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Tucker Carlson Says It’s Obvious Black Teens Make Neighborhoods More Dangerous

Fox News host Tucker Carlson asserted over the weekend that it was “obvious” that black teens were responsible for making neighborhoods more dangerous, but white people were not allowed to admit it on the air.

Via Raw Story reports:

The Blacksphere Executive Director Kevin Jackson, who is African-American, argued during a Saturday interview with Carlson that black people may soon consider voting for Republicans because they had elected black leaders, but were still complaining about civil rights violations.

“It is a sign that there is a kink in the armor here,” Jackson explained. “And the fact of the matter is, when these people were out protesting, I asked the question, who are you protesting against? When you talk about civil rights violations, when the president is black, the attorney general is black, the head of Homeland Security is black.”

“There’s not a white Republican boogey man to blame. So, yeah, it’s about time that these folks woke up and said let’s starting looking at results.”

Jackson said that many African-American voters did not realize that “in most cases in the history of black people, we’ve been touched by other white folks. I’m a perfect example of that, where they’ve done really great things to help you.”

“So, it isn’t about color, it’s about character, and it’s about people that you culturally mesh with,” he added. “And the unfortunate thing is blacks have taken themselves out and not wanted to be part of the American culture.”

Carlson pointed out that many black Democrats viewed Republicans as “racist.”

“That is a meme that is unfortunately permeating through the black community,” Jackson agreed. “But you’re starting to see that crack. Because eventually when you’ve been kept down, and you start seeing the results, eventually you’ve got to wake up.”

“Black neighborhoods are not safe,” Jackson insisted. “And it isn’t because of cops, it’s because of black teens. It’s because of black crime. So at some point, the reality hits you. If you’re running the gauntlet to get to work or to get to school, it’s not cops stopping you, it’s the people in your neighborhood.”

“You just said something I couldn’t say, that most people couldn’t,” Carlson noted. “We’re living in an age where you’re not allowed to say obvious things, and you kind of have to conform.”

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You better sang Mariah!!!

Mariah Carey Proves She Can Still Sing With Vocal Warm Ups

We recently reported that Mimi was sounding very struggley in Japan while touring for her latest album. The diva songstress has unleashing her horrendous vocals to cities all over the world and getting slammed for it.

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Well, it looks like Mariah is trying to prove that she still got it. The singer uploaded this video to her Youtube account to prove once and for all that she can still blow!

What do you think of Mariah’s vocal warm-ups? Does she still have it??

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3-Year-Old Girl Killed With Machine Gun Over Facebook Fight

A precious 3-year-old little girl lost her life last week over a petty feud that began on Facebook and tragically escalated into the home where she lived with her father and sisters.

via Huffington Post

A Detroit Police Academy graduation began on a sorrowful note Friday, as new officers and their families mourned for a toddler killed in an act of “senseless violence” a day earlier.

The ceremony, held at Greater Grace Temple, included a moment of silence for Amiracle Williams, the 3-year-old killed in a shooting Thursday that officials say was sparked by a fight on social media.

In his speech to the graduates, now tasked with policing the city, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said he stood in front of them “with a heavy heart.  “When we think about the loss of our young angel, Amiracle Williams, the tragedy of someone so young … we fight for all, we fight for our young,” Craig said.

Four others were wounded in the shooting on Detroit’s east side, Craig said after the ceremony. Amiracle’s mother, 40, father, 47, and sister, 17, were injured in the incident, which took place in front of the Williams’ home on Mogul Street near Hayes. One of the suspects, a 22-year-old black male, was also shot and injured.

A dispute on Facebook culminated in a confrontation outside the Williams residence, where several young women had a physical fight Thursday afternoon, police said. The father, observing the fight, “felt his daughters may have been in some sort of danger and responded by shooting one person at the scene,” Craig said.

After the first shooting, a second individual took out a machine gun and began to fire repeatedly, striking Amiracle and her three family members, he said.

As of 3 a.m. Friday, police had two suspects under arrest: the alleged second shooter, a 23-year-old black male, and the alleged driver of a getaway vehicle who had been shot in the incident.   A TEC-9 machine gun was recovered as part of the police investigation.

The Detroit Police Department is still investigating the incident.

This is terribly sad and so senseless. Rest in peace to this little angel.

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This is exactly why we need Lupita!!!

Angelina Jolie-Pitt And Brad Pitt’s Daughter Zahara Wants To Model And Aspires After Lupita Nyong’o

How dope is it that Angelina Jolie’s daughter would rather have a career like Lupita Nyong’o?

According to National Enquirer reports:

At the tender age of 9, Zahara Jolie-Pitt wants to be a model and grace the covers of fashion magazines – just like her idol, actress Lupita Nyong’o!

“She’s been collecting magazine covers of Lupita and anything else she can get her hands on,” said a source close to her doting mom, Angelina Jolie.

