Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Occupy protesters block DNC buses | The Ticket - Yahoo! News
Occupy protesters block DNC buses | The Ticket - Yahoo! News: CHARLOTTE, N.C.—On Tuesday, a group of more than 100 protesters shouting "Obama is a traitor" temporarily shut down official bus service that ferries around delegates at the Democratic National Convention. The protesters, some of whom were lying down in the street, were surrounded by Charlotte police, who used their bicycles to build a barrier around the group.
Monday, September 03, 2012
Words To Michael Clarke Duncan!
Le Reyna posted the tragic news of actor Michael Clarke Duncan passing away today. I just found out about it and I want to share a few words about the famed celebrity.Standing at 6'5" over 300 lbs, the former bodyguard is best known for his Oscar nominated role as John Coffey in the movie The Green Mile.
He participated in movies and television programs such as the Will Ferrell movie Tallageda Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, King of The Hill, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Friday, and Sin City.
To hear about his passing has completely shocked me. I was alerted by my friend and her link to the celebrity news agitation website TMZ.
Many in Hollywood and abroad have send their condolences to the lovable giant.
Publicist Joy Fehily released a statement from Clarke's fiancée, reality television star, Omarosa Manigault, saying the 54-year-old actor died Monday morning in a Los Angeles hospital after nearly two months of treatment following the July 13 heart attack.
The 6-foot-5, 300-pound Duncan appeared in dozens of films, including such box office hits as "Armageddon," "Planet of the Apes" and "Kung Fu Panda,"
Duncan had a handful of minor roles before "The Green Mile" brought him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. The 1999 film, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, starred Tom Hanks as a corrections officer at a penitentiary in the 1930s. Duncan played John Coffey, a convicted murderer.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family and many friends of Michael Clarke Duncan.
A Video Tour of the Food Desert that is Dayton, Ohio
An estimated 78,000 people in Montgomery County live in what would be considered a "food desert," locations where the availability of healthy and nutritious food options are severely limited. The Dayton Informer took its hidden cameras inside of three grocery stores on North Main Street to highlight what kind of choices residents in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods have compared to citizens in economically advantaged areas.
Are [Conservatives] Mad That Jay-Z Endorsed Barack Obama?
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| Shawn Carter, known as Jay-Z endorses President Barack Obama for reelection. Conservatives are screaming at the president and media mogul. Jay-Z released over 15 albums with controversial themes and Republicans demand the president disassociate from him. |
What's better than a legendary rapper and media mogul who is married to one of the world's best known pop singers?
Shawn Corey Carter, is professionally known as Jay-Z. From the streets of Brooklyn to the world stage, Carter became an international celebrity. He released albums depicting a tale of how he overcame the battles of struggling (by selling drugs) to become a media mogul who managed to bring in nearly a billion in revenue.
To top that he's married to pop singer Beyonce Knowles. The singer and Carter married privately and recently became the proud parents of a daughter.
President Obama appears at the Jay-Z "Made In America" concert in support of the rapper's newest venue: Encouraging concert goers to vote in the 2012 U.S. Election.
The Blaze, a conservative news agitating website founded by controversial talk radio host Glenn Beck is covering the story. Of course, expect the word salad of hate to come down the comment section.
Jay-Z is no stranger to conservative ire. In 2009, the rapper released his Blueprint 3 album in which he went after conservative agitators Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh for their outright disrespect of the president and hip-hop music in general.
"This ain't black versus white, my nigga, we off that. Please tell Bill O'Reilly to fall back. Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls. It's 2010 not 1864. Ah yeh we come so far ... Ah, how's that for a mix? Got a black president, got green presidents." - Jay-Z single Off That (featuring Drake and Timbaland).
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| Fox News sister website The Fox Nation ran a controversial themed article comparing the president's birthday party at the White House, a "Hip-Hop BBQ," |
Fox News and its gossip site, The Fox Nation published a controversial themed title to dog whistle white voters into thinking the president is either a "criminal", "spending taxpayer funds on lavish parties" or "supporting 'radicals' like Jay-Z and Chris Rock".
Conservatives were upset that the president invited the rapper and Beyonce to the White House for a gathering of friends and supporters.
