick Snyder (R-Michigan) signing the controversial right to work law.
The Michigan statehouse passed a controversial right-to-work law in the whim of a lame duck session. The Republican governor Rick Snyder signed it into law yesterday making Michigan the 24th state as a right to work state.

Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin are part of the Rust Belt states where Republicans led governors passed legislation that contribute to union busting. Many union and labor groups are furious with these moves and are demanding swift action to either repeal these laws or send the legislators packing.

Protester hits conservative agitator Steven Crowder. The attack was filmed by Crowder. The person that hit the conservative agitator was tripped by Crowder and the attack was meant to show the country that supporters of the unions are thugs!
Wisconsin was the heart of the Occupy Movement. The Wisconsin governor Scott Walker signed a bill that stripped unions of their collective bargaining rights and is pushing for right to work in the state. The voters put an referendum on Walker to be recalled. But in 2012, he beat back the recall and won reelection to finish his term. That motivation gave Republicans the opportunity to pass their own versions of legislation to curb unions. The state house was briefly divided by a Democratic senate and Republican assembly. The Republicans control the Wisconsin state house. The state went to the president and Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) will become the senator of the state in 2013.

Ohio did it a few years ago and it was repealed by the voters. That managed to drag Republican governor John Kasich's job approval in the toilet. The governor and the Republican led state house will push forth right to work legislation in the coming year. The controversial SB-5 law that stripped public sectors of their bargaining rights was put on the ballot in 2011. That inspired the voters to help put President Barack Obama back into the White House. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) beat challenger Ohio treasurer Josh Mandel handily. Mandel supported the SB-5 law at the time.

Indiana's outgoing governor Mitch Daniels decided to give a parting shot at the unions by signing a right to work law. Congressman Mike Pence (R-Indiana) will step down from Congress to become the governor of the state in 2013. Mitt Romney carried the state easily and Congressman Joe Donnelly (D-Indiana) beat Indiana state treasurer Richard Mordock in the U.S. senate election. Donnelly will be seated in 2013. Richard Mordock was a Tea Party-backed candidate who was trounced over controversial statements and lackluster support from Senator Dick Lugar (R-Indiana) who lost his primary to him.

Alabama - Bob Bentley (2011 - Present)
Arizona - Jan Brewer (2009 - Present)
Arkansas - Mike Beebe (2007 - Present)
Florida - Rick Scott (2011 - Present)
Georgia - Nathan Deal (2011 - Present)
Guam - Eddie Calvo (2011 - Present)
Idaho - Butch Otter (2007 - Present)
Indiana - Mitch Daniels (2007 - 2013) | Mike Pence (2013 - Present)
Iowa - Terry Branstad (2011 - Present)
Kansas - Sam Brownback (2011 - Present)
Louisiana - Bobby Jindal (2008 - Present)
Michigan - Rick Snyder (2011 - Present)
Mississippi - Phil Bryant (2012 - Present)
Nebraska - Dave Heineman (2005 - Present)
Nevada - Brian Sandoval (2011 - Present)
North Carolina - Bev Perdue (2009 - 2013) | Pat McCrory (2013 - Present)
North Dakota - Jack Dalrymple (2010 - Present)
Oklahoma - Mary Fallin (2011 - Present)
South Carolina - Nikki Haley (2011 - Present)
South Dakota - Dennis Daugaard (2011 - Present)
Tennessee - Bill Haslam (2011 - Present)
Texas - Rick Perry (2000 - Present)
Utah - Gary Herbert (2009 - Present)
Virginia - Bob McDonnell (2010 - Present) 
Wyoming - Matt Mead (2011 - Present)

Detroit, the city of scorn by White conservatives and racists across the country. They hate the fact the city is a minority-majority city. The African American population in the city is 84%. Conservatives and White supremacists look at the city as the "ZOO".
White supremacists use pictures of Black people rioting or committing crime to attack President Barack Obama.
They first pick the choice word salad topics such as "UNIONS", "ENTITLEMENTS", "REVERSE RACISM", "DEMOCRATS", "CORRUPT", "OBAMA", "NIGGER", "BAILOUT", "CHIMPS", "ZOO", "GORILLAS", "DETOILET" and "GRODDTROIT".

These individuals vomits it on the comment page of most of your choice blogs.

They usually downgrade Detroit on talk radio from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill Cunningham, Neal Boortz, Michael Savage and the like.

