Source: Stephanie Keith / Getty A Black family in Atlanta decided to forgo the services of a white contractor who rolled up on their property with a huge Confederate Flag flying on the back of his truck. Allison and Zeke Brown of Atlanta kindly told the gentleman that because of the flag, his services were no longer needed and sent him on his way. Yahoo! reports : Allison and Zeke Brown of Atlanta, Georgia hired the man, whose name is Michael, to replace the brakes on their golf cart. When he arrived at their home on Saturday, an enormous rebel flag was attached to his truck. “Hi, you know what, I do apologize, I know you’ve come from a very long way, but we’re going to use someone else,” Allison, 40, a radiation therapist, tells Michael, as captured in a video on her Ring app. “She’s upset with the flag,” explains Zeke, 48. “No, I’m beyond upset with the flag,” corrects Allison. Michael offers to remove the flag, but Allison says, “No, you don’t need to take it down. You can continue to believe what you need to believe, sir. But no, I cannot pay you for your services. Thank you, have a good day.” Tough break but that flag’s history when it comes to Black folks and some of the folks who love to fly it made this a rather easy call. Check out the video of the encounter below. — Photo: Getty
Source: The Event Snappers/Gentleman Jack Tennessee Whiskey Gentleman Jack’s Real To Reel Tour Returns to ATL Gentleman Jack kicked off its third-annual Real to Reel film tour (in collaboration with Codeblack Entertainment) that attracted the coolest creatives, tastemakers and fly somebodies in the city for an exquisite evening with the hottest young Black filmmakers in the south. Source: The Event Snappers/Gentleman Jack Tennessee Whiskey Hosted by writer/director Anthony Rose, the deliciously swanky affair featured a special guest appearance by rising star (and Friend of Jack) Demetrius Shipp Jr. along with an interactive photo booth, tasty light bites and complimentary cocktails throughout the night. Guests were also treated to screenings of Johnny Dutch’s impressive short film “The Boy & Boris” and Yasmin Neal’s “Enoch” + “Dear Hard Work” that wowed a packed theater inside midtown Atlanta’s Gathering Spot. Source: The Event Snappers/Gentleman Jack Tennessee Whiskey For the past three years, Gentleman Jack and national spokesperson Omari Hardwick have shown an undying commitment to celebrating Black excellence in film while pushing our very rich culture forward. Source: The Event Snappers/Gentleman Jack Tennessee Whiskey You can learn more about the impressive Real to Reel tour and its amazing honorees here .
Source: Pool / Getty K anye West delivered the rant heard ’round the world on Thursday, when he visited his leader Donald Trump in the White House. The meeting was billed as being about criminal justice reform in Chicago, seeing as Kanye’s hometown made a cameo appearance this week in the president’s speech to the nation’s police chiefs about the unconstitutional practice of stop-and-frisk. However, once Kanye was given the floor of the Oval Office, he took it and ran [amok] with it, mostly speaking inaccurately on everything from that revolting MAGA hat to the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. Read the full text of Kanye’s latest rant below, courtesy of a transcription from New York magazine’s Vulture: “Here we have Larry Hoover’s lawyer with us today and it’s a prisoner that we’re focused on. He has six life sentences and they have him next to the unibomber doing 23 and 1 … Really the reason why they imprisoned [Larry Hoover] is because he started doing positive for the community. He started showing that he actually had power, he wasn’t just one of a monolithic voice but he could wrap people around, so there’s theories that there’s infinite amounts of universe, and there’s alternate universe, so it’s very important for me to get Hoover out because in an alternate universe, I am him. And I have to go and get him free because he was doing positive inside of Chicago, just like how I’m moving back to Chicago and it’s not just about, you know, getting on stage and being an entertainer, and having a monolithic voice that’s forced to be a specific party. “You know, people expect that if you’re black you have to be Democrat. I have conversations that basically said that welfare is the reason why a lot of black people end up being Democrat they say – you know first of all, it’s a limit to amount of jobs, so the fathers lose the job and they say, ‘We’ll give you more money for having more kids in your home.’ And then we got rid of the mental health institutes in the 80s and the 90s and the prison rates just shot up. And now you have Chiraq, what people call Chiraq, which actually, our murder rate is going down by 20 per cent every year. I just talked to the superintendent, met with Michael Sacks, that’s Ron’s right hand man. So, I think it’s the bravery that helps you beat this game called life. You know they tried to scare me to not wear this hat, my own friends, but this hat, it gives me power in a way. “You know, my dad and my mom separated, so I didn’t have a lot of male energy in my home. And also I’m married now into a family that, you know, not a lot of male energy going on, it’s beautiful though. But there’s times where, you know, it’s something about, I love Hillary, I love everyone, right, but the campaign “I’m With Her” just didn’t make me feel as a guy that didn’t get to see my dad all the time, like a guy that could play catch with his son. It was something about when I put this hat on, it made me feel like Superman. You made us Superman, that’s my favorite superhero, and you made a Superman cape for me. “Also as a guy that looks up to you, looks up to Ralph Lauren, looks up to American industry guys. Non-political, no bullshit [looks at media members] – put the beep on it, however you want to do it, five seconds delay – and just goes in and gets it done. Right now, you gave me the heart to go to Adidas. When I went in, in 2015, we were a $14 billion company losing $2 billion a year. Now, we have $38 billion market cap. It’s called “The Yeezy Effect.” And went and I said, “You have to bring manufacturing on-shore. Not even on-shore, into the core. It’s not about the borders. The core of Adidas, and Chicago, is the core of middle America, and we have to make middle America strong. “So, I had the balls, because I have enough balls to put on this hat. I mean, this Adidas thing made me a billionaire. And I could have lost $200 million walking away from that deal. But even with that, I knew it was more important for me to take the chance of walking away from that deal, than to have no fathers in Chicago, with no homes. And when we do have prison reformation, not rehabilitation, because they didn’t have the abilities in the first place. We never had anyone who taught us, they didn’t teach us. Then any specific deal, anything, that we bring jobs into America. And that we provide a transition with mental health and the AmeriCan education curriculum that Jim has worked on. Larry Hoover also has a curriculum that he’s worked on. We have Montessori curriculums that we worked on. WeWorks has beautiful curriculum. The Waldorf establishment has a curriculum. We have meditation. “There’s a lot of things affecting our mental health that makes us do crazy things, that puts us back into that trap door that’s called the 13th Amendment. I did say, “abolish,” with the hat on, because why would you keep something around that’s a trap door. If you building a floor, the constitution is the base of our industry, of our country, of our company. Would you build a trap door that if you mess up and accidentally something happens, you fall and you end up next to the Uni-bomber, you gotta remove all that trapdoor out of the relationship. The four gentleman that wrote the 13th Amendment, and I think the way the universe works is perfect, we don’t have 13 floors, do we? You know, the four gentleman that wrote the 13th amendment didn’t look like the people they were amending. Also, at that point, it was illegal for blacks to read, or African Americans, to read. So, that meant if you actually read the Amendment, you’d get locked up! And turned into a slave. Again, so what I think is, we don’t need sentences, we need pardons. We need to talk to people. “I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I was connected with a neuropsychologist that works with the athletes in the NBA and NFL. He looked at my brain, it’s equal on three parts. I’m gonna go ahead, drop some bombs for you. 98 percentile IQ test, I had a 75 percentile of all human beings when it was counting eight numbers backwards, so I’m gonna work on that one. The other ones, 98 percent, Tesla, Freud. So, he said that I actually wasn’t bipolar, I had sleep deprivation, which could cause dementia 10-20 years from now, where I wouldn’t even remember my son’s name. So, all this power that I’ve got, and I’m taking my son to the Sox game and all that, I wouldn’t be able to remember his name, from a misdiagnosis. What we need is, we can empower the pharmaceuticals and make more money. That’s one thing, I’ve never stepped into a situation where I didn’t make people more money. So, we can empower pharmaceuticals, we can empower our industries, we can empower our factories, we can bring, not only Adidas on shore, we could bring Foxconn and set up a factory in, I think, Minnesota [corrected by Trump that it’s Wisconsin]. “Yeah, Wisconsin. They have 4,000 jobs, people making 53,000 a year. And one of the things we gotta set is, Ford to have the highest designs. The dopest cars. The most amazing. I don’t really say, “dope,” I don’t say negative words and try to flip ‘em. We just say positive, lovely, divine, universal words. So, the flyest, freshest, most amazing car. And what we start with, is – I brought a GIF with me right here. [Scrolls through iPhone to show Trump.] This right here is the iPlane 1. It’s a hydrogen powered airplane, and this is what our president should