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Richard Branson don’t give no fawks! The White House held its fancy state dinner this week, inviting lots of big-wig donors, and dignitaries to dine with the first family and Prime Minister David Cameron. Naturally, billionaire head of Virgin Atlantic, Richard Branson, was there too. But what did the brash billionaire do when he got a few seconds of facetime with Obama? He asked him if he could have some “tweed”. At least that is what he told those gathered at the offices of The Atlantic magazine. Patrick Gavin at Politico has the report: “I asked him if I could have a spliff,” businessman and Virgin Group honcho Richard Branson told a crowd gathered at The Atlantic’s Washington offices Thursday, the day after attending the dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron. “But they didn’t have any,” Branson continued, according to a video of the event as he recalled his effort to procure some drugs the night before at the White House. Can’t even hate on him! We’re sure Obama gave him the wink and kept the party going. Source More On Bossip! Underrated Cakes: The Ladies With The Backs You Might’ve Mistakenly Missed Out On! Forbidden Fruit: A List Of Celebrities Who Were Spotted Playing Freaky Kissy Face With Family Members Nicki Minaj Flossin’ Her Cakes In A Pink ‘Kini On The Beaches Of Hawaii For New Music Video Solange Knowles Keeps Her Natural Hair, Vintage, Hippy, Hella Colorful Steez Alive On The Cover Of Time Out New York Magazine
Wow. Teachers sure are getting bold these days: Fairfax County school administrators are investigating a student’s allegations of racially insensitive behavior by a veteran English teacher at George C. Marshall High School. Ninth-grader Jordan Shumate said that during class this month, he was reading aloud a poem by acclaimed African American writer Langston Hughes when his teacher interrupted and directed him to read in a “blacker” style. “She told me, ‘Blacker, Jordan — c’mon, blacker. I thought you were black,’ ” said Shumate, who is African American. Shumate told his mother, Nicole Cober Page, about the incident Tuesday. She complained to school administrators. “We take these allegations very seriously, and we’re investigating,” Principal Jay Pearson said Friday. He declined to provide further details. Shumate, 14, and his mother identified the teacher as Marilyn Bart. Bart did not respond Thursday or Friday to e-mail and phone inquiries about the incident. Records show that Bart has worked in Fairfax schools since 1990. Another ninth-grader, Kaila Denny, said she witnessed the incident. Shumate was “just sitting there reading normally like any person would,” Denny said, when Bart instructed him to speak “blacker.” Shumate said that when he refused to continue reading the poem, Bart read it aloud herself, demonstrating what she meant. “She sounded like a maid in the 1960s,” Shumate said. “She read the poem like a slave, basically.” Shumate said he asked Bart that day whether she thinks all black people speak that way. She reprimanded him for talking out of turn, he said, and told him to take his seat. The poem Shumate read in class was Hughes’s “Ballad of the Landlord.” The poem, written in 1940, tells of a black tenant thrown in jail for challenging a deadbeat landlord. “Landlord, landlord,” it begins. “My roof has sprung a leak./Don’t you ’member I told you about it/Way last week? This week, in preparation for reading literature about the Holocaust, the teacher showed photographs to illustrate common stereotypes about different groups of people, Shumate said. Shumate said Bart showed an image of grape soda — a drink of choice among African Americans, according to a racial stereotype — and asked him to explain its meaning. Denny corroborated his account. “I do know the stereotypes,” Shumate said, “but she could change the questions so I’m not like the king of black people.” This lady was way out of pocket for this bullsh*t. SMH at her showing grape soda as the drink of choice for black folks. Man. SMH. Source Photo: WJLA-TV More On Bossip! Underrated Cakes: The Ladies With The Backs You Might’ve Mistakenly Missed Out On! Forbidden Fruit: A List Of Celebrities Who Were Spotted Playing Freaky Kissy Face With Family Members Nicki Minaj Flossin’ Her Cakes In A Pink ‘Kini On The Beaches Of Hawaii For New Music Video Solange Knowles Keeps Her Natural Hair, Vintage, Hippy, Hella Colorful Steez Alive On The Cover Of Time Out New York Magazine
