Mourning Jasper Howard

We here at SBPDL shy away from no topic - no matter how strange or unbelievable - yet find few words to describe the despondency we feel over the death of Jasper Howard.

Since college football and sports is all that matters in America, the death of 20-year-old Howard - a UCONN football player - has monopolized not just nightly newscasts, but every newscasts:

"About nine hours after his Huskies walked off Rentschler Field with a victory over Louisville, after a press conference filled with smiles and platitudes, UConn football coach Randy Edsall's phone rang. When the phone rings at that hour, Edsall said, it's never good.

Edsall would have to go to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford to identify a body.

Jasper Howard, a 5-foot-9, 174-pound junior cornerback for the Huskies, was dead after an on-campus stabbing early Sunday."

...At the press conference attended by UConn President Michael Hogan, athletic director Jeff Hathaway and Edsall, Blicher said witnesses have been interviewed.

"There is no specific reason to believe [the suspect] is a danger to our community," said Blicher, who added that campus police were at the party. "And I will point out the fact that this stabbing was subsequent to an altercation that occurred, so I will call this not a random act of violence. The university does not have an individual walking around just stabbing people. This was definitely subsequent to the altercation that occurred."

The outpouring of emotion for the death of Howard has been touching, but for anyone to say that an individual who took the life of another is not a danger to the Hartford community - already besieged by massive crime - is asinine, considering that one person died because of his actions and another was sent to the hospital:

"A banner signed by West Virginia fans that read "Today we are all Huskies" was displayed in the Connecticut tunnel entrance to Mountaineer Field. Other signs in the crowd read "In memory of Jasper Howard, 1989-2009," and "Husky Forever, JH."

Hundreds of foam, heart-shaped pins and armbands with Howard's number on them were distributed at the main entrance to the stadium."

Howard is from Miami, a place where peaceful block parties are few and far between, and came to UCONN to escape the violence, where, ostensibly, the University of Connecticut also harbors unsafe block parties where students are stabbed.

How did Howard end up at UCONN? Good question:

"Jasper Howard is not Connecticut's most highly touted commit in the class of 2007, but he does represent what the Huskies are trying to accomplish- bring in speed and athleticism from wherever available."

Howard had not decided on a major at UCONN yet, but was to be the father of a child with his longtime girlfriend. SBPDL sends its condolences to Howard's family. This is a tragedy that should not have happened.

He grew up in Little Haiti, Miami, an area not unknown for crime and tough times, all of course a byproduct of evil white racism and the retreat of white people to whitopia's.

Interestingly, Connecticut is not what many people in the country consider a high crime state, but the New England scent it gives off might just be supplied by an unhealthy dose of Lysol, as Hartford is the 7th most dangerous city in America, way ahead of Howard's hometown of Miami (19th):

"Overall, “part one” crime is down by 9.6 percent, the officials said. (Click on the graph below to see a larger version.) This includes murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, and auto theft. Officials said the total for this category—8,041 crimes—is the lowest statistic in recorded history for Hartford. Some of the specific crime category drops since 2007 are double-digit, such as burglary (15.7 percent) and auto theft (18.1 percent). There were drops as well in statistics for rape (5.4 percent), robbery (3.5 percent) and larceny (9.4 percent).

Chief Roberts acknowledged that aggravated assaults are up by 12.8 percent, the only category of part one crime to increase since the previous year. There were 794 such assaults in Hartford in 2008, compared to 704 in 2007.

Howard, who came to Hartford to attend college and escape the violence of Miami, jumped head first into one of America's most violent cities, even though college recruiters probably told him the city was a slice out of New England charm and puritan bliss:

The racial makeup of the city was 27.72% White, 38.05% Black or African American, 0.54% Native American, 1.62% Asian, 0.11% Pacific Islander, 26.51% from other races, and 5.44% from two or more races. 40.52% of the population were Hispanic or Latino, chiefly of Puerto Rican origin. 17.83% of the population classified itself as non-Hispanic White.

Therein is the real tragedy: Howard came to Hartford to escape the violence of Miami and to make a better life for himself, his girlfriend and family to be. He is now just another statistic in Hartford's rising crime problem (The state of Connecticut is only nine percent Black, with most of that population living in big cities).

Today's post was to be about college football and the lack of accountability that administrators have over athletes - and the monumental amount of money deployed to keep coaches employed by ensuring Black athlete-students stay in school through tutoring - but we will not post it.

Instead, the senseless tragedy of a 20-year-old football player, killed at a party where police were in attendance, will be honored.

RIP Jasper Howard. May your killer be found and justice be done.

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#765. Billy Dee Williams Being Paid Not to Play Two-Face

A smart wager could be made that more than 50 percent of the United States population has seen a Star Wars film. Perhaps you grew up in the Episode I - III and stumbled into a theater 10 years ago to the farce that was The Phantom Menace.