“She believes Lupita is the most beautiful woman, right after her mommy, of course!”

Zee, as she is nicknamed, is an avid horseback rider (English saddle) and has trained in ballet since she was a toddler. Now, she’s pushing her famous parents to let her walk the runway.

“She’s badgering her mom to help her get into modeling,” said the source. “But Angelina keeps saying she’s too young.”

Zee pointed out that Maddox, 13, was a zombie in Dad’s film “World War Z,” Vivienne, 6, was a young princess in Mom’s “Maleficent” and Shiloh had a one-second cameo in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”

While Angelina has pooh-poohed her kids going into acting, the source said: “Zee seems adamant about following in Lupita’s footsteps.”

Y’all think Angelina is just hatin’ because Zahara’s not the only one in the family crushin’ on Lupita?

C’mon Angelina, let lil Zee cook…

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She might be easy on the eyes but Nicki Minaj is not an easy interview subject.

Nicki Minaj Featured In November Issue Of GQ Magazine

The rapper is featured in the upcoming November issue of GQ Magazine, and while she discusses her “Anaconda” single art, the song itself and the video she definitely made GQ’s writer work hard for her story.

Check out a few excerpts below via GQ.com:

“I don’t know what there is to really talk about,” Nicki Minaj tells GQ’s Taffy Brodesser-Akner of her Anaconda video. “I’m being serious. I just see the video as being a normal video.” Minaj, who refuses to address the female form and message behind her hit, says there’s no hidden meaning, no layer beneath the song or video. “I think the video is about what girls do. Girls love being with other girls, and when you go back to us being younger, we would have slumber parties and we’d be dancing with our friends.” Minaj continues, “She”—Nicki’s character in the video—“is just talking about two guys that she dated in the past and what they’re good at and what they bought her and what they said to her. It’s just cheeky, like a funny story.” But, towards the end of the interview Minaj acknowledges that the video is also about power and control. “I’m chopping up the banana. Did you realize that? At first I’m being sexual with the banana, and then it’s like, ‘Ha-ha, no.’ ” When discussing how the Drake scene immediately follows the kitchen scene, she says, “Yeah, that was important for us to show in the kitchen scene, because it’s always about the female taking back the power, and if you want to be flirty and funny that’s fine, but always keeping the power and the control in everything.”

Brodesser-Akner sat down with Minaj before her Fashion Rocks rehearsal at Barclays Center. For this performance, she incorporated male dancers. “I went in yesterday, finally saw the dance for the first time, and I saw the guys doing all this sexy stuff that I wasn’t a part of. And I said, ‘Hello, why aren’t they humping me on the stage?’ We’ve got to give them something to talk about again.”

Brodesser-Akner reports that Minaj no longer feels as if she needs to hide behind outrageousness. “I always thought that by the time I put out a third album, I would want to come back to natural hair and natural makeup. I thought, I will shock the world again and just be more toned down. I thought that would be more shocking than to keep on doing exactly what they had already seen.”

She looks stunning in the photo though right? It’s gotta be tough finding something Nicki actually wants to talk about in an interview after all this time. Are you looking forward to the release of The Pinkprint?

Photo credit: Mark Seliger/GQ

Dr. Ben is saying all the right things to become a republican candidate.

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The investigation of a man suspected in the deaths of at least seven women in northwest Indiana could expand to other states and stretch back decades. Hammond Police Chief John Doughty said up to this point, Darren Deon Vann has only been charged in the death of 19-year-old Afrika Hardy, whose body was found in a Motel 6 in Hammond over the weekend. But officials in the neighboring city of Gary say there’s much more to this case. “The initial murder investigation led to the confession of six other murders committed by Vann with those bodies being recovered in the city of Gary in abandoned structures,” a statement said.

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Nice job lady…

Drunk Woman Mistakes Jail For Bar

A drunk woman was recently arrested after driving to pick up her boyfriend at a nearby bar that turned out to be the local jail.

MLive reports:

A Hartford woman was arrested early Sunday morning for drunken driving after she allegedly pulled into the parking lot of the Van Buren County Jail, which she believed to be a bar, according to a press release issued by the Van Buren County Sheriff’s Office.

Police said the 39-year-old woman pulled into the parking lot of the sheriff’s office, located at 205 S. Kalamazoo St., shortly after 2 a.m. Patrol units observed the woman as she began backing up in the parking lot while trying to convince her boyfriend to rejoin her in her vehicle.

A deputy then made contact with the driver and discovered she smelled heavily of intoxicants and appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, the release stated.

A breathalyzer test subsequently revealed the woman had a BAC of more than twice the legal limit of .08, police said.

The woman later admitted to police that she had just left a bar in town and had thought she was pulling into the parking lot of another bar when she arrived at the sheriff’s office.

