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 Foreign Affairs › Lawyer: George Zimmerman's Wife Filing For Divorce by anonymous6(op): 1:54pm On Sep 06, 2013 |
[b]"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman's wife filed for divorce Thursday, less than two months after her husband was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin and a week after she pleaded guilty to perjury in his case. Shellie Zimmerman made the decision because of "disappointment," her attorney, Kelly Sims, wrote Thursday in a short email to The Associated Press. The 26-year-old Zimmerman told ABC's "Good Morning America" last week that she was having serious doubts about remaining married. The interview came just after she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor perjury charge for lying during a bail hearing following her husband's arrest for the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February 2012. Her husband, who was acquitted on second-degree murder and other charges in July, wasn't in the Sanford, Fla., courtroom as she was sentenced to a year's probation and 100 hours of community service — even though she supported him and lied about their finances. ABC first reported the divorce filing. Email messages and phone calls to Zimmerman's attorney, Mark O'Mara, were not immediately returned. Zimmerman's brother, Robert Zimmerman, wrote on Twitter: "Pray 4 them." George Zimmerman said he acted in self-defense when he killed Martin and the polarizing case opened up national discussions on self-defense laws and race. Martin was black. Zimmerman has a white father and Hispanic mother. Shellie Zimmerman's felony perjury charge came after she lied about the couple's assets when her husband was trying to be released on a lower bond. If convicted, she had faced up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Court records show that in the days before the bond hearing in June 2012, Shellie Zimmerman transferred $74,000 — broken into eight smaller transfers ranging from $7,500 to $9,990 — from her husband's credit union account to hers. It also shows that $47,000 was transferred from George Zimmerman's account to his sister's in the days before the bond hearing. Amounts of over $10,000 would have been reported to the Internal Revenue Service. Four days after he was released on bond, Shellie Zimmerman transferred more than $85,500 from her account into her husband's, records show. They also show that the jail recorded George Zimmerman instructing her on a call to "pay off all the bills," including an American Express and Sam's Club card. Most of the money had come from donations to a website that had been set up to pay for George Zimmerman's defense. Despite the large transfers, at the bail hearing, Shellie Zimmerman testified that the couple, who married in 2007 and had no children, had limited funds because she was a full-time student and her husband wasn't working. Prosecutors say they actually had then already raised $135,000 in donations from the website. Shellie Zimmerman admitted to ABC that she did not tell the truth during the bail hearing. "I can rationalize a lot of reasons for why I was misleading, but the truth is that I knew I was lying," she said. She said she plans to do her community service with a Christian ministry. "I've made mistakes and I want to own them right now," Shellie Zimmerman said. During her appearance on "Good Morning America" following her husband's acquittal, Zimmerman refused to say if she and her husband were still together. She added that she "wants to have children and stay married." "With George?" the interviewer asked. "That's something I'm going to have to think about," Shellie Zimmerman replied. Earlier this week, her 29-year-old husband was ticketed for speeding in Lake Mary, Fla. Police say he was going 60 mph in a 45 mph zone. In the ABC interview, she also revealed she wasn't at their home the night of Martin's shooting in their gated community outside Orlando because she'd had a fight with her husband. "I was staying at my father's house," she said. "We had gotten into an argument the night before and I left." Shellie Zimmerman says that while she believes her husband's version of the events leading to the shooting, "I can't tell you how many nights I've gone or laid awake at night just thinking that I wish to God the circumstances had been different." She says the couple lived in hiding while awaiting his trial. "We have pretty much lived like gypsies for the past year and a half. We've lived in a 20-foot trailer in the woods, scared every night that someone would go and find us and that it would be horrific," she said. She also told ABC she is deeply sorry for the Martin family's loss. "I can't even begin to understand the grief a parent experiences when they lose a child," she said."[/b] http://news.yahoo.com/lawyer-george-zimmermans-wife-filing-divorce-213817140.html |