The president allies in the entertainment industry aren't spared from the wrath of conservative ire.
Rappers Common and Ludacris, film directors Michael Moore, Harvey Weinstein, comedian Louis C.K., actresses Hillary Swank, Eva Longoria, Sarah Jessica Parker, media mogul Ann Wintour, actors George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman, and Samuel L. Jackson have been targets of conservative ire for supporting the president or his allies.
The Hill reports, Obama's video played after the first song in the 90-minute set, according to the Associated Press. During the video, he said Jay-Z's story is "what 'Made In America' means" and added that he has the popular performer's songs on his iPod.
Jay-Z, a long-time Obama supporter, told Rolling Stone back in May that he was planning to give Obama a call and ask him to perform at the concert, saying he hoped he could convince him to repeat his rendition of Al Green.
"He'll be so far into helping the world that he probably won't have time, but I'm absolutely going to ask him," Jay-Z said at the time.
The two-day festival benefited the United Way.
Jay-Z appears on Roc-A-Fella Records.
Sunday, September 02, 2012
Racist: I'mma Sue Ya'll For Allowing A Black Man Bag My Groceries!
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| DeWitt Thomas is suing a grocer for a Civil Rights violation. |
Now again, we don't endorse hate among race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, political and economic standings. We believe in equal rights and respect of all race, creed and values. We are Americans first, everything else next! What makes our country the United States a great nation, is the power of the voice.
A decent society can drown out all the negativity created by an individual who harbors bigoted views towards their fellow American.
Although there's thousands of hate, we are millions of love and strength. They fear the unknown. They can't stomach the future where it's possible that the United States will become a minority majority. In other words, the Black, Hispanic and Asian American population will overlap the White race in thirty years.
As of May 2012, it was declared by the United States Census Bureau that non-white births grew at faster pace than those who are non-Hispanic White. In about fifty years, interracial marriage will overlap same sex and same race marriages.
Once again in the great state of Texas, a Big Sandy resident is suing a local grocery chain because he was banned from the store after he complained about sacker being a Black man. From the town of Hawkins, the man is claiming his civil rights and religious freedom were violated earlier this year when a black man sacked his groceries and a Big Sandy grocery store owner banned the customer from the business.
Longview News-Journal covers the controversy. This is one for the record books. The conservative white male claims he's a victim of reverse racism.
DeWitt R. Thomas filed a federal lawsuit in July against Keith Langston, owner of Two Rivers Grocery & Market.
According to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Tyler, Thomas entered the market on March 5 to buy food.
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| Keith Langston the owner of the Two Rivers Grocery & Market is being sued by a local man. The local man was banned from the store after he made inflammatory comments about the store's Black grocery worker. |
Thomas claimed the cashier was “perplexed” by his request and yelled at him to take his items and leave.
In a telephone interview Wednesday, Thomas said, “It’s pretty simple. They treated me really bad because I told them it was against my creed.”
According to the lawsuit, Thomas went on to explain he meant a black person when he used the term “negroidal.”
The sacker, Aaron Menefee, said he thought Thomas was just kidding around.
“The first time he said it, I thought he was joking,” Menefee said. “Then he just kept repeating it.”
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| Aaron Menefee was insulted by a hostile customer. |
“I didn’t feel physically threatened,” Menefee said. “I just felt verbally assaulted.”
Langston wasn’t in the store at the time, but his employees told him about the incident.
“I decided when I heard about what happened that I was going to file a criminal trespass against him,” Langston said. “I just had to wait for him to be present so he could sign it.”
When Thomas returned two days later, he noticed the same black man would be sacking his groceries, so he again requested the “Negro” not handle his groceries, according to the lawsuit.
This time, Langston was there. He called police to serve Thomas a criminal trespass warning. While waiting for the police, an employee locked the doors, and the lawsuit claims Thomas was “unlawfully restrained.”
Thomas said Langston broke the law the night he locked him in the store.
“We were closing, and I don’t know of a business that doesn't lock their doors when they close. It keeps more people from coming in,” Langston said.
Thomas said he doesn’t understand why he had to deal with the same situation twice.
“My question is, why after I told them how I felt and that it was against my creed did this negroid try to impress himself upon me and try to handle my groceries again.” Thomas said.
