Big Snoop Raging Lion!

Snoop Dogg becomes Snoop Lion for his newest album release.

Soon Snoop Dogg will be admitted to the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame legends in the coming years. In the meantime, the 40-year old rapper is planning on revamping his gangsta image. He's going Rastafarian.

Calvin Broadus, aka Snoop Dogg has remodeled himself as Snoop Lion, a reggae star. The legendary rapper is now looking forward to release a reggae album under this new moniker.

The rapper has been in the news lately for his charity work as well as his criminal history. He was recently busted in Texas for having an ounce of the good. And also banned from Norway for the next two years.

These controversies hasn't stopped the legend from making the news.

The rapper has advocated for legalizing marijuana consumption.

The rapper has taken rounds with country music, rock music and jazz. Reggae is the newest venue.

Snoop Dogg emerged on the scene after appearing on Dr. Dre's debut album The Chronic, a masterpiece of gangsta funk and raw hip-hop. In 1994, Snoop Dogg released Doggystyle, his first album under the hardcore rap label Death Row. Snoop Dogg is a former Crip gang member.

Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Tha Dogg Pound, Lady of Rage, and later Tupac Shakur made Death Row Records and its founder Suge Knight very successful.

Alas, Dr. Dre leaving the production table and label, the death of Tupac Shakur, internal conflict within the label and its ties to the infamous Bloods street gang has ruined Death Row. Suge Knight lost his label in 2010.

Snoop Dogg worked with No Limit Records founder and actor Percy Miller (known then as Master P).

Snoop Dogg left the label and established his own label called Doggystyle Records.

Snoop Dogg collaborated with rappers Warren G and the late Nate Dogg to form the group 2-1-3.

Snoop Dogg reunited with Dr. Dre and Ice Cube to reform N.W.A. and Westside Connection with rapper WC and Mack 10.

Snoop Dogg also aligned himself with hip-hop producers The Neptunes to release two albums under their Star Trak label.

Snoop Dogg has collaborated many artists. Some notable ones include: Katy Perry, 50 Cent, Eminem, Wiz Khalifa, Nelly, Ludacris, Jay-Z, The Game, Lil' Wayne, Xzibit, Diddy, Busta Rhymes, Bow Wow, Chris Brown, Kid Rock, R. Kelly, and Willie Nelson.


According to Fox News, the artist said at a news conference Monday in New York that he was "born again" during a visit to Jamaica in February and is ready to make music that his "kids and grandparents can listen to."

The former gangster rapper is releasing a reggae album called "Reincarnated" in the fall. He said that in Jamaica, he connected with Bob Marley's spirit and is now "Bob Marley reincarnated."

Bob Marley's son Rohan attended the conference and gave Snoop his blessing.

"I feel like I've always been Rastafarian," Snoop said of the spiritual Jamaican movement. While there, he said, he visited a temple, was renamed Snoop Lion and was also given the Ethiopian name Berhane, meaning "light of the world."

Snoop didn't explain why he was switching from "Dogg" to "Lion," but it's likely a reference to the Lion of Judah, a religious symbol popular in Rastafarian and Ethiopian culture.

Later, he played five songs for a small crowd, including one called "No Guns Allowed." It features his daughter and includes the lyrics, "No guns allowed in here tonight, we're going to have a free for all, no fights."

"It's so tragic that people are doing stupid things with guns," he said.

Snoop, best known for hits like "Gin and Juice" and "Drop It Like It's Hot," is an avid supporter of marijuana rights and has been banned from entering Norway for two years after trying to enter the country with a small amount last month.

He said that in Jamaica, where he stayed for 35 days, he grew closer to his wife, who saw his transition. He added that he's excited to perform music that his family and children can listen to.

"As a 40-year-old man ... I've got to give them something," he said. "That's what you do when you're wise."

Snoop Dogg said he's not completely retiring from hip-hop but is "tired" of the genre because it is no longer challenging.

"Reggae was calling ... it's a breath of fresh air," he said. "Rap isn't challenging; it's not appealing."

The album was produced by Diplo and will feature Snoop singing. It will be released on Vice Records.

The album will be followed with a documentary of the same name, also produced by Vice. It features Snoop making music and will include some personal elements of his life, a producer of the film said. It will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

A coffee table book about Snoop's rebirth is also in the works.

"It feels like I'm 19 or 20 years old again," he said.

Snoop Dogg (known also as Snoop Lion) appears on Doggystyle Records/Priority Records.

Those Who Hate!

Wade Page the Sikh Temple shooter has ties to Neo-Nazi rock bands and chanted off White supremacist rhetoric!

