Crime, Law and order, News

Walmart employee fired for running over teen shoplifter with his car

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A career shoplifter will probably win a substantial settlement from Wal-Mart after one of their employees ran the teen over with his car.

Houston, Texas police arrested Lance Ferguson, 33, on July 10 and charged him with aggravated felony assault after he admitted he had a confrontation with Dominique Mason, 18, whom he suspected of shoplifting “a few” CDs and games from Wal-Mart.

Mason claims he intended to steal the CDs and games but he had a “change of heart” and returned the merchandise he stole. Mason said Ferguson confronted him inside Wal-Mart, shouting, “Why are you stealing out of my store?”

Mason said he left the store and was walking through an adjacent parking lot when he heard a car approach him from behind.

Ferguson, who was still wearing his Wal-Mart vest and hat, struck Mason, sending him tumbling over the front hood of the car and onto the ground.

Ferguson allegedly shouted, “Don’t come back to my store. You want to steal from my store?”

Mason was treated for minor back injuries at a local hospital and released. Wal-Mart terminated Ferguson’s employment following his arrest.

Mason’s mother, Nicola Sherfield, told KPRC News: “Stealing is a crime, yes. But for an individual who’s not a police officer, or a part of Walmart’s loss prevention, he had no right to do what he did… to follow my child and try to run him down like he was some animal or something.”

Celebrity, Dearly Departed, New Movie Release, Whitney Houston

Happy Birthday Whitney Houston…

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Today would have been Whitney Houston’s 49th birthday, so in her honor TriStar Pictures is honoring her memory by encouraging folks to check out the trailer for her final film. “Sparkle” which will be released in theatres next Friday (August. 17.). I’ve already seen the film and it was a real tear jerker for me.

The film does includes a few moments that seem eerily prophetic, especially when Whitney says to these girls who play her daughters: “Was my life not enough of a cautionary tale for you?” Houston’s character asks at one point.

Whitney Houston starring as the mom of three daughters who start a Motown girls’ group, was a bit unrealistic to me.

Houston’s character is a former singer wary of the perils of showbiz. She sings “His Eye is On the Sparrow,” which is sure to be a moving moment on the big screen and seems destined for an iTunes release as a single.

Happy Birthday Whitney Houston, 6 months after your death and you’re sorely missed!

Adultery, Celebrity Couples, Controversy, Sports, Traci Lynn Johnson, What she said

Traci Lynn Johnson think people envy her…

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Traci Lynn Johnson believe people are jealous of her because she “STOLE” Tiki Barber (pictured with her above) away from his wife Jenny; but we all know that’s not it. People don’t envy you Traci Lynn they just hate home-wrecking whores with no shame.

In a recent interview for a nightlife magazine, Tiki’s mistress, now wife revealed; “I have a lot more haters than I do lovers” “People who keep saying all these negative things about me don’t know me at all,” she added. “They just hate their life more, so it’s easy for them to hate me instead of dealing with their own problems.”

No Traci Lynn, you are frowned upon because, you screwed a married man who ultimately left his already pregnant wife and two kids of 11 years. But before that Traci Lynn, Barber did an interview with Sports Illustrated magazine and had the nerve to reveal how the two of you would meet in his agent’s attic. And that’s not all, you openly traveled with Tiki when you worked as an intern at NBC and you think you’re envied? This girl has no clue.

What Traci Lynn don’t understand is that, her very open, blatant and public affair with a well-known married man (whose wife was pregnant at the time), is why she is hated. Traci Lynn overtly disrespected Tiki’s wife, while she and her lover Tiki, tried to conceal their affair. Nobody cares that you’re with the man Traci, it’s about how you got him.

I’ll say it and say it again: Nobody can steal what’s yours…If the man goes, he was never yours to begin with.

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Blog talk radio, Books, Entrepreneur

By request: Tuesday’s interview with Cyrus Webb…

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If you missed Tuesday’s interview (August 7th) with Tracy and Blog Talk Radio host Cyrus Webb you can hear here!

Great things are to come from this interview, so stay tuned.

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I will sit down tonight with Cyrus Webb, host of Blog Talk radio, Conversations Book club and Conversations Magazine.

Mr. Webb is the King of Blog Talk Radio and he is larger than life in his field of literary communication, literary promotion, all things positive and promotional advertisement.

For my longtime blog readers, you may remember that I sat down with Mr. Webb on January 20, 2010 and discussed my book “Conversations Of A Sistah” The Truth And The Myth About Praying For A Mate. This time I believe our discussion will be my children’s book, “Just call me Sophia”.

The show will begin at 8:00 p.m. sharp and stream live here at www.blogtalkradio.com/conversationslive.

My segment with Mr. Webb will be 30 minutes tops, so I hope you all will tune in and remember: the Blog Talk Radio link is also featured here on this blog – Cyrus Webb/Blog Talk Radio under Tracy’s favorites. 

Share your thoughts with me now or come back after the show! 🙂

Discrimination, Law and order, News, Racist, Slow news day

Connecticut town wants to remain all white!

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They want the nice houses, with the manicured lawns and white picket fences in their all white communities. This was the goal of the Housing Authority in Winchester, CT. and by doing so, it’s Housing Authority “systematically and unlawfully” discriminated against minorities in its administration of a federal housing subsidy program.

That’s right, the town of Winchester, Connecticut, discriminated against Blacks and Latinos by giving housing vouchers to mostly white people, this was the town’s way of “ensuring that overwhelmingly White communities remain overwhelmingly White.

As a result, Crystal Carter, an African-American woman, and the Connecticut Fair Housing Center sued the town’s Housing Authority last Wednesday. Carter alleges in the lawsuit that the Winchester Housing Authority refused to even mail her a Section 8 voucher application because she did not meet their residency requirements as a Hartford resident. Carter, an African-American single mother of six and domestic violence survivor, has been forced to live in homeless shelters and “other unstable environments” in Hartford because she could not find good housing, according to the lawsuit.

The Winchester Housing Authority plans to change its policies in light of the lawsuit. But let’s not be fooled people, there are a lot of economically segregated cities in America; Winchester is just the latest to get caught.