Steven Crowder, a conservative "comedian" from Fox News took it upon himself to trash Detroit in the YouTube video. This video was viewed by over a million viewers. Mostly from extremists.



He later goes to Lansing to interview protesters. The commentator went into a shouting match with union members and then allowed his camera crew film him getting his ass hit after he tripped a protester.

Black conservative agitators such as Jesse Lee Peterson, Herman Cain, Erik Rush, Deneen Borelli and Alveda King speak ilk about Black unemployment being high under President Barack Obama and Democrats. They bemoan about unwed parents, abortion and gun violence. And yet, not one Republican president since Richard Nixon done anything about it too. It's easy for them to blame President Barack Obama than the predecessors of past presidencies because he's Black and the majority of his supporters are African American.

Detroit has been the talk on White supremacist blogs such as those I will not mention by name or website.

One made a website devoted to trashing the whole city and Black community as a whole.

These individuals speak ill of a city they've never been too but sure quick to attack on.

But for all their attacks, comes reality.

Detroit, Memphis, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Birmingham are the largest cities with 70% of the city's population being African American.

Despite conservative outcry over Blacks overwhelmingly voting for the president over perennial loser Mitt Romney, the tide is apparently shifting towards a demographics gap between the Democrats and Republicans.

Republicans are out of style in the minds of most Blacks, Asians and Hispanics. Women are swinging in the direction soon.

Whenever a politician (mainly Black) from Detroit gets into the news, conservatives scream bloody murder and chants of the word salad. Once it hits The Drudge Report, The Blaze, The Daily Caller or Fox Nation, it's assure to worm into White supremacists blogs, talk radio or Fox News.

Rick Snyder, Republican governor of Michigan.
Detroit is a thriving city. Mayor Dave Bing is trying to rebound the city after the former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick aka "the Hip-Hop mayor" screwed the city out of money. The former mayor had gave funds to his friends and one of his mistresses. The FBI arrested him and the federal government charged Kilpatrick with corruption. Those charges corruption were served in a Michigan prison. Hence forth he resigned leaving the city with nearly $30 million in debt.

As Detroit faces the wrath of Governor Rick Snyder and Republicans, Mayor Dave Bing is asking for the federal government to give the city a bailout. The city may be forced into state audits by an arbitrator. The federal government right now is in political gridlock because of Republicans obstruction to the president.

Kwame Kilpartick screwed Detroit during his two terms.
The president is willing to help all the American people. The ones who don't need help blame him for things he can't control. He's only one man with the pen to sign laws. It's the House of Representatives and the Senate to pass laws.

They're the fault of Detroit.

No political party affect Detroit. It's not the Democrats fault for the mess. It's mainly because of the global market shifting to getting manufacturing part cheaper from areas with lackluster labor and company greed.

Detroit didn't fail because of Democratic policies or unions. It failed because of the American legislator in Congress not willing to set aside their political views to help the American people.

Last time I've checked, Detroit is an American city!

And Republicans and their conservative allies better get know something!

Once again the rules that apply to only WHITE MALES.

Entitlements, gun rights, leadership, superiority and the slice of the American pie.

When Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims and women want a piece, WHITE CONSERVATIVE MALES offer their usual selfish, racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, condescending and pain inducing rants.

I believe in Detroit, I hope you do too!

PS - TO ALL CONSERVATIVES AND RACISTS ACROSS THIS COUNTRY: IT'S GETTING BROWN AND YOU'RE GOING DOWN! 

THE SHIFT IS GROWING AND THE NATION IS DIVERSE! 

WITH THE PRESIDENT WINNING REELECTION, IT'S A SIGN THAT THE WHITE POPULATION IS DECLINING RAPIDLY. IN 25 YEARS, WHITE MALES WILL BE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE NATION'S HISTORY A MINORITY! SO GET IT ALL OUT OF YOU!  

SOON YOU'LL FACE THE WRATH OF BLACK, HISPANIC AND MUSLIMS AMERICANS BLOGGING ABOUT YOUR DEMISE! 

WE LOVE ALL AMERICANS HERE AT JOURNAL DE LA REYNA! 

I SPEAK FOR MYSELF WHEN I SAY THIS!

I LOVE ALL AMERICANS, JUST NOT CONSERVATIVES AND RACISTS!



