Now celebrity chef Paula Deen is trying to rebuild her image.
But today, the representatives for Paula and Bobby Deen tell the junk food media that her social media posting of Bobby in blackface was reckless. They posted on Twitter and it was quickly scrubbed after the outrage.
Deen wanted to do her best "I Love Lucy" impression. So she decides to throw on a red wig and the trademark dress Lucille Ball wore and Bobby decided to put a little brown in his act. In order to look like Ball's real life husband Desi Arnaz, Bobby slapped some brown makeup on and wore the sweater vest.
Bobby getting a work over.
Harmless parody?
A few years back, a shocking lawsuit came forth telling the junk food media that Deen and her sons were disrespecting Black customers at her Georgia restaurants.
She and her son even uttered NIGGER to a female worker.
Not funny.
Walmart and other national brands severed ties with her. Deen's restaurants took a nosedive during the first quarter of 2014.
She went to the junk food media to tearfully make an apology. The first time she apologized, she acted like it wasn't a big deal. So the second time, must have been the charm.
Roku was about to help Deen back into the mainstream. The Paula Deen Network was scrubbed.
You know that Jamie also caught flack too. At one of the restaurants that Paula owns, he the manager of the place. He wanted to be a real comedian. So he asked his older Black staffer to pose in a picture with him and they do a lip lock while Jamie's wife took the picture.
That went viral.....Jamie was forced to apologize for this picture.
Bobby and Jamie are celebrity chefs like their mom.
Riot gear displayed in response to a riot. Cincinnati mayor tells the junk food media that the MLB All Star Game will be safe and this incident was isolated. The law says this wasn't a race crime. The concern trolls already determined it was.
Cincinnati's mayor John Cranley has put the nail in the coffin. He decided to end events at Fountain Square after reports of a riot happening after a hip-hop concert. It happened at the bus transit terminal off of Fifth Street.
A minor event sparked by words between exchanged between the victim and a group of teens. In the video, it shows one of the teens throwing the victim to the ground. One teen grabbed the susepct off him. Then the victim leaves for a moment. Then returns with his hands up in a threatening matter. The next video shows him getting laid out. He ends up with a five knuckle roll on his face.
He ends up with a broken nose and a concussion.
Cranley admits that the police weren't dispatched properly.
Around 3,000 people appeared at Fountain Square for the performance of hip-hop group Ground Up.
Cincinnati Police tries to put out a fire with piss. The officer who took the report claimed that it was anti-White violence.
The concert ended at 10:30pm but I guess as people were leaving the concert. That's when the fight happened around 11:00pm.
Police chief Jeffery Blackwell said that police were dispatched to the area on reports of numerous fights and have made arrests of the individuals who were caught on camera.
Also Blackwell had to put a cap on other officers who feel freely to express opinions. One officer wrote a police report the junk food media obtained. It's telling stories of anti-White behavior by some involved.
The Cincinnati police dismissed that comment.
Capt. Mike Neville said that description was incorrect.
He spoke just minutes after The Enquirer had obtained the incident report and posted a story on its contents.
In an interview later in the afternoon, Neville said categorizing the assault as a hate crime was the opinion of reporting officer Alicia Essert. She drew that conclusion, Neville said, because McKnight was attacked by a group of people from the "opposite race."
It is too early in the investigation to determine whether race motivated the assault, Neville said.
No one has been charged in connection with McKnight's beating, which occurred after a hip-hop concert at Fountain Square.
The incident report states McKnight, of Albany, Indiana, was jumped on and beaten during an "unruly crowd situation stemming from (the) Fountain Square event" around 11:30 p.m. The assault lasted five minutes.
There were less than 10 officers handling security. Although hip-hop concerts carry a presence of possible criminal activity, the need for full officer assistance was carried out extremely well given the situation.
The victim's name was released. World News Today send our prayers to Christopher McKnight.
The men in the post above are Gary Sheffield and Jy Quynn Britten. They were charged with disorderly conduct. They are innocent until proven guilty.
The people who knocked out McKnight are sought.
