Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Teens were 'laughing hysterically' as they terrorized 1-year-old with a Taser, cops say.........( again our future)




Teens were 'laughing hysterically' as they terrorized 1-year-old with a Taser, cops say

The Charlotte Observer

 
Teens were 'laughing hysterically' as they terrorized 1-year-old with a Taser, cops say

Three teenage girls were arrested after Arkansas police say they terrorized a 1-year-old baby with a Taser. The baby's mother called police July 9 and told a responding officer that she saw a Snapchat video of the girls "laughing hysterically while taunting the baby girl with a Taser." The baby was screaming out in "uncontrollable fear" and one of the teens hit the child in the head, according to a news release from the Conway Police Department. "In the video, you can see and hear the electric prongs on the Taser lighting up," Officer Brittani A. Little wrote in a police report obtained by Arkansas Online. Police say a laughing emoji was used on the Snapchat video. Little also wrote that the
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Teens were 'laughing hysterically' as they terrorized 1-year-old with a Taser, cops say

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"The baby’s mother had been made aware of the video and sought treatment for the child at the hospital, where she contacted police," according to the Conway Police Department. "The mother stated the teens had been responsible for babysitting the child and that she had been unaware of the alleged abuse prior to seeing the video."

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Suspect child abuse? Report it
In 2016, 46 children lost their lives as a result of abuse, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services reported. Incidences of suspected child abuse or neglect should be reported to the DHS by calling 1-800-932-0313.
Medical professionals examined the baby but found no signs of injury, police say. The girls were arrested and charged with first-degree endangering the welfare of a minor. They were booked into the Faulkner County Juvenile Detention Center.
Two of the girls said they didn't see any "wrongdoing in their actions," a police report says, and they blamed the girl who posted the videos to Snapchat in the first place. Because they are underage, police didn't identify the teens, Arkansas Online reports.
It's not the first time police say child abuse has been uncovered because of a Snapchat video.
David Williams III, 24, was supposed to be watching his 15-month-old son while the baby's mother worked at her new job, according to the Gonzales Police Department. But police allege that during one day in late March, Williams duct-taped his child's wrists, ankles and mouth at his house in Louisiana — and posted a video of it on Snapchat.
He wrote in the video's caption that duct-taping is a way to discipline an "unruly" baby, police say. He was arrested in May and charged with felony cruelty to a juvenile.

Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article214634365.html#storylink=cpy

Suspect Arrested In Alleged Racist Attack On Elderly Mexican Man.........(Thank God....this could have been any of our family members)



The future is going to be frightening.




92-year-old man viciously beaten with brick on 4th of July; suspects sought

WNYW
 
 
92-year-old man viciously beaten with brick on 4th of July; suspects sought
LOS ANGELES - An elderly grandfather walking in his Willowbrook neighborhood was viciously attacked by a woman with a brick leaving him with severe injuries. A witness intervened and snapped a photo of the woman who was making racial comments during the attack. These photos of a bloodied 92-year-old grandfather just moments after his family says he was attacked by this woman armed with a brick used to hit him in the face and several other men who later jumped in. His family tells FOX 11 that he was visiting LA from Mexico and on the 4th of July. He was the victim of an unprovoked attack beaten in the face by a woman with a brick and several other assailants who jumped in all while telling him
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New York teen stabs sleeping grandmother, steals $23, cops say...................(be prepared everyone, this is the future)




New York teen stabs sleeping grandmother, steals $23, cops say

Fox News
 
New York teen stabs sleeping grandmother, steals $23, cops say
A teen in upstate New York stabbed and choked his grandmother in her home Sunday night before stealing $23 and a cell phone, The Democrat and Chronicle reported, citing police. Brandon Foster, 17, of Albion, N.Y., was charged with attempted murder on Monday, the paper reported. Foster pried open a locked window to his grandmother’s bedroom late Sunday night where she slept, police said. Foster allegedly stabbed his grandmother with a knife and choked her. Foster’s grandmother managed to get away from Foster's grip, the report said. He then allegedly grabbed $23 and a cell phone before escaping through the bedroom window. Despite "bleeding profusely," Foster’s grandmother drove herself to a local
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Another couple for parents of the year award..........................Couple arrested after their four-year-old son accidentally shot himself between the eyes could face ten years in jail



