The Whiteness of TV Courtship

Juan Pablo Galavis is the only Bachelor of Color in the Bachelor series

Caila Quinn was considered for the Bachlorette franchise but was rejected in favor of 

Joelle "JoJo" Fletcher

Joelle "JoJo" Fletcher is the face of the new Bachlorette

It has been coming up in the news recently regarding the last bastion of racism/classism:  TV Dating shows, particularly the Bachelor and the Bachelorette shows. Ms. Meredith Blake of the Los Angeles Times discuss this sensitive topic on race/ethnicity and courtship on both The Bachelor and The Bachlorette shows. 

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A handsome, fair-haired man waits expectantly outside a palatial mansion as a horse-drawn carriage pulls up the drive. A beautiful young brunette in a floor-length gown emerges playing the violin, then pauses to introduce herself: "Hi, I'm Shamiqua."

Suddenly a producer interrupts: "Cut! Cut! Cut!" Shamiqua, she explains, does not have "wife potential." The problem: She's black.

"It is not my fault that America's racist, people," the producer proclaims.

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Yeah, the centuries-old racist ideology of Black women not being suitable wife material dating from slavery onward to Jim Crow to recent stereotyping and racial backlash.  Why do you think antimiscegenation laws existed until 1967 when U.S. Supreme Court struck down those hateful laws in the Loving v. Virginia.  Witness how White Conservatives and Liberals trash Michelle Obama, Beyonce, Charlaine DeBlasio, Jada Pinkett,  Ayesha Curry, etc., for being and maintaining successful marriages.  It seems to me that people and the mainstream media are jealous of Black women and their relationships.  Could it be why the media tried so hard to push the unloving, demanding single Black woman narrative of the past 10 years?  Could it be that they push unflattering stereotypes of Black women in reality shows such as the Housewives of Atlanta, Basketball Wives, etc?

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The scene is from the Lifetime series "UnREAL," which follows the backstage drama at a fictional dating competition show called "Everlasting." Last week, a similar shade of reality invaded the carefully constructed fantasy of "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette," the long-running ABC reality franchise that inspired "UnREAL."

Recent comments made by Fleiss on Twitter seem to undermine this claim. Fleiss tweeted March 5 that the identity of the new bachelorette would be revealed via the social media platform, adding in a subsequent tweet, "After 5 years of BBQ chicken as our Night One dinner, I'm thinking of mixing things up this year. Maybe a little Thai food ... Yum!"
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Objectifying women with food references is bad, but when it is mixed with race and ethnicity, that's not cool.  The producers know better than that.
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Some saw the tweet as an indelicate metaphor about the ethnicity of the new bachelorette, an impression strengthened by this update, which arrived two days after Fletcher was announced as the new bachelorette: "I chickened out and went with BBQ chicken. If it ain't broke ... #Bachelorette."

Many have argued that Fleiss and his colleagues care only about ratings and worry that an interracial romance would alienate less-tolerant viewers — this despite a profusion of mixed-race couples on hits including ABC's "Scandal" and AMC's "The Walking Dead." Furthermore, the success of shows such as "Empire" and "The Wiz" has shown that inclusiveness can also be good for the bottom line.
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That's a cop-out and they know it.  Mainstream media and its masses do not want to see a successful interracial romance, whether be between White and People of Color or among People of Color, i.e. Black and Asian, Hispanic and Asian, Middle Eastern and Black, American Indian and Latino, etc.  Heck, it barely show Black couples together loving each other instead of fighting and having meaningless relationships.
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It could simply be that producers are reluctant to spoil the gauzy fantasy of a fireside couple's massage with a probing discussion of racial difference — a circumstance rarely acknowledged in the artificially post-racial universe of the shows, argues Rachel Dubrofsky, an associate professor at the University of South Florida. "The assumption is that a woman of color can as easily date a white man as a man of color, as if race is nonexistent. This does not effectively address issues of diversity and the real, lived ways in which people are impacted by racial difference."

