Man Gets Visit From Secret Service For Racist Threat Against President Obama An eldery Maine man who posted a blatantly racist message to accompany one of his Facebook photos got an unexpected surprise when the Secret Service showed up on his door step. via Huffington Post A Maine man is in hot water over a Facebook post containing a news story about President Barack Obama and a racially-charged threat. The Portland Press Herald reported Tuesday that 68-year-old David Marsters is under investigation over an item posted last Friday on his personal page. The update in question included a link to a story about GOP lawmakers pursuing an Obama impeachment, and a comment from Marsters that read “Shoot the n*gg*r.” The Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal added that Marsters’ Facebook post prompted a visit from Secret Service members. He was questioned for an hour at the local police station in Sabattus, Maine. “I think it’s a lot of hogwash,” Marsters told the Press-Herald. “I did not threaten the president … I might have used the wrong words … I didn’t say I was going to do it.” This is just outright disrespectful and racist. They definitely need to slap this old bum with a fine or something to make an example out of him. Photo Credit: The Bangor Daily News Continue reading →
Thursday, August 23, Cash Money founders Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams were honored with the Icon Award at the 2013 BMI R&B/Hip Hop Awards. Hip-Hop Wired caught up with notable Hip-Hop figures like Future, Hit-Boy, Curren$y, and more to see how the New Orleans-based moved influenced their careers…. Continue Continue reading →
“You talkin’ to me?!?!” Tavis Smiley Says President Obama Should Be More Like Martin Luther King Jr. With the 50th Anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s march on Washington approaching this Wednesday, the White House announced that President Barack Obama will take the podium to deliver a much-anticipated public address commemorating MLK’s legacy and his lauded “I Have A Dream” speech. Obviously there will be many comparisons drawn between Dr. King and President Obama before, during, and after this speech, but Tavis Smiley asserts that Obama and Dr. King are dissimilar not necessarily in form, but in function. Via WashingtonPost Since the White House announced that President Obama will speak to the nation on Wednesday from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, I have been asked the same questions again and again: Is it appropriate for the president to occupy that sacred space? Does Obama have the moral authority to speak where King spoke? Does anyone? My honest answer to these questions: I don’t know. But here is what I do know. The future of our democracy is inextricably linked to how seriously we take King’s legacy. A legacy of unarmed truth and unconditional love. A legacy of brilliant prose and prophetic witness. The president’s decision to honor the march is proper and commendable. But when he stands where King stood and delivers a speech of his own, he inevitably invites comparisons between his words and King’s. I hope Obama rises to the challenge to be truly King-like, not just King-lite. His speech cannot be full of great sound bites but devoid of sound public policy. Smiley goes on to say: The unsettling truth is that during the Obama era, black America has fallen even further behind. The African American unemployment rate, for instance, remains stubbornly and disproportionately high at 12.6 percent, compared with the national rate of 7.4 percent. And while private-sector jobs are experiencing a slight uptick, the lack of public-sector jobs is suffocating black livelihoods. Sadly, a few black chief executives notwithstanding, race still matters in the private sector. Education is not the great equalizer. I know too many black Ivy League graduates whose degrees cannot close this gap, and heaven help you if you’re applying for a private-sector job with a “black-sounding” name. Researchers have found that these applicants receive up to 50 percent fewer callbacks than applicants with “white-sounding” names. Black misery is the fierce urgency of now. Do we want history to record that black folk fared even worse under the first black president? I certainly do not. We all understand that Obama is a politician and King was a prophet. But does that mean that the president, even with the structural and political constraints of his high office, cannot speak more truth? …But if Obama is to be transformational and not just transactional, a statesman and not just another politician, a thermostat and not just a thermometer, then it’s time for him to use his power to help regulate the temperature of our society and not just settle for recording the temperature of public opinion. It’s time to take some risks. To stop playing it safe in the second term. To tell the truth about the suffering in America that’s being rendered invisible simply because we choose not to see it. What kind of speech do you expect from POTUS Barry on Wednesday? What issues and topics to you want to hear him address? Image via AP
