Showing posts with label Odd news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Odd news. Show all posts

Thursday

Hot women who auctioned their virginity


Every so often we get amazed by girls with amazing ASSets and wonder why they go so far as to auction their virginity. Recession, thrill, hoe or just for the excitement of knowing you can? Guys wish they could, girls do it. Here are the top 7 women who decide to go down for guap. 


Wednesday

The Beef Between Africans & African Americans: Why Can’t We Get Along? -ourlegaci

Tanikia covers the topic:

“You’re not African American, you’re American. You guys just say African American so you can have some relation to Africa.”
These are the words that were spoken to me from a Nigerian lady that I attended college with. It was hurtful to hear her say this. I have traveled to Zambia twice and the first time was challenging. In a debriefing session I explained to the white people on the trip, that my entire life I had been told that I am African American, and here I was in Africa and had no culture to call my own. When a man in the market realized that I couldn’t speak Bemba he told my Zambian host that I should be ashamed of myself for not knowing my language. He didn’t know that I wasn’t from Zambia, because everything about me along with the rest of the African American community screams Africa. While in Zambia, I noticed how the people looked just like African Americans back home. It was very evident that African Americans are from Africa.
There are two major problems at hand: not enough African Americans acknowledge that they are Africans and not enough Africans acknowledge that African Americans are African. I’m sure growing up we have all heard the “You look like you African” jokes. Well that cruel joke has followed us to adulthood. How can a Black person look like an African, when they are African? And why is that meant to be offensive? I will admit that it wasn’t until after my voyage to the Motherland, that I began to take ownership of my African roots. What’s weird is when I say that I’m African around African Americans that know me, they look at me like I’m crazy and question me. I respond by saying “You’re African too!”
On the other hand I have heard Africans speak like the Nigerian lady who told me that I wasn’t African. Is the history of slavery not enough explanation on how we separated from our homeland? That isn’t American history; it’s African and American history. There are African Americans like myself who have gone through major identity crisis’ and struggled over the fact that we have no knowledge of what country in Africa we came from. Just because we weren’t born in Africa, don’t strip us of our African identity and heritage.
What frustrates me is I can see how the media has played a crucial role in dividing us. In America they have presented Africa to us as the Dark Continent with uncivilized people. To an extent we have believed everything we’ve seen on television. I remember on my first trip to Africa I was scared that some random men were going to break into the house I was staying and rape me. How crazy is that? In Africa they have presented African Americans as all being uneducated, rappers, thugs, and hoes. It was very irritating when the Africans would try to use slang with me. The media alone has caused us to form stereotypes about each other.
This is an issue that frequently comes up in my diverse circle of friends, so I wanted to share it with you guys. I leave you with this question:
At what point did African Americans stop being African? When we got off the slave ship?
Yo I tell you the rest when I see you… Peace!
Nikki

Tuesday

Ochocinco looking like a puppy - Usual Attention Whore

Reality TV Ruined My Life
The attention ploys are never satisfactory for Chad Ochocinco, I mean Chad Johnson (1), after changing his name and calling himself an employed black man (oh brother!), to getting a reality show, to posting a picture of an ATM in his room on twitter, to Lozada to his half baked white thrash he was cheating on to rumors of him being gay on the Down low etc.. ((why wouldn't the Miami Dolphins be pissed? I'm sure if you were them you'd be fed up with a grown man acting like a baby and making a scene everywhere he went). Ochocinco recently came on tv looking like a wet puppy begging for another round of attention saying - "reality tv ruined my life". Ochocinco Johnson, take it from us, you need help (mental or psychological) helping you figure why you keep ruining your life and why you're never satisfied with attention.. We'll be praying for you.

