State of Conflict: North Carolina

January 3, 2014

First it was Wisconsin. Now it’s North Carolina that is redefining the term “battleground state.” On one side: a right-wing government enacting laws that are changing the face of the state. On the other: citizen protesters who are fighting back against what they fear is a radical takeover. This crucible of conflict reflects how the battle for control of American politics is likely to be fought for the foreseeable future: not in Washington, DC, but state by state.
This week on Moyers & Company, “State of Conflict: North Carolina” offers a documentary report from a state that votes both blue and red and sometimes purple (Romney carried it by a whisker in 2012, Obama by an eyelash in 2008). Now, however, Republicans hold the governor’s mansion and both houses of the legislature and they are steering North Carolina far to the right: slashing taxes on corporations and the wealthy, providing vouchers to private schools, cutting unemployment benefits, refusing to expand Medicaid and rolling back electoral reforms, including voting rights.

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Ohio Suburb's Residents Vent About Bus Line To Mall!

RTA comes to the mall. The racist right blows their steam online and their word vomit is as always disgusting.

The racist right exists in the state of Ohio.

And in the rust belt city of Dayton, Ohio its residents in the nearby suburb of Beaverceek are showing out over the Greater Dayton RTA placing a few bus stops near the Mall at Fairfield Commons.

It's business as usual in their hatred of Barack Obama, the Black community and social injustice.

RTA has finally got approval to have its Route 1 bus line extended on Pentagon Boulevard. The Pentagon Boulevard area is where the Soin Medical Center, the DeVery Institute, and the Mall at Fairfield Commons are located.

Passengers on the new Route 1 can use one inbound and two outbound stops. An outbound, or eastbound stop, is located near the Clark State Community College Beavercreek Campus; both an inbound and outbound stop sit across from each other between the mall and the Walmart and Sam's Club stores.

The new stops are on the same route that serves Wright State University. Alternating Route 1 trips will extend service to the new Pentagon Boulevard stops. Service intervals at the new stops will be 60-70 minutes during weekdays and about 90 minutes on weekends, according to the RTA.

Beavercreek residents go to the Dayton Daily News website to vent their hatred of the bus line and somehow managed to bring President Obama into the fray.

This is not perfect. I mean you have to wait over 70 minutes if you miss a bus. I rather just walk the damn four miles to the nearest bus stop. It's pathetic that in order to get a bus out there, you have to have it come by every 70 minutes to 90 minutes. You're screwed if the last bus to Dayton leaves at 10:00pm and you're not on it.

This is an injustice still in America. The heart of hell exist in the city of Dayton. The White extremists of the suburban wasteland are more nuttier than the squirrels they've poisoned.

The layout for Route 1 goes from poor neighborhood of Drexel to affluent suburb of Beavercreek.

The Dayton Daily News is trying its hardest not to be partisan but yet allows these disgusting comments filter down its pages.

Now you notice that most of these comments are either borderline racist or just utter ignorance. This is why the "You Can't Fix Stupid" crowd flock to That Guy Who Throws Shit To The Wall's website and Loserville for their daily fix of hating America.

 Posted by lantz1 at 9:16 a.m. Jan. 12, 2014
Again Big Brother is telling a local community how its going to be!!! No local public vote oh no.
This is why I left Dayton!!

Posted by Godsey97 at 9:22 a.m. Jan. 12, 2014
This place will be the Salem Mall in 3-5 years. Homeless and thugs taking up residence in the food courts, thugs with no money wandering the hallways all day scaring off the people with money. Fairfield Mall has recieved my last dollar.

Posted by Guesswho at 9:50 a.m. Jan. 12, 2014
Let the shoplifting and Knockout Games begin,Would like to know How much money the taxpayers of Montgomery county are paying for all these BUSED IN Criminals. DDN'S How much

Posted by Guesswho at 10:25 a.m. Jan. 12, 2014
Damn the Only person not there was Rosa Parks,Did they sing WE SHALL OVER COME During the Ride,OR My all tine favorite CAMPTOWN RACES

Posted by TMPlayer at 11:05 a.m. Jan. 12, 2014
What's next, busing to Austin's Landing?

Posted by brack at 11:11 a.m. Jan. 12, 2014
they have ruined schools,neighborhoods,companies,salem mall and Dayton mall and now the Beavercreek mall !!!time to flush political correctness and affirmative action

Posted by brack at 11:20 a.m. Jan. 12, 2014
why no white groups invited such as the kkk, naacp is a racist group (for black only ) so why are they not considered a racist group ??

Posted by bob55 at 11:45 a.m. Jan. 12, 2014
And another mall on the downhill slide.

