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Mychael Bell
is a free man—at least for now. The 17-year-old, one of the
six African American teens known by the world as Jena 6,
has been released from jail and the prosecutor confirmed
that he will no longer seek to try him as an adult. Shortly
after bail was set at $45,000, the young man walked out of
the LaSalle Parish courthouse and was met by his family, and
civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton. Prosecutors
claim that Bell was one of the six black teens
involved in the beating of a white student. His case
sparked national outrage and a massive civil right
demonstration outside the courthouse last week. Protestors
saw Bell’s initial charge of attempted murder as
excessive and racially biased. The charge was eventually
reduced to aggravated second-degree battery.
Bell’s
conviction in adult court was thrown out this month by the
state’s 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal, which said
he should not have been tried as an adult on that particular
charge. However, Bell remained behind bars after
District Attorney Reed Walters said he would appeal. On the
day Bell was released Walters said he still believes
there was legal merit to trying Bell as an adult, but
decided it was in the best interest of the victim, Justin
Barker, and his family to let the juvenile court handle the
case. “They are on board with what I decided,” Walters said
at the news conference. The teen still faces trial as a
juvenile in the December incident, but will no longer face a
maximum of 15 years in prison on his aggravated
second-degree battery conviction. Mychael Bell is
not totally out of the woods yet. According to David Utter,
director of the Louisiana Juvenile Justice Project, said
conviction on those counts could keep Bell behind bars until
he turns 21. It seems to me that our African American
elected officials still have a great deal of work to do,
instead of meeting for Congressional Black Caucus in D.C.,
which is nothing more than a huge party.
Tyler Perry’s
dream home has been a nightmare for the past two weeks
thanks to an 89-year-old Atlanta lawyer and businessman
who claims he still owns the property. Moreton
Rolleston Jr., a former segregationist whose family home
of 40 years was demolished by Tyler to make room
for his own mansion. Rolleston has not only been a
thorn in the entertainment mogul’s side, but has been a
nuisance to the local courts for more than 20 years,
according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Rolleston
keeps filing lawsuits in efforts to regain the Buckhead
(upscale Atlanta Community) property despite a series of
rulings that have seen him jailed, fined and threatened
with disbarment, the paper reports. Earlier this month,
Rollestion showed up at the property with police cars in
tow seeking to kick out Perry’s construction crews,
contending he still is the rightful owner.
“At this point,” Perry
told the newspaper, “I just don’t know what to do to get
rid of this guy.” Rolleston purchased the property more
than 40 years ago, and in 1962 built his family home—a
five-bedroom granite masterpiece with a large pool and
pool house. Through the years, he managed to lose
ownership of the land, and it was purchased in October
2005 by Perry for $9 million. Perry tore
down Rolleston’s home and began construction on his own
30,000 square-foot French Provincial mansion—which
should be ready by Thanksgiving. Rolleston has been
filing lawsuits to resume ownership of the land since
1985. He has fought the case through courts in Cobb,
Fulton, and Glynn counties as well as Federal Court.
When he’s lost, he’s appealed, the paper reported. He
has even sued lawyers, sheriffs, and a judge. He’s
filed for bankruptcy, only to have that rejected by the
courts. Rolleston was the owner of the heart of Atlanta
Hotel, which opened in 1956 as one of the top places to
stay between New York and Miami—but only if you were
Caucasian. He refused to accommodate Black patrons and
even attempted to apply his segregationist ways to the
Atlanta school system—suggesting the district could
avoid desegregation by selling school building to
private business, thereby circumventing Federal
dictates. His various attempts to maintain segregation
were ultimately defeated.
Rolleston is furious that
an African American man has purchased his land and had
the temerity to tear down his home and build one of his
own. It is more than obvious that his actions are
racially motivated, but he is within his right to go
after Perry with his asinine civil suits. It
will be interesting to see what Mr. Rolleston does when
Tyler moves into his new home. There are great
deal of whispers about who will be the lucky lady to one
day share in Perry’s fortune, but the movie mogul
might have someone in his life already that no one knows
about at this time. However, Obnoxious has
come across the name of an individual that is rumored to
have been playing house with Tyler Perry for the
past three years. I will keep you posted once I get
proof.
