Friday, April 08, 2016

Conservative Outrage Over Sesame Street's New Friend Zari!

"Suicide vest included?": Right-wing nutjobs go bonkers as "Sesame Street" unveils hijab-clad puppet, Zari
Zari, the young 6 year old girl from Afghanistan will meet the folks on Sesame Street.

When Jim Henson Productions and the Sesame Workshop introduced to the public a new character, many praise the move as a way to show its commitment to diversity. Sesame Street introduces a new character to the show.

Zari, she is from Afghanistan and is a Muslim. She wears a hijab and will introduce the characters to the her family and her culture.

And guess what, it's winning praise across the country. 


There are some who aren't keen to the idea of a Muslim Muppet. 

Cue the conservative outrage.

The conservatives aren't happy about it. They believe that it's a deliberate attempt at "political correctness" and some of the comments that came from underneath the bandwidth bridge was pretty ugly.

Some conservatives resort to Islamophobia and downright sexist comments.

It's pathetic that conservatives would resort to this hateful rhetoric.

“Sesame Street has done more to educate and entertain than any other children’s program in Afghanistan,” said Saad Mohseni, the president of the MOBY group, which airs numerous TV programs for Afghani children. “We are especially delighted about the introduction of Zari to Baghch-e-Simsim, which reflects Sesame’s commitment to the country and the show’s positive impact here.”


Bill Clinton: Quit Blaming Hillary For My Mistakes!

Tangling with Bill Clinton. Protesters got him riled up.

In Philadelphia, 42 got riled up by protesters who are still pissed about the school to prison pipeline enacted by him. Bill Clinton was campaigning for his wife Hillary when he was interrupted by #BlackLivesMatter activists.

Clinton managed to pass Republican-sponsored legislation that enacted welfare reform and drug sentencing laws that could charge a person a high crime for possessing an ounce of marijuana.

Clinton's tough on crime laws led to the mass incarceration of people of color. Some of the activists are probably sons and daughters of those put in the iron college for LIFE.

Clinton let them have it.

One person held up a sign that read, “Hillary is a murderer,” while another yelled that she should be tried for “crimes against humanity.”

The protesters were referencing Clinton’s 1994 Violent Crime Control and Prevention Act, which is now widely accepted to have sparked a wave of mass incarceration, especially among people of color. Hillary Clinton has come under fire for her support of that legislation, as well as decades-old comments regarding a now-debunked myth about child “super-predators” who were supposedly responsible for crime. She’s since apologized for those words.

“I had an assault weapons ban in [my version of the bill],” the former president said Thursday in defense of the 1994 legislation. “I had money for inner-city kids, for out of school activities, we had 110,000 police officers so we could put people on the street, not in these military vehicles, and the police would look like the people they were policing.”

Despite those efforts, Clinton said he was told that Republicans wouldn’t pass the legislation without more sentencing provisions.

“I talked to a lot of African-American groups — they thought black lives mattered,” continued Clinton. “They said, ‘Take this bill, because our kids are being shot in the street by gangs. We have 13-year-old kids planning their own funerals.’”

Clinton went on to say that gun violence and crime ultimately went down as a result of the crime bill. The legislation passed with harsh sentencing requirements like three strikes laws, which put many people — including low-level offenders — in jail for long periods of time. While crime did indeed decrease after the bill’s passage, experts are divided on what role it may have played, if any. Clinton has conceded in the past that certain provisions contributed to mass incarceration.

Later in the exchange, Clinton appeared to respond to criticism of his wife on the “super-predator” myth.

“I don’t know how you would describe the gang leaders who got 13-year-olds hopped up on crack and sent them out in the streets to murder other African-American children,” he said. “Maybe you thought they were good citizens, [Hillary] didn’t. ...You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter.”

While the crowd appeared to vocally support Clinton’s exchange with protesters, at times chanting “HRC” to drown out their shouting, critics online saw Clinton’s remarks as a woefully inarticulate moment for the former president. Many were quick to argue that Clinton had dismissed the protesters’ concerns, and in turn defended the tough-on-crime rhetoric of the era and the merits of his approach to criminal justice.

Clinton then went on to defend his welfare reform proposals, arguing that he left the program in good shape, only to have a wave of Republican leadership at the state levels come into power and undo the work he’d accomplished.

After spending nearly 10 minutes rebutting protesters, Clinton suggested that critics not dwell so much on the past — and not blame Hillary Clinton for things that she wasn't involved in.

“All I know is this electio'ns about the future,” he said. “They’re trying to blame her for something she didn't do.”

Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have called for the end harsh penalties for minor drug charges. The Republican candidates are mixed on it.

John Kasich and Ted Cruz have turned somewhat Libertarian on it. They may eventually support the decriminalizing of an ounce marijuana.

Thursday, April 07, 2016

Heart Bern!

Bernie Sanders hits Clinton hard and the Democrats are starting to panic. They believe the two are going to hand Republicans the White House.

Many in the junk food media are finally giving Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) the attention he wanted.

The Democratic candidate for president is getting lots of coverage for his huge victories in Hawaii, Washington, Alaska and now Wisconsin. For his wins, he's attracting controversy along the way. 