The MLB's All Star Game is being played at Great American Ballpark and Cranley wants no more incidents like this to occur. Believe me, Cincinnati is trying to rebound after the death of Officer Sonny Kim.
Last month shooting death of Officer Sonny Kim has opened a disconnect yet again between the Black community and the Cincinnati police.
Kim was gravely wounded after a deranged man threatened to kill himself. The suspect was accused of molestation and called 911 urging cops to put a slug in him. He aimed at Kim and struck him in his bulletproof vest. Kim's injuries were worse than expected and he would die. The suspect died after eating a lead sandwich.
Cincinnati has reeled from racial unrest after the killing of Timothy Thomas in 2001 by Officer Stephen Roach. There were three nights of riots in the Over The Rhine district. The civil rights leaders imposed an economic boycott of the city which still exists.
Clifford "T.I." Harris, founder of Hustle Gang Music was a scheduled performer in Cincinnati in 2005. He had to watch a friend take a dirt nap. Philant Johnson lost his life after unidentified shooters put slugs in their tour vehicle. The media mogul and some of his crew left a melee at a club. As they were heading to a local hotel, I guess that's when the shooting occurred. T.I. vowed never to perform in Cincinnati again.
A new player in the racial agitator business. Jim Hoft, the founder of The Gateway Pundit has relished in "race" stories. He's following the footsteps of dead agitator Andrew Breitbart. Jim Hoft, Charles C. Johnson and Colin Flaherty are panderers of White extremism.
Jim Hoft runs The Gateway Pundit, a popular conservative blog.
Hoft is a concern troll like many agitators in the media. Every event that involves Black criminals on White people is a "race crime" according to this douche and the other asshat Colin Flaherty.
Many observers view The Gateway Pundit as a panderer to White extremism.
Hoft is a racial agitator who relishes in kookspiracies about Muslims, immigrants and Black people.
The conservative Craigslist often links Hoft's stories. The Gateway Pundit stories have been mentioned by many agitators on the AM dial.
Hoft is a 50 something White dork who wants to be the next Andrew Breitbart. Hopefully he doesn't have the heart condition that put Breitbart in the dirt.
But goddamn it, he shouldn't never of have done it. You can't fix stupid!
You can't replace a life. You only have one life and that's it. Devon Staples a young man from a Maine city just a few miles from the Canadian border wanted to show off. He wanted to do a trick that he saw on the social media. It cost him his life.
World News Today send our condolences to Devon Staples and every victim of firework tragedies.
So many people fail to realize that these are dangerous explosives. I mean if you're not using it right, you lose an appendage or your life.
He was a great entertainer.
Staples blew his head off after he got drunk and decided to put a firework projectile on his head.
Matter of fact, there were over 400 cases of incidents where people messing with fireworks were injured or killed this year alone.
Staples did some part time work acting at Disney World as a character actor. The AP reached out to his family. They said that this event was an accident.
Staples, 22, of Calais, a small city on the Canadian border, placed a reloadable fireworks mortar tube on his head and told his friends he was going to light it, McCausland said. But his friends urged him to stop.
"Apparently, he thought that was a great idea," McCausland said. "His friends they thought dissuaded him from doing it, and the next thing they knew, he ignited the fireworks and he was killed instantly."
Staples's brother Cody told the Daily News of New York that he was a few feet away when his brother lit the firework and was the first to come to his side after it exploded.
"There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there," said 25-year-old Cody Staples, who called it an accident.
"Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh," he said.
Staples' death is the first fireworks fatality in Maine since the state legalized fireworks on Jan. 1, 2012, authorities said.
Man put one of these firework projectiles on the top of his head.
Lawmakers had voted to repeal a 1949 law banning fireworks, reasoning the industry would create jobs and generate revenue.
State fire marshals were also investigating several other Fourth of July fireworks accidents involving injuries in Friendship, Jefferson, Lebanon and Woodstock. They said most of the accidents involved burns and eye injuries.
In Montana on Saturday, a 32-year-old man was killed at a Billings home in a fireworks accident involving a mortar tube.