Monday, October 15, 2012

Ex-Cash Money Rapper Freed From Prison!


The golden age of hip-hop music, Cash Money Records. Juvenile (top left), Turk (top right), The B.G. (bottom left), and Lil' Wayne (bottom right) were known as the Hot Boys. They released solo albums under the label. 
Kiss the sky, rapper Turk. You're free!

Tab Virgil, Jr. is a New Orleans based rapper who was part of the golden era of Cash Money Records. The rapper assisted Lil' Wayne, veteran rappers B.G. and Juvenile as a member of the hip-hop group The Hot Boys.

Turk (age 30) released his debut album under the Cash Money label in 2001. His album Young & Thuggin' featured rappers Bryan "Baby/Birdman" Williams, Lil' Wayne, west coast rappers Mack 10 and T.Q. and featured production from then in-house producer Mannie Fresh.

It went on to become a gold album. At the age of catchy southern beats and hip-hop wordsmiths, Turk was one of the veterans of New Orleans hip-hop.

After a fallout with Cash Money, Turk went independent.

During his streak of independence, the rapper was caught up in a federal crime. The rapper was arrest in an attempted murder charge. According to MTV News, in 2004, Hot Boys rapper Turk was charged Wednesday (January 28) with first-degree attempted murder for allegedly shooting two Memphis, Tennessee, police officers in a Monday raid.


[He was then a 22-year-old rapper] when he was arrested and being held on $1 million bail at the Shelby County, Tennessee Jail.

One of the wounded deputies, 29-year-old Chris Harris, was shot in the jaw, hip and leg and remains in critical condition at the MED medical center following extensive surgery. The other, 31-year-old Jason Pagenkopf, was shot in the neck and has since been released.

The incident began around 2 p.m. on Monday, when a dozen Shelby County narcotics and SWAT officers served a search warrant for drugs believed to be inside an apartment in the Hickory Pointe community in southeast Memphis, according to public information officer Steve Shular.
Turk spent nearly a decade in prison for a gun crime.
After no answer from knocking on the door and identifying themselves, the officers entered and began searching the apartment. Turk then allegedly shot at them with a 9 mm handgun. A small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, including spoons and syringes used to inject heroin, were found.

Two other people who were in the apartment at the time were questioned Wednesday, but they will not be charged, according to Shular, who said there is evidence the bullets came from Turk's gun.

"Until the facts come out, he is innocent until proven guilty," Turk's manager, Leroy Hollins II, said in a statement. "As his manager, I know he does not have violent tendencies to commit such an act. This is another case of a good person being in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Turk, who hails from Metairie, Louisiana, near New Orleans, has an arrest history involving narcotics, Shular said, and Monday's incident was a violation of a parole mandate on the rapper.

Lil' Wayne surpassed Elvis in mainstream hits. 
The district attorney ruled Turk a possible flight risk and will not allow him to return to Louisiana unless he posts bail. Turk's case is also being reviewed by the United States attorney's office for additional firearms charges.


Turk was in Memphis recording tracks for his upcoming album and working on remixes for his latest disc, August's Raw & Uncut, according to his manager.

After being discovered by the Cash Money Millionaires in the late '90s, Turk joined the Hot Boys, whose last album, Let 'Em Burn, was also released last year. The rapper released his first solo album in June 2001.

The rapper was sentenced to ten years on a firearm charge and violating his parole for a drug conviction.

In 2006, he entered an Alford plea in Tennessee state court to second-degree attempted murder, based on the same incident, and was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment.

The B.G. is spending 14 years in prison for a federal gun charge.
According to Wikipedia the term Alford plea is basically, "I'm guilty but I didn't do it" plea.

Now as a free rapper, many in the hip-hop community are getting first dibs on the exclusive interview with the rapper.

SOHH reports, the rapper was excited to leave prison and he was planning on returning back to the music. He also thought of writing an autobiography about his time in prison. The usual word salads of a ex-convict.

I can't say much for his former labelmate, B.G. these days! The former Cash Money star is in prison for a federal crime as well. A few years ago, B.G. was arrested in New Orleans after police pulled over his Chevrolet Tahoe for a routine traffic stop. It is rumored that he was leaving the home of his girlfriend in Uptown New Orleans when he was stopped by the police in New Orleans.