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Please don't even try to deny that the show doesn't reflect real life.  America is much more polarized than ever.  Racial, ethnic, and class segregation has increased in the last 10 years.  The Tea Party and corporatist/wealthy wing of the Republican and Democratic parties have promoted racial divisiveness leading to the rise of Donald Trump.  Recent studies have revealed that nonblack men who proclaim colorblind ideology are far less likely to date/marry/have families with Black women(may I also say other women of Color such as Latinas, South Asian women, Pacific Island women, Middle Eastern women, Southeast Asian women(Filipinas excepted) and Native American women).

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"The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" are hardly unique within the reality genre, which has been plagued by allegations of racial insensitivity since the very first season of "The Real World" in 1992.

More recently, contestants on "Big Brother" were caught on tape making derogatory comments about African American and Asian American housemates. Other shows, including "The Real World" and "The Celebrity Apprentice," have been criticized for trafficking in negative stereotypes or stoking racial tension for ratings.
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In the latest Bachelor episode,  contender Jubilee was subjected to racial  taunting by her fellow contestants, saying that she doesn't have the right credentials to be his future wife.
According to the Huffington Post article, fellow contestants said that she wouldn't fit in as "a soccer mom wife." 

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The guise of reality gives producers of shows like "The Bachelor" a convenient excuse, says Dubrofsky, author of the book "The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television: Watching 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette.'" "The makers of the show are easily let off the hook since they can say, 'We are only showing you what the person actually did, which we happened to catch on camera.'"

This season on "The Bachelor," Haitian-born Jubilee Sharpe became an early standout among the contestants, briefly buoying hopes that a black woman would have a shot at the final rose or title of "The Bachelorette." But her initial success provoked jealous sniping from her housemates, who spoke about her in language that, to many viewers, had racial connotations. Sharpe wasn't right for bachelor Ben Higgins because she wouldn't be "friends with all the other soccer moms," said one blond contestant. Sharpe was eliminated two weeks later.

Still, she lasted much longer than the average black contestant on '"The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette." A recent survey by Fusion found that 59% of black contestants leave the show within the first two episodes, which now run for 10 weeks, and that no black contestant had ever made it past Week 5.

Here's the chart from the Washington Post Chronicalling the number of People of Color in both the Bachelor and Bachelorette series

Here are two charts showing the number of People of Color contestants and winners from each episode.

Because producers typically cast a popular but rejected contestant as the next bachelor or bachelorette, this has created a "cycle [of] white contestants, white star," notes Andy Dehnart, editor of the website Reality Blurred.

Dubrofsky's research has also shown that there are fewer men of color on "The Bachelorette" than women of color on "The Bachelor," a disparity that she believes reinforces negative ideas about the romantic suitability of nonwhite men and the notion that white men are "saviors."
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Duh, historically White women weren't allow to have relationships with men of Color and vice versa.  Such relationships are controversial to this day.  Think about shock radio Bob Dumas hateful commentary on White woman/Native American marriage in 2008.  Richard Cohen's racist article about Mayor DeBlasio and his family as well as the hateful commentary from YouTube users regarding the Cheerios Commercial featuring an interracial family back in 2013.  We really haven't progressed when it comes to interracial/interethnic relationships.
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The truly groundbreaking thing, Dubrofsky added, would be a season featuring a nonwhite star and predominantly diverse contestants. For now, however, "the story of love on 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette' is about two white people finding love."
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So True! Black relationships need to be shown on TV more. Media also need to show more People of Color in love as well as interracial couples on TV but that's wishful thinking as long as racism/white supremacy shape our lives including romance.

Links:
http://www.karenx.com/blog/minorities-on-the-bachelor-when-do-they-get-eliminated/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jubilee-bachelor-eliminated_us_56b10ccfe4b0fbfdd61587f8

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/21/the-bachelor-and-bachelorette-inside-the-racial-discrimination-lawsuit.html

http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/ap/racial-disparity-on-abc-s-bachelor-franchise-irks-critics/article_219633a3-2feb-515b-a18e-9ae7442d40a9.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/03/13/470124738/what-would-it-mean-to-have-a-hapa-bachelorette

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-unreal-bachelor-20160326-story.html

http://httpjournalsaolcomjenjer6steph.blogspot.com/2013/12/from-past.html

Sean "Puffy" Combs Opening Up "Bad Boy" High!

