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Shooter Kills At Least 50 At Country Music Festival
Stephen Paddock has been identified as the shooter. Marilou Danley is a person of interest and reportedly was traveling with Paddock.
Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria scolded all 5,000 people at the U. S. Air Force Academy after learning of the incident. The message was put on 5 cadets doors.
5 Black Air Force Academy Cadets Wake Up To ‘Go Home, N—gger’ Posted On Doors
COLORADO —- After racial slurs were scrawled outside 5 black students' doors at the U. S. Air Force Academy's preparatory school, Superin- tendent Lt. Gen. Jay Silve- ria gathered all 4,000 cadets in a hall Thursday so they could hear one message:
‘Treat people with dignity and respect — or get out.’
"That kind of behavior has no place at the prep school, it has no place at USAFA, and it has no place in the United States Air Force," Silveria
said. ‘You should be outraged not only as an airman, but as a human being."
Speaking to a crowd of some 5,500 people that in- cluded faculty, coaches, airstrip personnel and senior officers and staff of the 10th Air Base Wing that includes the academy, Silveria urged them not to let their institution be taken away from them.
Both the academy and the Air Force amplified Silveria's message through videos and tweets drawing on his speech.
The academy is investigat- ing an incident involving the N-word from last week, when, as local newspaper The Gazette reports, "five black students woke up last Tuesday to find 'Go Home nigger’, scrawled on message boards outside their rooms."
The Gazette, based in Col- orado Springs, Colo., south of the school's base, adds, "Sources at the academy said there appeared to be a single vandal involved, judging by the handwriting."
Black-Owned Telecommunications Company Owner Donates Free Cell Phones To Families In Puerto Rico
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — Freddie Figgers, owner of one of the nation’s largest African-American owned cell phone companies and net- works, has sent 500 satellite phones with unlimited calls, texts and data to help families affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Four years ago, Figgers de- veloped the custom-designed phone the “F1” phone that has automatic anti-texting func- tionality and super-fast charg- ing. Next month, he is
Freddie Figgers owns one of the nation’s largest Black telecommunicationscompanies.
releasing the F2 the company, which will be waterproof and shatterproof. Figgers Commu- nication is currently one of the few telecoms in the country that manufactures its own phone and provides its own service.
As Figgers, who grew up to adopted parents in Quincy FL, looked at the devastation in Puerto Rico, he said he had to do something. Figgers said the SIM cards are fully acti- vated for 90 days free of charge.
Receipt At Smoothie Place Called ‘Disrespectful’ By Black Customer
GAINESVILLE, FL — A Florida woman who wanted a smoothie ended up getting an insult thrown in for free.
Cassandra Peoples went to the Tropical Smoothie Cafe in Gainesville on last Wednes- day and ordered her usual ― a $5.49 “Detox Island.”
Peoples, 47, said the cashier made a point of asking her name, so she was shocked when she saw the receipt.
Instead of “Cassandra,” the employee had identified Peoples as “black chick,” ac- cording to local station WGFL.
“I wouldn’t want to say its racist, its just disrespectful.” Peoples didn’t notice the rude receipt until after she had left the store.
Cassandra Peoples, 47, did not look at the receipt until she left store. Her friend posted the re- ceipt that led to the employee allegedly being fired.
She told The Independent Florida Alligator, the Univer- sity of Florida student newspa-
per, that the employee who made the smoothie was rude when Peoples complained she was making the drink wrong.
Peoples reached out to Tropical Smoothie Cafe’s cor- porate headquarters in Atlanta to complain, but reached a voice mailbox.
Her friend posted a photo of the racially tinged receipt on a Gainesville-themed Face- book page, sparking outrage and hundreds of posts before it was removed, according to the Alligator.
Julie Bartz, the general manager of the Tropical Smoothie Cafe, later posted that the employee responsible had been fired.
LAS VEGAS, NV — Musi- cians flocked to Twitter follow- ing the deadly mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night, offering their prayers and urg- ing fans to seek safety.
At least 50 people were killed and an estimated 406 were in- jured when a hail of gunfire from a high-rise hotel was fired into the crowd during the final set of the three-day country music festival, authorities said.
Police said the suspect, 64- year-old, Stephen Paddock, a resident of Mesquite, Nev., was killed after a SWAT team burst into the hotel room from
which he was firing at the crowd.
Authorities said the gunman appeared to have begun firing at 10:08 p.m. from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel toward the concert venue across the street.
Police said they have suc- ceeded in locating a woman, identified as Marilou Dan- ley, who was believed to be traveling with Paddock and is listed as living at his address in Mesquite, about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas. “We are confident we have located the female person of interest,” the department said on Twitter.
UNCF/ Michael Jackson Scholarship Now Available
The Michael Jackson schol- arship provides financial assis- tance to communication arts and social science students at- tending a UNCF college/univer- sity during the current academic year.
Candidates must have a minimum GPA of 2.5 on a 4.0 scale. The scholarship will pro- vide an award up to $5,000 de- pending on the financial need of the student as verified by the at- tending University or College.
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