Burlington Closes In Trotwood!

Burlington Store closed in Trotwood.

Dayton, Ohio's ghost suburb.

Trotwood, once the beacon of shopping, entertainment and luxury is now a ghost town. A ghost town with boarded up homes, vacant lots and graffiti.

The city has a population of 19,000 residents. The city was once a tiny village.

It annexed Madison Township in 1998 and incorporated itself as a city in 1999.

During that time, the Salem Mall still existed. But by 2006, Trotwood saw its community fall before its eyes. The Salem Mall would soon close. The city lost Circuit City, Best, Kmart, Sears, Cub Foods, McSports, Walmart, Target, Elder-Beerman, JcPenney, Lazarus, Footlocker, KB Toys, Toys R Us, Value City, Best Buy, Hara Arena, Good Samaritan Hospital (Dayton), Sutherlands, Builders Square, Rex Electronics and numerous businesses and attractions.

So far, the city is hanging on by a thread.

And now another nail in the coffin for the Dayton area.

Burlington Stores has closed the Trotwood location. The company claims it relocated to Huber Heights, a city that is 15 miles from Trotwood.

It was the only retail discount store in the depressed community. The only thing left for the time being is Shoe Carnival which I predict will relocate to Huber Heights in the near future.

The city's only attraction is the Greyhound Bus services and the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority's transit station. The city still has hardware superstores Loews and Home Depot for the time being.

Salem Avenue is depressing. The road once was a booming part of Northwest Dayton. It was the gateway to the Gem City.

The relocation of Ohio State Route 49 was supposed to bring growth to the area. Alas, it hasn't. It's just a road that leads to nowhere.

Speak of that. I want to share a quick tragedy. Three individuals lost their lives last week. The driver of a Pontiac Grand Prix tried to elude a police cruiser. They accelerated to nearly 100 mph and tried to blaze through an intersection.

They ended up crashing into a RTA bus. The three were killed. The bus driver and a handful of riders were injured in the crash. They were not killed.

Myan'nie Nabors, Kyren Wright and Christopher Baker lost their lives.

The county boys, Trotwood Police and Ohio State Patrol closed the case because the driver (Baker) was killed as well. He would have faced involuntary vehicular manslaughter if he survived.

Trotwood at least became the news other than being a dying community.

MAGA Bomber Goes To Federal Time Out!

The MAGA terrorist heads to federal time out.

The far-white terrorist who mailed pipe bombs to critics of Donald J. Trump plead guilty.

I am not going to say his damn name. I won't waste any ounce of keystroke to mention this guy.

All I am going to say is this guy mailed pipe bombs to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama, John Brennan, Robert DeNiro, James Clapper, Eric Holder, Tom Steyer, CNN, George Soros and MSNBC will face LIFE in federal time out.

The states involved will dismiss their charges on the grounds this scumbag will not ever see the light of day. Since he plead guilty to the charges, he will face the potential of LIFE without any chance of dismissal.

Back in October 2017, this homeless lunatic decorated his van with kookspiracies about Clinton and Obama. He was a superfan of Trump and Fox News.

He was riding around South Florida in this van just to piss off Democrats. Once confronted by Democrats and progressives, he would often threaten violence upon them.

The terrorist was crying in court knowing that Trump failed him. The U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff, a Bill Clinton appointed judge, let him have it. He said that all the freedoms he claimed he supported are no longer privileged. He told him that toxic politics should never result into criminal behavior. The terrorist acknowledged that his bombs could have cause great injury or death.

Terrorist cries in court after he admits he tried to kill individuals who criticized Trump. He admits his delusional thoughts of the deep state cost him his freedom.

The terrorist acknowledge that his conservative views were too extreme for his friends, family and those who worked with him.

Boo hoo, boo hoo!

The terrorist gets no sympathy from me. He is a symptom of Fox News, Breitbart, InfoWars and far-white agitators. He can apologize all he wants. But it won't change the notion that lawmakers, entertainers and the junk food media now have to beef up security. They now have to fear a potential attack from a copycat MAGA terrorist.