Mr. Combs opens up a charter school in Harlem.

The media mogul's latest endeavor: Opening up a charter school.

Sean "Puffy" Combs, known as Puff Daddy/Diddy told the junk food media that he's going bring Hartford's Capital Prep Charter School to Harlem. He wants to turn an abandoned building in Harlem into a school for social justice. The school will cater to high school students from 6th grade to 12th grade.

Combs is co-founding the school with Steve Perry, a recognized name in education reform who has sparred with union leaders and made TV appearances such as on CNN's "Black in America."  Perry founded a public magnet campus in Hartford, Conn., in 2005, and a charter in Bridgeport, Conn., founded in 2015. Charter schools are publicly funded and can be privately operated.

Combs provided office space and staff in New York to launch the school, Perry said. Initially, those staffers canvassed the neighborhood for support. Perry said he hasn't asked Combs to donate his money to the school, and the musician's day-to-day involvement is still to be determined.

Teachers are called illuminators because they're more than just instructors, said Capital Prep Harlem Principal Danita Jones.

He's accepting students this session.

This is the media mogul's first attempt at opening up an institution for disadvantaged youth.

Combs is the founder of Bad Boy Entertainment. Through the 1990s and 2000s the label was credited to the success of Notorious B.I.G., 112, Total, Faith Evans, Mase, The Lox, Craig Mack and Black Rob.

Bad Boy's latest acts include Cassie, Machine Gun Kelly, and French Montana.

The Law Catches Cold Blooded Killer Who Bucked Friend!

Cold blooded killer murders his friend in Dayton, Ohio. May face a the gas house if they charge him with capital murder.

In the rust belt city of Dayton, Ohio, the law says that Easter weekend was probably the most violent of the month. There were numerous shootings in the community. My hometown is facing some real issues with gun violence. Of course, the Congress won't do a damn thing about it.

There was shooting in the Westwood neighborhood. A man was shot in the chest and tried to flee. He would end up crashing into a pole on route to a hospital. The victim Gary Tisdale was pronounced dead on the scene.

Gary Tisdale was murdered by a cold blooded killer.

His former friend Michael Martin was booked in the Montgomery County lockup on charges of felonious assault, carrying concealed weapons, and having weapons under disability (as a felon),

This happened near the busy intersection of James H. McGee Boulevard and West Third Street.

The passengers managed to escape gunfire but were really ecstatic about this.

The killer may had an argument with the victim.

Dayton police presser Lt. Bill Keller said this act was senseless.

"There was a dispute some blocks over - and one guy shot the other guy in the chest. He drove away in his car with a couple passengers and due to his injuries, he crashed. At this point he has passed."

So far there probably over 2,000 shootings this month alone. It's unfortunate that we have these issues in the United States. We're leading the way in violence.

GUN CRIME IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.

Martin is innocent until proven guilty. Based on being a felon with a firearm, a murder charge could put this killer in the gas house. LIFE in the iron college may be the only way out of the gas house. He's already assured the that option if he's found guilty of the charges.

World News Today send our condolences to the family of Gary Tisdale.

Clerk Faces Murder Charges For Bucking Shoplifter!

Store owner kills shopper. He faces a murder charge. He claims it was "self-defense". 

The law warns residents never become a hero if you're facing a potential threat. It's best to protect yourself from an attack. If you're cornered or force to take action, do so safely. It could be justified only if the threat can't allow you to escape.

Now it seems like you can't take actions into your own hands. A Washington state clerk faces a murder rap for bucking an alleged shoplifter.

The clerk claims that its was an act of self-defense.

Shooting in a Seattle-area convenience store.

Pierce County sheriff says that the evidence points to a cold-blooded killing.

Min Sik Kim of Spanaway was booked in the county lockup on a high class murder charge. He decided to handle an alleged shoplifter with the firearm. Jakeel Mason was the victim. The 21-year old man was shot in the back and he posed no threat to Kim or his business.