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5933685/Parents-arrested-child-shoots-self-mothers-gun.html

Couple arrested after their four-year-old son accidentally shot himself between the eyes could face ten years in jail

 

  • A couple have been arrested after their son, 4, shot himself between the eyes
  • Heather Lyn Odom and Jeremy Jermaine Barrett face charges of unlawful neglect of a child which carry a sentence of 10 years in jail
  • The boy found the .38-caliber gun in his mother's purse at a Myrtle Beach resort
  • The parents were in another room at the time of the shooting  

Two parents are under arrest after their four-year-old son shot himself with his mother's gun in a South Carolina hotel.
Myrtle Beach police have charged Heather Lynn Odom and Jeremy Barrett with child neglect after the boy shot himself in the head around 7 p.m. Saturday.
The mother called it a tragic accident during her bond hearing on Sunday.
Myrtle Beach police have charged Heather Lynn Odom and Jeremy Barrett with child neglect after their son shot himself in the head
Myrtle Beach police have charged Heather Lynn Odom and Jeremy Barrett with child neglect after their son shot himself in the head
Heather Lyn Odom and Jeremy Barrett were released but will be in court in September when they face the prospect of being jailed for ten years on charges of unlawful neglect of a child
Heather Lyn Odom and Jeremy Barrett were released but will be in court in September when they face the prospect of being jailed for ten years on charges of unlawful neglect of a child
'I just want to say this was just a tragic accident and it's something that shouldn't have happened, but it did,' said Heather Lynn Odom.

Investigators said the boy found the .38-caliber handgun in Odom's purse while she and Barrett were in another room in the hotel suite at at the Oceans One Resort in Myrtle Beach.
Police said the boy was in critical condition at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center. 
'This is a very tragic incident, your honor,' Myrtle Beach Police Detective A. Walker said.

LeSean McCoy's ex claims he changed security before she was attacked






LeSean McCoy's ex claims he changed security before she was attacked

Daily Mail
 
 
LeSean McCoy's ex claims he changed security before she was attacked
The victim of a home invasion at the home of Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy has hired a lawyer, and her representation has strongly implied the NFL player played a role in the brutal attack. Delicia Cordon, McCoy’s ex-girlfriend, was pistol whipped, robbed, hit in the head and locked in a bathroom early on Tuesday morning when a man broke into the Georgia home as she slept. Her lawyer, Tanya Mitchell Graham, told DailyMail.com McCoy had suggested to Cordon she would be robbed of pieces of jewelry he had given her in the past, and had changed the security system to the home, but refused to share access to it with his ex. McCoy has denied allegations he was involved in any way in the attack. 

Mom Charged With Abuse Thought Baby Could Breathe Underwater: Police said



Mom Charged With Abuse Thought Baby Could Breathe Underwater: Police said





https://www.yahoo.com/news/mom-charged-abuse-thought-baby-183236375.html

Monday, July 9, 2018

If you don't stop a bully...... you ARE a bully


(this could have been one OUR relatives. Don't let these thugs continue)



Cops nab ‘pipe-wielding’ straphanger suspected in train attack


A homeless man accused of bashing a Manhattan subway rider in the face with a metal pipe is in police custody, authorities said Monday.

The suspect was picked up at 11 p.m. Sunday and was being held at the Manhattan Robbery Squad on 12th Street in Greenwich Village, cops said.

He was arrested by cops in Brooklyn after a crime-stoppers tip led police to the shelter he was staying at on Rogers Avenue in Crown Heights, police sources told The Post.