Monday

Gay downlo men express their frustration at gay boy openly tweeting them? - priceless caption

Ann email tip just came in from a reader and it definitely had to be put out, too hilarious. Last week or thereabout, a 1 day hit waved on the notorious WSHH, as another new kid on the block posted himself going on a gang bang on some chick @Broskiii . Since then word is that his gay/downlo (however we will term it) associates have been questioning him about his motives especially since they (said Worldstarlebrity and his homthugs) were not too long ago recently indulged and they have since terminated every communication with the very merry boy  Well, the gay boy has been getting several threats (online of course and we pray it stops there for daring to mention the names of those who he has let hit his bunani. The tip claims to be

Thursday

Why Hip-hop is not Reality - Rapper advises teenagers to see the Truth, says Drake is a corny fake and should not be allowed to use the N word


People have been complaining about the atrocities done in the name of Hip-Hop for decades, and how the rapper of the month has sold out to corporate interests at the expense of the culture. However, when the question becomes, “ So, whatcha gonna do about it?” there is never a definite answer.Perhaps the best example, today, is Hip-Hop’s glamour boy, Drake. The issue here is not the former kid show actor’s lack of “street cred,” nor whether you find his music irritating to the eardrums – but the fact that he drops the N-bomb in so many of his lyrics. Even on his latest track, “Enough Said” with the late Aaliyah , Drake seems to have a certain affinity for the word.
In all fairness, rappers have been saying ‘n*gga’ since the first Hip-Hop park jams, and you would be hard pressed to name one Hip-Hop artist that doesn’t use the derogatory term. But the difference with Drake is – he ain’t Black.
If you look at the Jewish mother rule, if your mama is Jewish, that makes you Jewish. And since Drake’s father is an AfricanAmerican but his mother is a white, Jewish Canadian, that makes him the latter. (I didn’t make the rule, I’m just telling you what it says.) This is also compounded by the fact that you would be hard pressed to see where Drake even identifies with the dark side of his family tree, unless you consider hangin’ out with Lil Wayne and excessive use of the N-word as evidence of his African roots.

Although, one may argue that the one drop rule and the dominance of melanin in his skin may make Drake racially “Black”, that has nothing to do with what that makes himculturally. So, what we are dealing with here is not race but the politics of cultural identity.
Who can and cannot say n*gga has long been debated in Hip-Hop. Latino entertainers like Fat Joe and Jennifer Lopez have gotten by on the “Latino’s are n*ggas, too” argument, and White women like V Nasty and Gwyneth Paltrow, supposedly, have obtained signed ghetto passes from Hip-Hop’s elite, allowing them to use the word. However, it is an unwritten rap rule that, while a Black rapper can use the word at will, a White rapper is subject to a beatdown for even using “nickel” in a sentence without clarifying his statement.
And most white Hip-Hop artists aren’t that stupid. Although, they may hire Black rappers to use the word on their CDs, they will never utter the word themselves.
Case in point is when Dave Mays and Benzino, formerly of The Source Magazine went on a wild, witchhunt to find evidence of Eminem saying something even remotely disrespectful about Black people years back, and came up with nothing really tangible besides a lyric in a long lost unreleased track. But, what if the person has dark skin, but, culturally, is a card carrying member of another ethnic group? Should he be given a pass to use racial slurs without being called on it?Herein lies the Drake dilemma.
There is a certain amount of hypocrisy surrounding Drake’s use of the word. Although he will, undoubtedly, use the Black half of his genetic makeup to justify using the N-word, I doubt very seriously if he would ever use his Jewish half to justify using the “K” or “H” word. Nor would he hide behind the First Amendment and get a swastika tatted on his arm. Nor should he. However, if Drake did use anti-Jewish terms with the same frequency as he uses anti-Black terms, he would not be celebrated in the media as the greatest thing in Hip-Hop since Run DMC, but would be demonized in the press for “spewing venomous hate speech “ and forever condemned as an anti-Semite on some organization’s hate group list. To date, nobody has tagged him an “anti-Hamite” or “anti-Khemite.”
Every ethnic group has the God-given right to defend its culture; that is the only way to secure its survival for future generations. However, it becomes problematic when the blatant disrespect of a culture is roundly applauded on one side but, vehemently, condemned on the other.
Ultimately, it is not Drake’s fault for disrespecting the Black community. Nor does the fault fall at the feet of any individual commercial Hip-Hop artist. The blame lies with every rapper who grabs a mic, every Hip-Hop writer with a laptop, and every Hip-Hop fan who listens to the radio…because we co-sign the madness.
Even the most militant critic who continuously blasts the state of Hip-Hop would become a 13-year-old teenage girl if Drake just looked in his direction.
“OMG…Like…did you see the way that Drake just smiled at me? Awwww!”
At some point, we have to begin to stand on principles.
Let’s be clear. No one should use the N-word, whether it be the hate speech of White people or the self-hate speech of Blacks.