It's time to tell America that Fox News is bad for business. We can no longer allow this network create the toxic politics that divides us. We all have a place at the table.

Fox News will forever keep the country angry and divided. Enough is enough.....

What Happened To Karle Robinson?

Kansas man was detained at his own home.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas asked for a state and federal investigation into a Tonganoxie, a small town about 35 miles from Kansas City.

A black man was handcuffed by the cops as he moved into his own home. He was allegedly harassed by a police chief when he tried to file a compliant on racial bias.

Karle Robinson was moving furniture into his home when the cops arrived. They at first greeted and asked what he was doing. He told specifically he was moving furniture and he had a time limit to do such.

"I could use a hand with this," Robinson said to the officer who shined a flashlight on him.

Robinson spend the next eight minutes handcuffed, seated in front of his own house, treated like a burglary suspect while the officer waited for backup to check the story. The complaints that Robinson reported to chief Greg Lawson went unanswered.

The cops would soon order him to the wall and then they placed him in handcuffs.

They would search the home and then be let go.

"If I'd been a white man, you know that wouldn't happen. I'm being handcuffed right here on my own damn property."

In the video, Robinson did complain to the cops saying, "Is this all necessary?"

The officer said to him that he noticed a lot of break-ins. So the cops claim that a 61-year old Black man who is moving into his own home is associated with break-ins.

"You're guilty until proven innocent. They're think I'm stealing. I've been hearing this for 40 years -- getting pulled over, being searched. I'm not going to let this go. If it had been two in the afternoon, there would've been a fight."

If he'd been white, Robinson said, he would have been able to show his identification and go and retrieve the papers to the house -- without such suspicion and without handcuffs.

The Game: B*tch Stop Listening To Our Music!

The Game sons Tami.

Jayceon Taylor aka The Game is an O.G. of hip-hop. The Compton-based rapper and actor is a bawse of trolling.

Everyone is getting tired of the bullshit artist we come to know as Tami Lahren (her legal name is Tomi Lahren). The far-white agitator is a huge fan of hip-hop music.

But she is a huge Donald J. Trump supporter. She will hop on social media to attack rappers who speak out against Trump and conservatives.

She has picked fights with Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Jay-Z, Pusha T, Wale and Beyonce. Now I guess she's now picking a fight with The Game.

Game put down his support for embattled rapper 21 Savage. The rapper is facing a potential deportation to the United Kingdom. The rapper was arrested in February by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The rapper confirmed that he was born in England and lived in the United States for over a decade. The rapper was nabbed on his way to an engagement and was detained.

He is currently facing state charges on fraud. He is facing potential time in the iron college. He is also facing a potential banishment from the United States.

Many rappers came to the defense. Lahren on her part was mocking the rapper on his hit single "Alot."

Many rappers took offense to the remarks. The Game went to post on social media before he deleted it. But the folks over SOHH.com unearthed it.

Game said and I quote from SOHH:

“YOU’RE A RACIST SLUT WHO SUCKED & SWALLOWED HER WAY INTO HER JOB”

Umm.... must-read, anyone??? lol @thegame #SOHHNews pic.twitter.com/DN6udvXSCJ

— SOHH (@sohh) March 20, 2019

The Game is not a fan of Fox News. As you may remember, the rapper released the album Jesus Piece. The rapper's album depicted him as a gangsta behind the cross.

The far-white agitator appears on Fox Nation, a far-white spin-off of Fox News.

Fox News went bananas over it.

The infamous turd flipper Michelle Malkin stared a feud with The Game and the two were going at each other on social media and in public.

The Game went to The Real to explain his remarks. He was annoyed with the far-white agitator. He said that he loves women and he will never apologize for his remarks towards her. He said that for years, Lahren had ran her mouth way too much. He wanted to air it out.

