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Rae Dawn Chong slams Oprah: ‘She would’ve been a field n—-r’

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Does "The Color Purple" actress Rae Dawn Chong have beef with Oprah?
The 52-year-old, daughter of comedian Tommy Chong, gave an interview for Matt P's Radio Happy Hour on June 27, that's peppered with some harsh words for her former co-star.
"She was lovely [on 'The Color Purple']," Chong said, replying to a question about her relationship with Oprah. "It was after when I did 'Commando' and I was starring with Maria Shriver's husband in the movie. That's when she was a total b—h."
Chong leavens her comments with some praise for the media mogul.
"She is amazing. I respect her," Chong continued. "I think she's done great things for women of color, women of a certain size. I think she's an icon."
Yet, Chong went on to call her friend a "great brown-noser."
"If you're in a room with her she'll pick the most powerful person and she'll become best friends with her," Chong said. "She was that fat chick that was a cheerleader or the wannabe cheerleader in school that was the student council president, that was best friends with the principal," she said. "She was the fat chick in school that did everything and everyone loved her."
"If you look at the way she looks-60 years ago she would have been a housekeeper, luckily," Chong added. "She would not have been a house n—-r, she would've been a field n—-r."
You gotta respect her, no matter how vile she is-because ultmimately she's all about Oprah and she's boring," Chong said.
"This woman is a miracle, and I respect her and I say kudos to you and I don't give two cents about the other parts of it," Chong said. "She shifted the DNA in terms of our thinking of a woman of a certain size and a certain shade. I love her for that."
After TMZ published the audio of Chong's interview, the actress took to Facebook to defend herself.
"OMG I wake up to TMZ highlighting comments I made on a radio show out of context," the star wrote. "I swear I did not JUST say O was a field N and I was making a point about America during slave times…and I stand behind what I said but out of context it is bad."
Chong also released a video statement to TMZ in order to clarify her remarks on the show.
"In context, I was actually complimenting Oprah," Chong insisted. "Do I have issues with Oprah? Yes. Am I perfect? No. Do I take back everything I said? No. Am in pain that it's caused pain to me, to her? Yes."
 
 

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Musician, 73, Assaulted After Tribute to Trayvon

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A 73-year-old black soul singer in California got roughed up Saturday by a woman in the audience who rushed the stage after he dedicated a song to Trayvon Martin, say police. Lester Chambers was talking about the George Zimmerman trial and about to play "People Get Ready" when a white woman leaped at him, shouting, "It's your fault," witnesses tell the San Jose Mercury News. Dinalynn Andrews Potter, 43, was arrested on suspicion of battery, and the Chambers family is pushing police to file hate-crime charges, too.
 
"She had a crazed look in her eye," says one of the musician's friends who rushed to help him. Chambers suffered a bruised rib and nerve damage and is "sore all over," according to a Facebook post by his son. "People Get Ready" is a Curtis Mayfield song written after MLK's march on Washington, and Chambers' old group, the Chambers Brothers, recorded a version in 1967, notes Firedog Lake. In his dedication to Trayvon, Chambers had said Mayfield would have written the line "there's a train comin'" as "there's a change comin'" had he penned it today.
 
SOURCE: newser

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On Day He Was to Marry, Teacher Charged With Rape

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John Azabache was supposed to be getting married Friday. Instead, he ended up getting arrested for allegedly raping one of his 16-year-old students. Needless to say, the wedding was called off, but the Journal News reports that Azabache did still utter the words "I do"—when he was asked by the judge whether he understood the order of protection keeping him away from the woman he was supposed to have married that very day. (Though he will likely see her again; the AP reports that she's on the prosecution's witness list.) The teen's family told Ossining, NY, police Wednesday that the girl had sex with the 31-year-old math teacher twice over the past 4 months, and by the next night guests had been informed the wedding was off.
 
Says the would-have-been-bride's spitfire-of-a-grandma, 92: "He always seemed like a nice guy. You men are all alike. You stink. I hope they send him to jail forever." The Westchester County man, who has been with the Ossining school district since 2008 but has now been "reassigned from teaching," pleaded not guilty. His lawyer insists that the charges don't involve "any forcible compulsion," but rather "an alleged incident with a minor, someone who is just under 17 years old."