| Celebrities › Re: BBA The Chase: Dillish Accepts Her Kenyan Father by anonymous6(f): 1:07am On Sep 06, 2013 |
Airforce1: I'm not clicking n that thing..lol who is dillish even in the first place? |
| Celebrities › Re: Mosun Filani Vs. Funke Akindele - Who Is More Beautiful by anonymous6(f): 12:54am On Sep 06, 2013 |
Mosun Filani hands down, Funke is just ok when it comes to acting both are very good actresses but Funke gets a few more points with acting but Mosun wins the prize for beauty [img]http://3.bp..com/-Nv3foMza_RI/T0I0_wqW8vI/AAAAAAAAC38/3WwgebrnRXg/s400/amo.jpg[/img] https://www.omg.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/FUNKE-AKINDELE.jpg |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Teenager Who Killed His Parents Got Inspiration From Video Games & Films by anonymous6(f): 2:04pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
what a fool, and a excuse(video games, please...), he knows better that killing is wrong and then he reaches another level by killing his own parents. |
| Foreign Affairs › India Fury Over Gang Molests Sign Of Changing Nation by anonymous6(op): 2:13pm On Sep 03, 2013 |
[b]"NEW DELHI (AP) — A series of recent high-profile gang rape cases in India has ignited a debate: Are such crimes on the rise, or is it simply that more attention is being paid to a problem long hidden within families and villages? The answer, experts say, is both. Modernization is fueling a crisis of sexual assault in India, with increasingly independent women now working in factories and offices and stepping beyond the subservient roles to which they had traditionally been relegated. They are also more likely than their mothers and grandmothers were to report rapes, and more likely to encounter male strangers in public. "We never used to see so many cases of gang rape, and so many involving groups of young, unemployed men," said Supreme Court lawyer Kirti Singh, who specializes in women's issues. While there are no reliable statistics on gang rapes, experts say the trend, along with the growing sense of insecurity it has brought for women, led to recent outbursts of public anger over the long-ignored epidemic of violence against women. The silence broke in December, when a New Delhi student was gang-raped on a bus in a particularly vicious attack from which she died two weeks later. A juvenile court on Saturday handed down the first conviction in the case, sending a teenager to a reform home for three years for rape and murder. View gallery." The sentence, the maximum a juvenile can face, was widely denounced as too lenient, and the girl's parents vowed to appeal. The other suspects in the case are being tried as adults and could face execution if convicted. While attacks on women occur constantly across India, often within the home, the brutality and public nature of the New Delhi case left many shocked and shamed. Thousands took to the streets in the capital to express their outrage. The government, pledging to crack down, created fast-track courts for rape cases, doubled prison terms for rape and criminalized voyeurism, stalking, acid attacks and the trafficking of women. The Tourism Ministry launched a nationwide "I Respect Women" campaign after a Swiss bicyclist was gang-raped in March in central India and an American woman was gang-raped two months later in the northern resort town of Manali. Yet another high-profile gang rape last month, against a photojournalist on assignment in Mumbai, renewed public fury and sent the media into 24-7 coverage marked by daily front page headlines and talk shows debating how to make India safe for women. View gallery." "There is very clearly a class dimension" that is compounding the sudden outrage, women's rights lawyer Flavia Agnes said. All five of the accused in the Mumbai attack had little to no education, and three had previously been arrested for theft, Mumbai police said. They lived in the slums near the abandoned textile mill where the woman was raped. In both the Mumbai and the Delhi cases, "middle-class people identified with these young girls, aspiring professionals, trying to make their mark in a competitive world," said Sudha Sundararaman, an activist with the All India Democratic Women's Association. Experts say the rapid growth of India's cities and the yawning gulf between rich and poor are exacerbating the problem, with young men struggling to prove their traditional dominance in a changing world. "These are young men in the cities, without prospects, without hope. They feel rage against those who are perceived to have it," sociologist Sudhir Kakar said. View gallery." Cultural stigmas, police apathy and judicial incompetence have long made it difficult for women to even report rapes. But if modernization is changing the