Thomas said his religious beliefs are based on Vedism, which he said encompasses Hinduism.
“Vedism translates into knowledge. I am not this way because I am ignorant. Ignorance is the enemy,” he said.
Thomas said he has not broken any laws and was exercising his religious freedom and the rights he has been given.
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| Sacker was called racial slurs by hostile customer. |
Thomas’ based his claim that his civil rights were violated on that criminal trespass order. He also said Langston is wrong for trying to tell him who can touch his groceries and refusing to serve him.
“When I go through (a store) and buy groceries, those groceries become my property,” Thomas said.
Langston said he is not trying to tell Thomas what to believe or how to live, but his store is a privately owned business.
“He was banned because he was using racial slurs, but he has turned it into a religious thing,” Langston said.
Langston said Thomas would have been allowed to come back had he said he preferred to sack his own groceries.
“We have a few people who want to sack their own groceries, but it’s not for the same reasons DeWitt gave,” Langston said. “They do it because they just like to have their stuff bagged a certain way, certain groceries in certain bags.”
Thomas said he is going forward with his complaint because Langston has no right to stand against what he believes in.
“If he wants to stand in opposition of who I am, then we are going to go forward with this here thing,” Thomas said.
Langston said he wants the whole thing to just go away, but insists Thomas will never be able to come back into his store. He said Thomas told him he would drop the complaint if he dropped the criminal trespass.
“I’ve had several people say they would’ve touched a hell of a lot more than his groceries if they had been in line behind him,” Langston said.
Once again, this is what the angry white male represents! The reactionary condescending bigot who has pure hatred of President Barack Obama, someone's race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, political and economic standings. These are the people who rather have Republican Mitt Romney, a serial flip-flopping perennial candidate as the President of The United States. They don't care about his moderate stances on most issues. As long as this candidate is White person, these people are satisfied with it.
K.O. For Racist Comic!
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| Racist comedian gets knocked out. |
There's a viral video going around being sponsored by WPIX, New York's CW Affiliate. A comedian's awful performance wasn't the reason why he was knocked out! He got knocked out making fun of the Asian-American couple.
The young man jumped on stage and knocked the comedian out after he went into an anti-Asian rant.
I guess he's pretending to be Michael Richards. Richards, was the famed Seinfeld star who performed his role as Kramer. He got heckled by members of an audience. After the hecklers were told to leave, the comedian made a racist rant about Black people and said Nigger over five times and the comment "hanging y'all from trees!"
Some comedians who talk about race issues include Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Damon Wayans, George Carlin, Bill Cosby, Norm MacDonald and Eddie Murphy.
This comedian didn't study the masters.
Saturday, September 01, 2012
LAPD Kick The Genitals Of Alesia Thomas! Dies Of Suffocation!
| Alesia Thomas' death sparks controversy with the Los Angeles Police Department. |
Black and Latino people vs. Los Angeles Police Department.
We're experiencing another dose of reality with America's most professional and yet controversial law enforcement agency. The boys in blue managed to get themselves wrapped up in another controversy. Like the New York Police Department, America's second largest city has a huge police force. Los Angeles County covers about 8 million residents. The City of Los Angeles has nearly 4 million residents. The Los Angeles Police Department has over 10,000 uniformed officers watching the quadrant of 498 square miles of city limits.
Often known for their aggressive campaign to stop gang violence, the LAPD sometimes gets wrapped up in controversy of its own. The LAPD has been copiously fictionalized in numerous movies, novels and television shows throughout its history. The department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racial animosity, police brutality and police corruption.
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| Michelle Jordan was kicked in the face after LAPD pulled her over. |
Police say Jordan was pulled over for a cell phone violation and got out of her car and became confrontational with the officers.
According to Jordan, she merely got out of her car, and the next thing she knew she was being slammed to the ground and handcuffed.
Another person who was abused by the LAPD was a banking executive. Brian Mulligan has already filed a $50 million lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles.
According to Mulligan, police mistook him for a suspect going berserk near a fast food restaurant in Eagle Rock on May 14. He claims police searched him, found at least $2,500 in his car and then took him to a nearby motel.