Perchance, you saw Episode IV first and quickly became enamored with the Empire for its brutal effectiveness and wanton, perhaps systematic deployment of power. If you ventured to watch this film, you might have noticed a lack of casting diversity by George Lucas, for in his world that was long ago, and in a galaxy far, far away, Black people didn't exist:

"It was rumored that Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian) was bothered by the fact that there were no black people featured in the original Star Wars (1977) film. The story goes that Williams approached George Lucas and complained that the film had a complete dearth of African-American characters. Williams had touched on a long-standing debate in Hollywood about casting black actors in science-fiction movies. Lucas, unaware of this oversight, offered the role of Lando to Williams."

A lack of Black people in science-fiction movies? Could this be because of lack of interest in space by Black people, or just a pattern of discriminatory casting by Hollywood (take for instance Logan's Run - a future world where Black people don't exist)?

It wasn't until The Empire Strikes Back that Black people were introduced to the gloriously- inane world of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, for Billy Dee Williams came aboard as the dashing, roguish and cavalier Lando Calrissian.

Let's be honest: Williams is a cool guy that has acted in a number of fine films, and though he was a traitor to Han Solo, he did help destroy the second, partially Deathstar in Episode VI, along with that strange looking dude (that resembled Ted Kennedy in his later years) in the Millenium Falcon.

Billy is best known for his role as Calrissian, the Token Black of the Star Wars Universe, and has made a lucrative career by appearing as that character at Star Wars Conventions the world over, for nary a nerd can deny the awesome appeal of a fake universe and the adroit Black pilot of the Falcon.

Sadly, the role that could have propelled Williams into the 1990s as the "it" actor never came to fruition. And what role might we be referring too? How about the iconic role of Harvey Dent in the Batman myth, a character that both Tommy Lee Jones and Aaron Eckhart would play with differing styles, yet the same resultant addition of millions into their bank accounts.

Cast in the Tim Burton's 1989 classic Batman as Harvey Dent - who becomes the villain Two-Face, Billy Dee Williams was about to enter into yet another geek-certified role that would endear him to millions of comic book collecting, date-less perpetual adolescents:

"One of his most notable roles was in 1989's Batman as district attorney Harvey Dent. Williams originally took the role believing that it would land him in a sequel playing the supervillain Two-Face and arranged a pay or play contract in preparation for the role. However, the studio decided to pay the penalty fee instead when the time came for the third installment, Batman Forever, in order to cast Tommy Lee Jones for the role."

Yes, the world was denied a Black Two-Face, so that Jones could on the make-up and be the villain in 1995s Batman Forever:

"A slightly different contract scenario was the case for Billy Dee Williams and his ill-fated quest to play Two-Face in the Batman films.

When Williams signed on to play Harvey Dent in the first Batman film, as part of his contract, he was signed on to play Two-Face if/when the Batman films decided to use the villain.

However, when Tim Burton decided to pass on Batman Forever, the second sequel to the film, incoming director Joel Schumacher did not want Williams for the role, so the producers instead paid Williams his fee for the film for NOT appearing in the movie as Two-Face.

That led to Tommy Lee Jones becoming Two-Face."

Williams gave an interview, where he lamented that he was not given the chance to play Two-Face:

"I haven't seen The Dark Knight. I understand it's very good, but I think the first Batman -- the one I was in -- was probably the best one. And I wanted to play Two-Face; I thought it would have been a very unique thing to do. I would have done something interesting with the character, there's no question about it. It's just too bad I didn't have the opportunity."

Considering how much money the Batman franchise has made at the box office - The Dark Knight made $1 billion alone - it's a shame that Williams was denied the right to play the role of Harvey Dent, a gifted District Attorney who is tormented by inner demons and thus becomes a psychotic, homicidal lunatic after his disfigurement.

Still, I believe in Harvey Dent, and feel that Billy Dee Williams playing a traditional white person (Dent has only been depicted non-white in the Burton movie) as one of the ultimate villains in Batman's rouge gallery would have done wonders for his career.

Williams said that in an interview, one key factor played the inhibitor to his potential as an actor being sabotaged - racism:

"Racism. Plain prejudice from both sides, black and white. It's become such a hassle, man. Because everybody is looking at that rather than at much more important things. I see changes happening now. The success of all these black actors right now is so important."

This could be the reason why Williams was paid not to play Two-Face in 1995, for studio executives might have decided that he was not a good fit to play a white character, although he had previously played Harvey Dent in the smash hit of 1989 (the film netted an inflation adjusted $411 million).

Racism is or not, by 1995, Williams was no longer the bankable star nor was he even cast in any mainstream movies. Attention spans being what they are, most people had forgotten that Williams was even cast in the secondary character of Dent in the first Batman movie.

Being Black had nothing to do with not playing Dent in Batman Forever. Being irrelevant in the acting world - except for appearing at Star Wars conventions - did.

This is why Stuff Black People Don't Like includes Billy Dee Williams being paid not to play Two-Face, for had he been allowed to became disfigured and thus the villain, Batman wouldn't have stood a chance.