"I feel like it was just – 21 Savage is one of my good friends in and outside of music and I think his case with ICE, people just took it a little too out of context. It gets a little personal. He has a family, children, a mother. He had been in Atlanta for 20 years. You’re in Atlanta for 20 years, you’re from Atlanta. If he was born in the UK, it’s the world, right? … I don’t know how many times this woman has degraded the hip-hop community and I’m the one who is going to stand up for hip-hop in general and get a lot of terrible backlash – some we deserve, some we don’t. But it has to be spoken for and I’ll be that guy every time. … Some of the things she said were just outlandish and no one else was really just going there – and again, I’m always going to be that guy. … He’s free, for now, and hopefully it goes well for him and, you know, I think that’s something they need to let down – give him a chance to get his papers right, get his income – America’s cool but then again so is the UK. So wherever he lands, he’s still going to be 21."

Donna Brazile Wore A Fox!

Donna Brazile gets on the Fox bandwagon.

Former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile joins Fox News.

The former Democratic strategist who had a spot on ABC News and CNN was fired out the cannon a few years ago after it was revealed she got a question in for failed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Brazile signed on to Fox News and it riled up those white extremists who are upset that she's hired while disgraced agitator Jeanine Pirro was fired out the cannon.

She made an appearance on the network with Shannon Bream.

Now as a full-time commentator, Brazile will do her best to cater to the Fox News audience.

I am going to be bluntly honest, Fox News isn't going to be tolerated much longer. The junk food media and journalists alike are sick and tired of being labeled by a clear propaganda organization devoted to Donald J. Trump.

Trump was not happy about the decision to ice Pirro.

Many Fox fans aren't happy about Brazile. Democrats and progressives aren't happy about it either.

Let's go to the most talked about debate on primetime.

Brazile and Sean "Softball" Hannity duke it out over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and the DNC refusing to have a debate on the network.

Wendy Williams Doesn't Like The Snow!

Wendy Williams admits she abused drugs on her talk show.

Gossip queen Wendy Williams told the world that she is imperfect. She is a mother, a wife, a career-working woman and a drug abuser.

On today's Wendy Williams show, the host announced she is living in a sober house after she admitted that she has been addicted to alcohol and cocaine.

“You know me for being a very open and honest person. You know Kevin and I have the Hunter Foundation for the good of the people and we recently launched out 888-HUNTER number for people who are in the struggle of addiction. Well, for some time now, and even today and beyond, I have been living in a sober house,” a weeping Williams, 54, told her studio audience.

"When you see me come to work glammed up, right after the show, I do Pilates ... You know I’ve had a struggle with cocaine in the past," she said. "I never went to a place to get treatment. I don't know how. God was just sitting on my shoulder and I just stopped … there are people in your family, it might be you … I want you to know more of the story.”



Fox News reports that Williams revealed that she goes to the facility after work and personal obligations daily and still lives a "glamorous" life despite her struggles.

“After I go to the Pilates I go to several meetings all around town in the tri-state area, and I see my brothers and sisters caught up in their addiction and looking for help,” she said. “They don’t know I’m Wendy. They don’t care I’m Wendy. there's no autographs, there's no nothing. It’s the brothers and sisters caught up in the struggle. It’s been really interesting, this ride.”

She continued, “Only Kevin [Hunter, Sr., her husband] and Kevin [Jr., her son] know about this. And that is my truth."

Williams revealed that she kept her struggle a secret from the rest of her family and friends.

Williams had been absent from her show for the bulk of early 2019. She initially cited complications from Graves' disease for her hiatus.

Williams who is controversially known for her gossip and agitating admits that she is human.

The world is coming to grips. At least she admits that she's imperfect. She isn't hiding behind lies.

Lori Loughlin has hit rock bottom. I haven't declared she is a washed up celebrity yet. But her career is in the toilet. Hallmark cut her from the series When The Heart Calls. They plan on restructuring the series and wiping her existence after the episodes conclude.

She was also let go from Warner Bros and Netflix's Fuller House. The scandal plaguing her, Olivia Jade and Felicity Huffman has become a flashpoint. White privilege is still around and this college enrollment scandal has open wounds that may never heel.

I Was Shot By This Man Over A Parking Spot!

Jaylen Walker was shot in the back over a parking spot. The man may not ever walk again. A white terrorist shot him.

