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Well, it’s finally happened. Kwame Kilpatrick’s nine lives have expired.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who will lose his job because he lied while under oath at a police whistle-blower trial, has just pledged to tell the truth as he prepares to admit his guilt as part of a plea deal he just struck with the Wayne County Prosecutor.The deal calls for Kilpatrick to plead guilty to two felony counts of obstruction of justice by committing perjury, agreeing to serve four months in jail, pay up to $1 million in restitution, and serve five years’ probation. He also agreed not to run for office during that five-year span.
The mayor will turn over his state pension to the City of Detroit, which paid $8.4 million to settle two whistle-blower lawsuits three former cops filed against the city. The mayor was charged with eight felony counts ranging from conspiracy to perjury to misconduct in office to obstruction of justice after the Free Press revealed that the mayor lied on the witness stand during a police whistle-blower trial and gave misleading testimony about whether he intended to fire a deputy police chief investigating allegations of wrongdoing by members of his inner circle.
I don’t really have much to add to this. Looking at the photos of a forlorn Kwame sitting in the courtroom made me momentarily sad for the guy.
Momentarily.
Here’s a collection of Kwame’s Greatest Hits.
Kwame Pulls a Clay Davis.
This should serve as a case study for anyone who starts out with great ambition and the intention to serve others. Don’t let to go to your head. The big head or that other one.
Keep your head (and pants) up, Kwame. Do your time, don’t let your time do you.
Question: Do you feel sorry for Kwame? Will “Yaw’s Boy” have a political career once his 5 years are up? Who plays Kwame in the upcoming BET Blackbuster Movie? I say Cedric The Entertainer could pull it off.
Mayor Kilpatrick: ‘I lied under oath’ [Detroit Free Press]
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Well, it’s finally happened. Kwame Kilpatrick’s nine lives have expired.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who will lose his job because he lied while under oath at a police whistle-blower trial, has just pledged to tell the truth as he prepares to admit his guilt as part of a plea deal he just struck with the Wayne County Prosecutor.The deal calls for Kilpatrick to plead guilty to two felony counts of obstruction of justice by committing perjury, agreeing to serve four months in jail, pay up to $1 million in restitution, and serve five years’ probation. He also agreed not to run for office during that five-year span.
The mayor will turn over his state pension to the City of Detroit, which paid $8.4 million to settle two whistle-blower lawsuits three former cops filed against the city. The mayor was charged with eight felony counts ranging from conspiracy to perjury to misconduct in office to obstruction of justice after the Free Press revealed that the mayor lied on the witness stand during a police whistle-blower trial and gave misleading testimony about whether he intended to fire a deputy police chief investigating allegations of wrongdoing by members of his inner circle.
I don’t really have much to add to this. Looking at the photos of a forlorn Kwame sitting in the courtroom made me momentarily sad for the guy.
Momentarily.
Here’s a collection of Kwame’s Greatest Hits.
Kwame Pulls a Clay Davis.
This should serve as a case study for anyone who starts out with great ambition and the intention to serve others. Don’t let to go to your head. The big head or that other one.
Keep your head (and pants) up, Kwame. Do your time, don’t let your time do you.
Question: Do you feel sorry for Kwame? Will “Yaw’s Boy” have a political career once his 5 years are up? Who plays Kwame in the upcoming BET Blackbuster Movie? I say Cedric The Entertainer could pull it off.
Mayor Kilpatrick: ‘I lied under oath’ [Detroit Free Press]
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I wanted to post this last week after the speech, but PBS’s low-tech website didn’t allow embedding. Now that it’s on Youtube, enjoy as your newly nominated King Of All Blacks bashes last week’s Obama speech, while giving Conservative chatters more meaningless talking points in the process.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: folks like Malveaux and West have done enough grunt work to be entitled to stating their opinions. They’ve earned the right, so we shouldn’t see this as “hatin’”.
But seriously, if there are folks who should know what it means to Play The Game you would think it would be people like these two who have successfully navigated the waters of such all white institutions as USA Today and Princeton University.[1] Sometimes I wonder if folks like this just love talking to get off on hear the sound of their own voices, rather than to make a coherent point.