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#220. The Three Musketeers of Hate Crime Hoaxes

Alexander Dumas classic tale, "The Three Musketeers", tells the story of Porthos, Athos and Aramis, the adventures they undertake and the immutable bounds of friendship that guide their lives.

Interestingly, their creed, "All for One and One for All" fittingly describes Black people and their admiration for Mein Obama and more importantly and how they view and rally around a fallen comrade in the war against Pre-Obama America.

It is well known - even to Black people - that something is rotten in Denmark and that Black people might be at the core of the problem. And yet, we live in a world where Hate Facts mean little and the rule of Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) exist as a powerful force to stifle debate and perpetuate heinous murders, asinine practices of employment, higher education blunders, all the while ignoring the reality that the United States is no longer a viable entity and nearing collapse.

Better to stand for tolerance, diversity and and hope in the face of Armageddon than trying to avert the four horsemen and the pain and suffering that is to come.

You see, the evils of the white man - through slavery, colonization, Jim Crow, etc. - can never be rectified and thus the need for re-education of the current crop of white people on the planet so that any shred of hate and intolerance can be removed from these maleficent Ice People and turn them into automatons of effeminate, DWLs who will embark on the Crusading White Pedagogues inevitably failing task of closing the white-black achievement gap.

Any crime that befalls white people or displacement through affirmative action in school and vocation is just the natural and correct enforcement of the equilibrium of justice for the years of persecution and hate directed at Black people by white peoples ancestors, through slavery and blah blah blah....

Never do Black people nor DWLs ponder the question of what happens when the current crop of white people on this planet throw of the shackles of political correctness and realize that MARs is not just a planet, but a political movement that might one day recall the glories of a people immortalized in 300.

For everyday that passes into past, brings a new day of reality for white people and their impending complete dispossession. Some Black people are aware of this fact and worry about radicalizing white people for the guilt that besieged so many Ice People is thawing, and it can be attributed to Crystal Gail Mangum, Tawana Brawley and Megan Williams.

These three Black women form the Holy Triumvirate of Hoaxes and their stories and media circus that followed their incredulous tales will one day serve as a footnote in the story of what brought down the age of political correctness.

A brief overview of these Black women who dared to say they were the victims of white males and the incredible, ravenous, barbaric and insatiable desire that all Ice People have for Black females:

In the United States in 2005, 37,460 white females were sexually assaulted or raped by a black man, while between zero and ten black females were sexually assaulted or raped by a white man.

What this means is that every day in the United States, over one hundred white women are raped or sexually assaulted by a black man.

And yet, Brawley dared to say she was victim of a brutal, white on Black raping:

Tawana Brawley (born 1972) is an African American woman from Wappingers Falls, New York. In 1987, at the age of 15, she received national media attention in the US for accusing six white men of rape, some of whom were police officers. The accusations soon earned her notoriety, which was inflamed by Brawley's advisers Reverend Al Sharpton and attorneys Alton H. Maddox and C. Vernon Mason, public officials, and intense media attention.

After hearing evidence, a grand jury concluded in October 1988 that Brawley had not been the victim of a forcible sexual assault and that she herself may have created the appearance of an attack.

The New York prosecutor whom Brawley accused as one of her alleged assailants successfully sued Brawley and her three advisers for defamation.

Does Crystal Mangum need an introduction? Sure she does, for she is a Black stripper of some repute that found her way into the home of Duke Lacrosse players and immediately turned this virile young white boys into whimpering balls of flaccidity due to her interesting look:

The 2006 Duke University lacrosse case was a scandal that started in March 2006 when a student at North Carolina Central University who worked as an exotic dancer and escort accused three Duke University students - members of the Duke Blue Devils men's lacrosse team of raping her at a party held at the house of two team's captains in Durham, North Carolina, USA on March 13, 2006. The accuser was black and the three lacrosse players were white. Many involved in the case, including prosecutor Mike Nifong, called the alleged assault a hate crime or suggested it might be one.

On April 11, 2007, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper dropped all charges and declared the three players innocent. Cooper stated that the charged players – Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans – were victims of a "tragic rush to accuse."

The initial prosecutor for the case, Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong, who had been denounced as a "rogue prosecutor" by Cooper, withdrew from the case in January 2007 after the North Carolina State Bar filed ethics charges against him. That June, Nifong was disbarred for "dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation", making Nifong the first prosecutor in North Carolina history to lose his law license based on actions in a case. Nifong was found guilty of criminal contempt and served one day in jail.

And yet, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me a third time, well, that might make one the ultimate fool, for the Ice People found themselves firmly hoodwinked by Megan Williams:

"An attorney for a black woman who claimed torture by a white group in West Virginia says his client fabricated the story to get back at a boyfriend who had beaten her up.

Megan Williams' attorney, Byron Potts, said at a news conference Wednesday that Williams came forward because she no longer wants to live a lie. Potts encouraged West Virginia authorities to re-evaluate the case.

Williams told authorities in 2007 that she had been beaten, raped, forced to eat animal feces and taunted with racial slurs for days. She now lives in Columbus.

Seven white men and women were convicted in the case, and most are serving long prison terms.

