Rob Kardashian Goes Missing, Kris & Khloe Freak Out In the midst of Rob Kardashian’s highly-publicized list of troubles , it appears he needed a break from chilling in Khloe’s spare room and made an unannounced exit. But after days of radio silence from the “family failure,” Kris and Khloe became so worried they considered getting police involved. Via MailOnline : Rob Kardashian’s family members considered calling the police when the troubled 28-year-old didn’t contact them for three days. The former reality star apparently sparked concern when he left his sister Khloe’s house without notice on Friday. Khloe was out of town at the time, but is said to have repeatedly tried to contact her brother for the next 24 hours. When he failed to respond to any of her texts or calls she contacted their mother Kris Jenner, reports Radar Online. Staff sent to Rob’s condo did not find him home, and his friends were unaware of his whereabouts. ‘Khloe thought they needed to call the police and file a missing persons report, but Kris didn’t think that was necessary,’ a source told Radar. ‘She thought Rob would get very angry that the cops were called, and it would have created a media circus.’ Rob – who has not appeared on the latest series of Keeping Up With The Kardashians – finally returned to Khloe’s home on Monday morning, and did not offer any explanation as to his whereabouts. Maybe he just went to visit one of his Instagram baes ? We can understand the concern, but Rob IS a grown-up. Do you think they overreacted?
Bucknell University Students Expelled Over Racist Remarks Three Pennsylvania college students were expelled from school after they made disgustingly racist remarks including “lynch ‘em” and “black people should be dead” over a radio broadcast. The Huffington Post reports: A private Pennsylvania college expelled three students over a campus radio broadcast in which they made racist comments and used a slur. Bucknell University president John Bravman met with about 1,000 students and staff about the matter on Tuesday, a day after sending a late-night email revealing the expulsions. “Their conduct is an affront to our values, damaging to our community and in clear violation of our community standards,” he wrote to students, faculty and staff on Monday. Bravman did not identify the students but shared their comments from a March 20 WVBU-FM broadcast in “the interest of transparency and candor.” He said one of the students used the N-word, a second said “black people should be dead” and the third said “lynch ‘em.” Bucknell spokesman Andy Hirsch said an inmate a nearby prison heard the comments and reported them to a prisoner advocacy group, the Lewisburg Prison Project. The group then contacted a university faculty member, who alerted the radio station’s adviser. Hirsch said the school’s senior staff investigated. The students were suspended and interviewed before the dean of students expelled them, he said. “I would emphasize that the context really doesn’t matter once you see what was said,” Hirsch said. Hirsch declined to say if alcohol was involved, noting the investigation is not complete. “I can tell you that there were other people at the station,” he said. “Whether or not they were there at the time when this happened, we’re still looking into all those details.” Bucknell, a liberal arts school with about 3,600 undergraduates, is located in Lewisburg, about 50 miles north of Harrisburg. The student body is 79 percent white, 5 percent Hispanic, 4 percent Asian and 3 percent African-American. The Lewisburg Prison Project said an inmate at the federal penitenary in Lewisburg wrote a letter about the comments. “He didn’t feel this is right and thought something should be done about it,” said David Sprout, a paralegal for the group. Sprout said he did not know what the inmate was serving time for.” You…big…dummies. If you’re going to be racist idiots, why do it on-air????
T-Pain Calls Aaliyah Over-hyped Due To Her Early Death T-Pain better get ready for the backlash. After debuting new track “Girlfriend,” featuring vocals from Aaliyah at a listening session for his new DJ Drama hosted mixtape The Iron Way , T-Pain addressed fans who feel that T-Pain and his autotune aren’t “worthy” of being on a record with the fallen R&B star … “People tend to–I don’t know man– I’m not trying to discredit Aaliyah in any kind of way. But you know how sometimes when people die–yeah. You know how somebody’s an a**hole their whole life, but when you go to their funeral it’s like ‘This guy was the greatest man that ever walked…’ No, I’m just sayin’! No, I’m not saying Aaliyah. But it’s like because she passed, nobody is deserving of being next to her. Nobody’s good enough. Nobody is good enough because she passed. If she was still alive, then everybody would’ve been like, ‘Oh! She’s tryna be Beyoncé!’ If she were still alive right now. But now that she’s passed, it’s like ‘Nobody could be her! Nobody could be her!’ That’s just how I feel.” What do you think? Does he have a point?