The suspect allegedly got into a fight with a 59-year-old man while panhandling aboard a No. 2 train in Manhattan about 11:15 p.m. Saturday.

As the two men got into an argument, the suspect pulled a metal pipe out and whacked the victim in the face, fracturing his skull and breaking his eye socket, police said.

It was not clear what the two men were arguing about, police said.

The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, authorities said.

Charges against the suspect are pending, police said.

Sunday, July 8, 2018

Watch: Pistol-packing waitress defends George Webb co-worker during attack ( Find the Son of a B________ that hit the innocent female chef !!! )


(Go watch this S O B hit a FEMALE.... YOU COWARD !!
This could be YOUR mom, sister, wife.) 



Sickening moment thug walks into a George Webb kitchen and PUNCHES a woman chef in the face before being chased out by her armed co-worker

  • Thug caught on surveillance camera footage walking into George Webb kitchen
  • Walks towards woman and unleashes a full-body punch knocking her backwards
  • He then moves towards the woman again before her co-worker pulls a gun
  • Attacker then slowly backs away and leaves, giving camera glimpse of his face

This is the shocking moment a man walked into a restaurant kitchen and punched a woman chef in the face before being chased out by her gun-toting female co-worker.

The thug, dressed all in white, was caught on surveillance camera footage striding towards the staff member at the George Webb restaurant in Milwaukee and aiming a full-body punch at the victim's head, nearly knocking her over onto the stove.

He then moves towards the woman again before her co-worker pulls a gun and points it in his direction. At this point, he slowly backs away and leaves the kitchen, giving the camera a glimpse of his face.

The thug, dressed all in white, was caught on surveillance camera footage walking into the kitchen at the George Webb restaurant in Milwaukee 
The thug, dressed all in white, was caught on surveillance camera footage walking into the kitchen at the George Webb restaurant in Milwaukee

The footage was obtained by Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan, who released it to the public on Friday in an attempt to identify the suspect. 

'It is sickening to see this unsuspecting worker assaulted so brutally by this individual,' he said, adding that the victim now faced thousands of dollars worth of medical bills.

The co-worker had a permit to carry a concealed weapon, according to Donovan.

'One can only imagine what might have occurred if that employee had not pulled out her weapon. Sadly, she quit her job shortly afterward,' he added.

'This is just sickening and I am tired of this c*** happening in my district and in too many other neighborhoods across Milwaukee.'

The attacker then aims a full-body punch at the victim's head, nearly knocking her over onto the stove
The attacker then aims a full-body punch at the victim's head, nearly knocking her over onto the stove


At this point, he slowly backs away and leaves the kitchen, before giving the camera a glimpse of his face 
At this point, he slowly backs away and leaves the kitchen, before giving the camera a glimpse of his face

George Webb said: 'We were alerted to an incident that took place at our Mitchell Street location on June 29 and are working directly with the injured employee, store manager and franchise owner to review the events. 

'The safety and security of our employees and patrons is our top priority. 

'We are working with our team, and local law enforcement to assess current security measures and determine next steps.'

Police are reportedly pursuing a 'known person' over the incident but urge anyone with information to contact them on (414) 935-7360. 


Police urge anyone with information about the suspect (pictured) to contact them on (414) 935-7360 
Police urge anyone with information about the suspect (pictured) to contact them on (414) 935-7360

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Watch: Pistol-packing waitress defends George Webb co-worker during attack


A waitress with a concealed carry permit defended her co-worker after an irate customer went behind the counter and punched her, newly released video reveals.
The attack at George Webb restaurant in Milwaukee on June 28 could have been much worse, according to Alderman Bob Donovan, who made the footage public.“I thank God the other waitress had a concealed carry weapon, has a permit... I shudder to think, had she not been there and had she not had this weapon, what this guy might have done," Donovan told Fox 6.
The suspect, who is a regular at the restaurant and reportedly had been cursing at his server throughout the night for taking too long with his order, came behind the counter and punched her in the face.