The recent shooting at the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin have brought forth the issue of right wing extremism.

Wade Page is the shooter and his views of society are the reasons for this tragedy to happen.

According to Talking Points Memo, Wade Page was nothing if not a relentless promoter of hate and the style of music he loved.

He found a nexus of both in the world of white power rock, where racist skinheads play their own brand of crunchy, loud punk and metal infused with lyrics trashing Jews, blacks, immigrants and anything else bothering them at the moment.


It didn’t take long to uncover a trail of Page’s postings on various white supremacist message boards, where he constantly promoted the white power bands he played in and knew.

Three's the hard way! Wade Page is on the right!

“Definite Hate is looking for a new drummer,” said one posting written under an alias he frequently used, End Apathy, on a message board for the racist skinhead faction known as the Hammerskins. “Must be a skinhead, committed to White Power and the movement, and have the skills to pay the bills.”

While music was usually his main focus, the postings made clear Page was also deeply involved with the Hammerskins organization. While he was living in North Carolina last year, he posted multiple messages encouraging people to come to “meet and greet” gatherings for the group near the city of Rocky Mount.

“All White nationalists are welcome!” said a message posted by End Apathy that appeared on March 22, 2011. “If you are wanting to meet people, get involved and become active then you really need to attend. Stop hiding behind the computer or making excuses.”

The person using the alias occasionally posted similar messages on the well known white supremacist site Stormfront.org, but he appeared to favorite the Hammerskin message boards at crew38.com. The latter website showed he posted 250 times since joining in March 2010.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremism in the U.S., documented Page’s ties to the white supremacist music scene on its own website early Monday. Senior fellow Mark Potok wrote that Page was the leader of a band that shared the name of his message board alias, End Apathy. In interviews later in the day, researchers with the SPLC said they had tracked Page for at least a decade.

Page presented a dangerous theme.

White supremacists are motivated by the hate music, the internet, and the first Black president. The Republicans riling up White voters with controversies such as Operation Fast & Furious, the president's birth certificate, undocumented workers, and a struggling economy. These things are going through mind of the White conservative male. This regurgitation of misinformation has driven White supremacists to the internet to promote views that you'll find when you read the comment section.

Once again, Fox News, The Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Bill Cunningham, Michelle Malkin, World Net Daily, and Sarah Palin are riling up extremism.

They can't help themselves. They rather deflect the harsh rhetoric solely on those who criticize them!

Blame Game: Sikh Temple Shooting Tragedy!

A Sikh worshiper wipes away tears after a gunman opened fire on his temple killing six people.

We at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to those who were lost in this senseless tragedy. 

WADE MICHAEL PAGE IS THE SIKH TEMPLE SHOOTER!

He is a 40 year old former military specialist veteran who may of had ties to White supremacist groups.

According to law enforcement officers speaking on condition of anonymity, the apparent shooter has tattoos that may represent activity in hate groups.

The Sunday shooting of the Oak Creek, Wisconsin Sikh Temple has the nation coping with another domestic terrorist attack upon innocent Americans who worship.

When they release the name of the person, the blame game begins. Conservatives would love to distance themselves from the tragedy by claiming that the individual was either a "Democrat" or "liberal" activist. Conservatives hate when the mainstream media focuses on the individual's race or political affiliation when it comes to a suburban mass shooting. They figure that the individual would be a White male who stockpiled firearms and magazines and harbored an apparent bigotry towards a person or group. The White conservative male is one of the most reactionary human being in this country. They're wrapped around the American flag shielding bigotry. These people are harboring bigoted views towards race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, political and economic standings.

Michael Savage is a conservative agitator who rails against Islam. He is known by his firebrand version of conservatism that could inspire an individual commit an act of violence. He wrote numerous books denouncing liberalism, Islam and President Barack Obama.

Before we get to the tragedy, we want to first talk about the 2009 declassified report about the rise of right wing extremism. Conservative talk radio, bloggers, the Republican Party and Fox News were crowing about  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder profiling the Tea Party and those in the conservative movement. The conservatives were thinking that President Barack Obama wanted to stifle "freedom of speech" and "take the guns" from patriots.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division warned about the rise of extremism because of shifting demographics, the first Black president, a struggling economy, and high unemployment. These are the core driving forces to bringing forth an extremist. The Department of Homeland Security has coordinated with the FBI in apprehending those who are likely to carry an act of domestic terrorism in the name of conservatism.

