Three weeks after starting a brand new job at the electric company, 30-year-old Paul McCowns decided to take his first work check into a Huntington Bank branch in Brooklyn, Ohio. According to the Washington Post , the bank grilled him with questions, called his employer repeatedly, and ultimately refused to cash the check under suspicion of fraud before calling local police on the man. SMH. Even doing the most basic routine activities can get us in encounters with police. SMH. Getty
Source: Angelo Merendino / Getty A Harmless Offense Ends In Stitches One New York bus rider went OFF when a passenger tried to put her humanely paws on her dog, so much so that the dog owner slashed the passenger with a knife. The scene went down in the Bronx on a BX2 bus at around 2:15 p.m. on Monday. Imzadi Henriquez was the unfortunate victim of the dog-owner’s blade. “I put my hand out so the dog could smell my hand,” the 22-year-old told New York Daily News. “She got mad at that and ended up smacking my hand.” Henriquez was riding the bus with her 20-year-old girlfriend, Lenora McClelland-Fraser. Henriquez says she brushed off the hand-smacking and went looking for a seat on the bus. But the dog-owner was not done with her. “Don’t touch my dog. You can’t fu**ing touch my dog. My dog is a service dog. You can’t do that,” the woman said, according to Henriquez. Henriquez then said the woman kept muttering about how she wished Henriquez’s mom would die. This struck a nerve with Henriquez since her mom recently had a health scare. When the bus stopped, Henriquez was getting ready to step off and walk away, but she heard the woman laughing and couldn’t leave it alone. “I ended up coming back on the bus to go ahead and confront her. We ended up fighting,” Henriquez said. “I don’t know who hit who first, but I then went to grab her jacket to take a swing at her. She ended up grabbing my jacket and swung at me.” Henriquez continued, “At some point, I grabbed her hair. Then she kept hitting me and hitting me and I didn’t know she had a blade in her hand until my girlfriend told me I was bleeding.” Henriquez’s girlfriend stepped in to help and the dog-owner ended up slashing her left arm, according to police sources. During the scuffle, the bus driver stopped the bus, and the dog-owner ran out and got into a green SUV taxi to ride off. Medics took the two knife victims to Lincoln Medical Center for treatment. Henriquez received stitches to close up two long gashes across her eyebrow, and a third near her ear. “I didn’t think that petting someone’s dog would have that kind of reaction and that it would escalate to that,” she said. “I’m not okay that I made the decision to go back and confront her, I can’t take that back. But I’m that person that— yeah, I probably would have done that again, honestly.” Daaamn. The police described the slasher as Black and between the ages of 30 and 35 years old. They are still on the search for the dog owner. Continue reading →
When Ringo, a yellow Lab, was retired after working for a Mississippi police department for 9 years, his handler took him to a shelter instead of keeping him. Now the officer has been demoted. https://t.co/Ofv9JUzA7W — The New York Times (@nytimes) December 18, 2018 Black Folks Aren’t Feeling The Reactions To Story About Cop K-9 Ringo Twitter users of color are currently repulsed by the New York Times story seen above. Mississippi police officer Carl Ellis in was charged with taking care of his narcotic-sniffing K-9 partner, Ringo, upon the dog’s retirement from the Jackson Police Department. Instead, he dropped the dog at a local shelter and was caught when Ringo’s former trainer Randy Hare was contacted about adoption. As a result of this shabby behavior of a former police officer, Ellis was “demoted”. But this story isn’t about Ringo or the shady officer who dumped his bestest boy at the shelter, this is about people’s reactions to this story in contrast to how they react when police kill unarmed Black people. How could you treat your partner that way after 9 years?! Ringo is better off with someone else. What is wrong with people? — BCB (@BCFB828) December 18, 2018 We don’t typically see this kind of passionate decry of police conduct from WASPy folks when they decide to empty a clip on kid in a hoodie. …officers literally kill people and I don’t see this much backlash outside of the marginalized communities it happens to. I love dogs and want them to be cared for but I’m astounded by these responses in comparison to when officers literally kill unarmed people — eMo Bamba (@marciMcFly) December 18, 2018 We just tired. That’s all. So this is what it takes to have an officer demoted? Not wanting to take care of a dog, not planting weed in a kids car or KILLING PEOPLE — Hellraiser III: Imani on Earth (@ImaniChanel) December 18, 2018 Flip the page to see some of the cringe-y and animal-loving outrage from whites and the righteously indignant responses from people of color. Continue reading →