And until we come to a general consensus as to what should be done to those who diss Black culture, we will still be talking about this 100 years from now.
Like Drake asked on the Aaliyah song, “Is this even still a discussion?/ don’t you ever wake up disgusted?”
Follow the Hip-hop artist 

Sunday

10 things you never knew about the olympic games

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games goes on and we couldn't be more excited. Today we decided to honor the festivities with 10 unusual facts that you most likely don't know about the Olympic Games, from the past to the present.
1. Every Olympics has an official mascot, and they’re not your typical eagles, tigers or bulldogs. In fact, most of them are rather odd. This year’s mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville, meant to represent the last drops of steel used to build the Olympic Stadium, are no exception.
2. Usain Bolt is a proud papa…to a cheetah! Bolt adopted an abandoned baby cheetah(fittingly named “Lightning Bolt”) in 2009, and continues to sponsor its care in an orphanage in Nairobi. Hmm…wonder who’s faster?
3. What do Giorgio Armani, Adidas and Stella McCartney have in common? They’ve all designed national team uniforms for the Opening Ceremony. Sporting everything from berets to fedoras, this year’s athletes will certainly be dressed to impress.
4. History will be made this year when double-amputee Oscar Pistorius runs for South Africa in the individual 400 meters and the 4×400 meter relay. Pistorius will be the first amputee ever to compete in track and field at the Olympics.
5. Hopefully he’ll fare better than Charles Hefferon, a fellow South African runner who competed in the Marathon in the 1908 Summer Olympics. Hefferon was in the lead until, with just a few miles to go, he drank a glass of champagne offered to him by a well-meaning fan. He promptly slowed down and was overtaken by other runners. Lesson learned: don’t drink and run!
6. The official song of London 2012 is “Survival,” by popular British band MuseCheck it out here (along with a cool montage video of Olympic athletes).
7. Are moustaches lucky? The night before his first race at the 1972 Olympic Games, legendary swimming champ Mark Spitz almost decided to shave off his famous moustache. However, a Russian coach started giving him a hard time about sporting facial hair, so Spitz joked that the moustache made him swim faster by keeping water away from his mouth. Spitz kept the ‘stache, went on to win 7 gold medals at the Games, and at the next Olympics, all the Russian swimmers were sporting moustaches.
8. The iconic Olympic rings were designed to symbolize the five inhabited continents of the world (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas), linked together by the Olympic spirit. At least one of the rings’ colors (blue, yellow, black, green and red, with a white background) are present in every participating country’s national flag.
9. The longest wrestling match of all time took place at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, between Russia’s Martin Klein and Finland’s Alfred Asikainen. The match lasted a grueling11 hours and 40 minutes! Klein eventually emerged the victor, but he was so drained from the fight that he was unable to compete for the gold medal the next day, and walked away with the silver.
10. You may still not know what the heck curling is, but that’s nothing compared to some of the very strange sports that have made it into the Olympics in the past. Our personal favorites? Definitely poodle clipping and delivery van driving.

Thursday

Well now .... what we got here?