And in New Jersey, a 52-year-old man blew off a large piece of his left leg below the knee when he set off a tennis-ball sized firework in Leonia.
There was an attempted murder on an employee at a Dollar General store in Dayton. The suspect killed himself after being sought by the law. Montgomery County Ohio lockup's mugshot of suspect David Hall.
The law is trying to figure out why a man put a slug in a woman after a confrontation at a local Dollar General store in Dayton, Ohio.
According to the junk food media, the victim worked at Dollar General and the man was her ex-boyfriend. There was a cordial conversation and then it was a couple of minutes later, a gunshot.
The victim is down and the suspect escapes.
He goes to a Dayton home to tell his family what he's done! They ask him to turn himself in. He said he just can't do it. So after pleas were ignored, he put his Uzi in his mouth and the trigger popped.
Police quickly arrive to Dollar General after 911 calls of a shooting of an employee there.
He drops. The medics arrive and they couldn't save the suspect. The victim on the other hand was shot in the head. She was shot through her face with a single bullet. She is fighting for her life.
Now the question is, what provoke this?
Dionne Sneed is the name of the victim. She is the mother of three. World News Today send our prayers to the victim and her family.
David Hall was the shooter. Hall's actions may have stemmed from his ties to the dope game.
The Dayton police release a trove of information about Hall. He was facing some federal charges for drug distribution. The Trotwood Police and Montgomery County Ohio sheriff are also involved in this case.
Hall snapped. Once again putting a firearm in the hands of the mentally insane. I know that the Uzi was an illegal instrument. There's thousands of unregistered firearms on the street because the federal government can't pass a comprehensive gun control law.
I know that the junk food media and concern trolls are quick to rush to judgement on Black criminals. They are guilty until proven innocent.
Dionne Sneed was trying to get rid of her boyfriend. He wanted revenge by trying to take her life.
Even in a clear cut situation, the gun was the real victim of this. They don't give two fucks about Dionne or the shooter.
Capt. John Porter of the Trotwood Police are the lead in this. The Dollar General store was located in his jurisdiction.
WHIO reports that Porter determined the ballistics are still being completed to confirm the gun Hall used on himself was the same one he used to shoot Sneed. However, he confirmed that Hall could not legally own a Mack-10 because it’s an automatic weapon.
Police believe the shooting was an attempted murder/suicide, even though Porter said detectives haven’t found a note indicating such, nor have they spoken to witnesses who said Hall intended to shoot Sneed. Witnesses said the two may have broken up, and Sneed asked Hall to move out of their home on Gettysburg Avenue in Dayton.
Hall may also have been “on the edge,” Porter said. Local police learned federal authorities issued a warrant for Hall. Hall does have prior felony convictions for cocaine-related offenses, according to court records.
Cassondra Smith, one of Sneed’s co-workers at Dollar General, described her as a kind person and said employees are hoping to get Sneed on a financial assistance program after she is released from the hospital.
The video of a five knuckle roll sends a Florida State quarterback to showers.
De'Andre Johnson, quarterback for the ACC conference Florida State University Seminoles was sacked after a video surfaced of him getting into a confrontation with a woman at a bar in Tallahassee.
The State Attorney's Office in Tallahassee issued an arrest warrant for Johnson Tuesday. Johnson, 19, planted a five knuckle roll on the face of the woman on the night of June 24, according to court documents.
The incident occurred while the woman was waiting in line for a drink at Yianni's nightclub and felt Johnson push past her aggressively, court records say.
When she addressed him at the bar, she raised her arm to defend herself, and he grabbed her arm and began pushing her. She raised her knee into his midsection to push him away and attempted to five knuckle him, court records say, before Johnson five knuckle her on the left side of her face.
The woman suffered bruising near her left eye, swelling of the left cheek and upper lip, and a small cut near the bridge of her nose, according to court records.
Johnson left the bar after the incident and the woman remained.
State Attorney Willie Meggs, who will prosecute the case, said the woman still had the black eye when she met with prosecutors.
Off the team for FSU quarterback after video of him putting a five knuckle roll on a woman.