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Mom Throws Infant at Deputy in Getaway Bid

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How is it possible to rack up charges for shoplifting and child abuse at the same time? By tossing your infant daughter at the deputy coming to arrest you. Police say Pensacola's Ashley Wright, 23, was spotted by a store employee hiding about $250 worth of (adult) clothes in her daughter's baby stroller, reports WJHG. When she left the store and got in her car, a deputy approached and ordered her out. She refused, and held the baby carrier between him and her, saying, "You will have to shoot through the baby to get to me," reports the Smoking Gun.
 
She then got out of the car and started running, still carrying the baby carrier. As the deputy chased her, she "threw the baby carrier … at me, about shoulder height," he writes. She missed, but the 3-month-old wasn't injured. Wright, however, soon fell and was arrested. She later told police that her "night of bad decisions" probably had something to do with the beer she drank earlier.
 
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Asiana passenger survived crash, killed by vehicle

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Teen was among three of 307 passengers and crew on Seoul-to-San Francisco flight to be killed
 
 
A Chinese student on board the ill-fated Asiana Flight 214 survived the crash-landing of the Boeing 777 only to be killed on the runway by an emergency vehicle racing toward the downed plane, the San Mateo County Coroner said Friday.
 
Ye Meng Yuan, 16, died from "multiple blunt injuries consistent with being run over by a motor vehicle. Those injuries indicate she was alive at the time,'' said coroner Robert Foucrault. Internal bleeding ruled out any chance she was already dead when she was struck,'' Foucrault said.
 
"She was alive when she received the injuries," he said.
 
It was unclear whether Yuan, part of a group scheduled to attend a three-week California summer camp, was struck by more than one vehicle.
 
Yuan and 16-year-old classmate Wang Linjia were pronounced dead at the scene of the July 6 crash at San Francisco International airport. A third victim, 15-year-old Liu Yipeng, died from injuries July 12. The three attended Jiangshan Middle School in Zhejiang, an affluent coastal province in eastern China.
 
More than 180 passengers were injured.
 
Police and fire officials confirmed last week that Ye Meng Yuan was hit by a firetruck racing to extinguish the blazing Boeing 777, but had not determined whether she was already dead at the time. She was covered with flame-retardant foam when she was struck and found in the tracks that the vehicle made in the foam, according to the San Francisco Police Department, which investigated the case.
 
San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White said a specialized emergency vehicle may have run over the prone body.
 
"Obviously, this is devastating news for us, a tragic accident,'' she said. "We are heartbroken."
 
The post-crash tarmac was a hectic scene, filled with crash debris, fleeing passengers and crew and first responders extinguishing fires and rescuing those still aboard.
 
"It' was a difficult scene" to navigate, she said.

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Obama: Trayvon ‘could have been me’

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President Obama said Friday that all Americans should respect the George Zimmerman verdict of acquittal, but white Americans should also understand that African Americans are pained by Trayvon's Martin's death and continue to face racial discrimination.
 
"Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago," the nation's first African-American president said during a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room.
 
Obama, who last year said the 17-year-old Florida shooting victim could just as easily have been his son, talked about how he has been subjected to casual prejudice. He also said African Americans need to address the problems of violence in their own communities.
 
African-American males know they are more likely to be both "victims and perpetrators of violence," Obama said, and "somebody like Trayvon Martin was probably statistically more likely to be shot by a peer than he was by somebody else."
 
The problem is that so many people paint with a "broad brush" and see all black young men as potential criminals, Obama said.
 
A Florida jury acquitted Zimmerman on Saturday night of murder in the 2012 death of 17-year-old Trayvon.
 
In an extraordinary 19-minute speech, Obama spoke personally and at times emotionally about the frustrations African-Americans have with the justice system, and the continuing racial divides that shadow the nation.
 
"I think it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away," Obama said, and "it's going to be important for all of us to do some soul-searching."
 
