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Cosmopolitan Magazine Cover Calls The Kardashians ‘The First Family’.... Really
Black Land Ownership Are You A Millionaire And
Don’t Even Know It?
Passenger Feared For His Life After Seated Next To White Supremacist
A Black traveler claims he was seated next to drunk white supremacists who made vio- lently racist comments, says the cabin crew of the Lufthansa flight he was on did not take his concerns for his safety seri- ously, Mirror reports.
Chicago resident David Barthwell was on a flight from Ibiza to Frankfurt when he realized he'd be seated next to two white supremacist Hell's Angels.
Much to Barthwell's alarm, the men he said, started a racist conversation amongst them- selves.
Barthwell ask to be moved, he was instead greeted by the assumption that he merely wanted a better seat.
Barthwell eventually got
LUFTHANSA AIRLINE
the flight attendant to ask the woman to move her jacket and he was finally comfortably re- seated.
A Lufthansa spokesperson said, in response to the post, The safety and wellbeing of our passengers is of our utmost im- portance and we do not advo- cate or tolerate discrimination of any kind."
By Lee Perry
Nationwide — No ethnic race of people in the United States of America has lost more land to the Oil and Gas industry than Black Americans. We are con- stantly trying to find out who we are kin to all the way back to Africa. The problem is we never ask what type of assets our an- cestors had.
Our American ancestors after slavery all owned land at some point. It is a historical fal- lacy that they were all share- croppers and poor. It is a fact that they worked very hard to leave a legacy and we, the re- maining family members have decided to be passive and just let it go.
If you cannot go directly to the site of land where your great-great-grandmother lived on your mother’s side of your family then I am talking about you. I am willing to wager that less than 5% could say yes. Oil & Gas companies have bene- fited from our lack of motiva- tion to just check to see.
You would be surprised at the amount of Black families who are millionaires that do not even know it. Your great- great- grandmother’s parents may have been the wealthiest Blacks in whatever area they lived. Many times they sold their property, but most of them had very good business sense, and common sense.
If you were to take the time to just check and see in most cases they kept all or at least a portion of their mineral rights. That is huge, because those minerals have been passed on
Lee Perry in front of an oil rig.
to you. In most cases it is never too late to reclaim it.
I have been in the oil and gas business for over 43 years, lo- cating heirs, and proving that millions belong to Black fami- lies.
I hope that every person that reads this press release get mo- tivated enough to check your own ancestor’s assets.
It will take only a few hours of your time on weekends or an hour at night to see if your fam- ily is one of the millionaires that do not know they are a millionaire. Do not check only your father’s side.
Harriet Tubman, a former slave and abolitionist said: “I freed a thousand slaves; I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”
Think about it. Do some- thing about it!
Lee Perry is the author of the National Oil & Gas Mu- seum commissioned book, “The Good Ole Boys in Oil & Gas Book”.
Cover of Cosmo
Racist Post On Facebook About Black Toddler Got Some Folks Fired
Move over, President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama! Appar- ently, America just got a new first family. And they won't be staying in the White House — they prefer their swanky West Coast digs.
According to Cosmopolitan, the Kardashians are the new reigning first family. The mag- azine recently unveiled the cover for its November 2015 issue, featuring the Kar- dashian and Jenner women.
To some on social media, the cover, which features sisters Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, Kendall and Kylie Jenner and mom Kris Jenner, and not the Oba- mas, was a disrespectful act towards the real First Family.
According to USA Today, the magazine emailed in a state- ment, “We are teasing!” Spokeswoman Lauren Demitry also wrote, “”They are a huge cultural phenome- non. What we do know is there is nothing like the cover of a magazine to provoke a national conversation.”
Yet, this was not the first time the magazine was criti- cized for its disrespect of Black people. In April, the magazine’s “Beauty Trends That Need to Die in 2015” only showcased Black women for outgoing fashion trends, but captioned “R.I.P”, while their white coun- terparts were labeled, “Hello, Gorgeous”.