David Banner
continues to defend Hip Hop, but he is really defending
gangster rap in a rather embarrassing manner. As previously
reported, David Banner attended the recent Hip Hop
hearings hosed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee of
the U.S. Congress and read a prepared statement to
vigorously defend the genre’s use of offensive language and
images. The Mississippi-born and bred rapper continues to
speak passionately against Hip Hop detractors in a follow-up
interview with Billboard.com.
In his prepared statement on
Capitol Hill, Banner said, “If you fix our
communities, we’ll fix our lyrics.” Asked how that would
affect change, he told Billboard: “In the Katrina hearing,
one congressman asked, ‘Haven’t we done enough for
Katrina?’ They live in a world that we don’t live in, and
it’s hard to speak for a majority when you don’t live under
the same conditions. People don’t sing happy songs if
they’re broke.” Banner continued in his flawed
argument to state the following: “Rap music does for us the
same thing gospel did for the slaves,” he added. “We
communicate our anger through our music.” David has
also taken issue with folks who are attempting to remove the
words “b*tch” and “ho” from rap lyrics when he added.
“Aren’t there bitches out there?,” he questioned. “Don’t
they exist? Those types of women exist, and if they didn’t
it’d be different. When someone yells in a room full of
women that word ‘dyke,’ my mother isn’t insulted because she
isn’t one.”
No matter if those types of
women exist or not David Banner obviously does not
understand it does no one any good to use offensive language
that objectifies all women. We know that all people are not
the N-word, however, we should not allow white people to use
the word. Additionally, two wrongs does not make a right.
Banner’s attempt to state that because the government
may have some responsibility in the communities in America
that are infested with drugs does not make it right for the
men and women that decide to become beneficiaries of that
ugly reality. If Banner is so noble he should hold
himself and a higher standard and take more pride in himself
than to argue “they do it so it makes it alright for me to
do it as well.” Banner continued to put his foot in
his mouth by saying: “Aren’t there bitches out there?,” he
says. “Don’t they exit? Those types of women exist, and if
they didn’t it’d be different. When someone yells in a room
full of women the word ‘dyke,’ my mother isn’t insulted
because she isn’t one.” Banner went on to say that
rap is an art and that he says whatever the hell he wants
and that he uses those words because they are graphic and
they hurt. The rapper said they get people’s attention and
they where many rappers come from that is how they speak.
Should all African American’s be painted with a broad brush
by a few individuals that were born poor, uneducated, and in
drug infested communities? It would be better to be quite
and thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and remove
all doubt.
Karrie Steffans
is blabbing all of her bedroom business again in “The
Vixen Diaries,” tell-all book that continues to
chronicle her trysts with famous rappers and athletes that
began with her first memoir, “Confessions of a Video
Vixen.” The new book purports to offer self-help
advice in addition to providing details of her sexual
encounter with such celebs as Mike Tyson and boxer
Antonio Tarver. Steffans also denies that she
was a catalyst for the divorce of Halle Barry and
Eric Benet, and says she never once came between
Chris Rock and his wife Malaak Compton Rock as
rumored. The author also says she never had sex with
Whitney Houston’s ex-husband Bobby Brown, but has
always considered him a close friend—that is until he
allegedly belittled their friendship.
According to excerpts from “Diaries”
reported in the New York Daily News, Steffans
writes: “I kept Bobby close to my heart.” Meeting
after a time apart, “he embraced me as I whispered, ‘Iove
you,’ and he returned, ‘I love you, too.’” But she says
Brown later told “me I had done nothing for him, while
he was sleeping in my home, eating, my food, driving my car,
and spending my money.” After a tryst with Ray J, she
told Brown that the rapper claimed he’d added
Whitney’s name to his bedpost. “I could hardly wait to
get the news out, to tear (Bobby’s) heart apart and
hurt him the way he hurt me, I wanted him to go to bed that
night with the image of his wife and another man.”
Here are more Obnoxious excerpts
from “Vixen Diaries”:
Regarding Mike Tyson,
she writes, “loves the same way he fights: hard and rough.
