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Lawsuit: Trump’s New Adviser Hired White Men To Attack Blacks Inside His Clubs
Michigan Mayor In Middle Of
Scandal Behind Recorded
Donald Trump’s newest staff pick is a lot like the rest of them. According to news reports and lawsuits, Reed Cordish, Trump’s incom- ing White House adviser, hired white men to start trou- ble with Black patrons of his family’s properties so that they could kick them out.
According to a scathing re- port in the Daily Beast, Cordish, who was picked to be an assistant to the presi- dent for intergovernmental and technology initiatives, “is an executive of the Cordish Companies, his family’s Bal- timore, Md.-based real estate business, and the president of Entertainment Concepts In- vestors, a subsidiary that owns and manages bars, restaurants, and clubs throughout the country.”
Lawsuits viewed by the Daily Beast claim that ECI’s biggest holdings are clubs and bars in Kansas City, Mo.’s “Power and Light Dis- trict,” which Black residents have nicknamed “Power and White District.”
Dante Combs and Adam Williams sued Cordish in 2014 in a $5 million class-ac- tion racial-discrimination case, claiming that Cordish-
here.” Miller also reportedly told
William Whitlock, a Black former Cordish employee, that he was upset with the amount of Black people who had been let into the club.
“He made the comment that if he ever saw this many ni--ers in the building again, he would chain the doors and burn it down with me inside,” Whitlock said, the Daily Beast reports. “He was em- barrassed and horrified to see what we had done to his club.”
If Black patrons were somehow let into the club, there was a system in place to assure that they would be promptly kicked out. It in- volved the use of someone re- ferred to as the “rabbit,” according to testimony.
“A ‘rabbit’ was a white kid who got free drinks to go around the District, do what- ever he wanted, so long as he singled out Blacks and started confrontations with them,” Martinez said.
A former “rabbit,” Thomas Alexitch, said in a sworn affidavit that his job was to instigate altercations at the Cordish-owned Mo- saic club.
Racist And Sexist Comments
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run establishments harassed and beat them in an effort to keep their clubs free of Blacks. Cordish’s business won an initial ruling in a fed- eral district court, but Combs and Williams are appealing the decision, the Daily Beast reports.
Christina Martinez, a floor manager at one of Cordish’s clubs, testified in the 2014 case that Reed Cordish used “urbans” or “Canadians” as code words for Black patrons.
She also claimed that the club’s manager, Jake Miller, grabbed the DJ’s mi- crophone and yelled, “Get that fu--ing ni--er music off
WARREN, MI —- The mayor of a town in Michigan is in the midst of a scandal after an al- leged leaked audio recording.
Warren, Michigan mayor, James Fouts was allegedly captured on tape comparing Black people to chimps and calling older women “dried-up cunts,” WXYZ reports.
The recordings were origi- nally obtained by Motor City Muckracker, an independent news organization, and were published on the site Monday morning.
“Blacks do look like chim- panzees; I was watching this Black woman with her daugh- ter and they looked like two chimps,” a male voice can be heard saying in one recording. While relaying another story, the man could be heard using the n-word.
In other recordings, the male voice speaks degradingly about older women, calling them “old ugly hag,” and “dried up, washed up, burned out.”
As the Detroit Free Press re- ports, it was only last month
Warren Michigan mayor, James Fouts.
that Fouts came under scrutiny after recordings were released by Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel that allegedly display Fouts insult- ing developmentally disabled individuals.
He also posted on social media his “great efforts at in- clusion,” which included ap- pointing African Americans to various departments and com- missions.
Still, local leaders are saying that if the recordings prove to be true, Fouts needs to go.
Teen Meets Biological Parents
While Woman Who Kidnapped
And Raised Her Remains In Jail
Patrol Car Of Slain Orlando, Fla., Officer Vandalized
A young woman kidnapped in 1998 from a Florida hospital was reunited with her biologi- cal parents Saturday in South Carolina.
Kamiyah Mobley, 18, spent 45 minutes with her birth parents, Craig Aiken and Shanara Mobley, at the Wal- terboro Police Department, where the woman who kid- napped her is being held.
“I told her I was glad to see her and that I loved her,” Aiken told reporters after- ward. “She looks just like her daddy.”
The New York Daily News reports that Mobley grew up in rural South Carolina as a young girl named Alexis Manigo.
Eighteen years ago, the woman she has always known as her mother posed as a hospi- tal worker and stole her from a Jacksonville, Fla., hospital. She was only hours old.
Gloria Williams, 51, was arrested Friday, January 13th and charged with first-degree
The patrol car that Or- lando, Fla., Police Lt. Debra Clayton was driving before she was gunned down while trying to capture an ac- cused murderer has been vandalized, the Orlando Po- lice Department has revealed, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Clayton’s patrol car has been parked outside police headquarters since her shoot- ing death Jan. 9, with mourn- ers expressing themselves in different ways.
The OPD posted photos to its Twitter account Friday showing that the vehicle, while decorated with flowers and flags, was also defaced with what appears to be blue permanent marker. The pic- tures showed scribbles in- cluding “Tax Payer,” “Protect & Serve The Public,” “An- gela Madison Is the Best”
POLICE LT. DEBRA CLAYTON
and “Kansas.” “Unbelievably sad someone
would vandalize Lt. Debra Clayton’s vehicle,” the de- partment lamented.
According to the Sentinel, the Police Department will not move the vehicle but will keep it parked in front of the
Lt. Clayton’ patrol car.
station next to banners of Clayton’s face and other makeshift memorials.
Police are investigating the vandalism, police spokesper- son Wanda Miglio said: “We are checking the cam- eras and looking for a sus- pect.”
Kamiyah Mobley aka Alexis Manigo and her biological par- ents who have not seen her since she was 8 hours old.
kidnapping after the National Center for Missing and Ex- ploited Children passed along an anonymous tip to authori- ties. She faces up to life in prison if convicted on the charges.
Williams reportedly suf- fered a miscarriage about a week before she drove from South Carolina to the Florida hospital where she abducted Mobley.
The News reports that an an- guished Mobley rushed to the detention center in Walterboro to see Williams, where she sobbed, “I love you, Momma,” as Williams was processed.
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