The magazine at that time is- sued a similar statement down- playing its disrespectful captioning.
The "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" stars really have America wrapped around their well-manicured fingers!
Or do they? Social media ac- tivity suggests otherwise. Some people are downright disgusted by Cosmo's bold move, and are tweeting their frustration at the publication.
Post on Facebook by Gerod Roth about Cayden, 3. Roth worked with Cayden’s mom at a small consulting firm and took this selfie with Cayden in the background. He then posted the photo on his Face- book page with some racist re- marks.
When you thought the sys- temic devaluation of Black peo- ple in America was a thing of the past, consider the case of Gerod Roth. Gerod Roth, a.k.a. Geris Hilton, who is white, took a photo of the adorable son of his Black coworker and posted it on Face- book, accompanied by racist comments from himself and others. "Hilton" used to work at Polaris Marketing Group, ac- cording to AtlantaBlackStar, but his employment status changed after he posted the photo on Facebook Sept. 16.
Some of the comments in- sinuated that the little boy, whose name is Cayden Jace, 3, was a slave, and Hilton the slave master.
Taking a photo of a minor and publicizing it is bad enough, not to mention without the parent’s knowledge. How- ever, to exploit and attempt to dehumanize a child in such a blatantly brutal, offensive and degrading manner demon- strates how common racism still is in America. And more importantly how social media has given personal feelings, a global platform.
The photo has made its way around the Internet. As you guessed it, pink slips are flying
Cayden with his mom, Sydney.
and heads are rolling because of the racist comments.
"I didn't know you were a slave owner," a poster by the name of Emily Irene Red re- portedly said. She has since been fired by her employer. Ca- sualty No. 1.
When the president of Po- laris Marketing Group found out about the post he posted a note on Facebook of his own... announcing that an employee— the man behind the Hilton Facebook profile, —had been terminated and denounced the disgusting comments he and his friends made about the lit- tle boy
Atlanta Blackstar spoke with Cayden’s mother Sydney Jace, and his grandmother, Susan Hardy. These two Black women want to set the record straight about Cayden and the Facebook incident, and to convey the positivity sur- rounding this child.
She said her grandson is bright and loving, and ad- vanced beyond his age. “It has been heart aching that my child and grandchild have to go through such hate, and for an innocent child–who [in] this day and age attacks a child?”
Hardy adds that the viral nature of Roth’s Facebook post has had serious implica- tions for their family.
Sydney Jace said, it was my son put in the limelight. And not only my son but a child, a 3- year-old, someone who can’t defend himself.
Black Lives Matter Message On Police Officer’s Coffee Cup Makes National News
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Dunkin' Donuts is apologizing after one of its employees re- portedly wrote #blacklivesmat- ter on a police officer's coffee cup.
The incident happened Fri- day afternoon at a Providence, Rhode Island location. Accord- ing to a Providence police union, the officer was buying a coffee and the employee serv- ing him seemed "somewhat rude and appeared as though they did not want to serve the officer."
The cop later discovered that the employee wrote "#blacklivesmatter" on the cup. The union said that officers work tirelessly to protect the public, and they're not happy with the Dunkin' employee's message.
"The negativity displayed by the #Blacklivesmatter organi- zation towards police across this nation is creating a hostile environment that is not resolv- ing any problems or issues, but making it worse for our com- munities," The Executive
Dunkin’ Donuts apologizes for employee’s behavior.
Board of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #3 said in a state- ment. "They are doing this by increasing tensions amongst police and the people they serve."
A Dunkin' Donuts spokes- person said in a statement that the chain is aware of the situa- tion in Providence.
"Dunkin' Donuts and our franchisees share a commit- ment to the well-being and fair treatment of all our guests," the statement read. "The franchise owner has apologized to the police officer on behalf of Dunkin' Donuts, and he has counseled the employee about her behavior."
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