be flying in. We’re gonna have Apple, an American company, work on this plane. “What I need Saturday Night Live to improve on, or what I need the liberals to improve on is, if he don’t look good [pointing to Trump], we don’t look good. This is our President. He has to be the freshest, the flyest, the flyest planes, the best factories. And we have to make our core be empowered. We have to bring jobs into America, because our best export is entertainment and ideas. But when we make everything in China and not America, then we’re cheating on our country, and we’re putting people in positions to have to do illegal things to end up in the cheapest factory every, the prison system.” SEE ALSO: Kanye West ‘Can’t Say’ If Abraham Lincoln Was Black Or White Snoop Dogg Rips Into Kanye For Loving Trump: ‘F**k You!’ [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3831284″ overlay=”true”]
Cynthia Bailey Hopes Phaedra Addresses Her Part In Kandi “Lesbian” Conversation One hand gesture started it all… It’s almost reunion time and Cynthia Bailey managed to keep her existing drama to a minimum through out the RHOA season. Cynthia’s divorce proceedings with Peter played out rather smoothly but that doesn’t stop her from sipping other people’s tea! Cynthia sat down with Bravo TV and offered her piece on Kandi and Porsha’s drama this season. Cynthia swiftly reminded us who really started it. She say Bravo flashbacks are the BEST receipts, and in flashbacks you can see Phaedra is the one that brings up Shamea lesbian rumors. Cynthia said the cast now has time to piece together who said what while watching the show on TV. “That hasn’t really come up yet, so it’s gonna be interesting to see if that comes up in the next episodes and if it doesn’t, I’m sure it’s gonna come up at the reunion.” Peep the clip below. Hmm, perhaps something may go down at the reunion. This clip of Andy Cohen circulating instagram says something huge came out. Any guesses on what it is?
T.I.’s Confrontation With Overeager Fan At Gas Station Is Hilarious He’s 5’9, but he’s got the soul of a 6’4 ni**a . Yesterday, T.I. had to admonish grown azz admirer at an Atlanta gas station over the gentleman’s lack of masculinity and self-awareness when zealous fan made himself entirely too comfortable in rappers gas-pumping presence. Ol’ boy took like a year book’s worth of selfies with Clifford. Clifford was not pleased. The parched gentleman’s lady companion documented the encounter via her cellular device and uploaded the footage to the social media platform known as Instagram. Oh it’s just getting good, flip the page to see what happened next… Image via Prince Williams/ATLPics/Instagram/WENN
Sonny James, a legend in the world of country music, passed away on Monday at a hospice in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 87 years old. According a statement on the artist’s official website, the first country singer to earn a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame died from natural causes while surrounded by family members and friends. James was member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. He was famously known as the “Southern Gentleman” around the music industry, earning iconic status in this world by garnering an incredible 26 chart-topping hit singles. The singer still holds the record for having the most consecutive number-one songs by any artist in any musical genre. “Throughout his life he has stood always at the ready to share a funny story,” wrote Sonny’s family in a statement after his death. They added: “Accompanied by his boyish smile, this man of deep faith never failed to cultivate his unique gift of making every friend feel as if they were his greatest friend every step of the way. With immense admiration we say thanks to this dear and beloved friend to so many. “No words exist to express our loss and sorrow at this time.” View Slideshow: Celebrities Who Passed Away in 2016: Gone, But Not Forgotten
It was never a good idea to give Brooks Ayers a platform. For some reason, Andy Cohen thought it best to air a special in which he let Ayers flip off anyone who questioned him for claiming he had cancer. Brooks Tells All was a joke from the get-go, even before he admitted to producing fake medical records from cancer treatment center City of Hope. The special featured a smug Ayers answering questions likes a sociopath, and responding like the dirtbag when Cohen asked what he would say if Meghan King Edmonds was there. Ever the gentleman, Ayers suggested, “‘F*** Off.’ How about that?” As for Tamra Judge , Ayers has lost faith in her for questioning his fake records from a Newport, CA imaging center. “I’ve forgiven her for all the hurt that she’s caused but I haven’t forgotten, nor can I,” Brooks said. On November 11th, Ayers confessed that he was never treated at City of Hope. Needless to say, Judge said she wasn’t surprised. “I’ve always said, ‘If he has cancer I hope he gets better and if he doesn’t…I still hope he gets better,'” Judge said in a statement . “From day one I called him out. I felt he was a con man. “I could see it in his eyes and nothing he said was making sense.” Ya burnt, Ayers. Brooks Ayers Defends Cancer Diagnosis, Slams RHOC Drama (Again)