The victim was unarmed. This killer claimed that his business Pacific Quickmart was a target of chronic theft and robberies.

Kim says that the victim was trying to steal cigarettes. They got into a tussle and the victim pushed the killer to the ground. He claimed that the victim tried to reach for the killer's firearm.

Jakeel Mason in 2014.

He and his wife wanted to show the thieves that they're not going to take theft lying down. They decided to use their firearms to stroke fear in Black shoppers who loiter too much. They wanted to show Black shoppers that they're not going to allow them to steal from them.

The law said that the video shows a store clerk profiling a shopper. The video  shows that the struggle started when the store clerk punching the victim and the victim goes to leave the store, the killer puts the slugs in him.

The killer's wife Suel, got into a violent confrontation with an alleged robber. She was grazed by a slug. She was treated for the injuries. The robber got away. This happened last month.

Okay, Detective Ed Troyer speaks on this.

"We know that just the previous month that his wife was shot at in a robbery, we understand that. That probably leads to high emotions and people carrying weapons, but if you're going to carry weapons you have to have the responsibility of carry that weapon. We can't have shoplifts turn into homicides."

The victim had a criminal history. Mason plead guilty to attempted burglary and trying to abduct a 6-year old girl.

Kim will face the judge soon on second degree murder. These charges could land Kim in the iron college for the rest of his LIFE.

Kim is innocent until proven guilty.

If the alleged suspect stole something, it's best to avoid confrontation. If the suspect attacks you and you try to defend yourself by using deadly force, then the law could determine if the encounter is justified or a criminal act.

An eerie reminder of the tragic death Latasha Harlins. Around the Rodney King beating in 1992, a teen was killed by a store clerk in a South Los Angeles liquor store.  The killer Soon Ja Du murdered Latasha after a confrontation over a stolen bottle of orange juice. The killer claimed that the teen punched her.

The law concluded that the killing was justified and Du was released. This along with the dismissal of LAPD officers accused of beating King sparked the Los Angeles riots.

World News Today send our condolences to the family of Jakeel Mason.

The Law Caught The U.S. Capitol Threat! Now Who Gets The Blame For It?

Terrorist panicked Washington, DC with a pellet gun. The terrorist caused a panic at the U.S. Capitol in a politically motivated attack.

There was a shooting at the U.S. Capitol today. A terrorist panicked Washington, DC with a toy gun.

The incident allowed innocent civilians at the Capitol Visitor Center get injured. The DC Capitol Police put the threat down.

Officers shot and injured the threat around 3pm after he entered the north screening area of the Capitol Visitor Center and drew a weapon. It turns out that the terrorist had a pellet gun. So I am guessing he was trying to commit suicide by cop.

The terrorist was taken to a local hospital and was being treated for his injuries. An uninvolved bystander was injured and taken to a local hospital. The terrorist was a former pastor at St. Luke’s Community Church in Nashville, according to his Facebook page and the church’s website.

Panic in Washington, DC.

The terrorist cause the Capitol to shut down, the White House to shut down. It disrupted traffic along Interstate 395 and Interstate 695. Washington, DC was fearing that this was an act of terrorism caused by a Muslim.

Of course, that's what our conservative agitators in the junk food media were hoping for.

They wanted to continue this tongue flexing of how they can stop the so-evil "radical" Islam.

The terrorist is named Larry Russell Dawson. He's a man from Tennessee who was a Prophet of God.

Now he's a Black man, a Christian extremist and a legal owner of a firearm. Who's gonna get the blame for this?

In the wake of the DC Capitol shooting, the suspect was caught. Who takes the blame in this controversy?

Barack Obama

#BlackLivesMatter

Muslims

Liberals

Conservatives

NRA

The Shooter

Mental Issues

Do Quizzes

Tell you what! Congress won't move the needle on gun violence. Even though this threat was considered a nut job, this stuff is happening way too much. This terrorist could have been strapped with explosives and would have been a perfect example of a suicide bomber.

Yeah, since he's a Christian extremist, you won't hear much about that. Since he's complaining about raising the minimum wage, a goal liberals want accomplished, conservatives will single out President Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton for this terrorist actions.