Within seconds, the woman’s colleague pulled out a handgun from her waistband and pointed at him until he backed off.

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A customer at a George Webb in Milwaukee, seen above, punched an employee and only backed off when another server pulled out a handgun.  (Google Earth)
 

Although the suspect has not been arrested, Fox 6 reports that Milwaukee police know who they are looking for and that the man is allegedly a drug dealer.

According to local media, the victim is back at work and she said the restaurant’s owner allows employees to carry a concealed weapon as long as they have a permit.

"It is sickening to see this unsuspecting worker assaulted so brutally by this individual," Donovan said. "For a man to do that to some innocent woman, it's just beyond me."

The Milwaukee alderman urged anyone with information on the suspect to call police at 414-935-7360.






Saturday, July 7, 2018

Why are YOU so afraid of speaking your mind?





WE ALL have our own opinion and that's OKAY.

Don't be so afraid  to speak your mind but be RESPECTFUL.

Friday, July 6, 2018

Man kills himself, daughter in murder-suicide after kidnapping ( Heaven has another angel)





Man kills himself, daughter in murder-suicide after kidnapping: cops


JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi man and his 1-year-old daughter died Thursday after officials say he kidnapped her, fled from police, and then shot the girl and himself on a Mississippi Delta highway.

Holmes County Sheriff Willie March told The Associated Press that it was the third day this week that 23-year-old Lavonta Lloyd had sought to take the girl from her mother.

“It’s a terrible situation,” March said.

March said Lloyd first took his daughter Kamaya Lloyd from a day care on Monday, but Kamaya was returned to her mother later that evening. Then, on Tuesday, deputies were called when Lloyd resurfaced at the mother’s home in the 400-person town of Cruger, about 70 miles north of Jackson.

Deputies chased Lloyd down some railroad tracks but lost his trail after he escaped into a cornfield.

March said deputies were called off the search because someone escaped from the county’s jail.

March confirmed that the mother is Kimberly Outlaw, who filed a domestic violence petition Monday against Lloyd in Holmes County Chancery Court. A judge didn’t hear the case before Lloyd’s death. March said he didn’t know if Lloyd knew Outlaw was pursuing charges.

On Thursday, Outlaw’s mother called March early in the morning to say Lloyd was holding Outlaw at gunpoint. March said Lloyd fled Cruger before deputies arrived, but after he reportedly fired shots
. No one was injured.

That set off a 30-mile chase, as deputies pursued Lloyd across three counties in the flatlands of the Mississippi Delta. Before reaching a roadblock, Lloyd’s truck veered off the road and into a deep ditch near Moorhead, in Sunflower County.

March said deputies couldn’t see the truck because of the ditch and the truck’s tinted windows. A shield was brought to the scene to protect deputies, March said, but when they broke open the driver’s side window, they found Lloyd and the girl dead.

“The baby was on top of him and had been shot,” Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks, whose deputies also took part in the chase, told The Greenwood Commonwealth.

Police records show Lloyd was arrested twice in Jackson on domestic violence charges in 2016 and 2017, but a preliminary search of court records there turned up no convictions.

STOP whining...... you sound like a widdle baby



Why are grown ass people whining about EVERYTHING?

I mean whining to the point of almost crying?

The world is filled with cry babies. How the hell can they raise children to be adults? Nope, they won't be able to. Their children will have to live with them forever so MOMMY or DADDY can do EVERYTHING FOR THEM. LOL  Good luck with that LOL.

Thursday, July 5, 2018

I will LABEL you if you offend me or if you are RUDE. I DO NOT see my friends in colors, they are my FRIENDS.



For people acting like fools.......My labels are NOT colors ( white black purple green).