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

White people with firearms. It's their way of saying they have manhood. To be a part of the National Rifle Association is like the highest honor for a white man. They can say they belong to a gun club that gets them to the ballot box. The NRA manages to get revenue from advertising, campaign donations, foreign entities (i.e. Russia) and the bully pulpit of Donald J. Trump. Where Wayne LaPierre can enjoy that $2 million dollar contract, the gun lobby can continue influencing Republican lawmakers into rolling back laws that make firearms easily available to people who have no business with them.

It's the old troupe. The NRA rather see white men with firearms. If the person happens to be Black, Brown, Muslim and immigrant and they had a firearm, they would be either be:

KILLED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.

CALLED A TERRORIST.

CALLED A THUG.

BLAMED FOR THE GUN VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES.



Enter the man who shot a man in the suburbs of racially divided St. Louis, Missouri. This guy shot a 21 year old man over a parking spot in St. Charles, a city that is 15 miles from downtown St. Louis.

The St. Charles Police, the county boys and the FBI are investigating the incident. The guy is charged in the shooting.

Jaylen did not this fate. But he will hopefully get justice if this thug gets convicted.

The victim will have life altering injuries. The bullet fractured his spine and he may not ever walk again. The victim is forgiving but not forgetting. The man was a personal trainer and was a driver for Amazon. He has a 1-year old child and was not a criminal. He was trying to do what's right for a friend.

Jaylen Walker of St. Louis is seeking a hefty sum in punitive damages from Larry Thomlison. He will sue the guy and the NRA for negligence.

The suspect was charged for assault and armed criminal action.

Walker was parked in a handicapped-accessible spot outside a St. Charles Target store. The suspect had a placard allowing him to park in the spot. The suspect became enraged over situation. He took a picture of the victim and started recording the situation.

So the suspect confronted the victim. The victim described the incident.

"He put his phone in my face." He told the suspect to leave him the fuck alone. The victim shoves the guy and his phone dropped. Then the suspect struck him. The victim struck back.

This old thug shot an innocent man over a fucking parking spot.

The two get into a fight. The suspect was knocked to the ground.

So the suspect decided to pull out his concealed firearm and started shooting.

"When he pulled the gun out, my eyes were just amazed. I tried to run in between two cars. He had a nice aim and hit me right in the spine."

The suspect shot him directly in the back. It severed his spine.

The St. Charles County prosecutor Tim Lohmar said that the suspect should have known better.

He showed no recklessness and no regard for those in vicinity. The suspect went through the citizens patrol and had a conceal carry permit. He was charged and given a hefty get out free card.

The suspect could face 20 to LIFE if found guilty. The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

The ridiculous argument of a good guy with a gun. The good guy was the man trying to help fix another person's vehicle. He was a upstanding human being. He was a father. Now he may not ever walk again. The injuries are life altering and it was all over a stupid parking spot.

The suspect could have just took a picture and shared it on social media. Nope, he decide to be a wannabe cop and possible executioner.

S.B, any thoughts on this matter. I am starting to see how the NRA is just an enabler of far-white terrorism.

You think it is?

Cop Walk In The Charles Kinsey Shooting!

Another dirty cop goes home. This North Miami cop shot an unarmed man. The jury said he didn't deserve time in the iron college.

This is bullshit. I am highly offended. I am mortified at this decision by the fucking Florida jury that acquitted a dirty cop who shot an unarmed Black man who clearly told the law, he had his hands up, "Please don't shoot."

In 2016, Charles Kinsey was assisting a severely autistic man who ran away from a healthcare facility. The law was notified and was told by audio. Kinsey was a mental health therapist.

He was taking care of Arnaldo Rios Soto, a 23 year old man who needed special care.

The six person jury found the North Miami cop Jonathan Aledda not guilty of culpable negligence. A second charge and two counts of attempted manslaughter resulted in a hung jury.

The jury foreperson said the vote was 5-1 to acquit Aledda of the other charges. The judge scheduled a March 27 hearing to discuss whether the state will retry Aledda on the counts.

The men had no weapon. Yet, Kinsey was shot directly in the leg. Kinsey was filmed by a bystander that the "gun" was a toy. The case became a national scandal. Kinsey did everything right and still was shot.