His kisses are like uppercuts, and his lovemaking is like a
title match. And as he proved against Evander Holyfield,
Mike Tyson is a biter. His passion manifested
through pain as…I endured the extreme force of his 200 pound
frame colliding into mine, he kissed, sucked and bit me over
zealously. I was in excruciating pain as we continued in
this manner for several hours. At the end, I was covered in
bruises and bite marks and vowed to never have sex with him
again.” She also slept with boxer Antonio Tarver
shortly before his marriage. As she watched Antonio kiss
his new wife, Steffans muses, “I recalled his face
and lips exploring my body…I wondered how I tasted to her.”
Jamie Foxx
told her, “Damn, you’re pretty!” when they met. “When
Jamie Foxx offers to massage your body at four in the
morning, after a bottle of Champagne and two shots of
Patron, it’s hard to say no,” she writes. However, Jamie
soon figured out she was “that Karrine.” Foxx
ran in the other direction, leaving the author”
depressed. Jamie had no idea that he made me cry all
the way home and in the days followed.” Comic Bill Maher
delivered her greatest heartache. “In January of 2006,
Bill and I split. Three days later, I suffered an
emotional breakdown and was sent to the hospital for
psychiatric observation. I cut my wrists and started
drinking myself into an emotional tailspin. At the end of
the night, the love of my life was gone and so was my son,
Naiim,” taken away by Child Services.
According to reports,
Karrine eventually got her son back. And not only does
she remain friends with Maher, she dedicates the book
to him as well. Meanwhile Steffans was on Detroit’s
WJLB radio the other morning with Coco, Foolish and Mr.
Chase and immediately things got off to a bad start. Of all
things she now objects to being called “Superhead.”
After that is when and not long before things started to go
downhill for the author. She abruptly ended the interview
by blurting out: “I cannot talk to ignorant black folks!”
It
most obvious that Michael Vick has a very
serious problem or he suffers from some type of mental illness,
in previous reports I stated that he was just a dumb jock—but it
has to be more than just stupidity at this point. Things
are getting worse by the day for Michael Vick.
Not even 24 hours after the state of Virginia charged him in the
dogfighting case, a drug test has detected marijuana in his
system. Due to the dirty test result, U.S. District Judge
Henry Hudson placed special conditions on Vick’s
release, including restricting him to his home between 10 p.m.
and 6 a.m. with electronic monitoring and ordering him to submit
to random drug testing. Hudson’s order also requires
Vick to participate in inpatient or out patient
substance therapy and mental health counseling, if the pretrial
services officer or supervising officer deems it appropriate.
Vick must pay for the treatment.
The urine sample was taken on September 13, according to a
document by a federal probation officer that was field in U.S.
District Court on Wednesday. Because he violated the
conditions of his release, Hudson may take that into a court at
sentencing. “Every judge considers pretty seriously if
they feel that the defendant has flaunted the conditions for
release,” criminal procedure expert Lingam alone explained to
the Associated Press. “It’s certainly not a smart thing to
do.” Well, we all know that Mick is not
rocket scientist so he might
have
gotten high to cope with his problems. Vick
was released after pleading guilty to financing a dogfighting
enterprise on his Surry County, Virginia property. He
faces up to five years in prison at this scheduled sentencing
December 10. The 27-year-old was placed under pretrial
release supervision by U.S. Magistrate Dennis Dohnal in July.
The restriction included refraining form use or unlawful
possession of narcotic drugs or other controlled substances.
The random drug testing ordered Wednesday could include urine
testing, the wearing of a sweat patch, a remote alcohol testing
system or any form of prohibited substance screening or testing.
On Tuesday, Vick also was indicted on state
charges of beating or killing or causing dogs to fight other
dogs and engaging in or promoting dogfighting. Each felony
is punishable by up to five years in prison.
There is a lot that I can say about Michael Vick,
but it is more than obvious that he is a dumb jock and I am not
one to kick a man when he is down. Vick
might have been smoking weed to calm his nervous through this
stressful time in his life. I know if I was in his shoes I
would have to be heavily medically sedated to just get through
the day. Additionally, it is very possible that
Mick has herpes and due to his settling that case out
of court and we all know that Herpes is an STD that flairs up
under extreme stress. ESPN had a town
hall meeting on Vick last week in Atlanta and
some people that were in attendance are coming down on him very
hard. Former Atlanta Falcon, Chuck Smith
was constantly heckled by the attendees and was very unforgiving
of Mick and his poor choices. During a
conversation with Chuck after the meeting he
stated that Vick was not open or willing to
receive guidance by older player that attempted to reach out to
him on several occasions. Smith went on
to say that he could see this coming and that Vick
is in direct violation of the NFL’s no gambling contract clause.