I took a look at my blog stats and discovered an interesting pick. A lot of (men) people keep searching for "tips for down low gay " and unfortunately wind up on this site. Though seeing I like to keep a crowd and keep my traffic going, I'm going to ask some chicks and guys (probably ask some OUT gay guys) to research and present my readers tips on how to stay downlow. Why not, I need the traffic, and you faggots need tips on how to keep  trifling acts low key or else, you'll wind up like Chris Brown, or Casper Smart, list goes on.

Wednesday

Snoop Dogg becomes a Lion

Snoop like many other contemporaries and hip hop artists has announced his new name from Snoop DogG to Snoop Lion , seriously. Snoop Cat, Snoop monkey could have fitted better. At least it's not one of the many alter egos that live inside/with him.

Thursday

A$AP Rocky Enters no guilty plea on robberry charges.



The A$AP Mob members noticed the two amateur photographers trying to capture him on camera and when he approached them a fight broke out which was interrupted by police who booked the rapper and Bar$, according to TMZ.
Two questions come to mind every single time. 1. Why do people still follow this weird moron? Why is a weirdo who robs still hailed after supposedly being a role model for teens? That's poisonous, although then again, people follow any and everything (wacka flocka?)A$AP Rocky has entered a plea of not guilty to charges that he tried to rob two photographers last week in New York after they took pictures of him. Rocky and A$AP Biggie Bar$ were taken into police custody last Thursday and charged with 2nd degree robbery.
Both Rocky and Bar$ entered not guilty pleas on Friday and they are both scheduled to appear again in court on Wednesday, although the reason for the second court appearance is currently unclear.

The two amateur photographers were apparently left with cuts and bruises after the scuffle and one of them had to be taken to hospital where he was treated for his injuries.

Sunday

GQ becomes sleazy

Over the past 2 years GQ has downgraded and  moved from a center piece of style and mantra for upcoming generations and now is the set for new hip hop artists to promote new albums. While GQ has been a major reference point for men's style and known for the quality of high profile features, Wacka Flocka, a very well known idiot graces the pages of GQ. During an interview on 106 & Park Mr. Flocka was completely stumped by such hard hitting questions as "what are your thoughts on voting?" with responses as "Voting cool, voting good i ain't gon lie" . I'm pretty sure geometry isn't what he thinks it is. That took some cojones, I can guarantee you the BET head honchos were not pleased. I suggest we all need new style magazines, pointers and references. 






Thursday

Porn Vigilante: Man Accused of Watching Porn, Stabbed in Brooklyn Public Library


A 53-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in a Brooklyn public library by another man who accused him of using library computers to watch pornography, police said.
The incident happened at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the library's Brooklyn Heights branch.
Police say the 46-year-old suspect accused the victim of looking at porn on the computers and then stabbed him in the neck and torso.
Authorities say the victim was not looking at pornography. He was taken to the hospital and is expected to be OK.
The suspect was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and menacing.A 53-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in a Brooklyn public library by another man who accused him of using library computers to watch pornography, police said.
The incident happened at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the library's Brooklyn Heights branch.
Police say the 46-year-old suspect accused the victim of looking at porn on the computers and then stabbed him in the neck and torso.
Authorities say the victim was not looking at pornography. He was taken to the hospital and is expected to be OK.
The suspect was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and menacing.

Zimbabwean politician says aids can be stopped if women dress andbecome more unattractive

A Zimbabwean politician has sparked outrage by suggesting the spread of HIV can be curbed if women shave their heads, stop bathing and deliberately make themselves look unattractive. Morgan Femai, an MDC-T senator for Chikomo said the measures were required because men were finding it difficult to resist well-dressed, attractive women.

While addressing a parliamentary HIV awareness workshop in Kadoma on Friday, he said: “What I propose it that the government should come up with a law that compels women to have their heads clean-shaven like what the Apostolic sects do,”ZimEye reports. He added: “They should also not bathe because that is what has caused all these problems.” (DEAD)
Senator Femai also appeared to suggest female circumcision would help stop the spread of disease.
He told the workshop, which was organised in conjunction with the National Aids Council: “Women have got more moisture in their organs as compared to men so there is need to research on how to deal with that moisture because it is conducive for bacteria breeding. There should be a way to suck out that moisture.”
According to Unicef figures from 2009, more than 14 per cent of the adult population in Zimbabwe have HIV/Aids.