Johnson was charged with misdemeanor battery and given a few hours in the Leon County lockup. He recently posted bond.
He will appear in the court in later July. He is innocent until proven guilty.
Now he's lawyer up and telling the junk food media, that "Hey, you didn't see the part where.....!"
And of course, concern trolls have their judgement. I don't have to tell you that it's a bar. I can't tell if the incident was provoked by him or the victim.
He's a 19-year old man and the victim is a 21-year old woman. I choose to not reveal the victim's name for the time being. She's not charged in a criminal act. The junk food media already put her name out there and she's likely going to get death threats.
The owner of Yianni's may see a courtroom as well. After all, the victim or Johnson may sue.
I watched the video. Here's the full video with no edits.
I want to say that I'm speechless. I have no actual thoughts on the matter.
I want to say that the punishment fits the crime. However, given the recent issues I've faced with women, I think a man should be able to defend himself if threaten with physical assault. I still believe that a man should never hit a woman. But no woman should hit a man. They should have just kept their hands to themselves.
I do believe in the double standard.
I don't know whether to justify it or condemn it. I see that it was a provoking situation in which Johnson and the victim were engaged in some combative words.
I see that the woman did raise her fist in a matter that seem threatening.
I see that Johnson tried to restrain her.
I see that she kneed him in the leg.
County lockup mug for De'Andre Johnson the former FSU quarterback.
I see she conducted first strike and he let her have it. After he put a five knuckle roll on the face of the woman, he bounced. The injuries left her with a swollen eye, bloody lip and swollen face.
Okay, cue the concern trolls. Which word vomit would you likely see in a comment section of your blog, social media website or news aggregator?
A) He shouldn't hit the woman. I know that she started it, but he's got a football scholarship and he should have just called the bouncers and had her thrown out.
B) He was the one who started it. You see how he grabbed that woman's hands. He's nothing more than a thug who should have been booted off the team. She was defending herself from this thug.
C) She should be charged for assault too. She hit him first. She had it coming.
D) If I had a son, he would look like De'Andre Johnson.
E) You people don't see the racial violence. Black man hits white woman. Where's our race baiter-in-chief, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson? Will they say White lives matter? They speak up for criminals like Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin.
Cosby was one of the best American TV dads. Now the embattled entertainer admits he's drugged women and raped women.
The devastating news about entertainer Bill Cosby comes out. It's true that the famed comedian drugged nearly three dozen women and had sex with them. This news was broken by the AP and the junk food media is reporting it.
I just finished listening to Michelle Miller of CBS do a report on it. She almost teared up in her report.
Bill Cosby admitted in 2005 that he got quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with, and that he gave the sedative to at least one woman and "other people," according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
That woman and a second woman testified in the same case that they knowingly took quaaludes from him, according to the unsealed documents.
The AP had gone to court to compel the release of the documents from the deposition in a sexual abuse lawsuit filed by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand — the first of a cascade of sexual abuse lawsuits against him. Cosby's lawyers had objected on the grounds that it would embarrass their client.
Cosby settled that lawsuit under confidential terms in 2006. His lawyers in the Philadelphia case did not immediately return phone calls Monday. Constand consented to be identified but did not want to comment, her lawyer said Monday.
Cosby, 77, has been accused by more than three dozen women of sexual misconduct, including allegations by many that he drugged and raped them in incidents dating back more than four decades. Cosby has never been criminally charged, and most of the accusations are barred by statutes of limitations.
Cosby, giving sworn testimony in the lawsuit accusing him of sexual assaulting Constand at his home in Pennsylvania in 2005, said he got seven quaalude prescriptions in the 1970s. The lawyer for Constand asked if he had kept the sedatives through the 1990s — after they were banned — but was frustrated by objections from Cosby's lawyer.
"When you got the quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?" lawyer Dolores M. Troiani asked.
"Yes," Cosby answered on Sept. 29, 2005.
Cosby's legacy is like Ghost Dad.
"Did you ever give any of these young women the quaaludes without their knowledge?"