The fight for the Democratic nomination is getting even uglier. Hillary Clinton and Sanders are trading barbs over whose more qualified to be the President of the United States. 

Many women see that Sanders's response to Clinton as seen as sexist.

Sanders fired a shot that struck a nerve with Democrats. He said that Hillary Clinton isn't qualified to be the president. 

"She has been saying lately that she thinks that I am, quote unquote, not qualified to be president," Sanders said. "Well let me just say in response to Secretary Clinton: I don't believe that she is qualified if she is — if she is, through her super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special interest funds," he said. "I don't think that you are qualified if you get $15 million from Wall Street through your super PAC. I don’t think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in Iraq."

Sanders also cited Clinton's support for "virtually every disastrous trade agreement," and specifically the Panama Free Trade Agreement, as additional reasons why she is not qualified. 

Conservatives are seething over this. The agitators from the right are seeing the cracks. 
The Democrats are going through a civil war as well.
Not only Sanders allowed the discussion turn into mudslinging, he gave ammunition to the conservative agitators in the junk food media.

Clinton never said Sanders is "not qualified to be president," as the senator claimed. She did, however, repeatedly demur on questions about Sanders's qualifications during an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday. Clinton said his rough interview with the New York Daily News on April 1 showed that Sanders has been "talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn’t really studied or understood, and that does raise a lot of questions."

Sanders's criticisms of Clinton focused on her policy positions, but to many of her supporters they came off as a personal insult. 

It's just politics as usual.

I am not inspired by Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich.

They all are flawed candidates. I would rather see Barack Obama run for a third term. Obama would clobber the 2016 presidential candidates.

A Lil' Damita Jo?

Janet Jackson cancels tour. The media claims that she's pregnant and expecting.

Some news made the rounds today. A famous pop singer decided to end a world tour for personal matters and her fans are excited about it. Janet Jackson might have a little bun in the oven.

"My husband and I are planning our family," she said, beaming in a video posted to Twitter.

Her doctors have ordered her to rest up, which means she's postponing the second leg of her Unbreakable world tour indefinitely.

"We're in the second leg of the tour and there actually has been a sudden change," she announced in the video. "I thought it was important that you would be the first to know my husband and I are planning our family, so I'm going to have to delay the tour. Please, if you can try to understand that it's important that I do this now. I have to rest up, doctor's orders. But I have not forgotten about you. I will continue to tour as soon as I possibly can."




Janet Jackson and her billionaire husband Wissam Al Mana are considering raising children and many in the junk food media speculate that Janet is pregnant.
Janet and her husband Wissam Al Mana.
The announcement does not make it abundantly clear whether the couple is already expecting a baby, trying to start a family or process of adopting a child. USA TODAY's request for clarification was not immediately answered.

In December, she announced she would have to move the tour back to the spring so she could undergo an unspecified surgery. A month later, she had to shoot down rumors that she was going to have to postpone her tour because she had cancer, and warned fans not to believe any news about her health unless it came from her own lips.

We wish Janet well on her journey.

The FBI Wants The Pretty Face Who Plotted Murder!

Screenshot of Brenda Delgado’s Wanted Poster

Brenda Delgado is one pretty......!

Dangerous individual. The 33-year old woman is considered one of the most dangerous criminals in the country. The FBI placed her on the Top 10 list for arraigning a hitman to kill a popular Texas dentist.

"The evidence against Brenda Delgado has been gathered, the case has been filed by our detectives, a grand jury has indicted her, and a warrant has been issued for her arrest," Dallas police Deputy Chief Robert Sherwin said. "What is left to do is to bring her to justice and have her answer for this crime that shocked our community."

The capital murder indictment said Delgado “and a drug cartel” gave the hitman drugs and money in exchange for killing Hatcher, 35.

Delgado, who lived in Pleasant Grove, talked to detectives before she disappeared.

Authorities said Delgado was jealous of Dr. Kendra Hatcher, who was dating Delgado's ex-boyfriend Ricardo "Ricky" Paniagua, a dermatologist. Police said Delgado, who was studying to be a dental hygienist, plotted the killing after she learned that Ricky flew with Kendra to meet his parents in San Francisco.

Brenda Delgado plotted murder against Dr. Kendra Hatcher and her ex-boyfriend Ricky Paniagua.
The Feds are seeking information to the whereabouts of Delgado. Some sources claim that she took the act on the road and she's down in Mexico.

The Feds are working with the Mexican government to catch her. The Feds promise that she won't have a party with the GAS if they extradite her back to the states.

Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk said during a news conference at Dallas FBI headquarters that she cannot seek the GAS if Delgado is caught in Mexico and extradited to the U.S. That's because Mexico is opposed to the GAS.

Delgado, the hitman Kristopher Love, 31 and his girlfriend Crystal Cortes, 23 conspired a plot to make a messy kill of Dr. Kendra Hatcher.

Love was ordered to put a dent in Kendra's life. He went ahead and put in the work. He shot her in the neck and left her for dead. He grabbed her license and called Cortes to pick him up and floor it.

Cortes claims that Love threatened her with potential harm to her family.