Deborah Jack, chief executive of NAT (National AIDS Trust) told Huffington Post UK: "These suggestions of how to fight the spread of HIV are totally misleading and potentially really damaging.
Senator, Sithembile Mlotshwa 
"They also unfortunately shift focus away from the proven ways to prevent HIV transmission - being aware of the facts of how HIV is passed on, using a condom during sex and ensuring you are tested for HIV when you've put yourself at risk."



According to All Africa, another MDC-T Senator, Sithembile Mlotshwa (Matobo), recently suggested men be injected with drugs that reduce their libidos. She also called for prisoners to be given sex toys to satisfy their sexual desires.
Source

Welp, there we go... Zimbabweans say the darndest things.... And this is a future leader. I don't blame the man, he's having a hard time getting females with his dead monkey looks, so if he gets them to tone down their sexiness, maybe they'll fall for him. I see your move player senator. 

Today in Hotlanta: Crossdressing prostitutes becoming more violent in Midtown

Today in Hotlanta residents in Midtown have been dealing with the problem of cross-dressing prostitutes for decades. They say it is way past time to find a way to rid their streets of them.  Indeed, it's one of the enduring mysteries of the city. How exactly did the Piedmont and Ponce section of Midtown, with its stately homes and upscale apartments, become the prime location for that particular type of pandering; and why has it been so hard to get rid of?

After all, both neighbors and police have been pro-active in trying to fight it; both have even run their own undercover operations to get video evidence of the criminal activity. Neighbors have also gone to court en masse to prosecute the prostitutes.




The situation has become even more critical than it has been in the past, given warnings that the prostitutes have become more "aggressive" and pose a threat to anyone who tries to confront them.

"Ten or twelve prostitutes standing in the streets waving at cars, shaking their booty, wearing prostitute clothes," resident Michael Orloff said, describing a typical street scene on any given night. "There are times when the prostitutes actually get into arguments amongst themselves over a john."


Up until recently, it has mostly been an unseemly nuisance for homeowners who've had to chase the streetwalkers and johns from their yards and parking spaces. But lately, private police who patrol the neighborhood say some of the cross-dressers have been getting violent, even robbing and beating people on the street.

"Oh yeah, they said it was about three or four there who approached them," said one neighbor who says his friends were attacked and robbed. "They gave them everything they wanted, but they still kind of beat them up. I think it was most likely the cross-dressers and their pimps."

Atlanta police say they have a few things planned for the Midtown area in the coming weeks to try and push the prostitutes out of the community. The city council is also looking into a law that would prohibit prostitutes from returning to streets where they were arrested before.

But vice cops say it's important that residents or passers-by not confront the streetwalkers, even if they're in the commission of a crime.

"That's kind of what generates the retaliation from the prostitutes and the other people that are out there committing crimes," said Lt. Scott Kreher of the APD Vice Unit. "They want to retaliate against the person that's approaching them."

The Midtown Ponce Security Alliance says many of the prostitutes are armed with knives or rocks, noting that while their numbers have diminished over the years, they have also become more combative in how they deal with residents.

Wednesday

Putting the Dollar Menu to WORK: Man paid prostitutes in heroin, food from McDonald’s dollar menu


Over in Chicago  they make the best of everything. Not a single resource is left unturned, especially when it comes to rewarding your employees. What better way to show them you appreciate their hard-work than the greasy Mcdonalds. You can't go to the ATM to get the spare change you need to complete the bill, so why not dash to Mcdonald's and pay - in kind.  A West Side man who allegedly forced young girls into prostitution — and then rewarded them with drugs and food from McDonald’s dollar menu — was ordered held in lieu of $1 million Wednesday.
DaJuan Brown, also know “Juan Clark,” beat and exploited at least 12 girls for a five-year period, sometimes locking his victims up without any food or appliances at his West Side apartment, according to Cook County prosecutors.

