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Gun Activists Begin “What Would D’Jango Do?” Campaign To Promote Gun Use Amongst Blacks!

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Don’t we already have enough guns in the black community???

Pro-Gun Activists Begin “What Would D’Jango Do?” To Promote Guns Ownership Among Blacks

Quentin Tarantino is on record blaming firearms for recent mass killings in Newtown, Conn., and elsewhere. So it might come as a surprise to him that a pro-gun group is invoking the director’s current film, Django Unchained, in an effort to woo African-Americans to their side in the debate over gun control.

The group is called Political Media, and it’s the same entity that was behind Saturday’s controversial Gun Appreciation Day, which encouraged Americans to show up at various places with a copy of the U.S. Constitution and signs reading, “Hands off my guns.” Larry Ward, president of Political Media, a company that designs websites and organizes ad campaigns for right-of-center organizations, said hundreds of thousands of people participated in Gun Appreciation Day, crowding gun stores and gun shows and demonstrating at various state capitals nationwide.

He’s hoping for similar success with his follow-up effort, dubbed “What Would Django Do?” Ward plans not only a campaign but a nonprofit organization that would bear the name, though he acknowledges he hasn’t sought permission from Tarantino or from The Weinstein Co., the studio behind Django Unchained.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” Ward said. “We’ll make sure we aren’t violating copyrights, and if we are, we’ll have to change the name. But Django is perfect for what we’re trying to do, which is to promote gun rights to minorities. We’ll tackle the issue on the Democrats’ own turf.”

While they are waiting for that bridge, we’re trying to figure out what the HELL makes them think that his campaign is a good idea?!

Ward calls his new effort What Would Django Do? because of an opinion column by Jonathan David Farley at AbsoluteRights.com, which was reprinted at GunAppreciationDay.com.

Ward is partnering on What Would Django Do? with Farley, a principal at The Warren Group, which helps to advance “progressive” causes, putting Farley at odds with his colleagues when it comes to gun control (The Warren Group is not involved in What Would Django Do?)

In his article, called What Would Django Do? Arms and ‘The Man,’ Farley pores through history in support of his idea that blacks should shun gun control, citing such people as Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a black author who wrote Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.

Farley writes: “Wells, who, like me, had to flee Klan supporters in Tennessee after writing a newspaper article, said that ‘a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.’ ”

Farley also notes that Martin Luther King Jr. applied for a gun permit, but pro-segregation authorities denied him, and he says influential black Americans like Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X argued in favor of the Second Amendment. Slavery in America wouldn’t have existed if blacks were armed, he argues, and in the article he notes that when a Negro Rifle Club was to be organized in Cleveland during the Civil Rights Movement, local racists rioted, even killing a man with a bulldozer.

What do you think about the “What Would D’Jango Do?” campaign? Are you offended by the concept or do you feel link Ward and Farley are making valid points that blacks should heed?

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Rumor Control: Did Lindsey Vonn Confirm Or Deny That Tiger Woods Is Chopping Her Ski Slope Lovin’ Cakes To Smithereens?

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Rumors have been “swirling” for months now that Tiger Woods has been blowing Lindsey Vonn’s backs to smithereens but while Vonn once denied they were more than friends, she’s not saying that anymore.

Via US Weekly reports:

Mum’s the word for Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods. As rumors swirl that the Olympic skier, 28, is in a serious relationship with the divorced golf pro, 37, both athletes are staying tight-lipped on the subject and refusing to discuss any personal matters whatsoever. But back in December, when European media first speculated that the two were an item, Vonn was a little more open about the nature of her relationship with Woods.

“We are just friends,” she told the Denver Post after winning her second World Cup downhill at Lake Louise, Alberta. “My brother was the ski instructor for his kids this November in Vail. Guessing that’s where it came from.”

Hollywood Life claims, however, that Vonn herself is teaching the golfer’s two children (Sam, 5, and Charlie, 2) to master the slopes. They say the sports superstars have been dating since November and have spent time together in Antigua and Salzburg, Austria. So are they or aren’t they?

“Lindsey is currently in the midst of the World Cup season in Europe,” Vonn’s rep told Us Weekly in a statement. “Her focus is solely on competing and on defending her titles and thus she will not participate in any speculation surrounding her personal life at this time.”