Prosecutors in West Virginia have dismissed Williams' new claim, and lawyers for the defendants aren't discussing their plans."

Three sensational stories, all of the Man bites Dog caliber and all better suited for publication in The National Enquirer.

As any Nightly Newscast can tell you, there does exist an epidemic of hate in the United States and it is of the Black-on-Black and Black-on-white variety. Whitopia's exist for a reason, as in the end, nature always finds a way of working herself out.

Those shackles you here are the sounds of chains falling off, for they represented the most sinister form of slavery ever devised: that of inculcating individuals into a state of advanced paranoia of fear of being labeled a racist for utterances that defy the status quo.

SBPDL was started as a joke. But in the four months it has existed, we have documented the rising hostilities between the races that few dare to note. 50,000 Black people lined up for handouts in Detroit, with no hope coming. A dorky white kid got beat up on a bus for merely being a dorky white kid. These are not laughing matters, but a sign of things to come.

Now, another hoax is upon us, while the statistics show that 100 white women were raped by Black men today, with not one Black woman raped at the hands of an Ice Person.

Rape is a tool of war and SBPDL has stated - and crime stats prove - that a war is being waged against the last vestiges of white America. Stuff Black People Don't Like includes the Three Musketeers of Hate Crime Hoaxes, for the continued search for the great white defendant will go on and on, all the while the guilt heaped upon the current crop of white people in America will fail to take hold as an immunity is built up to the demonizing of their ancestors long dead.

"All for one and one for all"...

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#98. Metallurgy

Blacks are "sun people," Jeffries explains, and whites are "ice people." New York Newsday quoted Jeffries as telling his students last year, "Our thesis is that the sun people, the African family of warm communal hope, meets an antithesis, the vision of ice people, Europeans, colonizers, oppressors, the cold, rigid element in world history." Jeffries believes melanin, the dark skin pigment, gives blacks intellectual and physical superiority over whites.
- Professor Leonard Jeffries

The Ice People, in Leonard Jeffries view, represent evil personified for they have a heart of steel, as opposed to the warmth that emanates from the congenial soul of Black folk. All Black people know and understand - like Jeffries - that they are infinitely superior to white people in all accounted fields, from mathematics, physics, geology, astronomy and metallurgy.

It's a well-known fact that all human life originated out of Africa (The Out of Africa Theory, which rests as the foundational theorem of disingenuous white liberals worldview and thus, the dominant worldview of our world) and that every human alive - Ice People or not - must love Lucy:

"Perhaps the world's most famous early human ancestor, the 3.2-million-year-old ape "Lucy" was the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton ever found, though her remains are only about 40 percent complete (photo of Lucy's bones)."

And yet, a paradox exists for Black people, who rightfully have great pride in their heritage back in Africa. For a people who failed to find the ingredients for alcohol in the hundreds of thousands of years of their evolution, are purportedly where all life began?

If so, the question must be asked: Why did intelligence blossom in Europe and Asia and miserably fail to evolve in Africa? Black people find this question difficult to digest, for if the history of the world where a delicious meal spread over a table, the contributions of Black people would be represented by a most unpleasant vegetable.

The Sun People, who were so easily colonized by Europeans once (and by the People's Republic of China now), look at the Out of Africa Theory with an unending sense of dread, for human life did indeed evolve outside of Africa and devolved in the land of I Love Lucy.

Take for instance metallurgy:

Process Metallurgy is one of the oldest applied sciences. Its history can be traced back to 6000 BC. Admittedly, its form at that time was rudimentary, but, to gain a perspective in Process Metallurgy, it is worthwhile to spend a little time studying the initiation of mankind's association with metals. Currently there are 86 known metals.

Before the 19th century only 24 of these metals had been discovered and, of these 24 metals, 12 were discovered in the 18th century. Therefore, from the discovery of the first metals - gold and copper until the end of the 17th century, some 7700 years, only 12 metals were known. Four of these metals, arsenic, antimony , zinc and bismuth , were discovered in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, while platinum was discovered in the 16th century. The other seven metals, known as the Metals of Antiquity, were the metals upon which civilisation was base."

The Europeans and Chinese (and Americans of European persuasion) are to be credited with most major discoveries in metallurgy, thereby finding the courage to circumvent the Out of Africa theory and discovering the courage from Lucy to tame the elements and discover new uses for metal to enhance not only the Ice People, but all people (Sun People included).

Black people though, still reeling from the reality of the Out of Africa Theory, hope in vain to see some evidence of metallurgy in Africa by resorting to the same tactics of alchemy used Nicholas Flamel to try and turn any evidence of smelting into a gold mine of hope for Black metallurgists:

"Around1,500-2,000 years ago, Africans living on the western shores of Lake Victoria, in Tanzania, had produced carbon steel that later gave life to the Industrial Revolution.

The Africans created pre-heated forced-draft furnaces, a method that was more sophisticated than any developed in Europe until the mid-19th century. It has been discovered that near Lake Victoria were 13 Iron Age furnaces that proved a technologically superior culture developed in Africa more than 1, 500 years ago overturns popular and scholarly ideas that technological sophistication developed in Europe but not in Africa.