She is currently being held in the Van Buren County Jail and is expected to face charges of operating while intoxicated and high BAC, which means the woman was found to have a BAC of .17 or higher.

Poor thang didn’t even realize she was turning herself in to the police.

SMH…don’t drink and drive folks!

If there were any doubts their love would last, put them to rest right now.

Swizz Beatz And Pregnant Wife Alicia Keys Show Their Love At The Angel Ball

They’re so stinking cute it’s impossible to hate… riiiiight? Besides Swizzy and Alicia there was plenty of love in the air at the Angel Ball… For example:

Expectant couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were also looking super mushy…

And while Mathew Knowles is struggling to keep up child support payments for all his outside kids, Tina is getting her groove back with Richard Lawson!

Hit the flip for more photos from the ball and some Swizz and Alicia shared as well.

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Can Tamar & Vince withstand the pressures of a solo tour and a 2nd album? Watch the season premiere of Tamar & Vince Thursday at 10|9c.

Turn the pages for more previews…

Do NOT dress up as Ray Rice for Halloween!!!

Man Dresses Up As Ray Rice For Halloween

Via Complex reports:

You probably saw this one coming, right? Even though it would incredibly insensitive and unbelievably offensive, someone was going to go there and show up to a Halloween party dressed up as “Ray Rice.” And, on Sunday night, an anonymous Reddit user posted the below image showing a guy donning a Rice jersey and dragging a blow-up doll by the foot.

SMH!!!!!!!! How the hell is this ever a good idea???

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Russian Activist Cuts Off Earlobe With Kitchen Knife

In bizarre act of protest against police using psychiatric treatment to reach political goals, a Russian activist chopped off his earlobe with a kitchen knife as he sat atop a psychiatric center in Moscow.

via Huffington Post

Controversial Russian artist and political activist Pyotr Pavlensky made quite a stir on Sunday when he cut off his earlobe in public with a kitchen knife.

He was sitting naked atop the roof of Moscow’s Serbsky psychiatric center at the time.

In a statement posted on his wife’s Facebook page, Pavlensky said that the act of mutilation had been done to protest the use of psychiatric treatment on political dissidents. The slicing off of his earlobe, he said, was meant to symbolize the destruction that’s caused by police “returning to the use of psychiatry for political goals.”

According to RT.com, Pavlensky carried out his protest in below-freezing temperatures. He was reportedly removed from the roof by police officers, who took him to a hospital for treatment.

Welp, it’s definitely not hard to tell why he was visiting the psychiatric center in the first place…

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Dear Bossip,

First off, I just want to say that I read your advice letters a lot and I love them. I am one who does not really go to family or friends for advice because they can be well….Biased.

So, I am hoping you could give me some well needed advice. I am 20 years old and I have been dating my boyfriend for two years now. We have a great relationship, honestly I couldn’t ask for a better person to be with.

So, with saying that, one might ask well, what is the problem, then? Well, my boyfriend has made some poor decisions when he was younger that followed him into his adult years. Unfortunately, circumstances led to him turning to less than legit ways to support himself, along with getting in trouble with the law. Not that I am making excuses, but I just wanted to point that out.

Fast forward, he has turned his life around and is doing a lot better for himself. He says a lot of this is because of the support I give him. However, needless to say, it has been hard for him to find a steady job because of his record. He has been diligent about finding employment, but it just hasn’t worked out yet. Now, this so far has not affected our relationship. I am low-maintenance and a five dollar matinee or cuddling in front of the TV is a good time to me.

But, I do want to pursue a much serious relationship in a few years, and possibly a marriage. I currently have a job that pays great, so that’s not the issue, but I have been raised in a dual income household and a family where traditional views like the man is supposed to work and  support the woman, bring home the bacon, etc.. Like I said, this is not a problem now because I’m still at home, but if we were to be married I’m scared of how things will work out.

I don’t want finances to be an issue within our relationship. What kind of advice can you give me with this? – Can A Woman Be The Bread-Winner

Dear Ms. Can A Woman Be The Bread-Winner,

Stop right here. You are already thinking about how you can take care of a man. No ma’am. You are already speaking into existence a situation of where you are the bread-winner, and you are the primary source of income. Uhm, hell to the no! And, there’s nothing wrong with women being the bread-winner in the family. Hell, I know plenty of women who are making money. But, you don’t want to carry someone who is not willing to carry themselves. You don’t want to get caught up in a situation and you’re the sole provider. Don’t resign yourself so soon to this situation or condition.

Now, Sweetie, you’re 20 years old and talking about marriage? You haven’t really lived life, yet. You’re a young woman, living at home, earning money, and probably saving your money and spending it on you, and living in luxury. Here you are talking about marriage before you’ve had the opportunity to live on your own, uhm, well, get back to me once you’ve lived a good year on your own and you’ve had to pay all your own expenses without the support of your parents, then we can talk.