They are....
jerk
as s
thug
creep
wanna-be
Less of a man
little boy
Thug lady
trash
poor excuse for a mom ( or dad )

 etc
etc
etc

Ready for kindergarten? Florida's new test found many youngsters were not




(Parents don't have time to raise their own kids, they are having "mommy" or relative or friend watch the kid while they are out Clubing or hooking up. Lets be REAL about the reason)




Ready for kindergarten? Florida's new test found many youngsters were not



The percentage of Florida youngsters deemed ready for kindergarten plummeted last year, thanks to a new test that tripped up many 5-year-olds.

About 54 percent of the students who started kindergarten in public schools in August 2017 were ready for school, according to the test results recently released by the Florida Department of Education.

Four years earlier, 72 percent of new kindergartners were ready, based on another test used to determine literacy skills.

The low passing rate on the new test upset early-childhood educators across Central Florida and the state. They doubt its accuracy. They fear students struggled in part because it was an online test and they were unfamiliar with working on a computer with a mouse. And they are angry because their state-funded pre-kindergarten programs are judged on how former students did on the new kindergarten-readiness test.


“I was shocked. I was beyond shocked,” said Cindy Seda, who owns A Tot’s World III in Winter Springs.


“We have always been very, very proud of our quality,” said Seda, whose Seminole County center has had the same pre-K teacher for 21 years. “I was never concerned the children leaving our center were ready for kindergarten.”

But the percentage of her former students who passed the kindergarten test was 60 percent this past year — down from nearly 90 percent in prior years
Seda’s center just met Florida’s new pre-K requirements, which were adopted this spring and require a 60 percent “readiness rate.”

Across Florida, however, 43 percent of the more than 6,000 schools and daycare centers that offer Florida Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program, or VPK,, failed to meet the new standard. This year, the state imposed no consequences on pre-k providers whose students fell short on the new test, but in coming years they could face probation and then removal from the state program.

Florida’s pre-K program is publicly funded but mostly contracted out to private preschools and childcare centers, though some public schools take part, too. The program is free to all 4-year-olds, with more than 163,000 students enrolled this past year.

Florida had not given a literacy test to new kindergarten students since 2013 because of problems with its previous exam, which was also given on computer. The state also didn’t rate its pre-K providers during those four years.

It gave its new kindergarten test — Star Early Literacy — for the first time in August. In late May, it published the rates on a website parents can use to search for pre-K programs.

“The public will judge you on that, whether it is fair or not,” Seda said.

The state’s Office of Early Learning, which oversees the pre-K program, called the new test a “starting point from which we can set higher expectations” and said lower scores with a new test are not surprising. It noted that youngsters who took part in the state pre-K program had a 64 percent passing rate — about 10 percentage points better than that of all new kindergartners.

The state’s education department also defended the 27-question test, saying it is meant for young children and does not require them to have prior computer skills, assessing their ability to navigate through the questions before allowing them to begin.

But many remain skeptical, questioning why the results this year would be so much worse than from several years ago.

“I keep asking the question, What does it mean to be ready for school?” said Karen Willis, chief executive officer of the Early Learning Coalition of Orange County, one of the local groups that helps oversee state-funded pre-K programs. “That shouldn’t waver from test to test.”

An online petition started by a preschool principal in Broward County asks Gov. Rick Scott to remove the new results from the state website. “Our programs and schools do prepare children for kindergarten and the world JUST not your assessment,” reads the petition on change.org that has 427 signatures.

“The readiness rate was really not done fairly this year,” agreed Carol Foo, executive director of Conway Learning Center in Orange County.

Her school had an 87 percent readiness rate four years ago. It fell to 63 percent this year.

Like many preschools, the Conway center does not have children spend time working at a computer and manipulating a mouse. Young students who do use technology, she and others said, are more familiar with tablets and smartphones, which they can touch and swipe.

The Orange County school district, which offers the state’s pre-K program at about 80 elementary schools, was upset by the low scores this year, too, said Meg Bowen, director of elementary curriculum and instruction.

State law requires the readiness test to be given within the first 30 days of school, and many kindergarten teachers administer it almost as soon as classes start. In the coming year, Bowen said, they’ll first spend time making sure their new students are comfortable working with a computer and a mouse. That will help administrators see if the problem was the technology — or the test itself.