In fact, the gold medalist only recently finalized her divorce from fellow skier Thomas Vonn, whom she married in September 2007. Shortly after their November 2011 separation, however, she was linked to another headline-making athlete: New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow (then a Denver Bronco). The two were spotted hanging out together at the ESPYs and at various ski races. She also joined his family at one of his football games against the Chicago Bears.

“Lindsey is just friends with the Tebow family. Anyone who is trying to suggest any more to their relationship is wrong,” her rep told the New York Post’s Page Six at the time. Vonn herself added on Twitter: “Hearing a lot of crazy rumors but rest assured I am not dating Tim Tebow (or anyone else).”

Does the fact that she’s issued denials before but won’t now make it seem more like she’s getting Tiger’s wood???

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50 Cent Talks Features On Street King Immortal, Explains MMG Chain In Music Video [VIDEO]

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Curtis and his shenanigans

50 Talks Album And “Gunplay’s” MMG Chain In His Music Video

In a perfect world artists would release music when it’s good and ready, but we know such is not the case. Today’s Hip-Hop fans have become all too familiar with album push backs. With Detox over 10 years in the making and Jay Electronica playing doppelgänger, 50 Cent discussed why his forthcoming Street King Immortal LP won’t see its proper release until spring.

Read more at Hip Hop Wired


You Lost, Get Over It: GOP Goons Working Overtime To Change Electoral College Rules For Next Election

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Republican Party Working To Change Electoral College Rules

This just in from the loser’s corner…

via NBC News

Republicans in MI, OH, PA, VA are looking to change the Electoral College rules, but not their party. The changes would give the GOP a HUGE advantage in presidential contests, but it would also present this dilemma for Republicans: it would speed up efforts to have the popular vote decide presidential elections.

Republicans are looking to change the Electoral College system in battleground states that Democrats have won in the last two cycles. As the Washington Post reports, Republicans in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia — all controlled at the state level (in some form or fashion) by the GOP — have proposed awarding their Electoral College votes by congressional district instead of the winner-take-all approach used by every state except for two (Maine and Nebraska).

The Republicans advocating these changes say they would give smaller communities more of a voice in presidential battleground states.

These lames really ought to give it a rest. They have four more years before anyone cares again.


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Must Be Nice: Yeezy Takes His Baby Mama Kimmy Cakes On A Shopping Spree At Cartier And Hermes In Paris

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Pregnant Kim Kardashian and her rapper boyfriend Kanye West went shopping together at the Hermes, Cartier, Lanvin and Ermanno Scervino stores in Paris, France on January 25, 2013.

See, that’s how you spoil your baby mama! Apparently $65K in Cartier love bracelets was just the beginning cuz Yeezy and Kimmy Cakes were spotted spending them dollars at Cartier, Hermes, Lanvin and Ermanno Scervino in Paris Friday evening.

Pregnant Kim Kardashian and her rapper boyfriend Kanye West went shopping together at the Hermes, Cartier, Lanvin and Ermanno Scervino stores in Paris, France on January 25, 2013.

Get it how ya live… right?

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KANYE TWEETED, B! [PHOTOS]

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The heavens rejoice

Kanye West Tweeted

Everybody stop the presses, stop what you are doing. Kanye West tweeted.

It’s snowing in New York City and it’s been bitterly cold all week, but Kanye West tweeted. A dolphin somehow found its way to Brooklyn and is stuck in the water, but Kanye West tweeted.

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Chief Keef: A Timeline Of Missteps [PHOTOS]

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We’re not even a full month into 2013, but Chief Keef has been having one hell of a year. Only twelve months ago, Keef was a virtual unknown Chicago teen who would take the rap game by storm with just about everybody adding, “That’s that sh-t I don’t like,” to the end of their sentences… Continue


Coupled Up: Alicia Keys And Swizz Beak At NRJ Music Awards In Cannes [Photos]

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Here is Alicia Keys and husband Swizz Beatz At NRJ Music Awards in Cannes.

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Hate Crimes: Latino Gang Members Popped After Attacking Black Family With Guns And Metal Pipes “N-Words Don’t Belong In Compton!”