DAMN! Sydney Leathers May Have Been Exposed To HIV While Recording Adult Freak Flick Scene Via NYDailyNews Anthony Weiner’s latest texting partner may have been exposed to HIV when she shot her freak flick debut earlier this month. The actor who played the pervy pol in “Weiner & Me” is Corvus Xander, an adult star who filmed a sex scene three weeks ago with the female freak flick actress who recently tested positive for HIV and sparked the current moratorium on professional freaky productions, Gawker.com first reported Thursday. The actress, Cameron Bay, told adult industry website AVN that her most recent 3X shoot was July 31 and that her shocking test result came back this week. Her Twitter account suggests the last project was a Kink.com flick with Xander. “Thanks so much for the awesome PD scene at @behindkink,” she tweeted Xander Aug. 3. In a statement to Gawker, Leathers said she and Xander both were tested and deemed “healthy” before they filmed their Vivid Entertainment video together. She said an additional test in New York after the shoot also came back negative. Bay stressed to AVN Wednesday that she was undergoing follow-up testing to see if maybe her result was a false positive. Says Xander’s on-screen sex partner: “When I got the call, I was obviously extremely distraught and in disbelief because there’s no way that it’s possible in my eyes,” Bay told AVN. “I don’t sleep around, I don’t do anything crazy, and I keep track of the people that I’ve worked with.” Xander seemed to touch on the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases in a Twitter post last week. “If you’re in the industry and you irresponsibly f**k unprotected outside the industry I want you drawn & quartered then burned alive,” he tweeted Aug. 12. We feel you bruh… Leathers, who was back in New York this week after filming the skin flick in “recent days,” told the Daily News Tuesday that she had no regrets. “After I did the Vivid photo shoot a couple weeks ago, people already thought I made a freak flick, so it was like, ‘Eh, they think I did, I might as well,’” she explained. “My whole thing is, even if I’m cashing in my body, it’s my body to cash in on. It was my choice,” she said. “No one knows what’s best for me better than I do. And obviously I wouldn’t have done it if I thought it was going to ruin my life.” Yeah, about that… Was it worth it Sydney? Continue reading →
Could YOU ever serve a white person/family with a smile on your face? Do Blacks Overcompensate For Racial Stereotypes By Serving Whites With Dignity? This weekend Lee Daniels’ The Butler opened across the country to rave reviews and tearful adulation. Lee recently sat down with the New York Times to talk about the film and surrounding issues. Via NYTimes On The POTUS having servants… Your new film, “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” stars Forest Whitaker as a man who was a domestic servant in the White House from the 1950s through the 1980s. What did you think when you learned that there are butlers who serve the president? It goes back to kings and queens. There are servers, and there are people that are served. There’s something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly. But someone’s got to take care of them, too. And thank God, or else I wouldn’t have a movie. On difficulty finding funding due to racial subject matter… Did the success of your film “Precious” help get this one made? It was a rough journey getting this film financed because the studios didn’t want to do it. They weren’t interested in this film at the budget that we had. The president of one studio told me, “If you were a Jewish filmmaker and this was a film about the Holocaust, we wouldn’t have this problem.” Meaning, because it’s about a black character, it wouldn’t attract a wide audience? I think that’s what she meant. I appreciate her honesty. Being a boxed into being a “black filmmaker” Do you think people expect you to make movies exclusively about the black experience? I’m not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I’m here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas. Could I do a spaceship movie or black people on Mars or whatever? Sure. A comedy? Yes. On African-American’s treatment of whites based on racial stereotypes… The film raises the idea that black servants who do their job with dignity are, in a way, being subversive by undermining racial stereotypes. Do you agree with that? I think that for that time, absolutely, it was correct, and even for now I think there is some truth in that. I come from a family of domestics. I think most African-Americans of my age do. They were trusted by their bosses. I have met so many white people that spent more time with their nannies than they have with their own parents. Flip the page to read about how Lee wanted Barry-O in the film, tried to turn Oprah Winfrey into a serial killer, and banned Mariah Carey from make-up! Continue reading →
Chris Christie Approves Of Medical Mary Jane For Children via CBS News Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., offered his conditional approval to a bill expanding the availability of medical [mean green] to sick children on Friday, framing his decision as a move to keep government bureaucrats out of families’ health care decisions. “As I have repeatedly noted, I believe that parents, and not government regulators, are best suited to decide how to care for their children,” Christie said in a press release announcing his decision. “Protection of our children remains my utmost concern, and my heart goes out to those children and their families who are suffering with serious illnesses.” Do you agree? Let’s discuss.
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