Brown, 35, would ply the girls with heroin and if they met their quotas with johns he would reward them with more drugs and food from the McDonald’s dollar menu, prosecutors said.
If they failed to meet his demands, Brown, who is nicknamed “Church,” would allegedly keep the drugs from the girls and let them go through withdrawal as a form of punishment. In at least one instance, he got one clean girl hooked on heroin, prosecutors said Wednesday, describing how Brown would control his victims’ drug addictions.
Brown would prostitute the girls through the Internet and would give them pre-paid Cricket cell phones to use when they were out, prosecutors said. When they returned, the victims would have to give their phones back to Brown.
Brown would deadbolt the back door of apartment in the 1400 block of North Laramie when the girls were inside, prosecutors said. He also had a man guarding the door and when one escaped, Brown knocked her unconscious, prosecutors said.
The victims, who were forced to give Brown all their money, IDs and phones, were ordered to run to and from their apartment to a van that Brown or another girl would drive to the “Tracks,” an area where they met up with customers, prosecutors said. If the girls refused to work, Brown would allegedly beat them with his fists, hangers and other objects. Once, he choked a victim with a belt until she was blue in the face, prosecutors said. That same girl was also allegedly pistol whipped by Brown. He once beat a girl who returned with no money with a wooden stick, another he backhanded and when a girl purchased a $6 pint of brandy, he attacked her too, prosecutors said. One girl who made the mistake of having her own cell phone was pulled out of bed by her hair, slapped and then thrown back on the bedroom floor, prosecutors said.
Brown’s alleged illegal activities came to light when Cook County sheriff’s police were told by members of the National Human Trafficking Hotline that a missing woman — one of Brown’s victims — was being were exploited by her pimp, authorities said.
Brown, who is currently on bond for driving on a suspended license, has been charged with involuntary servitude and aggravated trafficking.
Brown has four previous felony convictions for possession of a controlled substance, aggravated discharge of a firearm, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and robbery.
He has five prior misdemeanor convictions for pimping, domestic battery and driving on suspended license. He also has a 2007 DUI conviction.

Thursday

NC Pastor wants to build electrified fence to starve and kill gays

In a sermon blasting President Obama for his same-sex marriage support, Pastor Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina, offered a novel — and horrific — solution to the gay scourge: build an electric fence and let "lesbians, queers and homosexuals" starve to death.

"I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers," he says in his sermon, delivered on May 13. "Build a great, big, large fence — 150 or 100 mile long — put all the lesbians in there... Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can't get out… And you know what, in a few years, they'll die." Worley fails to understand that gay people are born, not made, and that there would just be more LGBT folk coming down the line.

He also that if he's asked who he'll vote for, he'll reply, "I'm not going to vote for a baby killer and a homosexual lover."  The not-so-holy man concludes, "God have mercy. It makes me pukin' sick to think about — I don't even whether or not to say this in the pulpit — can you imagine kissing some man?" 

Throughout the sermon, many of his congregants can be heard calling out "Amen


Wednesday

Alabama senate debate on who should sag pants


A bill banning saggy pants is dead. The Alabama Senate killed the legislation, after lawmakers voiced concerns that the law would be difficult to enforce. It was a local law, that would have applied only to Montgomery County.  The bill's sponsor, state Rep. Alvin Holmes (D-Montgomery) says he intends to bring the bill back next year. Holmes says he finds it disrespectful when people wear their pants so low, that their underwear is exposed for all to see.