Aledda claimed that he was aiming at Rios Soto not Kinsey. Aledda claimed that he didn't hear the commands because of faulty equipment

Charles Kinsey was denied justice. He was an unarmed health therapist . He was shot by a dirty cop. The cop managed to convict a jury he felt threatened. 

The Miami New Times published an audio from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The recording showed Aledda had been told over police radio that men were not armed. They were told not to fire upon the men.

North Miami's former top cop Gary Eugene said that his department was a mess. The cops failed to adequately secure the crime scene after the shooting, and that North Miami Police were so consumed with factional infighting he worried that cops would not back the dirty cop.

The top cop was fired out the cannon.

Jonathan Aledda, the North Miami cop who worked for the SWAT team fired three into the leg of Kinsey.

Arnaldo Rios Santos didn't get justice.

Kinsey did not commit any criminal act. His lawyers are planning on suing the officer and the city of North Miami for the shooting.

Florida prosecutors were not happy about the verdict. They are hoping to retry this dirty cop. It's unlikely the cop be convicted.

"Since July 28, 2016, our community has been traumatized by North Miami Police Officer Jonathan Aledda's shooting of mental health therapist Charles Kinsey in his effort to protect his client, Arnaldo Rios Soto. The difficulties posed by this case are clearly represented by the jury's inability to come to a verdict on three of the four charged offensives. We will be discussing the case to determine the appropriate course of action as to the unresolved counts."

Now this dirty cop may face a cannon firing if he is returned back to beat.

You wonder why some individuals shot cops and folks on social media praise the person instead of those in law enforcement.

What They Done To Brown Got UPS In Hot Water!

Black UPS workers sue the Toledo facility after they uncovered racism.

The workers at an Ohio UPS hub say they were targets of a deliberate racism.

This was under the radar.

UPS workers at a distribution hub in Toledo, Ohio sued the company on Wednesday citing a series of discriminatory hiring decisions and a series of racist acts, including a noose and confederate flags in the workplace.

White employees had directed in racist language at black workers. They hung a stuffed monkey toy in a UPS uniform in the office. They hung nooses near the restroom and elevators. The workers, mostly Black filed a lawsuit against UPS and the five managers.

The lawsuit alleged managed at the UPS distribution hub in Maumee, a suburb of Toledo "enabled, tolerated, and purposefully promoted and encouraged" a culture of racism at the site tha tled to racist acts and discriminatory employment decisions.

The lawsuit also says ther has been a pattern of discrimination for more than a decade at the facility.

UPS said in a statement on Thursday that the company responded quickly and fired two employees after the 2016 complaints, and since the time has taken remedial steps in cooperation with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, including additional training and monitoring.

An attorney for the workers told The Toledo Blade that Black employees have been passed over for promotions in favor of white employees with less training and seniority.

This wasn't the last place in Toledo. There was a lawsuit filed at General Motors. There were workers who faced similar racist attacks from workers. The GM lawsuit also active said that racist graffiti was spotted in restrooms and workers would display nooses. Several Black employees were passed on promotions. GM is currently trying to fix the problem.

Although they couldn't save the Lordstown plant....!

The employee who hung the noose was fired out the cannon.

I can testify to this. Now that I work at a better job. I can disclose that I once worked for a Midwest grocery/retail superstore in Dayton. I've worked there for 18 years and found myself in the very same circumstances. I worked my ass off at the business. I was passed on promotions. Denied vacations and forced to work various hours while two other full time workers had one shift.

At the time, I had gotten a better job. At first I was just going to just keep two jobs, but I finally found myself at a place where I am happier. After 18 years of working for this company, I decided to quit.

I could have filed a lawsuit and got the company to change their management. But I choose to just let the company survive without me. I mean the company is going to still be there for the time being.

But I've always told folks that "If you leave an impact on a person's life, then you've done your job right!"

Trust me, I was missed. I am still missed at the previous jobs as well. But as time moves forward, I just keep my head up and move towards better.