Posted by bob55 at 11:59 a.m. Jan. 12, 2014
Perhaps the "leaders" of the NAACP and the LEAD group should then ride the bus back to the Salem Ave. area and help disband the groups hanging out there. While they are at it they can hit Main St., Gettysburg Ave., etc. Lots more productive use of their time than riding a bus to a mall that will be history in 5 years.

Posted by Karon1974 at 12:25 p.m. Jan. 12, 2014
Dayton and the suburban areas really need to invest in light rail! Kasich did a disservice to this state when he sent back 400 hundred million for a start up passenger train. The sprawl around Dayton was built on cheap oil of last century, oil is no longer cheap and it is harder to get for 21st century!

Posted by MisterRJ at 12:45 p.m. Jan. 12, 2014
I wouldn't let my child ride the bus out to that area...Too many white men out there and they are known to be child molesters based on the news reports and headlines I see...

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Posted by olds88 at 5:22 p.m. Jan. 12, 2014
We will never know how many people ride per week or day because there was never a real demand only trumped up need just to ram this down the Beavercreek residents throat.I"ll bet people drove cars to the downtown hub to get the bus.Someone should put a referendum on the ballot and take the RTA money away.No body would miss it.

Posted by SSBN688 at 5:41 p.m. Jan. 12, 2014
There may be a valid need for mass transit but, facts and figures regarding each bus route should be made available. This should include number of passengers on a given route and peak times when passenger use increases. Then by this, consolidation or elimination of routes could occur. It is not cost effective to run buses with very few passengers.
What study was done for the beavercreek routes?
Or is this just a misuse of the service in order to validate some equality standard?
If one has to use the bus service, how could they possibly afford to shop at the mall?
And, most mall employees got to their jobs without the bus service.

Posted by olds88 at 7:13 p.m. Jan. 12, 2014
It looks like race not need or demand decides who or what govt. services the taxpayer gets or does not get.I guess some would consider this earth shattering event as a highlight of their life.I would be ashamed that I needed a bus to shop or work.What a boost to ones confidence.

Posted by DebraLeBlanc at 7:34 p.m. Jan. 12, 2014
Shame on these comments on here i bet everyone of you go to Church on Sunday ...What a bunch of haters you all are a bunch of white HICK'S you all are !!

Posted by RufusTFirefly at 7:53 p.m. Jan. 12, 2014
SSBN I will agree with you on this one. I went to their website and could not find any studies or information on usage. I also did a search and did not find anything. This is information they should have on their website out in the open.

Posted by RufusTFirefly at 7:54 p.m. Jan. 12, 2014
Debra So you are assuming that these people are Christians. If they are they are not living it.

Posted by 43mb at 8:04 p.m. Jan. 12, 2014
Interesting how the same ilk that scream and shout about certain "lazy folks living on the dole", then complain when the bus makes it easier for those folks to get work.

Posted by hdayejr at 8:53 p.m. Jan. 12, 2014
First of all, the same bus has been going to WSU for years(IT'S IN GREENE COUNTY ALSO!). Second, the RACISTS in this thread need to get over it! It's 2014, not 1950! What proof do you have that RTA killed Salem Mall? ZERO. Bad Trotwood leadership was the cause(and still is). How about you bigoted idiots stay the hell out of our Montgomery county? Sounds resonable, since you want to tell us to stay out of Greene, right? - See more at: http://www.whio.com/news/news/local/new-rta-stops-pentagon-blvd-now-service/nckgG/#cmComments

Posted by ozo at 1:15 p.m. Jan. 13, 2014
Sorry, hdayejr. Your revisionist tactics won't work. Like most liberals who cannot face the truth about the past, you seek to change t it to your liking. Black youths DID kill the Salem Mall. I was a frequent patron there. I SAW it. I worked at the Arcade Square, and I saw what the kids (all races) did to it, when the Board of Education dropped off kids to transfer to RTA buses in the late 80's. The Dayton Mall DID kick the RTA out, and I'm sure they had to have an excuse. Glad they found one.

Ya friggin race pimp!

Posted by Karon1974 at 1:22 p.m. Jan. 13, 2014 Report Abuse
Most of the mall crime come from people driving cars not riding buses!

Amiri Baraka Passes Away!

Famed poet and activist Amiri Baraka passed away.

Over the past few days, there's been talk about the New Jersey Republican governor Chris Christie and his ties to a deliberate traffic tie up at the George Washington Bridge to get revenge on the Fort Lee mayor.

While this is the talk of the nation, a famed and yes controversial poet named Amiri Baraka died on January 9, 2014. Baraka born Everett LeRoi Jones was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.

Baraka's poetry and writing has attracted both extreme praise and condemnation. Within the African-American community, some compare him to James Baldwin and call Baraka one of the most respected and most widely published Black writers of his generation.