I love how these young folks think life is grand, and they have the grandiose ideas of marriage and how things will be wonderful and full of bliss. Reality will bite you in the a**, and once you have to pay bills, combine incomes, and live on a budget, life will get you together real quick. It’s not as easy as you may think it is. Paying rent/mortgage, your car note, food, utilities, and other personal finances will deplete your income rather quickly. It’s not easy to save money, and especially since your boyfriend doesn’t earn a lot of money, or his employment is oftentimes sketchy. You don’t want to become the sole provider and income earner in your home, then other issues will arise, such as emotional, mental, and physical abuse to one another. You will begin to take out your frustrations on one another, and before you know it your relationship will be over.

Look, I’m not knocking your dreams of wanting to marry your boyfriend, one day. But, this is a bit pre-mature. Yes, you should be concerned that he has a record which prevents him from gaining employment in some career fields, and his potential for earning income will be less than yours. However, I know many people who have records and have been quite successful in other areas, and other career fields and had the potential to earn a considerable income. The point here is that his future and his destiny is up to him. He has to want to stay legit, continue to do the right thing, and become assertive and build himself with educational resources (like going to school and earning a degree, building contacts and resource networks).

It won’t be easy, and he will get frustrated along the way, but, he has to stay the course, remain positive, and continue to assert himself even when he feels like giving up. It’s great you are a source of inspiration and encouragement for him, but in return you also need to be inspired and encouraged. Don’t invest all your energy and time in someone who is not investing back into you.

Also, I do suggest that you learn how to be independent before you move from one dependent situation and into another. You mentioned that you live with your parents, and though you may feel you are independent. However, you have the luxury of living in your parents home, probably rent free, utility free, and you get to save your money and spend it casually. Sweetie, that is not independence. You are still dependent on your family. And, you haven’t learned how to be independent yet. And, you didn’t mention if you were school. I strongly encourage you to get into school, and work on getting a degree. Yes, you may have a nice little job, but add that extra umph to your credentials. Don’t settle here. Go for more.

You see, there is so much more you can be doing and thinking about other than marriage, and worrying about whether or not if your boyfriend will be able to take care of you. How about you take care of yourself. Learn how to be self-sufficient, so that you won’t ever have to worry about someone else taking care of you. Don’t ever put yourself in a situation where you are reliant upon someone else for your well-being. No ma’am!

What happens if he loses his job, or he is not earning enough to take care of the household, then what? What happens if he decides to up and walk out on you and leave you with everything, then what? What happens when children come into the picture and it’s not longer just you and him, but you have other mouths to feed, then what?

Slow down. Continue to date, have fun, and be supportive of one another. But, it’s not just all about supporting him. You need some maturity, growing up, and encouragement as well. You’re a young woman with a full life ahead of you. You deserve to have fun, spending time with friends and loved ones, traveling the world, and getting your education. You shouldn’t be burdened and worried about marriage with someone whom their destiny is of their own doing, especially if he has a record, and his employment is not steady. Let him continue to prove himself, and show you what he is willing to do, and how far he can push himself. That is not your burden to bear. – Terrance Dean

Hey Bossip Fam, what do you think? Share your opinions and thoughts below! Also, e-mail all your questions Terrance Dean:  loveandrelationships@bossip.com  Follow Terrance Dean on Twitter:  @terrancedean and “LIKE” Terrance Dean on Facebook, click HERE!

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She also jokingly thanks Beyoncé and Eminem and Lil Wayne, Jeezy, Nicki Minaj, Kid Cudi and a few others for putting her in their lyrics.

Monica Lewinsky Gives Speech About Being The Victim Of Cyberbullying

Monica Lewinksy addressed the Forbes Under 30 Summit Monday, telling them how at 41, she became the first person to ever be publicly shamed on the Internet. She gives a 23 minute speech about how her experience has made her committed to helping those abused online. It’s worth listening to the full thing.

If you watched the whole thing, do you think that she was truly cyberbullied? Or should she have known what she was asking for when she became involved with the very married President of the United States Of America?

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Kris is the tree that Kim’s apple bottom fell from, soooo….

Kris Jenner Filters Out Wrinkles For Instagram Pic With Gordon Ramsay

According to TMZ reports:

Kris Jenner is way more bush league than we thought … if you want to make yourself look younger by photoshopping, don’t do it AFTER someone else posts the pic of you looking older than you want.

Kris is hawking her new cookbook and Gordon Ramsey gave it his stamp of approval. But check out Gordon’s Instagram and then compare it to Kris’s. Clearly she doesn’t believe cookbooks get better with age.

We already know how Kimmy gets down, so this comes as no real surprise.

Flip it over to peep another Instagram pic Kris posted that may rub her daughters the wrong way…

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