risks women face, it is also giving them the ability to speak up. In the first three months after the December bus rape, the number of rapes reported in the city more than doubled to 359, from the 143 reported in January-March of 2012. Those numbers, in a city of almost 17 million people, are still seen by experts as far below the actual number of attacks, but the jarring increase in just one year appeared to signal a significant change. "The biggest change is that women in the middle classes are reporting crimes to police," Kakar said. They are fed up with the landscape of sexual harassment and fear, with the constant barrage of lewd comments and even groping — locally known as "eve-teasing" — and with being told they should stay indoors at night. "Thirty years ago, even uttering the word 'rape' was almost taboo. That is changing," said Ranjana Kumari, a women's activist with the Center for Social Research. "There are so many cases, each more gruesome than the other, and people have lost patience, especially when no justice is served." View gallery." The photojournalist attacked last month stunned the nation by telling local media that "rape is not the end of life" — a groundbreaking statement given that many rape victims are still often dismissed as defiled. Many are shunned by their families, fired from jobs or driven from their home villages. As a result, most rape victims are still thought to remain silent. "What's wrong with the system?" Supreme Court Justices R.M. Lodha and Madan B. Lokur said in a statement last week, while hearing a petition from the father of a 15-year-old girl gang-raped by three men in 2012, according to Indian media. The girl, who is a dalit, member of the outcast community once known as untouchables, has since been barred from her school in north India, and her mother was killed for refusing to withdraw a police complaint about the crime, according to Press Trust of India. The court lambasted India's poor record of conviction in rape cases, saying "Why are 90 percent of rape cases ending in acquittals? The situation is going from bad to worse."[/b] http://news.yahoo.com/india-fury-over-gang-rapes-sign-changing-nation-102555774.html |
| Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: The Nigerian Free Dating Site Helps To Find Free Love by anonymous6(f): 1:57pm On Aug 28, 2013 |
TitanMoon: LOL I went on that website and I could see the last 10 members were Nigerian.So true, most likely the Caribbean but not Nigeria lol. The OP is on the wrong forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtU3m2M1Ivs |
| Business › Re: Tycoons Who Won't Leave Their Fortunes To Their Kids by anonymous6(op): 1:48pm On Aug 28, 2013*. Modified: 4:56pm On Aug 28, 2013 |
paschalomenihu: CAN THIS HAPPEN IN AFRICA AND IN NIGERIAL IN PARTICLE.at this time and age NO, even if Africa and Nigeria and general will be more stable, I don't see africans doing that because Africans in general value property like wills, land and etc to the core, which is sort of understandable. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: A Third Of Louisiana Blame Obama For Hurricane Katrina Response Under Bush by anonymous6(op): 1:46pm On Aug 28, 2013 |
Rossikk: incredible.yup it shows the stupidity of some americans |
| Celebrities › Re: Picture Of North West — (the Second-most-talked-about Baby In The World) by anonymous6(f): 11:06pm On Aug 23, 2013 |
cute baby 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenyan Male Prostitution Causes Rise In Sale Of Pampers – Police by anonymous6(f): 1:51pm On Aug 22, 2013 |
well their life style is the cause for this rise in pampers but it is sad young boys are subjected to this |
| Foreign Affairs › A Third Of Louisiana Blame Obama For Hurricane Katrina Response Under Bush by anonymous6(op): 1:48pm On Aug 22, 2013 |
[b]"A large number of Louisiana Republicans think President Barack Obama is to blame for the federal government's poor response to Hurricane Katrina, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey released Wednesday -- despite the fact that the storm occurred three years before he took office. The Democratic-leaning polling firm, which provided its results to Talking Points Memo, found that 29 percent of Louisiana Republicans said Obama was responsible for the Katrina response. Twenty-eight percent put the blame on President George W. Bush, whose administration did in fact oversee the federal response to Katrina. Nearly half (44 percent) of the Louisiana Republicans polled didn't know who to blame. Bush was heavily criticized at the time for the government's response to Katrina, a storm that caused 1,833 fatalities, damaged an estimated $81 billion in property, and ranks among the five deadliest hurricanes in United States history. He remained on vacation in Texas as the hurricane rocked the Gulf Coast, before