Obama told reporters that, like other African Americans, he has been followed by security guards while shopping, and has seen motorists lock their doors or women hold tighter to their purses as as he walked near them. While didn't want to "exaggerate," Obama said "those sets of experiences inform how the African-American community interprets what happened one night in Florida."
 
He cited racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and how blacks tend to be charged more often with drug offenses and sentenced to longer prison terms than whites. He also said it's fair to wonder what would have happened in Florida if the shooter had been a young African-American.
 
Obama said he respects the different views of the verdict, but the trial was conducted professionally, and "once the jury has spoken, that's how our system works." While demonstrations and peaceful protests are understandable, he said violence "dishonors what happened to Trayvon Martin and his family."
 
Said Obama: "Now, the question for me at least, and I think for a lot of folks, is where do we take this?"
 
While the Justice Department investigates whether to charge Zimmerman with civil rights violations in the wake of Trayvon's 2012 death, Obama pointed out that "traditionally, these are issues of state and local government."
 
Officials at the state and local levels should examine whether changes to laws can head off violent confrontations, Obama said. He cited laws to ban racial profiling, and proposed new kind of training for law enforcement in order "to reduce the kind of mistrust in the system that sometimes currently exists."
 
The president also questioned the wisdom of Florida's "stand your ground" law, which, in the view of critics, all but encourages confrontation that could turn deadly.
 
People should ask themselves if Trayvon had the right to stand his ground, Obama said, adding: "Do we actually think that he would have been justified in shooting Mr. Zimmerman who had followed him in a car because he felt threatened?"
 
The nation should also think about ways to "bolster and reinforce our African American boys," Obama said, saying there are too many kids out there who need help, but "are getting a lot of negative reinforcement."
 
Obama said all Americans should do "soul-searching" in the wake of the verdict and the reactions to it, but questioned whether a full-blown "national conversation" would do much good if too many politicians or pundits were involved.
 
"On the other hand, in families and churches and workplaces, there's the possibility that people are a little bit more honest, and at least you ask yourself your own questions about, am I wringing as much bias out of myself as I can?" Obama said.
 
Borrowing a quote from Abraham Lincoln, Obama said political leaders should do whatever they can to encourage ''the better angels of our nature." rather than "using these episodes to heighten divisions."
 
Obama also said that Americans should realize that, over the course of decades, American race relations have improved, citing his daughters and their friends as examples. While that doesn't means "we're in a post-racial society," Obama said there is progress.
 
"I don't want us to lose sight that things are getting better," Obama said.
 
Obama also paid tribute to Trayvon's parents, saying that "I can only im

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National Sovereignty and equality of nations thrown overboard.

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Why should Her Excellency, Joyce Banda, President of Malawi, kneel to greet fellow Heads of State as shown below? Is it because they are whites? Or because they are men, and her tradition requires her to kneel to greet men? Does the position of president of a country recognize gender? In international relations, whoever is the political head of a country, whether male or female, represents the sovereignty of the people of the country.
The position does not recognize gender. By kneeling to greet fellow heads of state, President Joyce Banda has, by so doing, brought the people of her country to their kneels in utter supplication to the people of those other nations represented by their heads of state. The action of President Joyce Banda is a diplomatic howler! What kind of inferiority complex is this? Africa wake up, rise up and take pride of place in the comity of nations.

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Gambo Mohammed: Fast or no fast, Ivorians will fall

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CHAN Eagles striker,  Gambo Mohammed has assured that the Ramadan Fast might hamper his performance when they take on the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire on July 27.

The Eagles hold a 4-1 goals advantage over the Ivorians as both teams head into the second-leg of the African Nations Championships (CHAN) qualifier in Abidjan.

Mohammed said on telephone from the team’s camp in Abuja that the ongoing Ramadan  would rather be an inspiration, instead of an obstruction to his performance.

“I want to disagree with anyone who may be thinking that my contribution to the team will not be up to a 100 per cent because of the Ramadan Fast.

“I have played throughout my entire career and I have never been affected by my commitment to the will of Allah. This encounter won’t be any different.