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Latino Gang Members Arrested For Hate Crimes

Three Latino men have been arrested in suspicion of a terrifying hate crime committed against an African-American family. The suspects allegedly brought 15 to 20 gang members to surround the house, telling the family that it couldn’t live in the predominantly Latino neighborhood.

Via HuffPo reports:

Jeffrey Aguilar, 19, Efren Marquez, 21, and a teenage juvenile were arrested on Jan. 24 for committing the alleged hate crime in Compton, Los Angeles, according to the LA Sheriff’s Department.

Shortly after an African-American family moved onto 154th Street, one of the male family members, while walking home on Dec. 31, was approached by four Latino men in an SUV. As the police describe the horrific event:

The men identified themselves as members of a local street gang and told the victim that he and his family were not allowed to live in the area because they are Black. The gang members continually shouted racial epithets and threats of violence towards the victim. Fearing for his life, the victim ran home but was chased by the gang members who exited the vehicle and began beating the victim with metal pipes.

One of the suspects, 21-year-old Suspect Efren Marquez, allegedly pointed a gun at the victim and threatened to shoot him while he was allegedly being beaten with a metal pipe by 19-year-old Suspect Jeffrey Aguilar.

After the attack, the gang members fled in the vehicle. Marquez and Aguilar returned 30 minutes later with a group of 15-20 gang members, who surrounded the front of the victims’ home shouting racial epithets and telling them that members of the African American race (using the ‘n-word’) were not allowed to live in the neighborhood. One unidentified member of the group threw a large beer bottle through the front living room window, shattering the window. Both Suspect Marquez and Aguilar were reportedly armed with handguns.

And the suspects allegedly continued to drive by the home several times a day, shouting racial slurs while ordering the family to leave the neighborhood — until the family finally did.

Compton is a neighborhood with a history of racial violence. Part of the current tension stems from the neighborhood demographics changing from predominantly African-American to heavily Latino.

The gang allegedly involved in this hateful act is known to commit racially-motivated crimes. “This gang has always made it clear they have a racial hatred for black people,” Lt. Richard Westin told the Los Angeles Times. “They repeatedly used racial epithets, they use racial hatred graffiti and they tag up the black church a lot.”

What the hell??

Brown is brown, we are all supposed to be on the same side! Well, damn…these amigos might as well join those hooded cowards down south!


Which One Would You Hit?? Tristan Wilds Vs. Hosea Chanchez [20+ Photos]

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Tristan Wilds and Hosea Chanchez both attended the 44th NAACP Image Awards Nominee’s Luncheon this weekend in Beverly Hills. Ladies, you already know what we’re going to ask…

Which One Would You Hit???

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Real Housewives Of Atlanta Star Kenya Moore Puts Phaedra And Porsha On Blast “One Is A Liar And The Other One Is A Dumb Ho”

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Kenya might be ‘Gone With The Wind Fabulous’ but it’s clear no one likes her azz!

Kenya Moore Talks About Porsha Stewart And Phaedra Parks

She’s already in the middle of a feud with her The Real Housewives of Atlanta co-star Phaedra Parks over their rival “booty” workout DVDs.

But now Kenya Moore is widening her pool of enemies by getting into a public – and very loud – screaming match with fellow housewife Porsha Stewart.

Via RadarOnline reports:

In a sneak peek of Sunday’s episode, the two women meet at a posh Atlanta restaurant to talk about why their relationship is going sour. Even before they begin, Kenya dramatically tells their waiter to “take the knives off the table, just in case.”

She then tells Porsha she thinks Phaedra is poisoning their friendship, saying: “I feel like the whole reason that a…relationship [is] starting between you and Phaedra is because of a fall-out between me and Phaedra over a business situation .

“And all of the things that she’s been saying about me are not true.”

Porsha responds by saying: “I already knew that you and Phaedra have beef, or something going on. But whatever Phaedra’s telling me is not what has affected our relationship.

“It just went real, real bad, real fast. Phaedra has never been in between that.”

The discussion reaches fever pitch when Kenya accuses Porsha of being a “pawn,” saying she is trying to have a “grown woman conversation” with her.

But the fur really starts to fly when she tells Porsha: “I need to have a woman in front of me to be able to do that.”