Since its inception in 2005, educators have questioned the Florida law that required pre-K providers to be judged on how their graduates do on a kindergarten readiness test.

They argue such a system doesn’t take into account what skills children had when they started pre-K, making it hard to gauge whether preschools helped their students. They don’t like that it is given at the start kindergarten, months after pre-K programs end, so some student skills are lost over the summer. Finally, they note that Florida’s academic standards for pre-K describe play-based learning, where students gain early reading and math skills but also grow socially, express their creativity and explore.

The readiness test, however, focuses solely on literacy skills.

“What we taught them is not being captured,” said Lesha Buchbinder, executive director of the Early Learning Coalition of Lake County.







Free speech? Whataburger teen attacked for wearing Make America Great Again hat. (Read the whole thing... video below shows assult of 16 yr old, shown in photo is the THUG)




Free speech?What the hell is free speech?NOT EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO IT.

I'm not saying that you have to agree, it is a right and we should ALL respect other opinions. Doesn't make it right or wrong..... ONLY RESPECT.






Free speech? Whataburger teen attacked for wearing Make America Great Again hat



Kino Jimenez
 
Pictured, San Antonio, Texas, man, Kino Jimenez who assaulted Whataburger teen, Hunter Richard on account of him wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat. Image via social media.

Kino Jimenez a San Antonio man is fired from his bartending job after video shows him assaulting a teen wearing a Make America Great Again hat at a local Whataburger joint.

Going viral is video of an incident which took place at San Antonio, Texas fast food outlet, Whataburger– which saw a teen being verbally attacked and assaulted on account of him wearing the infamous President Trump campaign hat, Make America Great Again (MAGA).
In the video (see below), a man is seen throwing a drink at a 16 year old teen wearing the red MAGA cap’s face, after having verbally accosted him. From there the individual, since identified as 30 year old man, Kino Ahuitzotl Jimenez by social media users, grabs the MAGA wearing boy’s hair before walking out of the fast food outlet with the hat, mouthing off, ‘this is gonna go great in my fucking fireplace, bixch’. 
Told the violated teen, Hunter Richard via news4santonio, I support my President and if you don’t let’s have a conversation about it instead of ripping my hat off. I just think a conversation about politics is more productive for the entire whole rather than taking my hat and yelling subjective words to me’.
Which is a backhand way of saying, if society wants to propagate the notion that it lives in a civil democratic society (if only…) then it ought to also be prepared to accept views, sensibilities and actions that it might also disagree with, even be offended by.
According to the victim, the incident happened while the 16 year old teen was with friends at the fast food outlet off Nacogdoches and Thousand Oaks, Tuesday night when he was suddenly approached by Kino Jimenez. Howard insisted the attack was unprovoked.
‘I didn’t think it was going to generate the amount like what people are doing, I was looking at the comments by some people and “ they are like this is uncalled for” and other people are like mixed opinions but I didn’t think it would blow up to what it is now,’ the roughed up boy said. 
But it gets better.


Kino Jimenez
Pictured, Kino Jimenez
No love lost for Kino Jimenez….

Kino Jimenez employer responds to viral video:

Following the cellphone video going viral, and the assaulter being identified as Kino Jimenez, a local San Antonio bartender, the man’s employer, Rumble San Antonio, last night posted a Facebook post telling of the man being fired.
Wrote Rumble: ‘It came to our attention earlier this evening that a part-time employee was captured on cell phone video assaulting another person at a local eatery. The assault took place, presumably, because this employee did not agree with the other individuals political stance.’
‘We have since terminated this employee, as his actions go against everything that this establishment stands for.’
‘Rumble has, and always will be, a bar that is as inclusive as any establishment could possibly be. THIS BAR IS A SAFE SPACE FOR EVERYONE! No matter your race, creed, ethnicity, sexual identity, and political stance, you are welcomed here!’
‘We do not condone the actions or behavior that were displayed in the cell phone video, and we never will.’
‘If you have any questions or concerns please message us privately. We support and appreciate your business.’
But it may not just end there, with news of a police report having been filed….
Courtesy of all the riled up social media users, it has since been revealed (brace yourselves….) Kino Jimenez is member of the Green Party of Texas according to their website. The group’s ‘key values’ include; nonviolencerespect for diversity, and social justice. Or maybe not….?
Hate crime? Black man wearing Make America Great Again hat pushes Hispanic man onto NYC subway tracks
Gavin Cortina suspended for wearing ‘Make America Great Again’ baseball cap
Spiritual tribute? Maga hat wearing man tossed out of NYC bar was not discriminated says judge.

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Principal refuses to allow first black valedictorian to give speech, so Rochester mayor intervenes






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Principal refuses to allow first black valedictorian to give speech, so Rochester mayor intervenes

  
 
Jaissaan Lovett says he was denied a chance to give his speech as his high school's first black valedictorian, so his city's mayor invited him to give it at City Hall.
Youtube/City of Rochester, N.Y. Mayor's Office

When Jaissaan Lovett graduated last month as his high school's first black valedictorian, he prepared a speech — but he says his principal wouldn't let him give it. So someone else stepped in who wanted to hear what he had to say: the mayor of Rochester, New York, Lovely Warren. Not only that, she gave him a much wider audience for his message.

Lovett, a new graduate of Rochester's University Preparatory Charter School for Young Men, was planning on encouraging his classmates and thanking his parents, siblings and teachers, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle newspaper. He also acknowledged some past run-ins with the principal over student protests.

Lovett said he was never asked to give a graduation speech, though past valedictorians had gotten to, according to the newspaper. When he asked to speak anyway, he said the principal, Joseph Munno, said no.

"He didn't want to see the speech or what it said, nothing," Lovett told the Democrat and Chronicle. "He just said no." The paper said Munno declined to comment.

Mayor Warren invited Lovett, who works in her office as an intern, to deliver the speech at City Hall. She then posted it on her YouTube channel and Facebook page.

Jaisaan Lovett's Valedictorian Speech by City of Rochester, NY .Mayor's Office on YouTube
"Unfortunately, Jaisaan's school did not allow him to give his valedictorian speech," Warren said in the video. "For some reason, his school – in a country where freedom of speech is a constitution right, and the city of Frederick Douglass – turned his moment of triumph into a time of sorrow and pain.

"Jaisaan will never graduate from high school again. He will never get that moment back. This is not the time to punish a child because you may not like what he has to say."

Lovett had his own message for his principal, too.

"I'm here as the UPrep 2018 valedictorian to tell you that you couldn't break me. I'm still here, and I'm still here strong," Lovett said in the video. "And after all these years, all this anger I've had toward you and UPrep as a whole, I realized I had to let that go in order to better myself."

The school's board of trustees responded to the controversy in a Facebook post, saying they're "aware of the concern" and will be "reviewing the circumstances regarding what happened." They wished Lovett "much success as he continues his education at Clark Atlanta University, which he will attend on full scholarship, according to the Democrat and Chronicle.
From the UPrep Board of Trustees: We are aware of the concern with the Valedictorian not speaking at graduation. The...
Posted by University Preparatory Charter School for Young Men on Wednesday, July 4, 2018
UPrep, an all-male school serving grades 7-12, is one of Rochester's best regarded charter schools, according to the Democrat and Chronicle, with annual graduation rates well above 90 percent.








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Comedian Michelle Wolf Compares Ivanka Trump to 'Herpes': 'Very Unpleasant, Totally Incurable'






Comedian Michelle Wolf Compares Ivanka Trump to 'Herpes': 'Very Unpleasant, Totally Incurable'

 Tierney McAfee,People EN ESPAÑOL Tue, Jul 3 12:22 PM CDT

Was James Baldwin right when he called white Americans moral monsters?