Mulligan says he thought he had become bait in a sting operation and tried to leave and that's when officers attacked him.
| Brian Mulligan was knocked out by LAPD. |
From Redding News Service comes a buzz worthy story. We here at Journal de la Reyna want justice for Alesia Thomas. We want the FBI and U.S. Justice Department to investigate members of the LAPD for police brutality.
According to KTLA 5, the CW affiliate from Los Angeles, five LAPD officers have been removed from field duties and are under administrative investigation in connection with the death of a woman who suffocated while being taken into custody.
And now the family of 35-year-old Alesia Thomas is speaking out to KTLA News in a search for answers regarding her death.
"I think they killed her," Thomas's grandmother Ada Moses says. "She wasn't a bad girl. She was a good girl. I miss my granddaughter. That's all I have to say."
The altercation in front of Thomas's apartment was captured by a patrol car's video camera.
LAPD Deputy Chief Bob Green confirmed that one officer, while trying to get Alesia Thomas into the back of a patrol car, told her something along the lines of "get your fat ass in the car."
The female officer then threatened to kick Thomas in the genitals if she did not comply, Green confirmed, and the officer followed through on her threat.
After officers forced her into the back seat of the police car, Thomas is also seen on the video breathing shallowly. She eventually stopped breathing.
LAPD Media Commander Andrew Smith said the investigation is in its early stages. "In the Academy we do still train people to use kicks in instances involving use of force," Smith said. "Whether it was appropriate in this instance, I don't know. That will be up to the investigation to determine."
"I take all in-custody death investigations very seriously," LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said in a statement late Thursday. "I am confident we will get to the truth no matter where that leads us."
The incident comes a day after Beck announced he was transferring a captain from his command after a separate videotaped incident in which two officers were shown slamming a handcuffed woman to the ground.
Beck had said that video raised concerns and that the department was investigating the officers, who have been removed from field duty.
The Thomas incident occurred July 22 after she had left children. Officers went in search of Thomas, finding her at her home in the 9000 block of South Broadway.
After questioning her briefly, the officers attempted to arrest Thomas on suspicion of child endangerment.
Thomas "began actively resisting arrest" as officers attempted to take her into custody and one of the officers took her to the ground by sweeping her legs out from beneath her, the LAPD's official account said.
Two other officers then handcuffed Thomas behind her back and attempted to lead her to a patrol car while a supervising sergeant observed, according to the department's version of the incident.
Two more officers were summoned to the scene as Thomas continued to struggle.
Green confirmed that Thomas was a very large woman.
A "hobble restraint device"-- an adjustable strap -- was tightened around Thomas' ankles to give the officers more control over her and she was eventually placed in the back of the patrol car, the LAPD account said.
The official account, however, made no mention of what Green confirmed was a female officer's questionable treatment of Thomas.
The department's official account said the officers immediately notified paramedics.
Beck's statement said he wanted to find out whether Thomas had been under the influence of any drugs or suffered from a medical condition that could have caused her death before he passed judgment on the officers.
Four police officers and their sergeant were removed from field duties after the incident.
Investigators from the department's Internal Affairs unit opened an investigation into the death, Green said.
Romney Told Hurricane Victim To Go Home And Call 211!
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| Mitt Romney meets Governor Bobby Jindal (R-Louisiana). |
The Republicans wanted to paint Mitt Romney as a caring human being who shows compassion towards the middle class. It appears Mitt Romney put his foot in his mouth yet again.
According to the Huffington Post and Associated Press, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove through a town that was flooded by Hurricane Isaac in part because it's still outside the vast flooding protection system built with federal funds after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.
Romney, who chatted with a handful of storm victims and shook hands with first responders, didn't have too much to say. "I'm here to learn and obviously to draw some attention to what's going on here," Romney told Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who he accompanied to the Jean Lafitte town hall to meet with emergency workers. "So that people around the country know that people down here need help."
That snippet of conversation represented the bulk of Romney's public remarks in Louisiana on Friday.
His host, Jindal, is now calling on the federal government to expand the rebuilt flood protection system that prevented serious flooding in New Orleans during this week's storm. That system, built after flooding from Katrina devastated much of New Orleans, cost the Army Corps of Engineers $14.5 billion. It doesn't extend as far as Jean Lafitte, which is situated in Jefferson Parish, and has been affected by a series of hurricanes, including Katrina, Rita, Cindy and now Isaac.
