By now everyone has heard about Charlie Sheen’s drunken drug-fueled rage over the weekend in a New York hotel room. Sheen was spending time with an escort and couldn’t find his wallet or cell phone and accused her of stealing it. He flew into a rampage and began to throw furniture around the hotel room and the woman was so frightened she locked herself in the bathroom.
This recent story should not be viewed in isolation. Charlie Sheen has a history of drug abuse and violence. He also has a history of violence against women. Just last year police were called to his home with reports that he put a knife to his wife, Brooke Muller’s throat. Yet time and time again his public reputation has recovered and he still receives millions of dollars for his comedy ‘Two and a Half Men’ on CBS.
Outside of the Kentucky senate debate last night a female MoveOn.org supporter is literally gets her head stomped on by male supporters of Republican candidate Rand Paul. Turns out the “curb stomper” has been identified and is a member of the campaign and serves as Rand Paul’s Bourbon County Coordinator. Wonderful.
Not because of the whole…you know, the majority of Black people staring at them as if they were Yetis.
Apparently 3 “long shot” Republican candidates are very upset that the Republican party isn’t supporting them as much as they want. They say that at least 14 other Black candidates are complaining as well.
Today in totally unsurprising news, it turns out that the Tea Party “movement” isn’t a large organic grassroots uprising of the common folk against the oversized government. An investigation by Alternet and The The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute looks at the Tea Party movement from an even different angle than the NAACP, it follows the money. Turns out it isn’t coming from individual donations from Joe Middleclass Republican in Kansas, it’s coming from corporate and special interests.
I watched Black in America 1 and 2. I also sat through part of Latino In America and yet I still tuned in to watch Black in America 3 – Almighty Debt. TWiB Blogger Zerlina Maxwell received an early copy of the latest installment of the series so although I did watch it beforehand I decided to watch it with the masses when it premiered. I jokingly tweeted “Watching BIA 3 again because apparently I hate my eyes” but as one particular great white hope said “A lot truth is said in jest.” Having now watched Black in America twice I’ll try to paint a picture of last nights installment in the “This is how the Negroes work” series.
Man oh man folks have been going back and forth all day long about this whole Juan Williams firing by NPR. A lot of people are defending him and I think it might be because they weren’t all that offended by his irrational fear of Muslims flying on airplanes.
This Thursday at 9pm EST CNN will air yet another installment of its Black In America series. This one will focus on the out of control problem with debt in the black community. It chronicles a number of people who have their own specific problems with debt, whether it be a home in foreclosure, a student struggling to afford a higher education, and a middle-aged person who has been laid off as a result of the Great Recession.
By now everyone has heard about Charlie Sheen’s drunken drug-fueled rage over the weekend in a New York hotel room. Sheen was spending time with an escort and couldn’t find his wallet or cell phone and accused her of stealing it. He flew into a rampage and began to throw furniture around the hotel room and the woman was so frightened she locked herself in the bathroom.