“On the contrary, I believe it will be an inspiration for me to perform even more excellently because this period of Ramadan means a lot to my career,” he said.

The striker, who scored Eagles’ first goal in their 4-1 win over the Elephants in Kaduna, added that he was optimistic that  the team  could re-produce a dazzling form in Abidjan.

“The Ivorians are a good side but we are keeping our focus on doing even better than we did during the first-leg of the encounter.

“Nigerians should be calm and pray for the team. We have all resolved collectively to qualify the country for its first CHAN,” Mohammed added

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Nigeria Navy raids oil thieves, razes 33 unlawful oil refineries in Delta

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WARRI- MEN of the Nigerian Navy, Warri Naval Base, cracked down on oil thieves in Opumami and Olero creek in the riverside areas of Delta State, during the week, and razed over 33 unlawful crude oil refineries.

The operatives also destroyed illegally refined crude oil in over 33 Cotonou boats intercepted during the offensive.

Commanding Officer, NNS Delta, Warri, Commodore Mohammed Garba, who confirmed the raid, Friday, to reporters in Warri, disclosed that 21 local refineries were smashed at Opumami and additional 12 at Olero creek.

Commodore Garba said, “We destroyed the illegal refineries to act as a deterrent to the oil bunkerers.”

However, none of the oil thieves was not seized, as they reportedly took to their heels on sensing the naval men.

According to NNS Delta Commander, “They fled in different directions on sighting the naval personnel. I want to say, however, that they can only run away for some time, but cannot hide forever because the long arm of the law will soon catch up with them”.

His words, “The Nigerian Navy will continue to wage war against oil theft in the Niger-Delta region. We will not tolerate illegal act being perpetrated along the creeks and waterways.”

Commodore Garba maintained that the base would continue to adhere strictly to the Chief of Naval Staff zero tolerance on illegal bunkering and other illegalities on the waterways.

He said investigation by NNS Delta showed large quantity of crude oil was pilfered from an abandoned wellhead in a riverside location, adding, “The hoodlums took advantage and started siphoning crude oil at will.”

“I want to sound a note of warning to illegal bunkerers to desist from this criminal act as anyone caught will not only be dealt with severely,  but will also be handed over to the appropriate law enforcement organ for prosecution”, he asserted.

Describing illegal bunkering and pipeline vandalism as criminal offences, Commodore Garba lamented that that action of the vandals was not only robbing the nation a lot of fortune, but was detrimental to the nation’s economy.

“We will not rest on ours in fighting these criminals to a stand-still because their action is inimical to the growth of the nation’s economy and the oil sector,” he intoned.

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ASUU strike ‘ll not affect preparations for Nigeria Universities Game

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Lagos – Prof. Ademola Onifade of the Lagos State University (LASU) says the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of University’s (ASUU) will not adversely affect athletes’ preparation for the Nigeria Universities Game (NUGA).

The Games will be hosted by the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife from Oct. 2 – Oct. 13.

Onifade, a Professor of Sports and Chairman, LASU Sports Council, said in Lagos that in spite of the persisting strike, the athletes could still be preparing for the Games.

Onifade explained that the strike was only directed at stopping the lecturers from teaching and holding meetings and not crippling other activities in the institutions.

“ASUU strike does not in any way affect student sports. I mean ASUU strike is for ASUU, that is, we the staff are not expected to teach.

“We are not expected to attend meetings, so the strike is basically for academic staff, not for students, so it doesn’t affect students in anyway.

“And again, you must appreciate the fact that in all Nigerian universities, there is a sport office and academic staff are not the ones running the sport offices.

“There are professional sports people who are in the sports offices and they take care of the student sports, so the strike doesn’t affect it in any way.

“Even if an academic staff is engaged as a part time coach, it doesn’t, because ASUU is not against that per say, since we are not teaching.

“We are not attending academic meetings. No, it does not affect it (NUGA preparations) in anyway.”

The chairman said that the strike could be a blessing in disguise as affected athletes could use the period to prepare for the Games.

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