I really just don't know what to say about this. On one hand I want to scream. On the other I want to just slap around a bunch a white people.
Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers had been accused of beating a white classmate, went to juvenile court Thursday expecting another routine hearing, said Carol Powell Lexing, one of Bell's attorneys.
Instead, after a six-hour hearing, state District Judge J.P. Mauffrey Jr. sentenced him to 18 months on two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal destruction of property.FULL STORY
By L.T. Dinwiddie Maybe they will let freedom ring after all. Mychal Bell has been released from a Jena, LA jail recently. Here are the facts from ABC News.
“We still have mountains to climb, but at least this is closer to an even playing field,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, who helped organize last week’s protest.
“He goes home because a lot of people left their home and stood up for him,” Sharpton said.
District Attorney Reed Walters’ decision to abandon adult charges means that Bell, who had faced a maximum of 15 years in prison on his aggravated second-degree battery conviction last month, instead could be held only until he turns 21 if he is found guilty in juvenile court.FULL STORY
Even on my birthday racism wont cease. Check out Bill O'Reilly's impression of black people. After this post I am going to have to really take it easy on the racial stories. I dont want this blog to go in that direction. But this is still very interesting.
By L.T. Dinwiddie Look who's trying to back tract now.
Firstly, I just want to apologize for how random my thoughts were in my last blog. I wrote what I did just minutes after a long heated discussion on the topic. I can hardly read the thing, it's so damn random!
I think it is HORRIBLE that people misunderstood my message. Just because I wanted to stop separating races, doesn't mean I want to STOP TEACHING HISTORY! Or schools need to teach MORE of ALL of it anyway! I was asking that we not name things to separate ourselves. I never claimed we shouldn't learn our own history, or that of all the other countries on earth (which we as Americans are pretty bad at). I am very aware of all the amazing things hat black people have done for our country, and we should always be aware of it. However, separating our races sounds like racism to me. It just does. So go ahead, claim I am the one who is ignorant for wanting us all to be EQUAL! Can you believe that? How does that make a fucking lick of sense? Honor your heritage, I know I do. Just make sure that by doing so, you do not seperate yourself from the rest of us! Black History to me would be everything that happened in AFRICA. I lived there for almost 5 months. Visted Robin Island, and saw the cell they held Nelson Mandela in. I witnesses first hand people calling these taxi vans "Black Taxis" and these nice taxi's "white taxis". Just vile.THAT is African(black if you will) history. African AMERICAN history is OUR history!
Yes, there was a time when racism ran rapid. It still does in some places. However, it is time for us to rise above it and BECOME ONE, instead of SOME. I wrote my last blog in such hurry and a fury because I felt what I was typing so deeply. I am appalled that anyone would claim I am just some stupid white bitch that doesn't know shit about anything. I did NOT grow up rich. I did NOT hang out with rich people. Watch the show "Roseanne" and you tell ME if that family seemed well off. That is just about where I came from. My family is blue collar all the way! Just because I worked hard to get where I am it means I don't know how hard it is to LIVE LIFE? I was addicted to drugs, raped, abused, beaten, etc. I DO NOT DWELL ON IT! I choose to rise above it! I have been beaten up for being "the white girl" a few times, so don't tell me I don't know how it feels to be discriminated against. FULL STORY
It is what it is Adrianne. As an African American male your thoughts do not surprise me. I've said it before, and I will say it again, There are still alot of people in this country who don't care about black people. The question is, what are we going to do about it.
Tyra gave this misguided soul a platform to voice her obviously ill informed opinion to the masses. We are in such a mess these days. Sometimes I feel like we are still back in the 60's, just more politically correct. Though the words have changed, the actions are still very evident.
It looks like all the efforts that have been made in Jena, LA was all for nothing because the last of the six students who were locked up, Mychal Bell, was denied bond late Friday afternoon. I think another demonstration needs to take place. It’s called the whoop ass now and ask questions later. No Justice, No Peace!!
By L.T. Dinwiddie I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday about the unfortunate racial events that are unfolding in Jena, Louisiana. And I am baffled at how she, like many others, don't know the story of Jena Six.
People can tell you how many albums Kanye West have sold, how much bail O.J. paid to get free from jail, and what Britney looked like at the VMA's. But many are completely ignorant to the real, and more important might I add, issues plaguing our society. But, there is hope because CNN will be conducting a special at 8PM tonight. CNN's Kyra Phillips gets to the heart of a racial crisis gripping a small southern town. FULL STORY
Check out Mos Def and Cornell West talk about Barack OBama, Jenna Six & O.J. Simpson on Bill Maher's HBO show. Bill Maher, and Jon Stewart are two of the most brilliant people on television. If you don't watch their respective shows you should.
By L.T. Dinwiddie This picture was taken this weekend in Vegas while everyonce (except me) is there for the MTV VMA's. But I guess everyone has forgotten about Paris racist ranting back in the earlier part of this year right? Well let me fresh your memory.
Start watching the video at the 2:15 mark. It's pretty distrubing to watch someone with such privillege reduce herself to racist and homophobic slurs. Yet some of us (50 Cent) are willing to just let by gones be by gones. Pathetic!
THE DON IMUS OUTRAGE HAS BEEN COMPLETELY MISPLACED!!!!
By L.T. Dinwiddie All right black people, we got the white man fired from television and radio. It was just announced that Don Imus has been canned by CBS. So this can be considered a victory right?
Hopefully we will start to hold our rappers accountable the way same we hold the white man! It’s time for a change—seriously!
I still don’t see what the big issue is regarding this entire controversy. Many within the black community have said a lot worse about our black women. But, we have the audacity to cry when a white man does it? What sense does that make???
The man said “Nappy Headed Ho!" He didn’t say "kill the nigger!". I wish you all could see how the black community has been used by Rev. Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson. They used this situation to push their own individual agenda(s). In this case the outrage has been completely misplaced.
I really just don't know what to say about this. On one hand I want to scream. On the other I want to just slap around a bunch a white people.
I really just don't know what to say about this. On one hand I want to scream. On the other I want to just slap around a bunch a white people.