Frank Gaffney is a notorious right wing extremist. He is an Islamophobic individual who allies with Pam Geller, a former beauty queen turned extremist. They both promote anti-Muslim and anti-Sikh propaganda.

I remember the conservatives were upset about this. They were flocking to WorldNetDaily, InfoWars, PrisonPlanet, The Drudge Report and Breitbart News to find out the ulterior motives to why the Department of Homeland Security issued this report. They were rallying online and the public arena denouncing this report as a bogus hit on conservatism.

ABC News reported the right wing extremist memos attracted heat in the conservative bloggosphere, from Newt Gingrich, Michelle Malkin, Powerline, and elsewhere.

The report states that while DHS "has no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence…rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues."

                             

DHS defines "rightwing" as "broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly anti-government, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration."

The "emergent issues," the DHS report states, include both "the election of the first African American president" and "a prolonged economic downturn—including real estate foreclosures, unemployment, and an inability to obtain credit," which DHS says "present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment."

"A recent example of the potential violence associated with a rise in rightwing extremism may be found in the shooting deaths of three police officers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 4 April 2009," the report states. "The alleged gunman’s reaction reportedly was influenced by his racist ideology and belief in antigovernment conspiracy theories related to gun confiscations, citizen detention camps, and a Jewish-controlled ‘one world government.’"

Pam Geller promotes anti-Muslim and anti-Sikh propaganda with Frank Gaffney. 

Other potential dynamics that could help these groups’ recruitment, the report states, included proposed "imposition of firearms restrictions and weapons bans" and the debate over illegal immigration.

"Over the past five years, various rightwing extremists, including militias and white supremacists, have adopted the immigration issue as a call to action, rallying point, and recruiting tool," the report states.
                   
"Debates over appropriate immigration levels and enforcement policy generally fall within the realm of protected political speech under the First Amendment, but in some cases, anti-immigration or strident pro-enforcement fervor has been directed against specific groups and has the potential to turn violent."

The report states concern that returning "veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to right wing extremists," who may attempt to recruit and radicalize the veterans "in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists—including lone wolves or small terrorist cells—to carry out violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today."

"After Operation Desert Shield/Storm in 1990-1991, some returning military veterans—including Timothy McVeigh—joined or associated with rightwing extremist groups," the report states. "A prominent civil rights organization reported in 2006 that ‘large numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis, skinheads, and other white supremacists are now learning the art of warfare in the [U.S.] armed forces. The FBI noted in a 2008 report on the white supremacist movement that some returning military veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have joined extremist groups."

Alex Jones the founder of PrisonPlanet and InfoWars leads a movement of conspiracy themed stories that could inspire lone wolf domestic terrorism. His involvement in conspiracy theories attract right wing extremism.

Sean Hannity and Dr. James Dobson chatted about this report on Fox News last night, which Hannity interpreted as targeting "people who think maybe we’re not controlling our borders" and "people who have pro-life bumper stickers."

“What do you think of that interpretation, especially coming from a guy that started his political career in the home of an unrepentant terrorist who bombed our Pentagon and Capitol and sat in Reverend Wright’s church for 20 years?” Hannity asked.

Dobson said "there are no Timothy McVeighs out there right now. They’re making a big deal out of something that hasn’t happened and may not happen."

Notorious conservative agitators and instigators include Bill O'Reilly Alex Jones, Frank Gaffney, Pam Geller, Michael Savage, Andrew Breitbart, Sean Hannity, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. These individuals have inspired a deranged individual to commit an act of domestic terrorism. Yet they deny they're responsible. They believe that if the person had mental issues, they should blame the medical field for the individual.
                        
This will get the National Rifle Association a rally call to get fundraising from their supporters. This will bring forth liberal Democrats and the Brady Campaigns calls to having reasonable gun control. This will be a political hot potato for both President Barack Obama and the Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Both candidates are considered soft on guns according to the NRA. But this issue will be once again front and center again. President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will avoid talking about gun control. They fear that if they mention reasonable gun control, they may lose the election.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the individual is a White male in his 40s and acted alone. Contrary to multiple panicked reports from the scene, officials say they believe there was only one shooter.

Oak Creek police handed control of the investigation to the FBI on Sunday afternoon.

Federal officials cautioned against thinking that a concrete link to a domestic terrorism group or hate group had been established.

                          

“The investigation will have to continue to see and determine the motive,” said a federal law enforcement official who had been briefed on the early planning for the case. “We don’t know much about the motive at this point.”

A federal official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media refused to say whether the gunman was thought to belong to a hate group or some other violent group because the investigation was still unfolding.