This is just so sad A Moroccan teen committed suicide after being forced to marry her rapist, who wed his victim in a bid to beat the system and evade prison Amina Al Filali, 16, drank rat poison last week in Larache, near Tangiers in the north, said Fouzia Assouli, president of Morocco’s Democratic League for Women’s Rights. The girl’s rapist had sought to escape prison by invoking an article of the penal code that he claimed would exonerate him if the rape victim was his wife. Assouli deplored that the relevant article proclaims to defend family values, “but does not uphold the rights of women.” Under Moroccan law, rape is punishable by five to 10 years in prison. According to the father’s interview, the girl was accosted on the street and raped when she was 15, but it was two months before she told her parents. He said the court pushed the marriage, even though the perpetrator initially refused. He only consented when faced with prosecution. The penalty for rape is between five and 10 years in prison, but rises to 10 to 20 in the case of a minor. In some societies the loss of a woman’s virginity outside of marriage is considered a dishonour to her family, and arrangements are often made for rape victims to marry their attackers. Rest In Peace Amina Al Filali, hopefully you’re death will not be vein and brings forth major social change. Source More On Bossip! Rumor Control: Drake’s Alleged New BANGER Girlfriend Stephanie Monique Speaks To Bossip Exclusively To Set The Record Straight About Her “Relationship”! [Pics] Another Day, Another Stroll With Blue Ivy Carter: Bey Bey Goes A Walkin’ With Her Baby Bjorn And Funky Flats Hi Hater: Reggie Bush Admits To Using Kim Kardashian And Goes In On Her Relationship With Yeezy… “Kim’s Disgusting For Hooking Up With Kanye!” Lace Matters: Super Hot Women Of Color That Have Been Victoria’s Secret Models
SMH! Receipts are supposed to prove that a customer bought an item at a store. However, one Radio Shack employee allegedly gave a woman an additional message on her receipt: One calling her an “ugly itch” from “Ghettohood, USA.” Shanae Lewis of Baltimore got the disturbing message on Monday when she went to a Radio Shack in nearby Montgomery County, Md., to buy a $20 cassette adapter for her car. The county has a five-cent bag tax on top of sales tax that Lewis was unaware of, so, according to WUSA-TV, she went back and forth with the clerk before deciding not to buy the adapter at all. She said what happened next is one of the worst examples of bad customer service anyone has ever seen, according to Consumerist. It seems when the salesman gave Lewis back her money, he also gave her a receipt for the refund, at the bottom of which he apparently typed in “ugly itch, ghettohood, usa, tattoville, Maryland.” The salesman reportedly claimed he was only kidding, but Lewis was, and remains, unamused. “I was shocked more so than anything, and then I became angry,” she told WUSA-TV. A RadioShack official told WUSA that after seeing the story, it took “the strongest possible disciplinary actions,” but did not specify what they were. In an email response to the station, RadioShack wrote: “Based on descriptions we’ve seen in the media, this incident obviously does not meet RadioShack’s expectations for customer service.”It added, “The Company has made several attempts to contact the customer involved and offer her a personal apology. So far we’ve been unable to connect, although we have conveyed our regrets to another person in her household.” Lewis may be able to forgive, but not forget. She said Radio Shack has lost a customer. “I want nothing to do with Radio Shack ever again,” Shanae said. First Papa John’s had a similar incident with typing a racial slur about an Asian woman now this?! Fawk a Radio Shack!!! Source More On Bossip! Pancakes: The 10 Hottest Women With The Tiniest Cakes For Your Information: 10 Disturbing Facts About Minorities In The Criminal Justice System For Your Viewing Pleasure: Mommy Banger BeyBey Takes Blue Ivy For A Walk With Mama Tina Til’ Cancellation Do Us Part: The Best And Worst Of Reality TV Weddings
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It was 4am and Adam didn’t answer… Melanie Fiona has parted ways with her boyfriend, “CSI:Miami‘s” Adam Rodriguez. The couple quietly dated for three years and he’s allegedly influenced most of the heartbreak material on Melanie’s new album ‘The MF Life‘: Last month, during Melanie’s interview with the Breakfast Club, Angela Yee referenced Melanie’s heartbreak songs and asked, “What Happened to You?” Melanie responded: The same thing that happened to you and the girl down the street. Love somebody. He’s not a good dude. Shows you one side of him, gets comfortable and starts going back to his old ways. He doesn’t want to admit that he’s possibly ready to be the man he presented himself to be but kind of wants to string you along. By that time, you’re already fully engulfed in love and you’re doing all these foolish things for love. Pretty much, you just get to that point where you are so in love with somebody that you are just willing to accept all of the things that they do to you. It’s really not okay and I know that I consider myself to be a strong intelligent woman. So when emotions get the best of you, it’s really hard to break that cycle but when you do, then you got to find