Ummm have these people never heard of Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman ? How about Morris Dees? White Political Activist Says Majority Of People Want To Believe He’s Of Another Race People can be so ignorant sometimes… So we’re not surprised to hear that Michael Skolnik, a political activist, filmmaker and writer who is one of Melissa Harris-Perry’s regular guests believes most people would rather believe he’s not white because they can’t understand why he’d work so hard on behalf of the poor and people of color. Via The Griot : Skolnik, who has been dubbed a modern-day civil rights leader, has become a voice for young America. His 2012 open letter, titled “White People, You Will Never Look Suspicious Like Trayvon Martin” raised his profile even further, going viral on the Internet. He now serves on the Board of Directors for the Trayvon Martin Foundation, founded by the 17-year-old’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin. Skolnik undoubtedly inspires affection and respect among those who applaud his vision to bring to the forefront issues affecting the voiceless. But he completely understands that a good number of people don’t ‘get’ him. “I think that the majority of people want to believe I am not white,” he says, in response to being asked whether people ever speculate if he’s a light-skinned African-American. In fact, his low cut hair makes it nearly impossible to gauge its texture. “If I’m white then it’s confusing. If I’m mixed [race] it’s an easier story to tell. If I’m a light-skinned African-American then it’s a really easy story to tell.” “If I’m white, then wait a second, we’ve never heard a white person talk like that.” Although, Skolnik says the motivation behind his work is pretty simple: empathy or a desire for a more “inclusive” and “compassionate” society. Is anyone surprised to hear that this is even an issue? And for the folks who didn’t realize that white people played a major role in the Civil Rights movement, we’re gonna need you to go back and watch “Eyes On The Prize…” Facebook
Drake Bell may think Lady Gaga is “repulsive,” but the singer still has some very high-profile fans. Lady Gaga and Bill Murray on David Letterman Bill Murray, for example, wasn’t a scheduled guest on last night’s Late Show with David Letterman, but that didn’t stop the legendary comic from showing up, crossing a few items off his bucket list, and getting friendly with the Mother Monster. Okay, so Murray and Gaga’s time together may not have been a “date,” exactly, but the two enjoyed each other’s company on Letterman so much that while they were still filming, the 28-year-old singer asked the 63-year-old actor to escort her to her show at NYC’s Roseland Ballroom just across the street. No word yet on whether Gaga made good on her promise to “sing some songs” directly to Murray and Letterman during her concert. As for Bill’s bucket list he managed to cross off both “meet Ms. Gaga” and “take a selfie” over the course of the night, so it’s safe to say he can chalk the evening up as the latest in a lifetime of epic wins. As for Gaga, we’re sure Gaga still likes being submissive to Taylor Kinney when she’s at home, but she certainly seemed to enjoy the adoring attention of a couple aging icons last night. Gaga is currently performing a series of show’s at New York’s famous Roseland Ballroom. They will be the final events held at the venue which is scheduled to close in April. 28 WTF? Lady Gaga Photos Open Slideshow 1. That’s Lady Gaga For You Seriously. That’s Lady Gaga summed up in one photo basically. View As List 1. That’s Lady Gaga For You Seriously. That’s Lady Gaga summed up in one photo basically. 2. Lady Gaga the Muppet You never know what Lady Gaga is going to bust out with next. This latest outfit makes that abundantly clear. 3. Lady Gaga Topless, Masked A topless, masked Lady Gaga. HELLO! We can’t wait for her new album. 4. Lady Gaga Dope Cover Lady Gaga has released the cover for her new single “Dope.” It’s pretty … yeah. 5. Lady Gaga: Eyebrow Bleach Photo Lady Gaga appears to have no eyebrows in this tweet. Think she’s getting desperate for attention? 6. Lady Gaga Meat Bikini Lady Gaga can pull off a meat bikini like the best of them. Or like only Lady Gaga could. 7. Lady Gaga Writhes Lady Gaga writhes around seductively. Nice. 8. Lady Gaga on TV Lady Gaga performs here for a holiday special. Seems about right, doesn’t it? 9. Lady Gaga on a Horse Lady Gaga arrived at the American Music Awards on a horse. Really, what else is there to say? 10. Pantsless Lady Gaga Pants are really overrated. We’re glad Lady Gaga has come to this conclusion. 