Cosby's lawyer again objected, leading Troiani to petition the federal judge to force Cosby to cooperate.
Cosby later said he gave Constand three half-pills of Benadryl, although Troiani in the documents voices doubt that was the drug involved. The two other women who testified on Constand's behalf said they had knowingly been given quaaludes.
Three of the women accusing Cosby of sexually assaulting them have a defamation lawsuit pending against him in Massachusetts. They allege that he defamed them when his agents said their accusations were untrue. Cosby is trying to get their case thrown out before discovery.
Cosby had fought the AP's efforts to unseal the testimony, with his lawyer arguing the deposition could reveal details of Cosby's marriage, sex life and prescription drug use.
"It would be terribly embarrassing for this material to come out," lawyer George M. Gowen III argued in June. He said the public should not have access to what Cosby was forced to say as he answered questions under oath from the accuser's lawyer nearly a decade ago.
"Frankly ... it would embarrass him, (and) it would also prejudice him in eyes of the jury pool in Massachusetts," Gowen said.
U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno asked last month why Cosby was fighting the release of his sworn testimony, given that the accusations in the Temple woman's lawsuit were already in the public eye.
"Why would he be embarrassed by his own version of the facts?" Robreno said.
Cosby resigned in December from the board of trustees at Temple, where he was the popular face of the Philadelphia school in advertisements, fundraising campaigns and commencement speeches.
That's 36 to 40 women who claim that Cosby had claimed that the entertainer had drugged them and had sex with them. A handful of them are suing him.
Each of these lawsuits are aimed at the entertainer.
The statue of limitations may have stopped the law from cuffing him, There's going to be state laws eventually passed in his honor.
Here's what's worse in this whole ordeal. His name will be forever sealed in this. We'll still give him props for his charity, his entertainment legacy and his thoughts on Black America. But are you willing to see all that's given, are you willing to forgive him?
Cosby admitted to taking advantage of women. I don't think Cosby will recover from this controversy.
Most of the ones who accused him are White women. Automatically doomed.
His lifetime of work from movies, sitcoms, animation and comedy have now collapsed. His marriage is probably doomed and no one wants to associate with him anymore.
Cosby's charitable work will now be questioned. Cosby's doctrines on family values are ignored. His public speaking tours are gone.
NBC cancelled all ties to Cosby last year after he kept denying it. At the time he was facing less than 10 women. Now he's bottomed up towards 40 women claiming that he's raped them.
The Confederate Flag continues to fly at NASCAR. Fans are ignoring the racing organization's request to not fly the flag.
The country's largest racing organization asked fans to not bring the flag to NASCAR sponsored races. The Confederate flag supporters look at it as a "ban" and they're defying it.
So as fans travel to Daytona Beach, FL to see the action, the controversy ensues. Some of the fans are taking a stand by saying to the junk food media and NASCAR, "FUCK YOU, WE'RE FLYING OUR FLAG!"
The AP reports about NASCAR taken a stance on the Confederate flag after last month's South Carolina church massacre. It backed Gov. Nikki Haley's call to remove it from the Statehouse grounds and noted it doesn't allow the flag on anything it sanctions. The series stopped short of banning fans from displaying the flag at its events, but Daytona and 29 other tracks asked fans to refrain from flying them.
Not everyone obliged. Daytona also offered to exchange Confederate flags for American flags this weekend, and track officials said a few made the swap Sunday morning.
"I think the voluntary exchange program for us right now was appropriate with the limited window that we had coming into this event weekend," track president Joie Chitwood said. "And more importantly, I think it's important to trust our fans, asking our fans to display a flag that we should all be proud of. Everybody should be proud of the American flag."
Indeed, the American flag is prominently displayed all around Daytona — no surprise given the Fourth of July holiday and the patriotism that NASCAR routinely promotes.
But spotting a Confederate flag is easier than finding a souvenir shop, restroom or beer stand.
NASCAR, which has roots in the deep South, moved quickly to distance itself from the flag despite some backlash from fans. The sanctioning body could have done — and eventually might do — more.