You know it’s a sad day when Tavis Smiley is the voice of reason. Dang.
MLK is crying inside.
Question: Are Malveaux and West drankin’ Scrawburry HaterAde™ or do they have some valid points? Do you now regret nominating West as the King Of All Blacks?
[1] Is it just me, or do West and Malveaux seem to be wearing the exact same thing everytime they’re on TV? No, seriously, peep the photo above (taken months ago), and the video (last week). Straaaange.
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There are some Negroes who you wish would just stick to hiring ghostwriters rappin’, and then there are Negroes like Diddy, who offers his unique perspective on the Sarah Palin Veep choice, and the latest in our running series entitled Why You Should Never Ask A Rapper About Politricks.
Lord, would November 4th hurry up and get here before Negroes like this ruin it for all of us?
If you were wondering what our favorite doer of hoodrat things, Latarian Milton’s been up to lately, this is your lucky day. The fine folks at famed NYC hip-hop radio station Hot97 somehow managed to trick his Grandmother into putting him on the phone for this very lengthy and very exploitative interview.
The full 20 minute audio isn’t on YouTube yet, but here’s a promo teaser. The action begins around the halfway mark, so don’t be fooled by the old video.
Sadly, his family seems to have co-signed on this nonsense, apparently thinking they’d get a Nintendo Wii in return. You can clearly hear his Grandma in the background feeding him shoutout requests around the 12-minute mark of the audio below.
Lord help us. And someone get this kid a show on Nick Jr. before he ends up in the pen.
Question: Shouldn’t Child Protective Services be rounding this kid up by now? What was his Grandma thinking? What should his Nick Jr. show be called?
Listen To The Entire Latarian Interview On Hot97 [zSHARE]
If you were wondering what our favorite doer of hoodrat things, Latarian Milton’s been up to lately, this is your lucky day. The fine folks at famed NYC hip-hop radio station Hot97 somehow managed to trick his Grandmother into putting him on the phone for this very lengthy and very exploitative interview.
The full 20 minute audio isn’t on YouTube yet, but here’s a promo teaser. The action begins around the halfway mark, so don’t be fooled by the old video.
Sadly, his family seems to have co-signed on this nonsense, apparently thinking they’d get a Nintendo Wii in return. You can clearly hear his Grandma in the background feeding him shoutout requests around the 12-minute mark of the audio below.
Lord help us. And someone get this kid a show on Nick Jr. before he ends up in the pen.
Question: Shouldn’t Child Protective Services be rounding this kid up by now? What was his Grandma thinking? What should his Nick Jr. show be called?
Listen To The Entire Latarian Interview On Hot97 [zSHARE]
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I’ll be completely and totally honest with you here. I really do not know what to make of this story from my home state.
Since three former Duke Lacrosse players were declared innocent of rape and assault charges, the alleged victim in the highly publicized Duke Lacrosse case has remained out of public view until now.In a press release, Crystal Mangum’s manager has announced plans to release a tell-all memoir entitled “The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story.”
According to the book’s co-author Vincent Clark, the book will be released in October.
“It is “the only definitive account of the life and struggles of the woman at the center of the Duke Lacrosse case, the alleged accuser,” said Clark in a press release. ” Were it not for the Duke Lacrosse Case, she likely would be described as a bright, young woman from Durham, North Carolina, who has had a difficult life.”
Mangum plans to donate $1 from each book sold to help battered women. Former Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred and jailed following the collapse of the Duke Lacrosse Case. Nifong is among several defendants named in at least three federal lawsuits stemming from the case.
Mangum is accused of falsely accusing David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann of raping and beating her at a team party in March 2006. After a review by the State Attorney General’s Office, all charges were dismissed.
As I stated last year when the Duke Lax kids were cleared of all charges, nobody should have to suffer through what they experienced. I could only imagine the fear of being accused of something so heinous as rape, knowing you did nothing of the sort. The guys have been exonerated, but I will personally remember all three of their names for the rest of my life. That’s an unfair scar for anyone to have to carry. I don’t really agree with their pending $30M lawsuit against the cash-strapped city of Durham, but I guess I understand.