Cross-Dressing Duo Shot By NSA Talk about going out in a bizarre blaze of glory. Two men were shot, one fatally , while speeding down the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in a stolen vehicle after a date-night in a local motel room, where both men dressed in wigs and female clothing and injested drugs. An accidental turn onto a government-restricted led to them being gunned down by NSA security officers. Via NYDN : The cross-dressing man shot dead at the gates of the NSA likely took a wrong turn after a motel tryst turned into a drug-fueled joyride in a stolen SUV that ended Monday morning on the doorstep of the heavily guarded military and governmental installation, according to authorities. The two men, both dressed as women, inside the lifted Ford Escape were shot by National Security Agency police around 9 a.m. after zooming into an exit off the Baltimore-Washington Parkway at Fort Meade, Md., reserved for cleared government employees. The driver, identified by the FBI as 27-year-old Ricky Shawatza Hall, was killed, while 20-year-old Kevin Fleming, of Baltimore, was wounded, according to an official who identified the man to the New York Times. An NSA police officer was injured and treated and released from the hospital Monday, the FBI said. Cops later found cocaine and a gun inside the stolen car. “The men were dressed as females but not in an attempt to disguise themselves from authorities,” FBI Baltimore spokeswoman Amy Thoreson said as she confirmed the incident is not thought to be terrorism. “The vehicle failed to stop and barriers were deployed,” NSA spokesman Jonathan Freed said in a statement. Then, the driver “accelerated toward an NSA police vehicle blocking the road. NSA police fired at the vehicle when it refused to stop. The unauthorized vehicle crashed into the NSA police vehicle.” This is the ultimate result of being entirely too turned-up. WLJA / WJZ
Why Did A Newspaper Use Mugshot Photos Of Black Criminals And Yearbook Photos Of White Ones? An Iowa newspaper recently got rightfully blasted for running stories on a group of white and black burglars with vastly different pictures. A group of black men were recently arrested for burglary and put into the paper with their mugshots. By contrast however three white men were also arrested for the same crime and their pictures were yearbook photos. Mind you searching for mugshots required extra work for the writer, so why the push to find mugshots for the black criminals and not the white ones? Via SoLetsTalkAbout: Why did this story get run with these criminals’ school photos, where on the same day, same situation, the article of another group of burglars featured their mug shots? Same day. Same channel. Same crime. Same author. So why weren’t mugshots good enough for the white guys who got arrested? Who already looks guilty before their trial? Which story plants the seed into a potential jury pool that this is a group of good kids versus this is a group of criminals? The Gazette’s weak explanation is that they can’t get mugshots without a formal request, so why didn’t anyone formally request them since they obviously requested the mugshots of the Black men? Because nobody wanted to. It didn’t even cross their minds to use a mugshot for these nice white boys accused of THE SAME CRIME, being written up by THE SAME REPORTER. I would have more respect for these people if they would just admit it. “Ooops. We made a mistake. Racism is so ingrained in our society we didn’t even realize we did it. We’ll make every effort to correct this behavior in the future.” Blah blah blah. But I haven’t seen a retraction or any acknowledgement of wrongdoing and that’s half the problem. Nobody wants to be called a racist even when they get caught being racist, whether intentionally or not. The worst part is, I’m almost positive the author didn’t consciously say “I’ll use mugshots for the Black men but not the others.” It was just an instinctual reaction, implicit bias, the result of being conditioned from birth to view Black men one way and white men another way. That’s what we have to overcome in our everyday lives. It’s not about you saying, “I’m not a racist because I try to treat everyone equally.” It’s the knowledge that YOU could have done this and not even realized it because no one pointed it out to you. This is clearly racial bias, if you’re going to write a story on criminals whether white or black then be fair.