Of course, when this terrorist is released from the hospital, he will face federal charges. The charges could put this terrorist in federal time out for LIFE.

The terrorist is innocent until proven guilty.

World News Today sends our prayers to those injured in this senseless act of ignorance.

The Ugly Side Of Politics Always Begins With Roger Stone!

Ted Cruz is squirming.

The Ted Cruz campaign is totally pissed at the allegations that the presidential candidate had numerous affairs with staffers and agitators in the media. They blame Donald Trump and his biggest supporter Roger Stone for spreading the rumor.

Ted Cruz singled out Trump and Stone for sending the story to the National Enquirer. The tabloid has been questioned before for shoddy journalism. But it's been actually on it when it came to Gary Hart, Gary Condit, John Edwards and Jesse Jackson having numerous affairs.

Ted Cruz spoke on it.

"I want to be crystal clear: these attacks are garbage. For Donald J.Trump to enlist his friends at the National Enquirer and his political henchmen to do his bidding shows you that there is no low Donald won't go. These smears are completely false, they're offensive to Heidi and me, they're offensive to our daughters, and they're offensive to everyone Donald continues to personally attack. Donald Trump's consistently disgraceful behavior is beneath the office we are seeking and we are not going to follow.

The National Enquirer published a story. It is a story that quoted one source on the record: Roger Stone, Donald Trump's chief political advisor. Let me be clear, this National Enquirer story is garbage. It is complete and utter lies. It is a tabloid smear, and it is a smear that has come from Donald Trump and his henchmen. It is attacking my family, and what is striking is Donald 's henchman, Roger Stone, had for months been foreshadowing that this attack was coming. It's not surprising that Donald Trump's tweet occurs the day before the attack comes out. And I would note that Mr. Stone is a man who has 50 years of dirty tricks behind him. He's a man for whom a term was coined for copulating with a rodent. Well let me be clear: Donald Trump may be a rat, but I have no desire to copulate with him. And this garbage does not belong in politics. The National Enquirer has endorsed Donald Trump, has said he must be President. And so Donald, when he's losing, when he's scared, when Republicans are uniting against him, decdies to peddle sleaze and slime. You know, Donald is fond of giving people nicknames. With this pattern, he should not be surprised to see people calling him, 'Sleazy Donald'".

Thank god I slept through GOP Sundays. I normally get up to watch the Republicans make idiots of themselves on television. They get 3:1 coverage on Sunday shows.

Republicans are fighting over the immaturity of the campaigns. The Republicans are losing faith that Trump, Cruz and John Kasich could win the presidency.

With a pending brokered convention and the talk of Republicans not supporting the nominee, the odds of the civil war reaching critical mass is VERY LIKELY.

Mastermind of dirty, sexy, money. Roger Stone classics.

Roger Stone is a political sleazebag. He's the guy obsessed with President Barack Obama's birth certificate. He's the guy who toss Matt Drudge the Hillary Clinton coughing fits. He obsessed with allegations of Bill Clinton raping women while he was in the White House.

He's the guy who leaked the 2008 tape of John Kasich getting upset with a cop in Columbus, Ohio.

Many conservatives are split with this type of politics. If it goes against a Democrat, they in favor of all the dirty tricks. But if it goes against a Republican, then you're kind of split.

Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and many other conservative agitators in the junk food media hate Roger Stone and Donald Trump.

They believe that Ted Cruz is the only true conservative able to bring Republicans together.

They question Donald Trump's bombastic and fiery rhetoric. They seriously fear that Trump could damage the Republican Party for years.

Obama: Mitch McConnell's Inept Leadership Dooms America!

Dirty politician faces an onslaught of criticism from Pres. Obama, the public and fellow Republicans who fear they may lose in competitive senate races.

Two weeks in and no budging on the Merrick Garland nomination for the Supreme Court.

Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said in the junk food media that the nomination will be for the next president. It's pretty much pissed off the president and the Democrats. President Barack Obama in final year still at work. He may be a lame duck, but he's not sulking about being called that.

