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Alzheimer’s Sufferer, Fatally Shot Knocking On The Wrong Door …

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Ronald Westbrook, 72, slipped unnoticed from his North Georgia home at 1:00 AM with his two dogs. Westbrook, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, knocked in the dark on a stranger’s door. Police said a man inside that home, 34-year-old Joe Hendrix, got a .40-caliber handgun, went outside to investigate and shot Westbrook in what is being called a horrible mistake.

Hendrix declined to comment because of the ongoing investigation. His attorney, Lee Davis, described his client as distraught. The local district attorney has not yet decided whether to press criminal charges against Hendrix for shooting a stranger possibly looking for help.

Hendrix’ attorney said about his client “He is not a gun-toting rights activist who’s saying, ‘Keep off my property,” Davis said. “He’s a man who thought he had to take action because of what he believed to be a real and imminent threat.”

Under Georgia law, people are not required to try retreating from a potential conflict before opening fire to defend themselves from serious imminent harm. State law allows people to use lethal force to stop someone from forcibly entering a home if those inside reasonably fear they are going to be attacked. Deadly force can even be used to stop someone from trying to forcibly enter a home to commit a felony.

Different people have a different understanding of what is reasonable, reasonableness is a classic question for a jury in my opinion.

Celebrity Deaths, Nelson Mandela

RIP: Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013

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South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela passed away at his home today. He was 95. Tributes and condolences flooded social networking websites as world leaders, former presidents, celebrities and citizens of the world remembered the anti-apartheid civil rights leader as an icon. 

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I will never forget my friend Madiba

Politics, Prejudice, President Obama, Racist

Right wingers trying to depict President Obama as a Perv!

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They just hate this man, yes they do! And they are trying to pin every African-American stereotype on him as possible.

The attacks on President Obama have been consistent, mean, and down right ignorant from the Republicans.  But some of the attacks are over the line, such as the one pictured above.

Addictinginfo.org released a picture that someone from the Right Wing has been circulating on the web allegedly showing President Obama touching his daughter Sasha in a way that a father should not be touching a child.

The person who’s been pushing the image is someone named Dixon Diaz and the image has made extensive rounds through Twitter, Facebook and other forms of media.  It shows the president with his hands down his daughter’s pants, in what would be a disgusting way for any grown man to interact with their child at any age.

They’ve depicted the president as an ape, a homeboy, a president who promised handouts in exchange for a vote, one who ‘shucks and jives’ and the list goes on. So when is enough, really enough?

Hate him for his policies or his views but don’t stereotype him as having certain behaviors because he’s African-American!

Conversations Of A Sistah, Love & Relationships, Relationships, Tracy L. Bell, What she said

It takes ‘TWO’ to tango…So why do women ‘WAR’ with the other-woman, when her man cheats? Tonight on Conversations Of A Sistah

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It takes two to tango…and two to cheat, yet some women solely blame the other woman when the infidelity has been exposed. Especially since both parties are equally responsible and all matters should be focused on the betrayer, the one who is actually in the relationship. So why are women so quick to attack and lay fault on the other woman?

And don’t get me wrong, the other woman, his mistress and/or ‘side piece’ should bear some responsibility as well, especially if she knew the man was married or in a relationship. Although it can be argued that she doesn’t deserve the majority of the blame, it does actually take two to tango. Yet the man will take pleasure in knowing women are squabbling over him.

So why do women feel compelled to battle and be hostile towards the other woman because of her man’s cheating, whorish ass ways?

Join me tonight at 8:00 P.M. on “Conversations Of A Sistah” via “Conversation’s Live” as I answer the question: “Why do women ‘WAR’ with the other woman, when her man cheats?

You can access the show here! In the meantime, sound off on this Conversation until we meet on the air!!

President Obama, Racist, Racist remarks

Artist Blogger draws an ‘APE-LIKE’ depiction of President Barack Obama on his blog.

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Cartoonist Ted Rall, who regularly posts on the liberal blog Daily Kos recently posted a recent cartoon by Rall which depicted President Obama as an “ape” with the caption: “Calm the fuck down”.

According to the site’s gatekeepers, who cautioned Rall against making future postings which similarly characterize the president in a derogatory manner, their message to him said in part:

Your depiction of Barack Obama as ape-like is intolerable. Being critical of Obama, even ferociously so, is not the problem. Through British and American history, blacks have been subject to racist depictions of themselves as monkeys and apes. No excuse is acceptable for replicating that history, no matter what your intent. If it happens again, your posting privileges will be suspended.

Rall isn’t taking the criticism lying down either and says; since the Daily Kos doesn’t pay him for the content, therefore, he’s not changing his style.

He explains: “I might consider altering the way I draw a political figure for a paying client. A very high-paying client. Someone who employed me full-time. I’m sure not going to alter my drawing style for $0.00 money.”