As the argument and their voices escalate other diners look visibly annoyed by the noise the screaming housewives are making.

In the end both women storm out of the restaurant, agreeing to disagree.

Kenya later says to the camera: “Oh my God Phaedra and Pors

Kenya has been crazy from day one she came bursting out of the gate ranting like a loony person. If she thinks it’s getting her attention and fame it’s only showing her as. Porsha might be half her age but she’s isn’t close to being half as crazy.


French Montana’s “Freaks” Samples Li’l Vicious, Reveals New Album Release Date

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Surprise, surprise. Along with sharing the new release date of his oft-delayed debut album, Excuse My French, French Montana revealed that his next official single, “Freaks,” featuring Nicki Minaj, will feature a recognizable sample… Continue


The Lonely Island Returns With “YOLO,” ft. Adam Levine & Kendrick Lamar [Video]

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Kendrick Lamar got his wish and did appear in a Saturday Night Live skit, sort of. The Lonely Island, of “Lazy Sunday” fame, returned to SNL with a video/digital short for a song called “YOLO,” featuring Maroon 5′s Adam Levine and the Compton MC…. Continue



Girl, Be For Real…You Want A Baby? 10 Signs He Should Not Be The Father!

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Rockmond Dunbar and his Skinemax banger boo Maya Gilbert shared an “intimate moment” on the red carpet at the NAACP Awards Luncheon.

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Pay Yo Bills: A Locked Up O.J. Simpson Still Owes Over $500K In Back Taxes

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Gook luck getting your money…

O.J. Simpson Still Owes Over $500K In Back Taxes

Via TMZ reports:

O.J. Simpson may be rotting behind bars, but it doesn’t mean he can skate on his taxes … so says the IRS, who just slapped him with yet ANOTHER tax lien.

According to a federal lien filed in December, O.J. failed to cough up $17,015.99 in taxes for the year 2011. This makes for the THIRD lien filed against him in the last 12 months.

As TMZ first reported, Uncle Sam filed a lien for $179,435.07 for the years 2007-2010 and the State of California says he still owes $318,566.04 for the year 2000. Tax debt total = $515,017.10.

And don’t forget … he still owes MILLIONS to the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman for that whole double murder thing.

Better keep pounding those license plates.

Time for the state of California to start garnishing OJ prison earnings.


American Idol Denies Racist Claims The Show “Exploited And Humiliated Black Singers” For Ratings Because They Had Past Black Winners!

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Is American Idol racist?

American Idol Denies Racist Allegations

Via TMZ reports:

Four “American Idol” finalists from different seasons — two of whom are black — insist the singing competition is many things … but racist is NOT one of them.

TMZ broke the story … nine black ex-contestants are planning to sue “Idol” producers, claiming the contestants were publicly disqualified based on their dubious criminal backgrounds … solely because they’re African-American.

But Season 6 finalist Melinda Doolittle adamantly disagrees, telling TMZ, “It is shocking to see such allegations. In my experience on the show, the ‘Idol’ team strives to champion everyone, regardless of race. However, each contestant is explicitly told that the withholding of information that may compromise the show or artist, can and will result in immediate disqualification.”

Season 4 finalist Vonzell Solomon adds, “I didn’t experience any of that [racial discrimination] … all of our contracts were clear about how the background checks worked and that we could be disqualified if we lied about our past.”

Two other former contestants — Season 5 winner Taylor Hicks and Season 10 finalist Casey Abrams — also agree.

Casey says, “I don’t know why they are biting the hand that fed them. Those guys beat thousands of people who wanted to be on TV. Idol is picky, but I’m not sure about racist.”

Taylor — whose Vegas show is still going strong — adds, “American Idol is for everyone. All walks of life go through the show. Not once did I see the show discriminate towards anyone. It’s all about the votes.”

FYI — “Idol” has had three black winners in its history … Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino and Jordin Sparks.

Fox and “Idol” producers have yet to respond to the allegations.

Discuss…


Seen On The Scene: Brandy And Her Fiance’ Boo Party It Up In ATL With Tyrese And More [Photos]

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Brandy and her fiance’ Ryan Press partied with Tyrese in Atlanta over the weekend at Reign nightclub. They make such a beautiful couple….

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