His job approval right now sits in the mid 50s.

Obama is still constitutionally entitled to have a nominee confirmed to the Court.

The Democrats are saying that Republicans are inept and they can't govern. They fear the conservative outrage brewing if they give in to the public's demand to nominate a justice to the high court.

The court's swing is somewhat conservative. Now that Antonin Scalia passed away, Republicans feared that Obama's pick for the Supreme Court could swing the court into a progressive direction.

Conservatives are outraged over Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) complaining about the senate not holding hearings on Garland.

The Garden City Telegram reported that Moran told a small group gathered in a Cimarron, Kan., courthouse on Monday that GOP senators “should interview Garland and have a hearing on his nomination,” in the paper’s words.

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) warns Republicans that the plan to stop Obama's court pick will backfire.

“I can’t imagine the president has or will nominate somebody that meets my criteria, but I have my job to do,” Moran said, according to the report. “I think the process ought to go forward.”

Another Kansas paper, the Dodge City Daily Globe, reported that Moran was even more explicit in comments to a Rotary Club there: “I think we have the responsibility to have a hearing, to have the conversation and to make a determination on the merit,” he said.

He says that he rather vote against Garland than hold his nomination up. He understands that if a Republican wins the presidency, the Democrats will block nominees for the Court.

The partisan gridlock affecting Washington, DC is pathetic. I mean Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) are worthless politicians and leaders.

The Republicans also trying to cock block a recess appointment to the Court. The president could impose a recess nomination if the Republicans hold firm on their threat.

Here's a poll for you

Should the U.S. Senate confirm Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court?

Yes. President Barack Obama is entitled to have a nominee confirmed to the Supreme Court. Republicans should stop playing games and get to work. It will backfire if Republicans refuse to confirm.

No. President Barack Obama's nominee is not going to be confirmed anyway. Republicans should wait until a new president is sworn in. The Supreme Court's decisions could affect the country if Obama's nominee is too polarizing.

Do Quizzes

I really hope that the Senate come to its senses and confirm Obama's nominee.

Omarosa: Donald Trump Is Looking Out For Us!

TV's iconic villain Omarosa comes out in favor of The Donald.

The most controversial contestant on The Apprentice came out in favor of her old boss. Omarosa, the celebrity agitator who is an ordained minister came in favor of Donald Trump. She is fiercely defending him from the accusations of being sexist, racist, ignorant and immature.

This little spat between Trump and Cruz has dominated the junk food media's attention.

Trump retweeted an offensive image of Heidi Cruz next to his current wife Melania and it set off  a shitstorm of criticism from Republicans and Ted Cruz himself.

Now his former castmate from The Apprentice says this is all bullshit.

Omarosa, the famed diva of the first season endorsed Trump for president. Omarosa Manigualt is reality television agitator, media analysis and ordain pastor. She was voted by most critics as the most nastiest villain in television.

She slams Cruz for being melodramatic. She also took aim at Megyn Kelly for being such a diva.

Basically Omarosa is saying that her friend and mentor Donald J. Trump isn't a mypobic, sexist, xenophobic, racist dick.

She also hit the junk food media for saying that Trump's rhetoric is considered racist.

She was on CNN with Don Lemon. The debate got a little heated. Don got so frustrated with the filibustering he actually scolded her.

Omarosa was once engaged to the late actor Michael Clarke Duncan. He passed away in 2012. She has secured a deal with GSN to host a game show.

She is a native of Youngstown, Ohio and attended Ohio's Central State University and Howard University. She has a bachelor's degree in communication and broadcast journalism.

Western Bern!

Big victory for Bernie Sanders. The junk food media took an iconic picture of the Democratic candidate smiling while a bird landed on his podium.

Last week they were writing his campaign off. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the Democratic candidate for president won a swept yesterday.

Sanders pulls off healthy victories in the caucuses and primaries. The states of Washington, Idaho and Hawaii gave Bernie Sanders a healthy victory.

The junk food media barely covered it. Matter of fact, they ignored the fact that turnout was huge for the Democratic candidates.