Officials said it took a long time to clear the scene with SWAT teams because of conflicting reports about multiple shooters. Police later said they think there was only one gunman, who has been described  as white, with a large build and in his 30s.

“The city of Oak Creek is outraged by the senseless act of violence that happened in our city today,” Mayor Steve Scaffidi said at a news briefing.

In a statement, President Obama said he was “deeply saddened” by the news. “As we mourn this loss,  which took place at a house of worship, we are reminded how much our country has been enriched by Sikhs, who are a part of our broader American family,” he said.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the shooting “a senseless act of violence and a tragedy that should never befall any house of worship.”

The Sikh faith originated in India in the 15th century. Male followers wear turbans and women wear head scarves. In the U.S., Sikhs occasionally have been mistaken for Muslims. They have also been victims of hate crimes.

It’s the area’s second mass shooting involving a religious community in the past seven years. In 2005, a gunman killed seven and then committed suicide at a church meeting in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Tragedy At Wisconsin Sikh Temple!

                         

Another terrible tragedy that occurs in America. A Sikh Temple in near Milwaukee, Wisoncsin is mourning the lost of some of their members.

The is a developing story. This tragic act was done by some deranged individual and he managed to kill six before a shootout with cops lead to his own death. It's known that the individual was a White male dressed in black attire. The individual opened fire on the worshipers who attended a Sunday service.

This comes a few weeks after the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado at the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises.

The police called the attack an act of domestic terrorism, but did not provide any details about the gunman or suggest a possible motive. Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards did not say whether he specifically targeted the Sikh community.
                           
During a chaotic few hours after the first shots were fired, police in tactical gear and carrying assault rifles surrounded the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin with armored vehicles and ambulances. Witnesses struggled with unrealized fears that several shooters were holding women and children hostage inside.

                         
One of the first officers to respond to frantic 911 calls seeking help was shot several times as he tended to a wounded victim, and was in critical condition along with two other victims Sunday night, authorities said.

President Barack Obama, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Wisconsin governor Scott Walker have express grievance to those lost in this tragedy.

We at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to those lost in this tragedy.

This is a continuing story and we will cover this as best as we can!

NBC Denies Calling Olympic Gymnast A Monkey!

Gabrielle Douglas (Gabby) is an Olympic Gold Medalist in gymnastics. She becomes the first African American woman to win a Gold in the sport.

Gabby Douglas is an Olympic Gold Gymnast at the tender age of 16 has become the nation's newest sweetheart. From West Des Moines, Iowa, the young African American gymnastic star has gotten endorsements and name recognition since her victory at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Douglas is the first African-American and first woman of color in Olympic history to become the individual all-around champion, and the first American gymnast to win gold in both the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics.

A controversy is brewing with NBC and their coverage of the Olympics. From the tape delays to editing out the five year tragedy of July 7, 2005, the network once again embroiled itself in another controversy.

Mediaite and Redding News Review have covered this controversy.

Someone pointed out that the network has ran a show called Animal Practice, a show about doctors, animals, and the hilarious hijinks they will surely get into on a weekly basis. One of the stars of the show is a little monkey, and as a tie-in for its Olympics coverage, NBC is airing a promo for the show featuring the monkey as a gymnast. Last night, the promo aired right after Bob Costas remarked that gymnast Gabby Douglas winning the gold medal would inspire young African-American girls, and NBC is now apologizing and denying any offense was meant in airing the monkey ad.


NBC was planning on having the gymnastics-themed ad airing right after the gymnastics-heavy segment, according to the Associated Press. The AP deals how the situation unfolded.

“Much of America has fallen in love with Gabby Douglas,” Costas said. “Also safe to say that there are some young African-American girls out there who tonight are saying to themselves, ‘Hey, I’d like to try that, too.’”

Then NBC switched to the commercial with the small, widely grinning monkey on the rings. Blacks in the past have been disparagingly referred to as monkeys to the point where it is considered a common slur.

“Gabby Douglas’ gold medal performance last night was an historic and inspiring achievement,” NBC Universal spokeswoman Liz Fischer said. “The spot promoting ‘Animal Practice,’ which has run three times previously, is one in a series with an Olympic theme, which have been scheduled for maximum exposure.

Certainly no offense was intended.”

Conservatives: Obama Hates Them Honkies!

Not to offend my readers, but this website called FightBigotry.com is another one of those SuperPacs that has Republicans seething their teeth into. In turn to make a case against the president, this website claim the first African American president supports Black racism against White people.

Now when was there ever a time that Barack Obama, the President of the United States ever saying anything that offends White people?