Then again, the real villain here isn’t Mangum, who reportedly suffers from some sort of mental illness, but disgraced District Attorney Mike Nifong, who actually did some time as a result of his lazy and opportunistic job of handling this case. He never even bothered talking with Mangum in the first place, and instead saw a way of manipulating the Black community in Durham to his advantage. Why he was so dumb that he thought white folks with money wouldn’t lawyer up and “beat them charges like Rocky“[1] is beyond me. Nifong has since been disbarred, was sued by the Lax players, filed for bankruptcy, and is now working at the Sizzler off I-540 near RDU airport. No, really, I saw him there a few weeks ago and he ruined my baked potato (no sour cream, you idiot!). He’s a douchebag par excellence, and he got what he had coming.
I don’t really know how to feel about Mangum writing this book though. If she was indeed experiencing some mental issues during the time of the allegations, you can’t totally write her off as ruining those players lives, especially when the people (namely Nifong) who could have short circuited this whole thing didn’t do their jobs. The book is supposedly about her life, not necessarily the Duke case, thus I suppose it’s fair for her to write a book and profit from it. She says some proceeds are going to charity, which is always an iffy proposition, but to each her own. On the flipside, wouldn’t any proceeds made from this book be fair game for the Duke Lax kids in a civil case? I’m sure my armchair attorneys in AverageNation™ will break this one down for me.
Question: Should Crystal Mangum be allowed to write a book that profits indirectly from the misfortune of others? Are the Duke Lax kids entitled to some of those proceeds?
Duke LAX accuser pens memoir [ABC 11 News]
[1] Yeah, I know. For a guy who supposedly doesn’t care much for Jay-Z, I sure quote him a lot. Spare the comments, please.
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We Watch, So You Don’t Have To.
Okay, I’ll keep it 100 with ya’ll. My fantasy football draft was last night, so I ain’t really catch much other than Hillary’s speech. And BTW, if you drafted Kevin Curtis too early, yes, you should have buyer’s remorse right now. Darn outdated cheat sheets.
Anyways, Hillary more or less did what she was posed’ to. She seemed somewhat genuine, she didn’t mince words about McCain, and she more or less effectively told her followers to get with Barack or Go Sit Down!
“Get Down, Or Lay Down!” [1]
Skeptical Negro that I am, I still can’t help but watch things like this with my 3rd eye, or as I like to call it, my Negro Spidey Sense. And something was telling me that while she seemed to be on board, there was a little bit of “see you in 2012″ sentiment tossed in for good measure. And BTW, what the heck was that whole Harriet Tubbman thing about? Sheesh.
Anyways, she did what she had to, can’t knock her for that.
On a separate, but related note, I’m really starting to enjoy TVOne’s DNC After Party coverage. Last night was even better, as they wisely pared down the number of in-studio guests, and kept things moving with interviews and pretaped vignettes. Any “news” program that features Huggy Lowdown and Sheryl Underwood can’t be taken too seriously, but I’ll give them credit for starting somewhere. Their coverage is entertaining enough, and I like it. I still haven’t peeped BET’s offering, and probably won’t.
I did, for some odd reason, happen to flip over to CNN during a commercial break, and I caught what was probably the most disturbing image of a Black woman aired on TV in this millennium, this side of “Tip Drill”. No, seriously. If you peeped this sista, you know what I’m talking about.
Dang, this chick makes me long for Harriett Christian.
Fanie Lou Hamer is crying inside.
Question: Was Hillary Clinton genuine in her support of Obama? Do Clinton refugees have any legitimate reason to hold onto their grudges any longer? Have you peeped TVOne’s coverage? What the ham sammich was wrong with that sista that CNN wisely planted put on the camera?
[1] Name that movie.
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We Watch, So You Don’t Have To.