11. Lady Gaga Nude for V Lady Gaga is VERY nude in this photo. It was snapped on behalf of V magazine. 12. Lady Gaga Meat Dress Lady Gaga’s meat dress is something else. She is not a piece of meat, though, so don’t even think about describing her as such. 13. Lady Gaga Bikini Photograph Lady Gaga in a bikini on stage. That makes for a nice photo. 14. Gaga in V Lady Gaga in V Magazine. Looking pretty hot, albeit a little bit fake tanned. Okay, a lot fake tanned. 15. Lady Gaga Cleavage Alert Holy cow, that can barely even be called Lady Gaga cleavage anymore. It’s practically Lady Gaga topless at this stage. 16. Lady Gaga Topless: VMA Backstage Pic Lady Gaga in a thong and that’s it, getting a rub down backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards. 17. Lady Gaga Bikini Photo VMA That is one hot bikini photograph of Lady Gaga. Ariel would be proud. 18. Lady Gaga ARTPOP Cover Lady Gaga has released the album cover for ARTPOP. Not shockingly, she does not hold back! 19. Lady Gaga Topless Photo in V Lady Gaga topless in V Magazine. What a dirty, dirty girl she is. 20. Lady Gaga’s Nipple Slip The most deliberate nipple slip ever, but a nipple slip nonetheless. Thank you Lady Gaga. 21. Lady Gaga Thong Lady Gaga has got BACK up in this piece. Day-om girl. You gotta bring dat thang. 22. Lady Gaga Candy Cover Lady Gaga on the cover of Candy. Which is real, apparently. And shows her vadge. 23. Lady Gaga Nose Ring Lady Gaga rocking a nose ring in July 2013. Sure is a new look for the singer. 24. Lady Gaga, Burka Lady Gaga rocking a burka, several dead raccoons (or so it appears) and a handbag that reads C–T. Lovely. 25. Lady Gaga Twerking One of the better celebrity Twerk GIFs you’ll ever see, from Lady Gaga herself. 26. Lady Gaga Naked Photo Yup, Lady Gaga is naked in this self-released photo. Totally naked. 100% naked. Stare away. 27. Lady Gaga Selfie A cute, old school Lady Gaga selfie. She doesn’t look like this anymore, some say. Did she get a nose job? 28. Lady Gaga Makeup Free Look at Lady Gaga with no makeup. It’s almost hard to believe that’s her.
Taylor Swift has been making her way around the dating scene for as long as she’s been famous and it looks like her serial-dating past is beginning to strain her relationship with her fans. Taylor Swift: Biggest Celebrity Player? In a recent iHeartRadio survey, listeners ranked Taylor as the “biggest celebrity player” in Hollywood. Adding to the embarrassment, Taylor is the only woman to make the top five – a group that also includes two of her exes (John Mayer and Jake Gyllenhaal). The list of celebrities Taylor dated is certainly a long one, but we think fans may have rushed to judgment on this one. Were Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan not on the ballot?! Maybe we’re just biased because unlike Kim and Lindsay, Taylor actually has talent and seems to care about other people. Just last week, Taylor visited cancer patients in the children’s wing of New York’s Sloan-Kettering center. So she may be unlucky in love but at least she makes better use of her time than most twenty-something starlets. Naturally, Taylor has yet to respond to the survey, but having been famous since her teens, we’re sure she’s got a talent for shrugging off negative press. At least we hope so, because she certainly receives plenty of it. 11 Dudes Who Have Dated Taylor Swift Open Slideshow 1. Jake Gyllenhaal Jake Gyllenhaal allegedly took Taylor Swift’s v-card, then dumped her via text. TEXT. View As List 1. Jake Gyllenhaal Jake Gyllenhaal allegedly took Taylor Swift’s v-card, then dumped her via text. TEXT. 2. Harry Styles She knew he was trouble when he walked in … 3. Joe Jonas This guy infamously dumped Taylor Swift over the phone. What a punk ass move. 4. Taylor Lautner Taylor Squared was a thing for awhile. If only we could go back to December. 5. John Mayer How does he do it? 6. Conor Kennedy Taylor Swift was almost a Kennedy. Kinda sorta. 7. Lucas Till Swift’s “You Belong With Me” co-star Lucas Till won her heart on the set of the hit music video, but their relationship was short-lived. 8. Chord Overstreet Apparently they struck a Chord with one another. 9. Cory Monteith This one was short-lived and never really confirmed. 10. Garrett Hedlund Dated Taylor for a few months a few years back … allegedly. 11. Zac Efron Taylor Swift has a type.
