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BET Awards 2014: Unofficial Parties Sullied by Shootings, Stabbing
Michael Walsh, NY Daily News
The Black Entertainment Television Awards is distancing itself from the violence that erupted at several parties for people attending the ceremony Sunday night.
The events were not sanctioned by BET.
The most recent shooting reportedly broke out about 2:30 a.m. Monday outside the Supper Club on Hollywood Boulevard.
TMZ reports that many famous rappers were in the club at the time, including Busta Rhymes, Game, Meek Mil and T-Pain.
No one was injured and the shooter escaped.
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As America Ages, Generational Gap Between Whites and Minorities Widens
Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
As the U.S. population ages and becomes more racially diverse, the country is seeing a widening demographic gap between older whites and young minorities–a shift with significant social and economic implications for the future.
Non-Hispanic white Americans made up almost 79% of the country’s population of people older than 65 years old as of last July, but the white share of residents under 15 years of age slipped further to 51.8%, according to an analysis of new Census Bureau data released Thursday. By comparison, Latinos accounted for 7.5% of people in the U.S. over 65, but almost 25% of those under 15.
The large population gains of Latino and other minority youth mean nonwhites will not only have more voting clout in the years ahead but also constitute the labor force of tomorrow.
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Paint Company Sued for Racial Discrimination After It ‘Named Brown Hues After Black Employee’
Joshua Gardner, Daily Mail (London)
A black New Jersey man is suing his former employer Benjamin Moore for discrimination after he says the paint company named two brown paint tones after him.
Clinton Tucker’s suit claims he was given the boot in March after he repeatedly complained about the colors Tucker Chocolate and Clinton Brown.
Tucker alleges one of the colors was a part of the company’s Williamsburg Collection, a project he helped market.
‘Despite [Tucker's] repeated complaints and protestations to BM management about these appallingly racial color names, no action was ever taken by Benjamin Moore to change the names of these colors,’ reads the suit.
The color remained on the Benjamin Moore website as of Sunday, where its description suggests the name has its origin in Colonial Williamsburg.
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Majority of Delinquent Detroit Water Customers in Culture of: ‘You’re Not Making Me Pay,’ Says Deputy Director
Marie Osborne, CBS Detroit
Several people protested outside the Detroit Water And Sewerage Department building Thursday, saying customers are having service cut off at an alarming rate and the practice is inhumane.
Organizer David Bullock with the Change Agent Consortium says the water department is going after customers that may be as little as $150 delinquent and says the department ignores large corporations which are behind.
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Supreme Court Sides with Hobby Lobby
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This morning the U.S. Supreme Court decided closely held corporations with religious objections cannot be compelled to furnish potentially abortion-inducing drugs to their employees by a 5-4 decision.
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) allows for closely-held corporations like Hobby Lobby to maintain their religious outlook and still do business, the majority ruled in a 49-page opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito. The law holds that government may only impose a mandate that burdens religious business owners’ consciences if the government has a compelling interest in doing so and uses the least invasive means possible.
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U.N. Say’s Detroit’s Water Shutoff a Human Rights Violation
The U.N. is once again mingling in U.S. affairs by telling the cash strapped city of Detroit that it is a human rights violation to shut off the water of non-paying customers. “Experts” say that the city can only shut off the water to those who can pay, but don’t and not to those who don’t pay because they can’t. It is striking that the U.S. has only become involved when the water shutoff affects a majority non-white city. There are countless working class whites around the country who routinely lose their water or electricity because they are unable to keep up with payments. But the only solution they are given is to make more money as if that hadn’t already crossed their mind. However, when it comes to a large segment of non-whites in the same predicament – well, it must be racist.
What is frightening though isn’t the taxpayer funds that will be used to subsidize these customers. It will happen. What is alarming is the U.N.’s involvement. In recent years, black members of Congress have asked for U.N. oversight of U.S. elections. Homosexual advocacy groups have asked for U.N. involvement in the so-called human rights violations that they allegedly suffer from. And gun prohibitionists have sought to use the U.S. as their trump card to confiscate guns. None of these efforts have worked so far. However, Detroit’s water shutoff may be just the ploy needed to give the U.N. a boost in superseding U.S. law.
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Presbyterian Church (USA) voted down measure to condemn ‘abortion’ of babies born alive
DETROIT, MI – The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) overwhelmingly rejected a motion suggesting the church publicly condemn the killing of babies born alive after botched abortions.
The proposal, offered by the Presbytery of South Alabama at the denomination’s 221st General Assembly in Detroit last week, also suggested the PCUSA take two years to reconsider its support for abortion-on-demand.
Fully 78 percent of delegates of the 1.8 million–member PCUSA voted against a “two year season of reflection on the plight of unwanted children,” which called on church leaders to “issue statements that denounce the practice of killing babies born live following an abortion procedure, such as was revealed in the Dr. Kermit Gosnell clinic in Philadelphia.”
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Sorry, No Birthday Cake for You
Kids need good nutrition. There is no doubt about that. Over worked parents, cheap processed food, an abundance of commercials directing children to eat chemical laden goodies, it all makes for an unhealthy population.
But can the crackdown on unhealthy food get too extreme? And is the supposed parental authority over the local school a thing of the past. You bet it is. That is hardly even up for debate anymore. Well, if parents have given up, maybe a ban on something as benign as birthday cakes will get them to rethinking their position. Probably not, but hey, there is always that last straw.
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Biden Thinks Queers are More Important than Christians
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