belatedly cutting his trip short and returning to Washington. An infamous photo of Bush peering out the window of Air Force One at the wreckage was also attacked as insensitive, and the former president himself later acknowledged the photo was a "huge mistake" in a 2010 interview. Bush's approval ratings plunged in the months following the disaster, and his administration was dogged by suggestions that race was a factor in its response efforts. During a live concert for hurricane relief, rapper Kanye West said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people," a moment Bush later said was the "most disgusting moment" of his presidency. Condoleezza Rice, who served as Bush's secretary of state, recalled in her memoir that there was clearly "a race problem" during Katrina, although she disputed allegations that Bush or his administration were racist."[/b] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/obama-hurricane-katrina_n_3790612.html?ref=topbar |
| Celebrities › Re: Wentworth Miller 'Michael Scofield' Is Gay by anonymous6(f): 1:26pm On Aug 22, 2013 |
I'm not surprised, it is pretty obvious |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Male Prostitution Causes Rise In Sale Of Diapers In Kenya by anonymous6(f): 4:43pm On Aug 21, 2013 |
omg lol |
| Business › Tycoons Who Won't Leave Their Fortunes To Their Kids by anonymous6(op): 3:25pm On Aug 21, 2013 |
Bill Gateshttp://finance.yahoo.com/news/15-tycoons-who-won-t-leave-their-fortunes-to-their-kids-195610442.html 21 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: American Gang-raped In India by anonymous6(f): 11:55pm On Aug 18, 2013 |
why is this a surprise to people when the sex slave industry in Asia has been in a epidemic for decades |
| TV/Movies › Why Are Black Women In Hollywood Worse Off Now Than 10 Years Ago? by anonymous6(op): 2:46pm On Aug 17, 2013 |
[b]"Two weeks ago, as I watched First Lady Michelle Obama announce Argo as the winner of the Best Picture Oscar, a few thoughts popped into my head: 1) I can't believe she's still rocking those bangs. 2) I wonder what Mr. President is up to tonight. 3) Michelle Obama is the new Oprah Winfrey. Remember when Winfrey easily could have been chosen to announce Best Picture at the Academy Awards with Jack Nicholson, and it would have seemed like a perfectly natural thing for her to do? It wouldn't have mattered that she rarely acts, or that it's the most prestigious Oscar gig next to hosting the show. Just a few years ago, nobody in Hollywood was bigger than Winfrey. Part of what made her celebrity interviews so intriguing was that not only was Winfrey just as famous as any star she happened to be interrogating, but many of us were far more interested in knowing the details of her still-mysterious private life. Madonna might have been speaking for all of us when she once name-dropped Steadman (as in "What's up with him?"  during an appearance on Winfrey's talk show.Though she can still command top-of-the-line interview subjects and make headlines because of them (as she did recently by getting Lance Armstrong to admit to drug use), Winfrey is beginning to feel more like one of us mere mortals, only a billion times richer. For the first time since her mid-'80s rise to prominence and so far beyond, her level of relevance depends largely on whatever A-list company she's keeping. She's only as big and influential as her last celebrity interview, which is a bold statement I never would have considered making a few years ago when Whitney Houston was telling Winfrey about the time Bobby Brown spat on her during a domestic dispute. It's hard to pinpoint the exact cause of Winfrey's decline. Maybe it's just the normal trajectory of any major superstar. What goes up must eventually go south. Or it could be the 2011 end of her talk show, which took away her platform to be in our public consciousness 52 weeks a year. Or maybe it's the emergence of Michelle Obama onto the national scene. Is there really room for two inspirational, aspirational black women on the A-plus list? (And did the end of The Oprah Winfrey Show create the vacuum that made Michelle Obama possible in the first place?) When I think of Winfrey, I still think of Essence, the once-leading national magazine for black women that now feels so 1995. That was the year that I attended a 25th-anniversary party for Essence at Madison Square Garden, a New York City venue normally reserved for concerts by the biggest music superstars on the planet. The place was packed, and the keynote speaker was Winfrey, who gave a rousing "I am..." speech during which she roll called all of the prominent black women of the time, punctuated by the line "I am Essence, and I am 25 years old." There were so many prominent names to list, all of whom were recognized by the audience (which included a significant number of