Others have said his work is an expression of violence, misogyny, homophobia and racism.

Baraka's brief tenure as Poet Laureate of New Jersey (2002–03), involved controversy over a public reading of his poem "Somebody Blew Up America?" and accusations of anti-semitism, and some negative attention from critics, and politicians.

Baraka read his 2001 poem on the September 11th attacks "Somebody Blew Up America?", which was criticized for anti-Semitism and attacks on public figures. Because there was no mechanism in the law to remove Baraka from the post, the position of state poet laureate was officially abolished by the State Legislature and Governor McGreevey.

Baraka collaborated with hip-hop group The Roots on the song "Something in the Way of Things (In Town)" on their 2002 album Phrenology.

He first married Hettie Cohen, with whom he had two daughters, Kellie Jones (b. 1959) and Lisa Jones (b.1961). Baraka would author an acclaimed, controversial play Dutchman, in which a white woman accosts a black man on the New York subway. The play premiered in 1964 and received the Obie Award for Best American Play in the same year.

After the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, Baraka left his wife and their two children and moved to Harlem. Now a "black cultural nationalist," he broke away from the predominantly white Beats and became very critical of the pacifist and integrationist Civil Rights movement. His revolutionary poetry now became more controversial.

Baraka married his second wife, Sylvia Robinson, who later adopted the name Amina Baraka.

In 1967, he lectured at San Francisco State University. The year after, he was arrested in Newark for having allegedly carried an illegal weapon and resisting arrest during the 1967 Newark riots, and was subsequently sentenced to three years in prison.

Baraka's daughter Shani (Amina) with , aged 31, and her lesbian partner, Rayshon Homes, were murdered in the home of Shani's sister, Wanda Wilson Pasha, by Pasha's ex-husband, James Coleman. Prosecutors argued that Coleman shot Shani because she had helped her sister separate from her husband.

A New Jersey jury found Coleman (also known as Ibn El-Amin Pasha) guilty of murdering Shani Baraka and Rayshon Holmes, and he was sentenced to 168 years in prison for the 2003 shooting.

Amiri Baraka died on January 9, 2014, at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey, after being hospitalized in the facility's intensive care unit for one month prior to his death. The cause of death was not reported initially, but it is mentioned that Baraka had a long struggle with diabetes.

Later reports indicated that he died from complications after a recent surgery.

Baraka's funeral will be held at Newark Symphony Hall on January 18, 2014.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Amiri Baraka.

Ex-Cop Murders A Movie-Goer Over A Phone!

Florida law enforcement investigate a fatal shooting at a movie theater. The suspect is an ex-cop.

Down in the state where everyone is entitled to "stand their ground", a retired cop gets into a heated argument with a man and his wife over their use of a cell phone while in the playing of a movie.

The retired cop decides that he had to teach this disrespectful punk a lesson. He pulls out his pistol and fires a few slugs in the chest of the man.

Curtis Reeves, Jr. the suspect.

The man gets a slug in his chest, walks a few feet and collapse.

A off-duty cop and a few medical nurse were watching the event go on. They disarm the ex-cop and tend to the man with a slug in his chest.

As the law enforcement was coming, the wife of the man who got a slug in chest was injured by an apparent  fragment. She knew that her man is on his last breath. He took one to the chest, you're chances were very slim if the bullet hit internal organs.

As they load the man onto the helicopter for a fast track to the nearest Tampa hospital, he would later die upon arrival.

Somehow I guess the ex-cop wasn't aware that the man was on the phone with his daughter. Cause all the texting and phone chatting happened because I guess there was an emergency at home. The ex-cop didn't know that one, did he?

Curtis Reeves, Jr. age 71 is a retired police captain who worked in the tactical response unit is being held on a $2 million get outta free card. He is being charged with SECOND DEGREE smokeout!

The victims were Chad and Nichole Oulson. Chad was killed by a .380 pistol. Nichole was injured by the fragments of the bullet.

Chad and Nichole Oulson were shot by a deranged man. The man confronted the family over their use of a cell phone. The shooter is a former cop who has years of experience in dissolving conflicts.

Passo County sheriff in Florida and the city of Wesley Chapel are handling the investigation.

The movie was Lone Survival.

Ironic.

Will this ex-cop claim that he thought the Oulsons on their phone were acting "suspiciously"?

After all he could have solved the problem by getting management or asking for a refund!

BUT SINCE FLORIDA IS THE WILD WEST OF GUN CRIMES AND UTTER STUPIDITY, HE DIDN'T NEED NO STUPID MANAGEMENT! HE HAD A GUN!

Developments will follow here on Journal de la Reyna.

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