The momentum that Bernie's getting is showing that the Democrats aren't the only ones with problems.

Hillary Clinton is leading in most national polls. But she could lose to John Kasich, Ted Cruz and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.

Bernie Sanders performs way better against the three.

Congratulations to Bernie Sanders on his huge victory.

Delegate count so far has Hillary Clinton at 1728 and Bernie Sanders at 1034.

Now the candidates are taking a minor break from campaigning to celebrate Easter. They will be back on the campaign trail soon. Wisconsin is coming up and the candidates will fight for the votes.

Scott Walker, the failed presidential candidate hasn't endorsed a candidate yet. Milwaukee County sheriff and conservative agitator David Clarke, Jr. will be given more unwanted attention as well.

#BlackLivesMatter will be protesting the candidates if they land in Madison, Milwaukee and Green Bay.

Can't Fly The Friendly Skies Too!

A flight attendant was busted for trafficking the snow at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport).

She thought that she could have passed through the TSA with her luggage. She thought wrong. They asked her for a secondary screening.

It turned out that she didn't want to participate in the secondary screening. The flight attendant would bolt from the TSA leaving her luggage and her luxury Gucci pumps behind.

Well inside that luggage and her Gucci pumps was snow. Lots of snow. The TSA found nearly 70 lbs of cocaine, a package of condoms and cash.

The flight attendant for JetBlue was named as Marsha Gay Reynolds, an Jamaican born woman who once was a beauty pageant contestant.

She was off-duty when she flashed her identification to the TSA. They looked at her like she's up to something. So they decided to make her squirm a bit.

I guess that was a good call, because if they allowed her on to flight, all that coke would have been shipped through the government.

Well Reynolds managed to escape the law for a moment. She would take flight at Bob Hope in Burbank to head to New York. The feds were waiting for her.

Bricks. All White bricks wrapped in green.

Now she is waiting extradition to Los Angeles to face some serious charges. These charges could put the pretty woman in federal time out for LIFE.

Reynolds is innocent until proven guilty.

Reynolds is also considered a high alert for escape. So they confiscated her passport and held her without a get out free card.

Beauty without the brains.

JetBlue is not pleased about this. They are working with the feds to out anyone else involved in the smuggling of cocaine, weapons and explosives.

The TSA comes under fire for this. They may have involuntarily allowed individuals smuggle illegal activity on flights here and abroad. The potential of a terrorist smuggling explosives through friends who work for airports came into question after a Russian airliner crashed after a worker smuggled a bomb the size of a Pespi bottle onto a flight.

911 Caller In John Crawford Shooting Facing Heat!

John Crawford is dead. Sean Williams is facing a cannon firing. But what about the 911 caller? Ronald Ritchie moved out of the area and went into hiding. Protesters with #BlackLivesMatter hope to bring him out of hiding to face criminal charges.

We haven't forgotten about the shooting in Beavercreek, Ohio. We haven't forgotten about Officer Sean Williams killing John Crawford III, a Black man without warning. Williams the officer who was dispatched to a Dayton area Walmart believed that John was carrying a firearm. The officer and his partner Dave Darkow were called to the store on a false 911.

John Crawford was shopping in Walmart and managed to pick up an open air rifle. While he was walking through the store, he was on the phone with the mother of his children.

Ronald Ritchie, a White shopper was nearby. He saw John on the phone with the air rifle. In his mind, he believed that John was being rude on the phone. So he concocted this story about John loading a firearm and was pointing it at shoppers. He called 911 and told them that story and it brought the Beavercreek Police out within one minute.

As John was talking on the phone, the officers creeped up near the pet supplies aisle. John was still on the phone when the officers claimed they gave him verbal disengagement warnings. That didn't happen so Williams fired.

Ritchie went into hiding after the John Crawford shooting.

According to John's ex-girlfriend, she heard screams on the phone and the words, "It's not real!" before another shot was fired.

As the officers approached John on the ground, they arrested him. He was bleeding badly. So they call for an ambulance and take the injured to the hospital. John would die of his injuries.