non-blacks and non-women) and were celebrated across color lines and age demos. Flashback to 1995 and consider the bulging black female A-list: Winfrey, Halle Berry, Whoopi Goldberg, Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Mary J. Blige, Toni Braxton, Janet Jackson, and, representing the old school, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner and Patti Labelle, who was mid-career resurgence at the time. Meanwhile, En Vogue, Salt-N-Pepa, SWV and TLC weren't sisters who were doing it for themselves (they got by with more than a little help from their male producers), but they nonetheless achieved star status as strong black women in music, both in spite of and due to their professional co-dependencies. They were women, and we all heard them roar. The previous year, Whoopi Goldberg had scored the ultimate Hollywood gig -- solo Oscar host -- and would land the job three more times in the next six years. Halle Berry was seven years away from becoming the first black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, and Angela Bassett was fresh off her Best Actress Oscar nomination for portraying a black icon, Tina Turner, in What's Love Got to Do with It. In music, Brandy, Monica and Aaliyah were teen queens, Lil' Kim and Eve were still to come, and the rise and disappearance of Lauryn Hill were still several years away. Eighteen years later, so much has changed. Whitney Houston, Aaliyah and one-third of TLC are gone. Toni Braxton and Janet Jackson haven't had a hit in more than a decade. Mary J. Blige's multi-platinum heat has cooled considerably. And her 2002 stint as a Bond girl in Die Another Day aside, Halle Berry hasn't had a significant screen role since her Oscar win for Monster's Ball. Nia Long and Jada Pinkett were about to take off in 1995, but neither ever really happened, a fate they share with Kimberly Elise and Thandie Newton (despite her BAFTA win for Crash), both of whom played Winfrey's daughters in 1999's Beloved. I wonder where Pinkett would be if she hadn't married Will Smith in 1997. Would she be completely off the radar or skirting the periphery of stardom, or would she have focused on her career instead of motherhood and being Mrs. Smith and become the big star she seemed on track to be in the mid '90s? Judging from what became of so many of her peers, the former scenarios seem more likely. In light of the declining fortunes for black female celebrities, it's not hard to see why Essence is struggling. There's no common interest, no common denominator among thirtysomething and fortysomething black women. As a magazine editor, how do you appeal to a demo like that? The two biggest black female stars of the moment, Rihanna and Beyoncé, both skew a bit younger, and although women in their 30s and above might want to get their look, there's nothing aspirational about either of them. Rihanna is apparently back together with the ex (Chris Brown) who physically assaulted her, and Beyoncé seems to get more coverage for manufactured controversies these days than for her talent (possibly partly because, like her one-time duet partner Alicia Keys, her commercial power is slipping). As for hardcore rapper-turned-American Idol judge Nicki Minaj, who is further down the celebrity chain, she remains a slightly aloof cartoon, one whose humanity is hiding underneath tons of make-up and fake contact lenses. Who wants to be her? Things are just as bad elsewhere on TV, where one of the few prominently employed black women is The View's Sherri Shepherd, whose particular talent continues to elude me. The New Normal's NeNe Leakes comes from reality TV, and the black female actresses on shows like Grey's Anatomy and the now-cancelled Private Practice and Desperate Housewives have been members of ensembles. I've recently noticed a disturbing trend in daytime soaps where prominent black TV actresses from the '90s are being cast in throwaway walk-on roles as doctors and therapists: A Different World's Dawnn Lewis and In the Heat of the Night's Anne-Marie Johnson on Days of Our Lives and Any Day Now's Lorraine Toussaint on The Young and the Restless. Is that what black TV actresses today have to look forward to circa 2030? The few black actresses who anchor TV series -- Kerry Washington in Scandal, Regina King in Southland -- are hardly household names among black or white viewers, despite having been kicking around the industry for years. If we see them on the big screen, it's usually as the love interest of a much bigger black male star, like Jamie Foxx (Washington's above-the-title costar in Django Unchained and both of theirs in Ray). In the space of a few years, the ridiculously talented Tichina Arnold, who deserves to be an Emmy winner every bit as much as ex-Everybody Loves Raymond wife/mom Patricia Heaton, went from being a wife/mom lead on Everybody