strength in it and put it in music. You let other people know that you’re not immune to it. Asked about her breaking point in a relationship, she responded: The minute I don’t feel like I’m respected as an equal in that relationship. That’s a wrap. D for DONE! Well damn! Tell ‘em why you mad. According to the NY Post, Adam Rodriguez is very aware of her heartbreak songs but there is no way they could be about him. A rep tells them: Adam knows about all of those songs, but they were written months ago — they were very happy together. We’re sure a lot of fellas are happy Melanie’s little soulful cakes are back on the market. Want to know if Melanie bashes her ex- boo thang on her new album? Take a listen HERE Source More On Bossip! New Couple? J.R. Smith Apologizes After Putting Tahiry’s Azz On Blizzast On Twitter Groupie Tales PT. 2: Men That Love Their Fans…And Sometimes Get In Trouble For It Biggie Swag: Plus-Sized Men And The Beaufiful Women They Chopped Down Crazy In Love: Women That Went A Little Cuckoo For The Men They Loved
It was 4am and Adam didn’t answer… Melanie Fiona has parted ways with her boyfriend, “CSI:Miami‘s” Adam Rodriguez. The couple quietly dated for three years and he’s allegedly influenced most of the heartbreak material on Melanie’s new album ‘The MF Life‘: Last month, during Melanie’s interview with the Breakfast Club, Angela Yee referenced Melanie’s heartbreak songs and asked, “What Happened to You?” Melanie responded: The same thing that happened to you and the girl down the street. Love somebody. He’s not a good dude. Shows you one side of him, gets comfortable and starts going back to his old ways. He doesn’t want to admit that he’s possibly ready to be the man he presented himself to be but kind of wants to string you along. By that time, you’re already fully engulfed in love and you’re doing all these foolish things for love. Pretty much, you just get to that point where you are so in love with somebody that you are just willing to accept all of the things that they do to you. It’s really not okay and I know that I consider myself to be a strong intelligent woman. So when emotions get the best of you, it’s really hard to break that cycle but when you do, then you got to find strength in it and put it in music. You let other people know that you’re not immune to it. Asked about her breaking point in a relationship, she responded: The minute I don’t feel like I’m respected as an equal in that relationship. That’s a wrap. D for DONE! Well damn! Tell ‘em why you mad. According to the NY Post, Adam Rodriguez is very aware of her heartbreak songs but there is no way they could be about him. A rep tells them: Adam knows about all of those songs, but they were written months ago — they were very happy together. We’re sure a lot of fellas are happy Melanie’s little soulful cakes are back on the market. Want to know if Melanie bashes her ex- boo thang on her new album? Take a listen HERE Source More On Bossip! New Couple? J.R. Smith Apologizes After Putting Tahiry’s Azz On Blizzast On Twitter Groupie Tales PT. 2: Men That Love Their Fans…And Sometimes Get In Trouble For It Biggie Swag: Plus-Sized Men And The Beaufiful Women They Chopped Down Crazy In Love: Women That Went A Little Cuckoo For The Men They Loved
Let’s Get Ready To RUUUUUUUUMBLE! Manny Pacquiao is challenging Floyd Mayweather Jr. to split the giant purse 70 percent to the winner and 30 percent to the loser, if their mega-fight ever takes place. This could possibly be one of the biggest purses in boxing history, even by Las Vegas standards: According to the latest projections this would be boxing’s first $200million bout so the PacMan is upping the ante considerably. Mayweather originally offered Pacquiao a flat $40m on condition that he keeps all the pay-TV money. Pacquiao responded with a guarantee of $55m to Mayweather with them each taking a 50-50 split of the television revenue. No thanks, said Mayweather, who still wants all the extra loot for himself. Pacquiao’s latest call is a challenge, also, to Mayweather’s insistence that he would win easily. If so 70 percent would net Mr Money in the region of $140m. This is a hefty purse but Floyd has had a history of dodging Pac Man. Could it be because the real prize at stake is the holy grail of boxing, the title of greatest pound-for-pound fighter in the world, which Mayweather brags about being without ever fighting Pacquiao? That and Mayweather’s obsession with keeping his undefeated record all the way to retirement? Mayweather calls himself Money. But will he back himself to live up to the nickname? Source More On Bossip! New Couple? J.R. Smith Apologizes After Putting Tahiry’s Azz On Blizzast On Twitter Groupie Tales PT. 2: Men That Love Their Fans…And Sometimes Get In Trouble For It Biggie Swag: Plus-Sized Men And The Beaufiful Women They Chopped Down Crazy In Love: Women That Went A Little Cuckoo For The Men They Loved