Love, Delgado and Cortes were rounded up for capital murder. Delgado out on bail fled the country.
The judge is going to lay the hammer on the hitman. Love could be facing the GAS if found guilty.

Cortes could face LIFE in the iron college.

If caught, Delgado could face LIFE in the iron college.

Delgado is the ninth woman to be placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List since it was created in March 1950.

"Delgado's addition to the list underscores the violent and calculated nature of the crime she's accused of committing," Class said.

A reward of up to $100,000 is being offered for information leading to her arrest.

All three are innocent until proven guilty.

Of course, Delgado is a Mexican citizen. She's a Hispanic woman and she's used Black man to commit her criminal acts against a White woman.

Cue the conservative outrage.

Numerous bigots and three remaining Republicans running for president are actively exploiting criminality by Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims. They use this stuff as a tool to bring in disgruntled White people fed up with the junk food media ignoring stories like these.

Donald Trump was making the case against illegal immigration by saying that Mexicans commit rape, gun violence and drug trafficking. He vows to build a huge wall to seal the U.S.-Mexican border.

Of course, Black people are going to be riled up by this too. They give the criminal a "title".

C'mon, a "jilted lover", "beautiful hygienist" and "promising career".

They should just say that this woman and her two accomplices are cold blooded killers. Regardless of what Love did, Cortes could have not driven the vehicle. Love could have tipped the law to stop the act. Love could have ignored the request.

Delgado could have found someone else to love.

That Ain't An Armrest, Gap!

Gap Kids does damage control after this promotional shoot got the public riled up.

The Gap went through some damage control. They had a promotional ad for Gap Kids in which the models were wearing their latest fashion. In the advertising you see a little girl being used as an armrest.

The photo features the child and three white girls. While the two girls bookending the photo strike acrobatic poses, the white girl in the middle stands next to the black girl with her elbow on the smaller girl's head—making it appear, some say, like the child is an "armrest." The Washington Post reports the promo is part of a larger GapKids campaign in collaboration with Ellen DeGeneres, meant to showcase "girls can do anything," but the paper notes that in the campaign's commercial, the black child is also on display with "seeming passivity," sitting reticently while the other girls chat with DeGeneres. "While all of the girls are adorable ... it becomes problematic when the black child is positioned to be a white child's prop," Kirsten West Savali writes for the Root.

There's a bit of a twist to the story: The two girls in question are sisters, the daughters of Ray Donovan actress Brooke Smith, reports Co.Create. The white girl, Fanny, 12, is the biological daughter of Smith and husband Steve Lubensky, and the black girl is 9-year-old Lucy, adopted from Ethiopia by the couple in 2008, per People. Smith tweeted: "girl with arm resting on her shoulder is her sister She didn't talk in video because she was 2 shy. everyone needs to calm down." Some replies to her tweet softened after hearing that news, but others said the relationship shouldn't matter. "She deserved better. That is our point," one commenter wrote. A Gap spokeswoman apologized: "We appreciate the conversation that has taken place and are sorry to anyone we've offended."

Here's a poll for you!


Which One Is The MOST Offensive Depiction Of Black People?

The LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen Cover
Gap Kids "LOVE" Promotional
Thailand's Pretty Scale
The Editor Uses A Black Model As A Chair
The Black Wombs
Mountain Dew's Screaming Goat Line-Up
make a poll


Okay, me and S. Baldwin have said it one too many times: Is this what our American media and the public think of people of color?

Share your thoughts in our comment section.



Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Ms. Biggie Smalls: Diddy's Actions Led My Dad To His Grave!

T'yanna Wallace, the daughter of Biggie Smalls.

T'yanna Wallace, the daughter of the greatest MC of all time calls out Sean "Puffy" Combs.

She was totally out of the loop when Diddy didn't invite her to a celebration concert for her father.

T'yanna is the daughter of the Notorious B.I.G., a Brooklyn based rapper/producer who rose to critical acclaim after releasing Ready to Die and put Combs's label Bad Boy on the map.

She took to social media to slam the media mogul for being being a liar and fake ass punk for not including her and mother Jan Jackson. Biggie also had a son with Faith Evans named Christopher Wallace, Jr, known as CJ.

Diddy quickly reached out to her. He said that his made a mistake and he will invite T'yanna and her family to the concert. T'yanna scrubbed her social media posts and told the junk food media, everything is cool.
CJ Wallace. The son of late rapper Notorious B.I.G. and Faith Evans.
The Notorious B.I.G. (born Christopher George Latore Wallace) won praise and respect among most MCs. He also got entangled into a huge feud with Tupac Shakur and his label Death Row. The junk food media labeled their feud the East Coast vs. West Coast hip-hop war. It ultimately ended in the death of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in September 1996.

Biggie Smalls as he was also known was murdered in Los Angeles after leaving a hip-hop awards party in March 1997. Some say that the death was a retaliation killing and the murders of both Biggie and 'Pac still remain unsolved.

His last living album Life After Death came out a few days later.

T'yanna was only three years old when her father was gunned down. CJ was only a few month old when his father was gunned down.

The rapper would have been 44-years old if he was alive today. His birthday was on May 20.

T'yanna is a graduate from Penn State.

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