The panic of gunfire had gotten to a shopper. Angela Williams was near the event. She would have a heart attack in front of her children. She was taken to the hospital and died a heart attack.

Ritchie, the only person on the phone who called 911 was grilled intensely. He said that John deserved it because he caused the panic. When the Beavercreek Police and FBI shown the video, he changed his tune.

The junk food media pressed for the video's release. Ohio's Attorney General Mike DeWine refused to publish it citing potential backlash.

An Ohio grand jury would find the officers not liable in the death of John.

Despite Ohio being an "open carry" state, John's action according to the grand jury were merit for police response. The grand jury decided that even if they saw John on the phone, not pointing the air rifle at customers, and standing away from officers, his death was justified.

John Crawford death brought a lot of attention to Tasha Thomas. Thomas was grilled intensively by Beavercreek cops. She was threatened with jail time for something her boyfriend didn't do. Thomas's would die a few months later in a fatal car accident.

Sean Williams is facing a potential cannon firing after this. He may have lied on his statements. He is currently doing desk work while he's under federal watch for reckless calls past and present.

John's family field a wrongful death lawsuit against Beavercreek, Walmart and DeWine. The girlfriend that John was dating at the time was Tasha Thomas. Her family was suing Beavercreek for unlawful restraint.

Tasha and her new boyfriend were killed in a tragic car accident.

Ritchie managed to skirt the junk food media. He would eventually move out of Dayton and is living out of state. Ritchie is hoping that his new neighbors never heard of him and his role in the shooting.

Protesters head over to Fairborn Municipal Court to file wrongful death complaints against Ritchie.

They hope the judge would hear the case and force Ritchie to return to Ohio to face criminal charges.

Ritchie shut down his social media and has not spoken to the junk food media since the protesters petition.

Me and S. Baldwin haven't forgotten about John Crawford. He was killed by the Ohio laws that were supposed to protect his right to carry a firearm in public without fear of arrest. If he was a White guy carrying an actual firearm, they would have waited until he would have fired on people before they would take action.

On The Verge Of Extinction!

The median age of the candidates is 64 years old. With the exception of Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders, most of the candidates running are in their 60s. Ted Cruz is 45. John Kasich is 63. Donald Trump is 69. Hillary Clinton is 69. Bernie Sanders is 74.

No love for them.

Republicans and Democrats aren't inspired to vote the candidates. They all pretty much suck and it's disappointing to all Americans that each candidate has flaws. 

None of them aren't catching the fire that Barack Obama lit in the 2008 and 2012 elections. Don't listen to the nonsense about Donald Trump's rallies being huge. It's just not like Obama's. 

Trump's negatives in polls are a driving force to Republican operatives plotting to disrupt his coronation. 

We're in the later stages of a primary. The Republican and Democratic primaries are still ongoing and it seems like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are still in this.

Americans are tired of politics and the divisive nonsense of the politicos. 

If allowed to run a third term, Obama would clobber the Republican nominee.

The conservative Craigslist says that Republicans aren't happy about the delegate progress as well as their chances of stopping a potential Hillary Clinton nomination.

Gallup Polling reports that thirty percent of Americans say the presidential election process is working as it should, down from 37% in January. The decline is driven mainly by Republicans' increasingly cynical views as the campaign season has progressed. The percentage of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who say the election process is working has fallen from 46% to 30% since January. Democrats' and Democratic leaners' views haven't changed.

If you ask me, if the 22nd Amendment wasn't installed in the U.S. Constitution, President Barack Obama would win reelection handily over the Republican nominee. 

Sometimes I rather have Obama run a third term instead of just giving it up after 8 years of a contentious Republican obstruction.

Republicans are destroying each other and the country in their quest to stop Obama's policies. It's an unfortunate circumstance that if a Republican does win the presidency, Democrats will do the same shit only worse.

Sometimes, it's better to not vote at all. But if you don't vote, you may losing all the accomplishments that Americans fought for. 

World News Today send our condolences to Gary Shandling, the famed comedian and entertainer had passed away in Los Angeles of a major heart attack on Wednesday. Rest in peace to one of America's greatest comedian legends. He died at age 66.