Yet another shooting at Fort Hood military base… Shooting Reported At Fort Hood In Texas A military base is suppose to be a very secure place and yet they have psychos running loose with guns. SMH. via NY Times As many as four people were killed and 14 were wounded after a gunman in uniform opened fire at Fort Hood on Wednesday, shutting down the sprawling Army base and inciting a huge police response, a member of Congress said. The shooting echoed the deadly rampage carried out there in 2009 by an officer who turned on his fellow soliders. Officials at Fort Hood released few details about the shooting but said that it appeared that the gunman was among the dead. On a conference call with reporters, Mr. McCaul said the authorities had identified the suspect as Ivan Lopez but that a motive for the shooting remained unclear. The shooter was wearing an Army uniform, but it was unclear whether he was on active duty, Mr. McCaul said. In Chicago, President Obama described the shooting as a fluid situation that White House and Pentagon officials were closely following. “We are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened,” the president said. “We’re heartbroken something like this might have happened again.” Gun contol in this country is a must. Shutterstock Continue reading →
Who charges to appear at a charity event?? Organizer Leery About Booking Apollo For Charity Event We guess Apollo needs to get all the money he can to pay his legal fees. According to Radar Online: Real Housewives of Atlanta star Apollo Nida will be in court in just a few weeks to finally face charges of bank fraud and identity theft. But in the meantime, he hasn’t stopped trying to make a buck. After shilling autographs online for $6.99, now he’s aimed higher: RadarOnline has exclusively learned that the shameless reality TV star has demanded $2,000 to attend a charity event for battered women and children — and he wants to be paid up front! Chase DeCarlo of Dio Bambini, a charity for battered women and children, tells Radar exclusively that he approached Nida, along with fellow RHOA castmate Kandi Burruss, to attend an event raising money for the fund. “At first I thought he would do it for free,” DeCarlo says. “His people were saying … he wouldn’t mind appearing.” But that quickly changed. DeCarlo says, “At first it was like, ‘Ok, I’ll do it for $2,000.’” Then, DeCarlo says he bargained him down to “about $1,200. It’s still a lot, but we’re still in discussion. He just sent me a contract for $2,000!” “We’re trying to get Kandi to come too, and she said she would come for free,” DeCarlo reveals. “I’m still talking with my people to see if it’s worth it getting Apollo to come at all. We have people with a better background willing to do it for free, so I don’t know.” “I’m really, really leery that his court date is before the event,” DeCarlo says, especially since Nida wants the money up front. “It makes sense why he’s pressuring me and wanting me to book him.” “I feel like I’m trying to book Beyonce!” DeCarlo jokes. But reminded of the fact that Nida is a convicted felon with a history of running scams, DeCarlo admits, “It seems like that’s exactly what he’s showing now.” Desperate times call for desperate measures, but damn, bruh…SMH
Woman Faces Jail After Posting About Drinking On Facebook While On Probation Her dumbazz belongs in jail. According to Click On Detroit: It was the day after St. Patrick’s Day when Colleen Cudney was called in for a random breathalyzer test. The 22-year-old was put on probation for a drunken driving conviction in 2012. After Cudney took the test at the probation office in Westland, she logged on to Facebook and counted her blessings. Investigators say she posted this: “Buzz killer for me, I had to breathalyze (sic) this morning and I drank yesterday but I passed thank god lol my dumba@@.” “I hope they throw the book at you young lady because it’s sad that you did something like that because you could hurt someone or kill someone,” Brown said. A Westland police officer saw her post that morning and notified the probation office. When a probation officer called Cudney to return to the office for a urine test, she hung up the phone. Probation officials say that was a violation of her probation. It was set to end in a few weeks. A urine test would have detected if Cudney had anything to drink in the 80 hours prior to taking it, probation officials said. Cudney is due in court on April 1st for a probation hearing. She could be sentenced to 93 days in jail. SMH. Shutterstock Continue reading →
Ho sit down Joe! Joe Budden Posts Anti-Sikh Racist Picture On Instagram Via HuffPo reports: Joe Budden, an American rapper and member of the hip hop group Slaughterhouse, is receiving some social media attention, and it’s not because of his music. On Friday, Twitter user Fateh Singh (@FatedDOE) posted a photo he came across on Budden’s Instagram account depicting a man wearing a turban and standing in an airport security line. Budden’s accompanying caption read, “Not on my watch Homeboy! Many Twitter users joined in the dialogue, expressing their anger over Budden’s photo. Budden’s response may fall short of what Reddit user “european_douchebag” did after posting a mocking photo of Ohio State student and observant Sikh Balpreet Kaur. The Redditor offered an apology, saying, “Making fun of people is funny to some but incredibly degrading to the people you’re making fun of. It was an incredibly rude, judgmental, and ignorant thing to post.” Budden did, however, remove the post from his Instagram account, though the rapper’s publicist did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment. The photo may be gone, but it appears the damage has been done. Do you think the Joe was in the wrong for posting the ignorant pic? Hit the flip to see Budden’s apology to the Sikh community next… Continue reading →
In case you missed it yesterday….Cora Keegan is the fucking worst. But I still write her love letters…because I am a romantic and feel that there is an importance to writing our own great american love story…or we could always just fuck…preferably finishing in her ass or hipster model bush….either way…I like her…but that doesn’t mean she’s not the fucking worst…
Britney Spears decided to suck her gut in for a bikini selfie for her fans, because either she forgets she’s a mom of 2, or that she’s past her sex appeal prime, or that she doesn’t need to cry for attention anymore, unless it’s a subliminal cry for help, as she is a prisoner in her own life thanks to the people around her who exploit her for all the money she makes them… It’s probably a pretty sad story, but she’s Britney Spears, it’s hard to feel sorry for her…but it’s not that hard to want to K-Fed her since you know she’s probably an easy, broken down target…it’s happened before… TO SEE ALL HER BIKINI PICS THAT MADAMMEOW TOOK OF HER CLICK HERE