I have a child now, so I guess I got this challenge to deal with more than a crappy job.

This is Donald J. Trump's Amerikkka. A place where the blue collar workers are taken advantage of.

Elliott Broidy Got A No Knock!

Elliott Broidy did more than sleep with a Playboy model.

Client number 2 was just raided by the feds.

Elliott Broidy, one of three men tied to Michael Cohen, the former lawyer to Donald J. Trump and Sean "Softball" Hannity had his offices and home raided in regards to money laundering.

Broidy, the former RNC deputy finance chair allegedly paid a mistress to conceal a pregnancy. Cohen announced his name in federal court the past year.

The Robert Mueller investigation has taking a turn into the controversy involving a lawyer who allegedly covered up payments to Trump's alleged mistresses, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.

The past summer the feds had searched the disgraced Cohen's office and homes. The trove of information has been given to federal prosecutors.

Cohen who continues to corporate with the feds has made Trump and Softball Hannity nervous. Cohen has spoken about the financial ties Trump has with the Russian Federation.

Broidy served as a major Trump campaign fundraiser and was the national deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee until he resigned in April 2018, when it was revealed he had agreed to secretly pay off a former Playboy model in exchange for her silence about their affair.

The search warrant cites three potential crimes that authorities are investigating: conspiracy, money laundering and violations of the law barring covert lobbying on behalf of foreign officials. To obtain a search warrant, authorities have to convince a judge that there’s a probable cause they will find evidence of those specific crimes.

In a separate filing in November, the Justice Department alleged that Broidy was paid by Low to lobby Trump administration officials to ease off on U.S. investigations into Low. Broidy is not identified by name in the filings, but he is widely reported to be the person referred to as “Individual No. 1.” Broidy has not been charged with a crime, and it’s unclear what the status of the investigation is.

Pras Michel, a member of the hip-hop group The Fugees and an associate of Low’s, funneled the money to pay Broidy into the United States, the Justice Department alleged. Asked about the Broidy search warrant, a lawyer for Michel, Barry Pollack, said: “There has been news of this Broidy investigation for many months. Mr. Michel has not been charged with any wrongdoing whatsoever related to Mr. Broidy or anyone else.”

Federal authorities were also seeking records in Broidy’s office related to the United Arab Emirates, UAE adviser George Nader, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and any travel to the Middle East.

Jess Hilarious Caught Flack After Muslim Dig!

Jess Hilarious found herself in deep shit after she went bigot on her fellow human beings.

Young comedian made inappropriate comments about Muslims and Sikhs. In the wake of the New Zealand mass shooting, many in the United States are being called out for Islamophobia.

The shooter is a white extremist. The terrorist entered two mosques in Christchurch and massacred 49 individuals without a care. He was caught without a bullet fired. Now he faces trial for murder.

The commander of cheese offered tepid sympathy over the matter. He also called for the rehiring of disgraced Fox News agitator Jeanine Pirro. The conservative agitator had her show pulled off the roster in the wake of inflammatory remarks about Muslims and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

Chelsea Clinton was not spared as well. The progressive activist and daughter of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was confronted by NYU students. She complained about remarks made on social media by Omar. The freshman lawmaker criticized American-Israeli influence in policies and was immediately labeled anti-Semitic.

Now a comedian who won praise for her role on a primetime sitcom is facing heat for her remarks about Muslims and Sikhs.

Jess Hilarious caught flack over the weekend for her off-handed remarks about four men in turbans being kicked off a plane.

The entertainer is touring the country with a gig coming to Omaha. She lit up social media to note ow she was felling uncomfortably by several Sikh men she claimed were Muslims boarding her flight.

Jess said the men made her nervous.

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She said in a follow-up, she reported that Homeland Security came onbaord and removed the men were removed from flight.

Now folks want her removed from the comedy tours. She at fist apologized but remained totally clueless.

"Y'all can't blame me for being scared. I saw four people of that caliber and I just revert to the past."

For one thing, the 19 men who committed the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 dressed like professionals. They weren't wearing turbans or head scarfs.

The guy who tried to blow up airplane wearing tennis shoes dressed like her.