The temperature achieved in the blast furnace of the African steel-smelting machine was higher than any achieved in a European machine until the Industrial Revolution. It was roughly 1,800 C some 200 to 400C higher that the highest reached in European cold blast bloomeries."

Sadly, the above quoted material comes from the pen of an Afro-Centrists author who distorted facts and created outright fabrications to try and cloud the obvious reality of metallurgy in Africa, for the historical forecast - er, record - is lacking of almost any credible evidence.

Wikipedia.org has an unintentionally hilarious entry on Iron Metallurgy in Africa, which any proponent of Afro-Centrism and the Out of Africa Theory would find heretical to their worldview:

The origin of iron metallurgy in Africa is hotly disputed by archaeologists. The first evidence for iron in Africa dates back as far as the second millennium BC. The vast scale of the continent, accessibility, political and cultural barriers have caused difficulties in finding a good database of evidence to help diagnose when and where origins lie. It has now been recognised that trying to put the origins in some kind of chronological order is not currently possible with the archaeological evidence available and controversial when attempted.

The reality of Metallurgy in Africa can be summed up by the experience of South Africans and the simply stated in the following few sentences, for Ponte City in Johannesburg, South Africa will stand as a strange artifact in the Land of Lucy as we go Back to Future and move into the world parodied by Mike Judge in Idiocracy:

Ponte City is a skyscraper in the Hillbrow neighbourhood of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in 1975 to a height of 173 metres, making it the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa. The 54-story building is cylindrical, with an open center allowing additional light into the apartments. The center space is known as "the core" and rises above an uneven rock floor. The building was designed by Manfred Hermer. Ponte City was an extremely desirable address for its views over all of Johannesburg and its surroundings.

During the 1990s, after the end of apartheid, many gangs moved into the building and it became extremely unsafe. Ponte City became symbolic of the crime and urban decay gripping the once cosmopolitan Hillbrow neighborhood. The core filled with debris five stories high as the owners left the building to decay.

One of the most impressive structures in all of Africa was built by Ice People, who invaded a largely uninhabited land and built a civilization unlike any seen on the continent, only to see it devolve into a murky sea of crime, corruption and five stories of trash in the middle of a glorious citadel that would only have existed in the most fantastical dreams of the Sun People.

In the end, the Sun People have to admit that Stuff Black People Don't Like includes Metallurgy, for being a Blacksmith is something that Black people just want to leave for those cold, Ice People to perform as their vocation.

The sad thing is, this isn't the only kind of metal that Black people don't like (that is what you call a teaser).

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#419. Condoless in Atlanta

Atlanta again. Sherman infamously burned the city to the ground during the first Civil War in 1864 and the horrors of that scorched earth policy are constantly reenacted upon Georgia Tech Students nowadays.

The same strategy of scorched earth is being employed by the Black power base in the city, as the fear of losing power to the growing presence of white people migrating back into Atlanta could erupt into a reverse of the 1906 race riots.

Clayton County foretells the future for all cities that wish to emulate Blacktopia's, the antonym of the Whitopia. Yet Atlanta is a beacon for what the future holds for all people who retreat to living in a Fritz Lang inspired Metropolis - like existence.

Take for instance the poster child for disingenuous white liberal (DWL) Dr. Eugenia "Jeanne" Calle, a once prominent cancer research who was a victim of one of Lang's working-class people:

"The start of our day here at the American Cancer Society was quickly punctuated by the rumor -- and then the confirmation -- that one of our friends, a valued colleague and mentor, lost her life in a horrific crime sometime Tuesday in Atlanta.

Jeanne Calle was a member our society family since 1989. She was vice president of epidemiology here at our national home office in Atlanta

She was an epidemiologist who worked incessantly to unlock the secrets of what population-based information can tell us about the causes and risk factors that lead to cancer. There are few researchers in this country who have labored so hard and been so successful at bridging the gap between what we learn from epidemiology research and how we apply that information to our everyday lives.

We have lost someone very special. Her death was tragic and needless, and defies explanation."

Unlike the work of Crusading White Pedagogues, Calle was striving to better society through groundbreaking in fighting cancer that would have lasting implications on the health and wellbeing of countless individuals, regardless of race or creed.

Sadly, a condoless, Black Atlanta resident decided to take her life in a cold blooded manner that doesn't defy explanation, but can only be rationalized through twisted mind of the DWL:

" Their fateful meeting at the high-rise Midtown condo complex--the prominent cancer researcher and the young man described by police as a two-bit criminal--was nothing but chance.

Eugenia "Jeanne" Calle, who had a condo on the Aqua building's 20th floor, was walking her gray poodle.

Shamal Thompson, 22, fresh off a meal at a nearby Checkers fast-food restaurant, wandered in under the pretense of shopping for condos in the luxury building that boasts private elevators, around-the-clock security and skyline-view homes that cost as much as $2.5 million.