Source: Arsen Ametov / EyeEm / Getty Racist White Woman Attacks Asian Woman Aboard NYC Subway A notable Twitter user named @PlatanoMan captured an ugly racist scene aboard the D-train in NYC early Tuesday morning. A bigoted, below average white woman named Anna Lushchinskaya began to curse, berate, spit at, slur, and attack an Asian woman at 7:50am for no apparent reason. So this happened yesterday #mta #36st #nyc pic.twitter.com/h3AqY6IP1n — PL∆T∆NO M∆N (@PlatanoMan) December 12, 2018 pic.twitter.com/Hyv35HTUyT — PL∆T∆NO M∆N (@PlatanoMan) December 12, 2018 According to NYDailyNews after @PlatanoMan began to record and mock Lushchinskaya, she turned her racist ire towards him by spitting at him and calling him “Muhammad” to which he responded: “B-tch, I’m Dominican,” he says. “I just had a bacon egg and cheese yesterday. Literally the whole world is laughing at you.” The woman then slaps at him and he pounces and holds her to the ground. “We’ve gotta detain her till the cops come. I’m not going to hit a woman, but do not spit on me,” he says, and then puts her into a headlock. Then she tried me so I had to detain her until the cops showed up pic.twitter.com/C3UybusAxa — PL∆T∆NO M∆N (@PlatanoMan) December 12, 2018 This Lushchinskaya woman was apparently on a mission to terrorize everyone she came in contact with that day. Oh the r train this morning, this woman shoved me nearly on the the tracks with a fust full of keys then threaten to hit me w her umbrella @NYPDTransit @MTA pic.twitter.com/DRmB9uCGfP — kristen (@kriiissssten) December 10, 2018 When the train stopped the cops arrived and put this lil’ bish in cuffs.
Source: Robert Alexander / Getty David Stringer Doesn’t See A Problem With His Racist Comments An Arizona state legislator with a long history of anti-immigrant comments is facing calls to resign after he told university students that black people “don’t blend in” to society like European immigrants do. Representative David Stringer, who represents the Yavapai County area, made the comments after a public lecture at Arizona State University on November 19, during which a history professor, Donald Critchlow, discussed the 2018 midterm elections. Mr. Critchlow said that the students recorded a “private conversation” they had with Mr. Stringer after the lecture, which was sent to local news outlets last week. In said recordings, Mr. Stringer can be heard saying that he doesn’t think America is a “successful nation.” He follows up by saying that “diversity is relatively new” in our country, and that while European immigrants assimilated to society, “that’s not the case with African-Americans or other racial groups because they don’t melt in.” He continued on to say that this was connected to “white flight” and people moving out of Detroit and Baltimore. Stringer said that immigration was affecting states like Arizona in a “dramatic way.” He claimed that it cost more to educate children who don’t speak English as their first language, which he described as a “burden” on taxpayers. He also said that he wants to slow down immigration because it is happening too fast. The context of the conversation and how it began were not immediately clear from these recordings. Since his comments became public, there has been widespread condemnation of Stringer’s words. The Prescott City Council voted 6 to 1 to pass a resolution asking for Mr. Stringer’s resignation. David Stringer says he doesn’t intend to resign for his comments, though–because to him, it’s all true, he explained to the Prescott Valley Town Council on Thursday evening. “I believe that everything I‘ve said, if you look at what I actually said, is defensible, that it is truthful, that it is factually accurate, that it can be supported by academic research,” the Republican said. Though calls for his resignation have been made, not a single Republican in the Arizona House has called for Stringer’s resignation.
Source: Tetra Images / Getty Racist Woman Caught On Camera In Arizona An Arizona woman’s deplorable actions are going viral. A Puerto Rican woman named Lennys Bermudez Molina says she was trying to find a seat at a Phoenix restaurant last week when she was berated and told her race would be “wiped out.” “I hate to say the political climate is to blame for someone’s outrageous behavior, but I was visibly shaken today with this exchange. I simply asked the woman if I could sit down next to her while I waited for the car to charge,” Molina captioned a Facebook video of the incident. The video shows the spoiled mayo rudely telling Molina she wished the “whole freaking nation” was white. “You will be wiped out … trust me,” added the woman. SMH, the boldness of this beyotch is crazy. Are you even surprised to see yet another racist video ???
Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Jay-Z Wins Court Battle Over Lack Of Black Arbitrators In Legal System Jay-Z is currently riding a wave of public adulation after the release of Meek Mill’s new album Championships on which the soon-to-be 49-year-old (his birth is in three days on December 4) spit some of his most poignant lyrics ever in a prolific list of on-the-nose verses over the years. One with a penchant for puns might call Jay’s verse — a victory. We say that to say, that the win that Shawn Corey Carter got in rap is nothing compared to the “historic” win that he got in court this week. According to Rolling Stone , on Wednesday Jay-Z won a battle in court that is seemingly unheard of. He argued that a lack of African-American arbitrators left him potentially exposed to unconscious racial bias. Jay is being sued by Iconix, the company that he sold is clothing brand Rocawear to back in 2007 and in that agreement, there must have been a clause about future clothing brands. Iconix argues that Roc Nations paper plane hats violate those terms. Jay countersued Iconix arguing that clause applied to Rocawear, not Roc Nation. Arbitration ensues. All parties involved are to eliminate names from a list of 12 in order to choose one. Problem is, when looking at the list Jay couldn’t readily identify a single African-American name. When he brought his concern to the American Arbitration Association who chose the original list of 12, they went through a list of 200 eligible arbitrators and guess how many African-Americans they found… Three, and one of those three had a conflict of interest and was thus rendered ineligible. Here’s what Jay’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, argued to the court: “…deprives litigants of color of a meaningful opportunity to have their claims heard by a panel of arbitrators reflecting their backgrounds and life experience,” putting Jay-Z at risk of unconscious bias by white arbitrators toward black defendants. If unresolved, the issue would “deprive black litigants like Mr. Carter and his companies of the equal protection of the laws,” he said.” Apparently, this is a thing that doesn’t happen very often where the legal system is forced to look at the disparities in the process it claims to uphold. We love this song.
Source: Kevin Winter / Getty Michelle Obama’s Book Sold More Than 750,000 Copies On Its First Day First day sales for Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” topped 725,000 copies, making it one of the year’s biggest debuts. According to the Associate Press , that the figures include sales and pre-orders for the former first lady’s memoir include hardcover, audio and e-books editions for the United States and Canada. The book follows Obama’s journey from Chicago’s South Side to the White House, and many reviews have been positive. The Washington Post praised it as “impressive balance in telling the truth of her challenges while repeatedly acknowledging her lucky life.” The book was released earlier this week and Crown (publisher) also announced that it had raised the book’s print run from 1.8 million copies to 2.6 million following the successful release. “Becoming” had the biggest opening of any books in 2018 by Crown’s parent company (Penguin Random House).
Source: SplashNews.com/Ron Asadorian / SplashNews.com / Splash News Mo’Nique Explains Why She Defended Roseanne, “I Would Have Wanted Oprah Or Tyler Perry To Do The Same For Me” Mo’Nique made an appearance on the morning talk show The Jam to promote an upcoming appearance and was asked to explain again why she defended Roseanne Barr and said she wasn’t racist. Mo’Nique talked about personal experiences she had with Roseanne and took things a step further saying she wished Oprah or Tyler Perry would have spoken up on her behalf. Watch below: What did you thnk of her comments. Do you believe her?
Source: @JustInMyView / R1 Digital Meek Mill Releases More Info About Upcoming Album In a profile published yesterday by Vogue , Meek Mill confirmed that his new LP will be dropping on November 30. Now we’ve got even more news on the upcoming project, including the official album title. The Philly rapper revealed both title and the cover art for the project through a tweet and an IG post he put up on Friday afternoon. “CHAMPIONSHIPS – 11/30” Meek tweeted between two trophy emojis, confirming that Championships to be the title for the project, along with the November 30 release date. This recent announcement comes shortly after teasing the LP’s release date as he took part in a criminal justice reform discussion at Georgetown University only a week ago. Though he confirmed the date of release in the aforementioned Vogue interview, he didn’t talk about the title of the album in the piece–but he did speak about dealing with the terms of his probation while fighting for criminal justice reform with big names like Jay-Z. “We’re taking a superhero approach, where we’re trying to do amazing things . . . things that have never been seen before,” Mill told Vogue about the group’s mission. “We started with a bold number, saying we’re trying to help free a million people, and we’re not saying free a million people out of prison. Half of these people are on probation or parole, or on cash bail and things like that.” Beyond just a release date and cover for the highly anticipated project, he also previewed his upcoming collaboration with Cardi B. In the video that accompanies Vogue’s piece, Meek can be seen playing a clip from his new album, and confirms the track is with the Bronx rapper. Check out a first look at the album cover for Meek Mill’s upcoming Championships album below.