In the mind of the Republican Party and its allies in the conservative media, everyday!

After all he attended Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years. His Justice Department let the New Black Panthers get a pass. Henry  "Skip" Gates should acknowledge his tenure and the president shouldn't say the cops "acted stupidly" when arresting him. His USDA worker Shirley Sherrod said some racist things about these White farmers and the president won't admit his Attorney General Eric Holder is secretly plotting a vast voter fraud debacle in the election to hurt Republican Mitt Romney's chances!

Still rehashing 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections, I see! The same old stuff that eventually turned off the independent voters who heavily leaned Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) and swung directly to then senator Barack Obama.

Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh agitate controversial issues such as the president's race, his former allies like Jeremiah Wright and relentless talk about The New Black Panthers, a fringe Black nationalist group that promotes hate and division among the races. They dog whistle white voters with rhetoric that comes off as extremist.

Alan Keyes tried it. He failed. Hillary Clinton tried it. She failed. John McCain tried it. He failed. Mitt Romney is already falling into the trap and he's going to fail as well.

What I'm saying is simple. The more you attack President Barack Obama personally, the more compassion he'll get from voters! They're already upset about the ways of the economy and Congress stalling on key issues for political gamesmanship. President Barack Obama is a likable person. Maybe to conservatives, he's the Kenyan, Marxist, communist, racist, Islamic dictator sent directly from the gates of hell to destroy the very livelihood of the United States!

Anyways, you look at all the doom sayers from talk radio, Fox News and the internet. Either they're too dumb to understand or just plain ignorant and not willing to admit things are better than they were under President George W. Bush.

He inherited a mess. He's tried on fixing the mess with great opposition from Republicans and even Democrats from conservative states. They're sitting back waiting on him to fuck up so they get back into power.

The conservatives think that rehashing issues around his race is going to make White voters more pessimistic about him. They want to chip away that last 40% of likely White voters for President Barack Obama.

In my last post, I've said that when Blacks become the predominant majority of the United States population, then you can at least admit they're racist. I mean there are people of color who are racist towards other races than their own.

But when's the last time you've seen a White person pulled over in a neighborhood for having a license plate light? I mean if he/she was with a Black person, it's likely the police officer is going to profile that vehicle and do a random pull over to see if the person has drug paraphernalia in possession. But a White person by themselves is less likely to be pulled over.

When White people are considered natural born criminals, then you can say Blacks are racist.

When interracial marriage is not looked upon as a failure of liberalism and parenting. Then you can say Black are racist.

When the economic gap between earnings improve between Whites and Blacks, then you can say Blacks are racist.

I won't go into detail about this website! All I can tell you that it's just a hodge podge of misinformation and outright smears against the president and his allies.

You can email this lunatic:  stephen@fightbigotry.com​

[If] I Could Of Shot Another N****r!

Florida man accused of shooting an individual and hoped he could of killed more "niggers!"

The Redding News Review and Raw Story contributes to this story. This controversy expands the notion that white conservative males are becoming more unhinged and this example is the growing tension. Extremism is on the rise and with the first Black president, the conservative White male will continue to hope the day will come when either President Barack Obama is defeated in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election or some untimely event happens to him and his family. Conservatives rooting online for a tragedy. You probably have a family member, co-worker, friend or complete stranger hoping for this to happen.

Florida man charged with with a hate crime after he felt inconvenienced by his arrest because he had “only shot a n*gger.”

Walton Henry Butler, 59, was arrested by Gulf County Sheriff’s deputies on Monday night for shooting 32-year-old Everett Gant, who is black, in the head with a .22 caliber rifle.

According to a charging affidavit obtained by The Star, Butler had referred to Pamela Rogers’ child and other children at his apartment complex with racial slurs.

Gant was shot between the eyes when he went to Butler’s apartment to confront him over the remarks, the documents said. Butler allegedly closed his sliding glass door and left Gant bleeding on ground outside.

The suspect contacted 911 and had finished his dinner before Gulf County Sheriff Joe Nugent arrived.

Nugent recalled that Butler appeared “inconvenienced” by the arrest, saying that “he had only shot a n*gger.”

“He was brought to the investigation unit where he was interviewed and basically admitted to shooting the victim and said he shot a, used a racial slur, and said that is what he shot and acted like it was not like a big deal or anything to him,” Nugent told WJHG.

Butler was charged with attempted murder with a hate crime enhancement. He was being held in the Gulf County Jail after an appearance in court on Tuesday morning.

Gant was in stable condition at Bay Medical Center and is expected to survive.