Calle undoubtedly thought she was seizing on an opportunity to sell her condo. But it was Thompson, police say, who was looking for opportunity.

Early Thursday morning, authorities arrested Thompson and charged him with beating Calle to death as she showed him around her penthouse condo. After the killing, and after he went on a spending spree with Calle's credit cards, Thompson got bolder, returning to the scene of the crime late Wednesday night and trying to con his way back inside her condo, police said.

"He was extremely brazen," said Atlanta police Lt. Keith Meadows, commander of the department's homicide unit. "It's a little unsettling when people are that bold. I can't even put it into words."

Just two weeks into retirement, Calle wanted to sell her condo so she could move in with her fiance."

Mr. Thompson who had an impressive rap sheet of criminality that rivaled Calle's record of research into combating the growth of cancer in the human body, wasn't in a position to purchase a luxury condo in Atlanta, even though the city has a copious amount of low occupancy luxury buildings:

"A one-mile stretch of Atlanta's upscale Buckhead neighborhood shows why commercial real estate is emerging as an obstacle to pulling the U.S. economy out of recession.

Separate developers in Buckhead are building four speculative office buildings at the same time with virtually no leasing activity. The 35 recent condominium projects will help give Atlanta a 40-year supply at the current sales pace. A $600 million outdoor shopping mall under way has suspended construction to save money.

....Canadian insurer Manulife Financial Corp. and Crescent Resources, a developer owned by Duke Energy Corp. and a unit of Morgan Stanley, was last. It launched Phipps Tower in March 2008, days before Bear Stearns Cos. collapsed. Regions Financial Corp., a Birmingham, Ala., bank, arranged the $95 million construction loan. A Regions spokesman declined to comment. Mr. Bell, at Cousins, was incredulous that Crescent and Manulife went ahead. "I threw up my hands. The world's gone crazy," he said."

The world has gone crazy. Calle is gone from this earth, a woman who spent her entire life trying to better mankind's condition on this planet through her cancer research and in her last moments on earth she was left wondering if Mr. Thompson might still purchase her condo in Atlanta:

Would you like for me to escort him up?" the guard asked Calle, according to Meadows.

"No, it'll be fine," Calle responded. "I don't want him to think that we don't trust him.'

It's not clear whether Thompson seriously intended to buy a home in Aqua or had the money to do so. Meadows said he suspects Thompson wanted to case the condos for valuables and didn't realize beforehand that the first two were vacant.

Surveillance footage captured Thompson on camera, but he had given a fake name to the real estate agent, Meadows said. He had used his own cell phone to set up the condo viewings, however, and police subpoenaed his phone records.

It's safe to assume Mr. Thompson wasn't going to purchase Calle's condo, but the DWL-tendencies that she exercised in the last moments of her life - one that was devoted to understanding science -in not accepting a guards accompaniment (despite his melanin-enriched appearance), for she didn't want to be accused of engaging in the algebraic equations of Hate Facts.

A senseless tragedy made the more morose and macabre by the fact of the surplus of fine condos and apartments in Atlanta that Mr. Thompson could have viewed with a reputable agent and perhaps found something more in his price range:

Between 2004 and 2007, about two dozen condos in the seven-figure price range were sold, Palm said. But as more were built, those numbers grew and created a market of its own. Since 2007, nearly 80 condos have sold for more than $1 million. That figure may give builders the impression that sales are picking up, but Palm doesn’t read the data that way.

“The market now has more condos for sale at this price than have ever been sold at this price,” he said. “That just doesn’t make any sense in this housing market.”

Freeman said there have been about a dozen closed sales at the St. Regis, but he wouldn’t give a specific number, citing pending contracts that might be days or weeks from closing. Though the building’s structure is complete, most units’ interiors are still under construction.

Plans for many of these pricey condos were put into motion before the economy soured, making it too late to stop them when the housing market started to go south, developers say.

Atlanta-based Post Properties started The Ritz-Carlton Residences in Buckhead in 2006.

“The world has certainly changed,” said Jeffrey W. Harris, an executive vice president at Post. “Our pricing now is a reflection of the economy.”

The world has certainly changed. A prominent cancer researcher is gone, for she had the heart of a DWL and refused to trust her handy Hate Facts that guide so many people to Whitopia's, those evil cities that remind their inhabitants of Pre-Obama America.

Mr. Thompson is alive and well though, and will one day search for another condo in Atlanta. Until then, he will be yet another Black person who is Condoless in Atlanta, and yet another entry in Stuff Black People Don't Like.

A VIDEO OF THE EVENT CAN BE FOUND HERE and HERE.

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A Halloween Appeal

New post will be published in a few hours. First, a quick appeal (first ever at SBPDL). Halloween is forthcoming, a favorite holiday here at SBPDL.

We have about five posts that will be posted next week in honor of this wonderful day, but we need a few things (we could get more than five posts out of ideas that are spinning in the demented mind of SBPDL's creator).