Tuesday

Woman Sits Next to Dead Boyfriend for 9 Hours on Plane



A flight from Singapore to New Zealand, or any 10 1/2-hour flight, isn't fun times. The sitting, the waiting, the having to pee, the sitting more. In two words, it sucks. But what if you had to sit next to a dead body for the entire duration of the flight? You're right if you think that would make flying suck even harder.
That's what happened to Vanessa Preechakul, though. See, she and her boyfriend, Robert Rippingale, were flying to his native New Zealand to celebrate his parents' 50th birthdays when an hour and a half into the Jetstar flight, he started choking on his beef and chicken dinner. Despite the doctor and two nurses who rushed to try to save him, he died. And Vanessa sat next to him for the next nine hours.
What happened was this: After Rippingale passed, crew members covered his body and removed him to a crew rest area. But then Preechakul asked to sit next to his body for the remainder of the flight. "I had to cope -- I had no choice," she said.
When I first heard this little tale, my initial reaction was, "Creepy. Why would you want to sit next to a dead body for nine hours?" But the more I thought about it, the more I sort of realized -- I would probably do the same thing.
An airplane is one of the worst places to have to deal with death -- impending death, recent death, any death. Because there's not a damn thing that you can do. You are basically being held hostage. So, the thought of sitting alone in your assigned seat on a plane -- with everyone staring at you -- after your loved one died? Yeah, no thanks. I'd be right there with Vanessa, in a private section of the plane to deal with my emotions, and to pretend like I had some control over the situation.

Shocking

Friday

Racy Facebook pics are legally protected by US Constitution, judge rules


An Indiana judge has ruled that racy photographs posted online by teenagers should be considered free speech, and are therefore protected by the United States Constitution, reports Above The Law. Because of the First Amendment guarantee, schools may not, in any way, discipline students who post lewd photos of themselves online.
The decision is the conclusion of a lawsuit between a group of female students, who posted photographs of two salacious slumber parties to Facebook, and their school, Smith-Green Community School Corp, which disciplined some of the students for appearing in the photographs even though the pictures had nothing to do with the school or a school-related event.
You are probably wondering what kind of racy photographs could result in students being suspended. We’re a bit bashful, so we’ll just quote Judge Philip Smith, who writes in the official court decision [pdf] (WARNING: Not for the feint of heart):
“During the first sleepover, the girls took a number of photographs of themselves sucking on the lollipops. In one, three girls are pictured and M.K. [a plaintiff] added the caption ‘Wanna suck on my c**k.’ In another photograph, a fully-clothed M.K. is sucking on one lollipop while another lollipop is positioned between her legs and a fully-clothed T.V. [the second plaintiff] is pretending to suck on it.
“During another sleepover, T.V. took a picture of M.K. and another girl pretending to kiss each other. At a final slumber party, more pictures were taken with M.K. wearing lingerie and the other girls in pajamas. One of these pictures shows M.K. standing talking on the phone while another girl holds one of her legs up in the air, with T.V. holding a toy trident as if protruding from her crotch and pointing between M.K.’s legs. In another, T.V. is shown bent over with M.K. poking the trident between her buttocks. A third picture shows T.V. positioned behind another kneeling girl as if engaging in anal sex. In another picture, M.K. poses with money stuck into her lingerie – stripper-style.”
Yikes…
According to court documents, T.V and M.K. were suspended from all extracurricular and cocurricular activities (namely, volleyball, choir and cheerleading) for the remainder of the 2008-09 school year by the school’s principal. The decision to suspend the girls was based upon a section of the handbook, which reads, “If you act in a manner in school or out of school that brings discredit or dishonor upon yourself or your school, you may be removed from extracurricular activities for all or part of the year.”
Judge Smith admits that the photographs are, indeed, off-color, to say the least. But that the low-brow status of the speech does not make it any more permissible for schools to discipline students for practicing their Constitutional rights, no matter how dishonorable.
“I wish the case involved more important and worthwhile speech on the part of the students,” writes Judge Smith, “but then of course a school’s well-intentioned but unconstitutional punishment of that speech would be all the more regrettable.”

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