Not Salmon Croquettes, Grits, or Fried Fish, but… Pigs Feet and Chitterlings? What happens when we put three white comedians in front of some “black people” food. Will they be able to stomach it? What should they try next? Tell us in the comments below! #ADD #FortheFirstTime
Tasha Smith Ordered To Pay Husband $7k A Month Perpetual Tyler Perry actress Tasha Smith is about to feel the full financial wrath of a bitter ex-boo. The actress is being ordered to pay her husband, Keith Douglas, $7k a month on top of the $50k settlement following their dysfunctional divorce. Via TMZ reports: Actress Tasha Smith will think twice about getting hitched again — the now ex-husband she calls a glorified assistant just scored a fat settlement in their divorce. According to the court docs … the “Why Did I Get Married?” star has been ordered to hand over nearly $7k/month in spousal support to Keith Douglas. That’s on top of the $50k she already shelled out to him in December. As we previously reported … their rocky marriage took some crazy twists, including mutual restraining orders, and both saying they feared for their lives. The settlement wasn’t a total loss for Tasha … Keith had to give back her Mercedes. Unfortunately her friends all drive Porsches, but she’ll make amends. Do you think Tasha owes her ex $7k a month in spousal support??
The Walking Dead Producer Denies Killing Off Too Many Black Characters AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’ has been one of the biggest shows in television history. The zombie driven show continues to draw fans in every week with the bad azz acting and incredible plot twists but there’s been controversy about some of the Black characters on the series. Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd sat down with Variety to chat about the season finale tonight and denies that the writers have purposely killed off many of the popular Black characters: Variety: There’s been some controversy this season over the deaths of three significant black male characters (Lawrence Gilliard Jr. as Bob, Chad L. Coleman as Tyreese and Tyler James Williams as Noah). Was there any debate about that in the writers room or after the reaction on social media? Gale: We have to go with the story. It’s really important to cast the best actors. Two of those characters were white in the comics. They could’ve been any ethnicity. Our casting calls are completely open and we always go with the best actor. Would African American actors want to be told, “We’re not casting you, because in the storyline we’re going to kill you off?” That’s how we have to look at it. We want the best actor and then we have to stick to the storyline that was crafted months before we even cast the roles. The season finale has been supersized to 90 minutes. How was that decision made? The story was not actually an incredibly long page count, but when the first cut came in it was clear that we were never going to be able to pare it down to the typical running time. It was actually the best way to tell the story, as opposed to any initial intent going in. AMC absolutely embraced it and agreed. Michael Cudlitz was quoted saying the finale will “piss people off.” Do you agree with that assessment or would you put it a little differently? I would say they’ll be pissed off they have to wait until October when the series starts up again, that would be the only thing. I don’t know that they’d be pissed off, I hope instead that there’s a great sense of longing for us to be back. Is Michonne next??!? AMC
Karrueche On Iyanla Vanzant Karrueche recently caught the wrath of Twitter trolls after her Iyanla Vanzant interview aired. Just before her sit down premiered on OWN, Kae took to IG to ask people to keep an open mind as she dished on her breakup with Chris Brown. “At the end of the day we have not all been at our best at times so please learn from me and never forget to love yourself,” she wrote. Later as the interview aired Twitter took with reactions in particular from folks who couldn’t believe that she actually thought Breezy and Rihanna had a “platonic” friendship until he left her on Christmas day to attend a Lakers game with the singer. “I was under the impression that it was a friend type of — not a friend — but it wasn’t what it became to be … I didn’t want to believe it, said Karrueche. Poor thang. Were you watching???? Check out more reactions to Karrueche’s Iyanla Vanzant interview on the flip.
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