Terrance Mathis
was also a member of the panel and said to be a close friend
of Vick he even stated that during our talk Mick
called him twice. “He is not doing well, in fact when I
talked to him last night he was crying,” Mathis
shared. “He is back in Atlanta keeping a low profile,”
Mathis continued. Seems that the former football player was
more on Vick’s side, but clear that he is in serious
trouble and feels that he should do some jail time. With
Mick Vick having friends like Mathis telling the
media that he should do some jail time, he does not need any
enemies. Terrance Mathis, who had been very
loquacious about Vick’s problems, became tight lipped
about his own legal issues. Mathis is been sued by
several individuals in Atlanta that he attempted to do
business with and refused on payment. My girl Marcelle
English, former producer for V-103 is in a legal battle with
the former professional football player. English said he is
basically a liar and does not want to pay up for all of her
PR services. Mathis purportedly got in way over his
head with an attempt to do a deal with Nascar. Needless to
say it failed and all the people he convinced to go in with
him lost some big bucks except for Mathis. No one
knows where the money went, but Terrance might have an idea.
According
to my “Street Committee”…It
you thought that I did not have an update about the
Shaq and
Shaunie divorce saga
you were wrong. Obnoxious
has obtained some more juicy details on the NBA superstar’s
rocky marriage. As I reported not long ago it was some
speculation that Shaquille O’Neal got a woman pregnant before he
and Shaunie separated. Now Obnoxious has learned that
Shaq left Shaunie to be with his new girlfriend—Shaq and the
woman are said to be currently dating. Shaunie
was feed up with Shaq
and his cheating. According to an insider Shaq
is demanding all of the information on his soon to be ex-wife’s
financials to one find out if she purchased a house for her
Cuban trainer and if she really stole 9 million dollars from her
husband once she found out that Shaq
had a bastard baby on the way.
If
you thought that the Salt N Pepa reality show was going
to be interesting before—wait until you hear this. A source who
works for VH1 told Obnoxious
that during the taping of and episode, the two
ladies got into a fist fight. The fight according to the
network insider was caught on tape. The insider, who spoke
exclusively to Obnoxious,
explained the footage. “There was a lot of conflict building up
and one day it just exploded. The two women got physical and
producers had to break them up.” Our source continued, “There
were some punches thrown and a lot of tussling.” When I asked
my source which woman they believed won the fight? The source
told me it did not get too serious, but from what I saw was
getting the upper hand. In case you were wondering the police
were not called and neither woman needed medical attention.
Earlier in my column I
discussed in detail some of the things we can look forward
to in Superhead’s new book “The Vixen Diaries.”
But I did not what might be one juiciest parts of the book.
In a chapter Superhead describes a relationship that
she had with a young African American celebrity that she
calls “Baby Boy”. Well, it seems that the celebrity that
she’s talking about is none other that 18 year-old R&B
superstar Chris Brown. Here is how Superhead
describes what she thought of Chris Brown the first
time they met:
He is beautiful and tall, with
a smile that would melt any girl’s heart, but she is young,
very young. As we were being introduced in the midst of a
crowded room, eyes on us, I was afraid to look at him. He
had an air about himself that I couldn’t comprehend. For
someone so young, he carried himself like and experienced
man. The young man had class and smarts—and by the end of
the night, he had me. He planted his lip on mine, and his
sweet kiss extinguished my fight as I lay on my back,
inviting him to mount me, to make love to me, to make it
impossible to do without him for this night forward. Slow
and sensual, he moved inside me. Then I rolled on top of
him, surprised by his size, unwilling and unable to handle
it all. Our eyes were locked and fixed on each other as we
explored each other’s bodies and needs; I felt him and he
felt me, and then it was over. Well, it seems that Chris
Brown may be young but he had some serious experience.
Ryan Cameron,
radio show host out of Atlanta has a new show that will air
on Starz! Your boy got to hang out at a few of the first
tapings of Ryan Cameron Uncensored. David
Letterman and those other late night guys better look
out. Cameron’s show has a great deal of promise and
will most likely do well. The radio show host is a natural,
with a perfect combination of comedy and great interview
skills. Some of his first guests was Young Joc,
Ne-Yo, Jermaine Dupri, Warrick Dunn of the
Atlanta Falcons, Chirs Tucker, and others. With a
great number of years in radio he will not hurt for guests.