Okay, I’ll keep it 100 with ya’ll. My fantasy football draft was last night, so I ain’t really catch much other than Hillary’s speech. And BTW, if you drafted Kevin Curtis too early, yes, you should have buyer’s remorse right now. Darn outdated cheat sheets.
Anyways, Hillary more or less did what she was posed’ to. She seemed somewhat genuine, she didn’t mince words about McCain, and she more or less effectively told her followers to get with Barack or Go Sit Down!
“Get Down, Or Lay Down!” [1]
Skeptical Negro that I am, I still can’t help but watch things like this with my 3rd eye, or as I like to call it, my Negro Spidey Sense. And something was telling me that while she seemed to be on board, there was a little bit of “see you in 2012″ sentiment tossed in for good measure. And BTW, what the heck was that whole Harriet Tubbman thing about? Sheesh.
Anyways, she did what she had to, can’t knock her for that.
On a separate, but related note, I’m really starting to enjoy TVOne’s DNC After Party coverage. Last night was even better, as they wisely pared down the number of in-studio guests, and kept things moving with interviews and pretaped vignettes. Any “news” program that features Huggy Lowdown and Sheryl Underwood can’t be taken too seriously, but I’ll give them credit for starting somewhere. Their coverage is entertaining enough, and I like it. I still haven’t peeped BET’s offering, and probably won’t.
I did, for some odd reason, happen to flip over to CNN during a commercial break, and I caught what was probably the most disturbing image of a Black woman aired on TV in this millennium, this side of “Tip Drill”. No, seriously. If you peeped this sista, you know what I’m talking about.
Dang, this chick makes me long for Harriett Christian.
Fanie Lou Hamer is crying inside.
Question: Was Hillary Clinton genuine in her support of Obama? Do Clinton refugees have any legitimate reason to hold onto their grudges any longer? Have you peeped TVOne’s coverage? What the ham sammich was wrong with that sista that CNN wisely planted put on the camera?
[1] Name that movie.
[Editor's Note: This post is completely sports related, and it's prolly borderline blasphemous to some. Consider yourself forewarned.]
I know I’m about to open a huge can of worms, but it just occurred to me this morning that what this year’s Redeem Team is accomplishing is far more impressive than the 1992 Dream Team.
Pick yourselves off the floor and let me explain why.
Back in 1992, we sent the absolute best 11 players in the league, plus Christian Laettner, whom some might argue is the best college player evar. Note, I said best college player.
Just peep this roster.
Charles Barkley of the Philadelphia 76ers
Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics
Clyde Drexler of the Portland Trail Blazers
Patrick Ewing of the New York Knicks
Earvin “Magic” Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers
Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls
Christian Laettner of Duke University
Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz
Chris Mullin of the Golden State Warriors
Scottie Pippen of the Chicago Bulls
David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs
John Stockton of the Utah Jazz
With the exception of Laettner (who barely played), every member of this team is either in, or will soon be in, the NBA Hall of Fame. Jordan is considered the best player evar. Johnson is the gold standard for PG’s. Stockton is the silver standard. Malone revolutionized the power forward position. Barkley is the best player under 6-4 to ever lace up. Pippen became the prototype for small forwards. Bird is Bird. Mullin is one of the best shooters to ever lace up. Drexler did his thing. Ewing and The Admiral are among the 50 best players ever. Laettner did one heckuva job fetching donuts.
These players were the best in the world at the time, let alone the best in the league. Only Isaiah Thomas (politricks) and Hakeem Olajuwon (not yet a US citizen) were the only truly elite NBA players excluded from this team. It was the creme de la creme. The Dream Team rolled over foes by an average of 43.8 points a game, and never even called a timeout.
This year’s Redeem Team is still a couple of games shy of the gold, but given their redemptive drubbing of Australia (whom they only beat by 11 just a week ago) on Wednesday, it’s hard to see them losing to anybody. They are winning by an average of 32ppg as I write this.
It’s roster is impressive, but probably not as impressive as the Original Dream Team.