Teen Shot In Accident Retaliation Revealed As Toddler’s Brother Yesterday, we reported the Milwaukee man who was shot dead just moments after accidentally running over a 2-year-old boy who darted into the street, alongside a teenager who was on the scene. In an even more tragic turn of events, the young boy who was also shot at the scene by the unknown shooter, later dying during operation, was actually the toddler’s older brother — having run to the scene to check on the 2-year-old just moments after he was struck by the van. Via MailOnline : The 15-year-old Wisconsin boy who was gunned down along with the driver who accidentally ran over a 2-year-old with his van Sunday has now been identified as the dead toddler’s brother. Police say an unnamed gunman opened fire in Milwaukee Sunday after 40-year-old Archie Brown Jr struck and killed little Damani Terry when the toddler darted out of a house into the street. A person armed with a gun rushed to the scene of the crash and shot dead Brown, along with Damani Terry’s big brother, 15-year-old Rasheed Chiles, who ran outside to check on the toddler. Brown, a father of four, was struck in the head by a bullet and died at the scene near a park on Milwaukee’s near northwest side. Chiles was hit in the shoulder and was taken to a hospital, where he died during surgery. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed in a statement late Monday that Damani and Rasheed were brothers. A police statement said Brown was distraught about hitting the child and stopped right away, according to witnesses. The statement didn’t explain how and why Chiles was shot, but police said he and the 2-year-old were attending a cookout together at the house near the accident. Mayor Tom Barrett called the shooting of Brown an ‘assassination’ during an emotional press conference. “Someone got angry,” Barrett said. “Someone took a gun and basically assassinated this gentleman.” So this family lost not one, but two children in this tragic accident followed by what seemed to be an act of revenge. Truly tragic story. Facebook
So sad… Joe Cocker Dead Famed singer Joe Cocker has died at age 70 from an undisclosed illness. BBC.com reports: Singer Joe Cocker, best known for his cover of the Beatles’ With A Little Help From My Friends, has died aged 70. The singer song-writer from Sheffield had a career lasting more than 40 years with hits including You Are So Beautiful and Up Where We Belong. His agent Barrie Marshall confirmed that he had died of an undisclosed illness. He said he was “simply unique” and “it will be impossible to fill the space he leaves in our hearts.” Known for his gritty voice, Cocker began his singing career in the pubs and clubs of Sheffield in the 1960s before hitting the big time. He was propelled to pop stardom when his version of The Beatles’ With A Little Help from My Friends reached number one. His duet with Jennifer Warnes, Up Where We Belong – from An Officer And A Gentleman – hit number one and went on to win both a Grammy and an Academy Award. He was honoured with an OBE in 2007. Last year he broke all his own records in arenas across Europe, with a number one album in Germany and what was to be his final concert in Hammersmith, London, in June. Rest in peace Joe. WENN
Some time in the near future, George Clooney will marry Amal Alamuddin . But before that happens…he’s gonna go out in style with the most epically debauched bachelor party a 53-year-old has ever had! George Clooney Bachelor Party Plans The always-reliable In Touch magazine claims that George and his pals were overheard planning a full-blown booze and boobies fest at an LA restaurant recently. “His friends were talking about strippers, alcohol, and barhopping,” says one eavesdropper. “He seemed thrilled to hear that his buddies were preparing an X-rated celebration.” The planned end point for the all-night pub crawl is apparently the Spearmint Rhino Gentleman’s Club in Santa Barbara. But, naturally, George and company are keeping things hush-hush: “George kept telling his buds to keep the plans on the down-low,” says the source. “George says more than once, ‘Am I supposed to be hearing all this? Just surprise me!'” Once the earth-shattering bro-down of a bachelor party is done, it’ll be time for the lame snoozefest of a wedding. Naturally, we know nothing about the nuptial plans, but early reports indicate that Clooney and Alamuddin will marry at Downton Abbey …or at least the estate where the popular PBS series is filmed. Monumental, tassle-shaking bachelor party for him, cheesy public television ceremony for her. This has been a glimpse inside the mind of George Clooney. Celebrities Who Got Engaged in 2014 1. Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have a wedding to plan and a baby to welcome. What an exciting year to come!