1. We have a lot of loyal of readers here, and that number grows by the day. Can you send us stories that deal with Halloween from a whitopian perspective (i.e., why does trick or treating only exist in Whitopia's).

2. Photos of Halloween costumes that Black people don't like (think of traditionally white fraternities around the country that get into trouble for daring to criticize Black people and the trouble they rightfully get in for not bowing before Zod's people).

3. Halloween is a true white people's holiday, where the idea of community and trust (both sorely lacking in a diverse world, as Putman showed us) correlate with trick or treating and festivities. Find any stories that deal with this issue, such as the FORCED BUSING OF LOWER INCOME PEOPLE (Black people) into Whitopia's so they can enjoy trick or treating.

That's it for now. New post coming later tonight.In the meantime, remember that Stuff Black People Don't Like includes sudden frights, one of the first posts here.


Send all ideas (for any SBPDL) and links to Stuffblackpeople@gmail.com

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#186. Losing the Lottery

"What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." So the moniker of Sin City goes, for Las Vegas exists to allow America a place to retreat to momentary bliss, potential financial ruin and the wonders of a one-night stand coupled with all the trappings of said illicit encounter.

All people on the planet wish for instantaneous wealth, begot through the luck of the roulette wheel, the Poker table, Blackjack, Black Friday Lines or through a state-sponsored lottery.

Other people, instead of seeking the instant gratification of riches through chance, invest their money in 401Ks, Mutual Funds or CDs, thereby planning for the long term benefits of wealth creation - compound interest baby - over the short term sensation of winning a scratch off card from the local 711.

It must be said, Black people love the idea of instant gratification. Take for instance Black athletes who hit the genetic lottery jackpot and make it to professional sports. Seven figures or more quickly pouring into a newly created bank account makes for an impressive trip to the strip club for a joyful - yet soon to be dolorous - session of "Making it Rain".

Yet, Black people find these avarice-induced downpours of Benjamins an expensive deluge of momentary monetary showering, for money only begets more money when it is put into a savings account and not into the G-String of some random girl:

"Via Half Sigma, we learn the factoid that 3 out of 5 former pro basketball players are broke within a half decade of being out of the game. The typical NBA player makes millions of dollars and has a two digit IQ. That's a recipe for trouble -- both overspending and getting scammed by advisors."

Sports Illustrated, the magazine that is for Black people what Popular Mechanics is for white people, recently ran an interesting article that talked about How Athletes Go Broke. If you read between the lines, the article is largely about Black people in athletics who after winning the genetic lottery go out and splurge with the fervor of a sixteen-year-old girl with her daddy's credit card:

"What happens to many athletes and their money is indeed hard to believe. In this month alone Saints alltime leading rusher Deuce McAllister filed for bankruptcy protection for the Jackson, Miss., car dealership he owns; Panthers receiver Muhsin Muhammad put his mansion in Charlotte up for sale on eBay a month after news broke that his entertainment company was being sued by Wachovia Bank for overdue credit-card payments; and penniless former NFL running back Travis Henry was jailed for nonpayment of child support.

In a less public way, other athletes from the nation's three biggest and most profitable leagues—the NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball—are suffering from a financial pandemic. Although salaries have risen steadily during the last three decades, reports from a host of sources (athletes, players' associations, agents and financial advisers) indicate that:

• By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce.

• Within five years of retirement, an estimated 60% of former NBA players are broke.

Does pointing out this unpleasant of financial irresponsibility strike SBPDL as utilizing Hate Facts to make a point? Let's get back to the "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" aspect of this entry.

Only seven states in the nation don't have lotteries, as the prospect of quick millions is an enticing idea entertained by millions of people who hope to duplicate the spending capabilities of pro athletes whom they enjoy spending vast times watching on television.

The United States is a country that has a government that spends money like a recently drafted Black athlete and worse, acts like an enraged lottery loser when Hate Facts are deployed in any conversation about race:

"A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax.

Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said.

Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store, police Sgt. Lt. Michael Deakins said. Brown walked to a cash register and loudly announced she had won the lottery and would pay for each person's merchandise up to $500, he said."

Linda Brown - a Black woman - the poster child for Black people playing the lottery in America. An incredible report on Gambling and the Lottery can be found here, as our friends at the National Gambling Impact Study Commission decided to deduce the role of gambling in the United States.

A recent study conducted at the University of Georgia discussed the HOPE Scholarship - created through lottery revenue for Georgia students to go to college in the state for free - and brought forth some interesting data:

Third, lottery play is heaviest among African Americans (National Gambling
Impact Study Commission 1999, p. 3-4). Clotfelter (1979), Clotfelter and Cook (1987),Borg and Mason (1988), Hansen (1995) and Price and Novak (2000) all argued that lottery expenditures are disproportionately higher for African Americans than for whites.

Stranahan and Borg (1998) argued that although African Americans were not more likelyto play than whites, conditioned on playing, they spend much more on lottery tickets than whites.