Carlos Boozer of the Utah Jazz
Jason Kidd of the Dallas Mavericks
Lebron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers
Deron Williams of the Utah Jazz
Michael Redd of the Milwaukee Bucks
Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat
Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers
Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic
Chris Bosh of the Toronto Raptors
Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets
Tayshaun Prince of the Detroit Pistons
Carmelo Anthony of the Denver Nuggets
It’s hard to tell these sorts of things so early, but player for player, this is probably not as star studded a team as the 92′ squad. Bryant, Wade, Paul, and James are MVP caliber players, but you can’t really say that yet for any of the other players. Prince isn’t even an all star. Redd will not be Hall of Famer, and Bosh may not be either. Anthony is one DUI away from being a Clipper. Kidd is toast. Howard is showing his Shaq-like limitations. Williams and Boozer are good, but nobody is readying a place in Springfield for either yet. And some great NBA players like Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Elton Brand, Joe Johnson, Allen Iverson, Tyson Chandler, Amare Stoudemire, Tracy McGrady, Marcus Camby, etc. are back home. We could have sent a better team.
So, why in the ham sammich am I suggesting this team might be better than the 92′ squad? Simple: The level of competition.
Back in 92′, few of the foreign teams had legit NBA players. Germany had Detlef Schrempf, who was a 6th man for the Sonics. Lithuania had then-current Golden State Warrior reserve Šarūnas Marčiulionis and eventual Blazer Arvydas Sabonis. Croatia had five current or future NBA players in Dražen Petrović, Toni Kukoč, Dino Radja, Stojko Vranković, and Žan Tabak. Petrović died before he made a huge NBA impact. Toni Kukoč went on to a respectable NBA career. The other guys were pioneers in the art of weedcarrying excellent luggage handlers.
This year, seemingly every opponent has 2-3 solid NBA players. China has the NBA’s best big man in Yao Ming, budding star Yi Jianlian, Lakers rookie Sun Yue, and NBA yet Wang Zhizhi. Germany has Clippers star Chris Kaman and recent NBA MVP Dirk Nowitzki. Greece has recent NBA players Vasileios Spanoulis, Antonis Fotsis, Andreas Glyniadakis, and Clippers draftee Sofoklis Schortsanitis. Spain has Lakers all-star big man Pau Gasol, Blazers rookie Rudy Fernandez, recent NBA players Raul Lopez, Juan Carlos Navarro, and Jorge Garbajosa, Raptors starting PG Jose Calderon, Grizzlies rookie Marc Gasol, and teen sensation (and likely #1 pick in next year’s draft) Ricky Rubio. Australia has Bucks’ center and recent #1 overall pick Andrew Bogut. Argentina, Lithuania, Croatia, and Russia have more NBA players than I’ve got time and space to list here.
But each and every one of these teams has been completely obliterated by the Redeem Team. Every single one.
I’m not saying the original Dream Team wouldn’t have rolled over these teams with ease, they probably would have won by even more, but there’s no way of knowing. And let’s not forget, in addition to playing vastly inferior opponents, the Dream Team had the whole fear/star factor at play. It was common for opposing teams to be in total awe of Team USA and ask for photos, autographs, and jerseys after, before, and sometimes even during games. No such thing is happening for the Redeem Team, since they already play most of their opponents during the regular season. Their foes are getting thrashed, but they ain’t scurred. Many of them have beaten Team USA before.
I suspect many of you will tell me I’m smoking for going out on a limb and saying this, but I do actually believe this year’s team’s accomplishment is more impressive than the Dream Team. That doesn’t necessarily mean this year’s Redeem Team is necessarily a better team that the 92′ squad, so please, spare me the comments. I am emphatically not calling this a better team, despite this title’s post. But when you consider all the factors, and the net result, you’d be hard convincing me that what these guys are doing isn’t as awe inspiring, if not greater.
Question: Assuming you’ve watched both teams in action, am I too far out of bounds in suggesting that this year’s Redeem Team is just as impressive, if not more so than the Original Dream Team? Which squad would win a Best of Seven series in a theoretical head to head match up? Would you like some of what I’ve been smoking?
USA Basketball Wiki [Wikipedia]