While backstage I was able to talk to Ne-Yo and got
him to shed light on a number of situations where his name
has come up. First off Ne-Yo did not go shopping
with Tonex and does not even know the Gospel Artist.
Obnoxious had
gotten word that the two of them were working on an album.
Ne-Yo stated that he thought that Tonex was
awesomely talented, but had some very serious mental
issues. He said that he could not speak about the situation
with him and Jessie White and if the child was
actually his or not due to it being a legal matter. He did
clear up the rumor that he and Britney Spears had
some type of beef. According to Ne-Yo he was asked
to provide some music for her upcoming album and he honored
the request, but never hear back from Spears or her
people and they had been communicating prior to her
breakdown. However, his calls where never answered so he
decided to give the songs to Nicole Scherzinger of
the Pussycat Dolls for her solo project. Needless to
say Ne-Yo’s executive decision pissed off Britney.
While hanging back stage at the show I spoke to Warrick
Dunn, who said that he was confidant that he would not
play with Michael Vick again and especially not on
the Atlanta Falcons. Ryan was great with is comedy
and interviews. Due to the show being on cable Ryan
is able to get raw giving the viewer an even mixture of a
late night talk show with a Chris Rock feel. Ryan is
going to put Atlanta on the map!
I was at Negril
in New York City having dinner the other night with some of my
friends and low and behold, so was R&B singer J. Holiday
and model Jessica White. Last I heard she was dating
John Legend. But I guess not any more. J. and Jessica were
all hugged up and he was feeding her. They kept laughing and he
kept caressing the side of her face. It was rather romantic.
Last week I said the
following about the photos I had obtained of Oacar De
La Hoya. “Well I do not know what to say about
these photos of boxer Oscar De La Hoya dressed in
drag. It is a possibility they may not be real, but if
they are fakes someone did a really good job. You be
the judge for yourself!” Now this week we have more of
him and in other hot naughty girl outfits. It looks
like Oscar may have just got caught being himself or
should I say herself. You have officially been
choked by the bowtie!
Last week I said the following about the photos I had obtained of Oacar De La Hoya. “Well I do not know what to say about these photos of boxer Oscar De La Hoya dressed in drag. It is a possibility they may not be real, but if they are fakes someone did a really good job. You be the judge for yourself!” Now this week we have more of him and in other hot naughty girl outfits. It looks like Oscar may have just got caught being himself or should I say herself.
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It
most obvious that Michael Vick has a very
serious problem or he suffers from some type of mental illness,
in previous reports I stated that he was just a dumb jock—but it
has to be more than just stupidity at this point. Things
are getting worse by the day for Michael Vick.
Not even 24 hours after the state of Virginia charged him in the
dogfighting case, a drug test has detected marijuana in his
system. Due to the dirty test result, U.S. District Judge
Henry Hudson placed special conditions on Vick’s
release, including restricting him to his home between 10 p.m.
and 6 a.m. with electronic monitoring and ordering him to submit
to random drug testing. Hudson’s order also requires
Vick to participate in inpatient or out patient
substance therapy and mental health counseling, if the pretrial
services officer or supervising officer deems it appropriate.
Vick must pay for the treatment.
have
gotten high to cope with his problems. Vick
was released after pleading guilty to financing a dogfighting
enterprise on his Surry County, Virginia property. He
faces up to five years in prison at this scheduled sentencing
December 10. The 27-year-old was placed under pretrial
release supervision by U.S. Magistrate Dennis Dohnal in July.
The restriction included refraining form use or unlawful
possession of narcotic drugs or other controlled substances.
The random drug testing ordered Wednesday could include urine
testing, the wearing of a sweat patch, a remote alcohol testing
system or any form of prohibited substance screening or testing.
On Tuesday, Vick also was indicted on state
charges of beating or killing or causing dogs to fight other
dogs and engaging in or promoting dogfighting. Each felony
is punishable by up to five years in prison. 
According
to my “Street Committee”…It
you thought that I did not have an update about the
Shaq and
Shaunie divorce saga
you were wrong.
