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What retailer Abercrombie and Fitch is doing with its “fat policy” is what I wish the person behind the counter at McDonald’s would do to me whenever I show up and ask for a No. 3—tell me no, you’re too fat. Now while I don’t subscribe to the idea that skinny equates to beauty, the [...]
*The federal government’s idea to “counsel” obese people on their eating habits is as backwards as the government’s war on drugs championing the D.A.R.E. program after the CIA supported the trafficking of cocaine into the U.S. to help finance the purchase of guns for the Contras. The announcement Monday that a federal health advisory panel [...]
Scene depicting Williams dancing over hurt Reginald Denny in 1992 *LOS ANGELES, CALIF. – Damien “Football” Williams, 38, the infamous member of the L.A. Four and the most recognized participant of L.A. riots due to the live news broadcast of his attack on white truck driver Reginald Denny and because of his memorable nickname which was repeated frequently [...]
*The latest efforts of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and their cohorts to single handedly increase the percentage of unemployed Black males in America should be a wake up call to Black America. The latest controversy that has outraged the gay mafia is a series of tweets sent out from CNN’s Roland [...]
Because even if they do accept E.B.T., a liquor store is not a grocery store… On Thursday, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770, the union representing about 62,000 employees of Ralph’s, Vons, Food 4 Less, and Albertson’s in Southern California filed a 72-hour notice of its intention to end its current working arrangements with the chain stores, [...]
*I really don’t care whether or not Marilyn Davenport resigns from the Orange County Central Committee for emailing a picture of President Barack Obama’s face on the body of a baby chimpanzee. I’m not a Republican, I’m not planning on joining the Republican Party anytime soon, and to be quite honest neither are the majority [...]
*Sagging pants has long been an issue of debate in the Black community long before culture bandits usurped it and made it profitably fashionable. So last week when Carson Councilmember Mike Gipson resurrected the sagging issue, I though, here we go again. Gipson and other Southern California city leaders have called on Black children and [...]
*Very few will argue that the Arizona shooting rampage that left six dead and 14 injured, including the critically wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was indeed a tragedy of epic proportions. However tragic the shooting was, this is America and so let the Monday morning quarterbacking commence. “Crazy” and “unstable” are just a few of [...]
*The latest twist in the death of Mitrice Richardson, the then 24-year-old who vanished seemingly without a trace in September of 2009 after being arrested and detained by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies for non-payment of bill from Geoffrey’s Restaurant and less than ounce of personal use marijuana-is that Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter says [...]
*This week Los Angeles Congresswoman Maxine Waters is making headlines, only this time, it’s not for her feisty behavior on the floor of the House of Representatives on behalf of Blacks in New Orleans or the victims of the Haitian earthquake. The 71 year-old Congresswoman is being taken to task by the House Ethics [...]
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