...shows that lottery sales per capita are much larger in counties with a large share of
African Americans than with a small share. The bottom three quintiles spend $201, $201 and $200 per person, per year on lottery tickets, which contrasts sharply with the upper two quintiles (over 36.1% black) that spend $250 and $402 per person on lottery tickets. The quintile with the largest share of African Americans purchases lottery tickets at twice the rate of those in the lowest three quintiles."

So Black people trying to get rich quick - who weren't blessed with athletic skills or who spent on the money they earned thanks to those athletic skills - purchase an inordinate amount of lottery tickets, thereby allowing white people to attend school for free:

"The irony is that while HOPE caters more and more to middle-class suburbanites, it's the parents of Crim students – and not the parents of Mill Creek ones – who are shelling out more of their income to cover the scholarship's costs. That's because HOPE is paid for by the Georgia Lottery.

"Once you decide you're going to fund public activities with a lottery, you are going to be funding them on the backs of people who tend to be lower income and people with less education, which in the South also means disproportionately black," says Christopher Cornwell, a professor at UGA's Terry College of Business who's extensively studied HOPE. "That's just a reality."

Of course, focusing on Georgia neglects the other 42 states with a lottery, which have significant data to prove the theory SBPDL is postulating:

"The director of Arkansas’ lottery insists the games scheduled to begin this fall will not target the poor and minorities.

But if ticket-buying patterns in Arkansas follow patterns in lottery director Ernie Passailaigue’s home state of South Carolina, those groups will be the most likely to become frequent lottery players.

Among other things, the results showed:

—Blacks made up 19.7 percent of the state’s adult population but accounted for 23.2 percent of lottery players and 38.4 percent of frequent players.

—People in households earning under $40,000 accounted for 28 percent of the state’s population, 31.3 percent of lottery players and 53.4 percent of frequent players.

—People with no high school diploma accounted for 8.9 percent of the state’s population, 10.5 percent of lottery players and 20.8 percent of frequent players.

—People whose highest educational achievement is a high school diploma or GED made up 25.1 percent of the total population, 24.3 percent of lottery players and 33.3 percent of frequent players.

—People who said they have no Internet access made up 29.6 percent of the total population, 30.2 percent of lottery players and 41.1 percent of frequent players.

Asked for his explanation of those statistics, Passailaigue said in an interview last week, “There are certain traditional lottery games that are offered that appeal more to minority populations, and those are specifically the three-digit game and the dour-digit game.”

Drawings are held daily in Pick 3 and Pick 4 games. The winning numbers in daily games often are used as the basis for illegal gambling, Passailaigue said.

“It’s cultural,” he said. “It’s been going on since time immemorial. In South Carolina — I don’t know how it is here — you have two different what we call ‘numbers games.’ You have the numbers games run by the South Carolina lottery, and then you have the illegal games, the street games.”

South Carolina’s 2008 lottery study showed that more than 50 percent of Pick 3 and Pick 4 players were black.

Dale Charles, president of the Arkansas branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said he believed Passailaigue’s assessment was far from accurate. The state lottery director does not want to admit the real reason why blacks play the lottery frequently, Charles said.

“The reason why black people play it is because they are trying to make their lives better for themselves and their families,” Charles said. “But they are failing to realize (the) chances of winning aren’t so great. We think, ‘This is going to be the time,’ and we get hooked on it and we just keep playing and keep playing and keep playing until it becomes an addiction."

Black people want to be rich, and instead of long-term wealth creation an epidemic of short-term financial growth strategy permeates throughout the Black community, well, everywhere the lottery is played (even in Obama's Chicago):

"It’s just minutes before the televised noon lottery drawing, and hurried, last-minute players are lining up inside 115th St. Food & Liquor on Chicago’s South Side.

One of them is 60-year-old homemaker Minnie Vaughn.

“I have no strategy,” she said. “I play the same numbers every day, maybe $7 or $8 worth.”

John Brown started buying lottery tickets the day he turned 18, the legal age for playing the Illinois Lottery.

“On average, I’d say [I spend] about $25 a day,” said Brown, now 36, a laid-off laborer. “But I don’t mind because I know, sooner or later, I’m going to hit something.”

Predominantly African American or Latino, low-income Chicago communities have generated the highest lottery sales in the state, shows an analysis of Illinois Lottery records since 1997 by The Chicago Reporter. In addition, residents in these communities spent a higher portion of their incomes on the lottery than people in more affluent areas. And despite the state’s recent economic downturn, lottery spending has increased, the Reporter found.

In the South Side’s 60619 ZIP code area, lottery players spent more than $23 million on lottery tickets in fiscal year 2002, more than any other ZIP code in the state, according to lottery sales records. The 60619 area includes parts of the predominantly black neighborhoods of Chatham, Avalon Park, Burnside and Calumet Heights."

So, it seems the data overwhelming highlights yet another Hate Fact that few will admit is important to discuss, for instant gratification affects one community more than others. Stuff Black People Don't Like includes losing the lottery, for the reality is that Black people play the lottery more than other races, and though they lose, they keep playing the lottery in a game that even Sisyphus wouldn't try, even if the Gods ordained him too.

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