During a search of the vehicle police found three guns, two of which were reported stolen. Police also found loaded magazines and two extended clips. B.G. was booked into the Orleans Parish Prison on an illegal carrying of weapons charge. B.G. appeared in court on November 5 and his incarceration and bond information are unknown to the press at the time. On February 11, 2010, he appeared in court and entered a not guilty plea. On July 18, 2012, B.G. was sentenced to 14 years in a federal prison for gun possession and witness tampering.

Lil' Wayne served a year in prison for gun and drug possession charge.

Juvenile is awaiting trial for disorderly conduct after a fight in a nightclub in Miami. He also is a delinquent parent. He owes a lot of money for child support.
Juvenile was Cash Money's first successful artist. He help pushed the rap label into the mainstream. Juvenile has venture on as an independent artist. Lil' Wayne hopes to reunited the Hot Boys once again. 
Cash Money started as a Southern based hip-hop label with the main acts of Juvenile, The B.G., Lil' Wayne, Turk. When they collaborated together on albums, they've called themselves The Hot Boys. They also were aided by The Big Tymers. The Big Tymers were created by co-founder Bryan Williams who goes by the rap name Birdman and producer Mannie Fresh. They emerged in the late 1990s with hit singles like "I Need A Hot Girl", "Back That Azz Up", "Go DJ" and "Bling Bling".
The label has became more pop friendly by adding the late legendary singer Teena Marie, producer Jazze Pha,  Canadian rapper Drake, radio host DJ Khaled, Trinidadian/New York rapper Nicki Minaj, Los Angeles rapper Tyga, veteran rapper Busta Rhymes, rock group Limp Bizkit, newcomers Jay Sean and  Kevin Rudolf.

Other members of then and now who signed to Cash Money included west coast rapper Mack 10, Bow Wow, Mystikal, Young Buck, Omarion, 2 Pistols, Boo & Gotti, and Curren$y.

It was founded in 1991 by Ronald "Slim" Williams and Bryan "Baby/Birdman" Williams. The label is a part of Universal Republic Motown Entertainment Group.


I am guessing that the system is more harsher to Blacks and Latinos. The crime rate for men is high especially in the Black community. It's told that if you have a family member in prison, your child is likely going to be in prison for a crime as well. 

For those who aren't aware of the prison system. State charges carry automatic sentences that could be appealed. A federal sentence must be served without merit. There's no appeals to a federal crime. A violent gun crime is automatic 15 years to life. Murder carries either life or death. Homicide can carry 5 to 20 or life in prison.

Drug charges are based on potential. Marijuana, mushrooms, synthetic drugs and crack are the lowest charges. Depending on circumstances you can get six months to a year for possession. Manufacturing or selling could carry from a year to ten. Cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin are the most serious charges for drugs. If you're in possession or charged with these type of drugs, they count as a violent offender crime and could carry from 5 years to 20 years or life.



Sunday, January 17, 2010

Martin Luther King, Jr.: We Shall Overcome


Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was born January 15, 1929. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, this young man who envisioned millions to believe in change. A change that demanded all Americans are to be treated equal in the racially segregated South. A man who would be celebrated across the country on this third Monday, a leader to envision Civil Rights for all Americans. If Dr. King was still alive, he would have celebrated his 81st birthday.

According to Wikipedia, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded in January 1957, in the afterglow of the Montgomery Bus Boycott victory and consultations with Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker, and others, Dr King invited some 60 black ministers and leaders to Ebenezer Church in Atlanta. Their goal was to form an organization to coordinate and support nonviolent direct action as a method of desegregating bus systems across the South. In addition to Rustin and Baker, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth of Birmingham, Rev Joseph Lowery of Mobile, Rev Ralph Abernathy of Montgomery, Rev C.K. Steele of Tallahassee, all played key roles in this meeting.

Today, the SCLC still holds true to these standards, combat discrimination, focus primarily on education, voter registration, and support for local struggles.

As we celebrate the birthday of Dr. King, I want to remind those who are reading that King was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon: King is recognized as a martyr by two Christian churches. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.

In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the Vietnam War, both from a religious perspective. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. national holiday in 1986.

Somehow politicians and organizations are quick to take credit for the success of Dr. Martin Luther King.

National Black Republican Association claims that Dr. King was a Republican.

The Democratic National Convention in Denver hosted SCLC President Bernice King and her bother, Emeritus Martin Luther King, III.








To bring an end to racism will take time, patience and continuation of the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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