The guy who tried to blow up a plane with his underwear dressed just like her.

Most terrorists aren't wearing turbans and long beards. These are men who blend in with normal Americans. These terrorists were just average men who decided to create harm towards their fellow human beings.

Fox cancelled Lil Rel Howrey's show Rel this month.

The Victims of Anthony Sowell

                                       These are the 11 victims of the Cleveland Strangler

In the first installment, I'll do a biographies of the victims of the Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell.  The victims deserve more than this, given the fact that police and society at large didn't care about the women until Latundra Billups filed rape and abuse charges against Sowell a month before the discovery of the remains of 11 women inside his house in October 2009.


Warning to readers, some of the biographies of the victims may be too graphic and adult for some of my youthful readers of this blog.  Readers discretion is advised.

Also to  our quick to judge readers, the biographies of the women contain circumstances and imperfect lifestyles that are less than savory to some readers.

Telling of the womens' stories shouldn't make us less sympathetic just because the women may led a less than perfect or ideal lifestyle that society wants us to lead.   I knew this to be the work of a serial killer, all of a sudden these women’s disappearances have real value to people, mainly negative.  We can see it in the sea of satellite dishes perched on the roofs of TV news vans suddenly jamming our streets. We can hear it in Cleveland’s local radio-talk shows, which have been having a field day with the story since it broke at the end of October, and in the embedded local racial animus exposed by a white caller to one of those talk shows, who essentially blamed the victims—either for being crack whores, or for simply living in a black neighborhood. But he/she's not the only one.  The store owner share those sentiments as well.  In the Unseen documentary, he wished there were "a million Sowells" to take out what he call the unfortunate, vulnerable women, "garbage."  That's how many in society, including the people in the neighborhood viewed such women.  It's the raw misogyny that lead to real violence against women, including serial murder.  But it's also the disinvestment in Cleveland's inner city neighborhoods such as Mount Pleasant in the last 50 years we need to take into account.

MOUNT PLEASANT is a section of southeast Cleveland bounded by Milverton and Griffing on the north, Martin Luther King Blvd. on the west, E. 155th St. on the east, and Harvard on the south, with Kinsman as the main thoroughfare. Settled by successive immigrant groups, the section eventually became a stable area of African American homeowners. The first residents of the area were MANX farmers who migrated there in 1826. It remained rural until 1921, when Joseph Krizek and his partners bought 20 acres southwest of Kinsman, where they mapped out streets and planted 248 maple trees along Bartlett St. The area received its name from its comely appearance. Among the immigrant groups who succeeded the Manx in Mt. Pleasant were GERMANS, CZECHS, RUSSIANS, JEWS, and ITALIANS.

Unlike other areas of the city where AFRICAN AMERICANS occupied housing first owned by whites, Mt. Pleasant counted blacks among its earliest citizens. Reportedly, in 1893 a contractor who employed a large number of black workers was unable to pay wages in cash, so he gave them title to lots in the section north of Kinsman between E. 126th and E. 130th. The title holders built homes there; by 1907 there were 100 black families, and 100 other lot owners. Advertised in African American newspapers as a suburban paradise, the section was noted for its high percentage of blacks who were homeowners. To prevent neighborhood deterioration, the Mt. Pleasant Community Council and block clubs in the 1950s fought delinquency, crime, and housing violations.

The neighborhood of Mount Pleasant declined in the 1980s with the coming of the drug epidemic invading the inner cities around the nation as well as disinvestment, housing bubble, and unemployment.  These set the stage for the killing grounds of Imperial Avenue home of Anthony Sowell in the late 2000s

These women are more than victims, more than their unfortunate circumstances. More than the labels we given to them when describing the women.  These women have lives lived to their fullest before Sowell.  Each women have a story to tell and their voices and lives matter.  

The names of the victims are:

Kim Yvette Smith
Crystal Dozier
Tonia Carmichael
Leshanda Long
Tishana Culver
Nancy Cobbs
Amelda Hunter
Michelle Mason
Diane Turner
Telacia Fortson
Janice Webb

Remember the women always.