Was James Baldwin right when he called white Americans moral monsters?


Professor Ricky Jones talks Tucker Carlson and race relations in the U.S. Louisville Courier Journal
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In 1979, the legendary writer James Baldwin began work on a manuscript examining his relationships with Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. He never finished it. In 2017, filmmaker Raoul Peck used Baldwin’s words as the foundation for his riveting masterpiece “I Am Not Your Negro.” 

Peck’s entire film is captivating, but one segment in particular ceaselessly haunts me. The meditative voice of narrator Samuel L. Jackson deliberately carries us through one of Baldwin’s most damning reflections on a good percentage of white Americans, “I’m terrified at the moral apathy – the death of the heart which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don’t think I’m human. I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become, in themselves, moral monsters.” 



As he did throughout his life, Baldwin raises difficult but necessary questions with which we must wrestle. Why are so many white Americans so brutally mean and inhumane? Why do so many others feel comfortable justifying or excusing it? Why do others still, who claim “not to think that way,” find it acceptable to say little and do even less? Make no mistake, there are certainly whites who stand in the tradition of William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown and others. However, reasonable people must admit they are the exceptions, not the rules.  

To be sure, no matter how sensibly and dispassionately one approaches the subject, many whites immediately paint them as angry black people, [reverse] racists, or maniacs. Despite that, while far too many cower and equivocate, other brave Americans continue to raise the issue in the public sphere. A small sample of important work over the last few years includes Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The First White President” in the Atlantic, Charles Blow’s “The Lowest White Man” in the New York Times, Rose Marie Berger’s rumination “Why are white people so mean?” and Michael Harriot’s recent sledgehammer piece, “White people are cowards” in The Root. 


All of these writers along with stalwart academics like Duke University’s William “Sandy” Darrity, Emory University’s Carol Anderson and others contextualize the subject and push back against the emerging narrative that white American mean-spiritedness appeared and apexed with the ascension of Donald Trump. That is a lie. The truth is none of this is new. Its genesis is actually rooted in times long before America’s current anti-black and brown immigrant president’s family immigrated to the country.

Voter fraud is a canard. Voter suppression, however, is real and is not new. It has been around since the limiting of the franchise to property-holding white men at the beginning of the country’s political story. Forcing the extension of it to others has always been a struggle. 

Traumatizing families and children of color is not new. White Americans enslaved blacks, raped black women, demonized black men, ripped black children from their parents, sold them all when profitable, visited any number of other inexcusable atrocities upon them ... and justified it all. Those who resisted were threatened, punished or killed. Once slavery ended, whites continued to glorify slavery and the Confederacy with flags, statues, monuments and political candidates who reaffirmed all the nastiness and death. They still do.


The Supreme Court’s support of such indecency is not new. Remember Dred Scott and many other legal blows to decency and democracy.

That only scratches the surface. Native American genocide, black codes, grandfather clauses, poll taxes, intimidation, disproportionate incarceration, convict leasing, Jim Crow, Japanese American internment, police murder of black men, women and children often without consequence. None of it is new. It is the continuation of a long-standing pattern and, as Congresswoman Maxine Waters advised, resistance needs to be fomented. 

Medgar Evers was slain in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, and Martin Luther King in 1968. James Baldwin passed in 1987. None of them ever experienced Donald Trump, but all witnessed omnipresent American white supremacy and meanness. Maybe Baldwin was right when he said we are dealing with “moral monsters.” It is hard to say at this point. If that is the case, we need to be clear about it. Such an acknowledgment would lower the expectation that many of our white brothers and sisters will be inclined to make decisions based on human decency rather than economic and political calculations or privilege maintenance. At least that honesty would eradicate the lies and pretense.  



If America continues on this path (and there is no historical or contemporary evidence that it will not), maybe Emma Lazarus’ words famously associated with the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” should be replaced with a paraphrasing of Dante, “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here ... unless ye be white.”