"It is absolutely critical that the Corps, and certainly our delegation working them, but that the Corps and the federal government look at those other levees," Jindal said Thursday. Lafitte is included in a proposed ring levee that the state hopes to build, but there are no concrete plans to build yet.
Romney was silent on whether, as president, he would support paying for such an expansion. Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan, has proposed eliminating $10 billion a year in disaster spending and requiring Congress to pay for emergencies by cutting from elsewhere in the budget. That proposal was blocked by GOP leaders.
Hurricane Isaac is blamed for at least six deaths in Louisiana and Mississippi. It submerged hundreds of homes, forced thousands of others to evacuate and cut power to nearly half of Louisiana's homes and businesses.
Romney didn't speak to reporters as he toured Jean Lafitte on Friday. The Romney campaign refused to say whether he would support additional funding for the levees, saying only that the GOP nominee "recognizes the importance of disaster prevention and would seek to ensure that we have the infrastructure we need to keep all Americans safe."
Jindal did explain the issue to Romney as they climbed into the Republican nominee's SUV and began their tour.
"It (the levee system) performs well, but the areas here — the other areas ..." Jindal said, trailing off because Romney jumped in.
"Are outside, outside that levee system," Romney said.
Romney's motorcade, including trucks equipped to drive through high water, edged gingerly down Jean Lafitte Boulevard, a main road.
Accompanied by National Guard vehicles, the caravan inched through water that at some points was a foot or more deep, submerging gas stations, flooding homes and covering front laws. Residents stood in the water and watched the motorcade pass.
Flood protection was clearly on the minds of residents. A man who waved a neon yellow sign reading "Mitt is Our Man" wondered why levees had not been able to protect the low-lying areas of this fishing community.
"It has really destroyed us," the man said to Romney after the motorcade stopped on the side of the road. "I don't know why we can't come up with something that saves all."
Up the street, a giant pink sign hung on the balcony of a flooded house. "Where is our levee protection?" it read.
Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office and talked with a local resident, Jodie Chiarello, 42, who lost her home in Isaac's flooding.
"He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there," Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. "He said, go home and call 211." That's a public service number offered in many states.
Chiarello said she will likely seek some other shelter because her home was submerged in the flooding. She expressed frustration about the town's lack of flood protection.
"We live outside the levee protection that's why we get all this water because they close the floodgates up front and all they're doing is flooding us out down here," she said. "It's very frustrating, very. We go through Katrina and Rita and now we're going through Cindy, Lee and now Isaac."
Romney's last-minute visit, announced less than 12 hours after he became the Republican nominee, took him to the disaster area ahead of his Democratic rival, President Barack Obama. The president was following with his own visit to Louisiana on Monday, the White House announced.
Romney went at Jindal's invitation, his campaign said. Jindal, a Republican, told reporters Romney had been in touch several days ago to ask how he could help with storm relief and Jindal suggested Romney come down and see the damage for himself. He said he had extended an invitation to Obama as well.
White House spokesman Jay Carney, asked what a private citizen like Romney could accomplish by visiting a disaster area, said he wasn't sure how to answer the question but that drawing attention to the affected area was "important."
Romney spokesman Kevin Madden said Romney's visit could focus people on "the needs of the affected region, particularly the need for charitable donations and resources to aid relief efforts."
Back in Washington, Democrats seized on the trip to accuse Republicans of supporting cuts in federal disaster funding that the Gulf Coast will now need to recover from Isaac.
"It is the height of hypocrisy for Mitt Romney and (Congressman) Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) to make a pretense of showing sympathy for the victims of Hurricane Isaac when their policies would leave those affected by this disaster stranded and on their own," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), in a written statement.
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) said she welcomed Romney to her home state but pushed him on disaster funding.
"I hope as he witnesses recovery in action, he will reflect upon his party's approach to funding disaster response," she said. "Had the plan advocated by his running mate Congressman Paul Ryan and Congressman Eric Cantor prevailed, there would be no money readily available to provide assistance for this, or any other disaster."
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