Hates Chris to being Fran Drescher's one-scene-an-episode sidekick on Happily Divorced. And why can't Hollywood find anything significant for Vivica A. Fox to do? Is a guest appearance on Raising Hope really as good as it gets now for the Kill Bill star? Will Angela Bassett ever be cast as the lead in a big-screen vehicle that showcases both her enduring talent and beauty? The cable networks can't be bothered to build a TV series around her? Madeleine Stowe, who was born two days after Bassett, could use some formidable competition her own age on Revenge, no? (Think Joan Collins vs. Diahann Carroll on Dynasty.) All of which begs another question: Where are the black female versions of Jamie Foxx, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson and Morgan Freeman? In the past several years, we've had three black women win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar -- Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls, Mo'Nique for Precious, Octavia Spencer for The Help -- yet not one of them has followed her Academy triumph with a significant screen role. Last year, all the buzz was around Viola Davis, who was supposed to snatch Best Actress from Meryl Streep, but Hollywood doesn't really seem interested in making her a leading-lady star. Gabourey Sidibe was a Best Actress nominee for 2009's Precious, but her fellow twentysomething nominee that year, An Education's Carey Mulligan, is the one with the hot career. (And before you start thinking that size matters, take another look at Melissa McCarthy!) It'll be interesting to see what Hollywood does with Quvenzhané Wallis. Her upcoming role as the big screen's first black Annie is promising, but does her future lie in all-black productions, or is integration with white Hollywood part of her career plan? In the years since Monster's Ball, we've seen a number of white female stars rise in Hollywood: from new Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway to frequent nominees Michelle Williams and Amy Adams to the highly employable Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Katherine Heigl and Emily Blunt. They've all been touted as the America's new sweetheart or the next Julia Roberts/Sandra Bullock. In that time period, Hollywood hasn't launched a single black female star. The next Halle Berry is still Halle Berry. I once read an interview with Marcia Gay Harden in which she said that since winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Pollock in 2001, she'd actually had a harder time getting good parts in film. Indeed, later that year, she was playing a supporting role in The Education of Max Bixford, a TV drama series starring Richard Dreyfuss, who had to wait 23 years after winning his Best Actor Oscar to be demoted to TV star. When Halle Berry won her Oscar the year after Harden did, things seemed to be improving for black women in Hollywood, but that may just have been wishful thinking. In the 11 years since, the onscreen presence of black women has dwindled, which hardly reflects their drawing power. Despite the recent big-screen failures of For Colored Girls and Sparkle, the success last year of Lifetime's all-black remake of the 1989 film Steel Magnolias indicates that there's a sizable audience for quality projects showcasing black female talent. According to the Los Angeles Times, it was Lifetime's third-most-watched program ever, delivering the network's best ratings since a 2006 biopic about Fantasia Barrino, the first black female American Idol winner. Now it's time for black actresses to once again break out of the ensembles and take the prominent lead roles that so seldom go to them. It says so much (none of it good) that Zoe Saldana, an actress who is hardly a household name and one who is Latina, was cast as Nina Simone, last century's epitome of black womanhood, in the upcoming Simone biopic. What's next: What's Love Got to Do with It: The Musical, starring Eva Mendes as Tina Turner? Black icons, black actresses, black women in general, deserve better."[/b] http://jeremyhelligar..com/2013/03/why-are-black-women-in-hollywood-worse.html |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Americans Don’t Care About What’s Happening In Egypt by anonymous6(op): 2:41pm On Aug 17, 2013 |
BOMANY: The US is concerned about two things: (1) Israel's safety (2) unchallengeable power that may threat the american's interests in the middle east. For decades the american media was feeding the americans the hatred of arabs and muslims, so why they would suddenly give a sheet to what happens theretrue, To me it isn't a surprise, but the surprise is how their making seem as if it is a shock that in general Americans don't care 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Top 15 Countries With The Highest Population In The World. by anonymous6(f): 7:02pm On Aug 16, 2013 |
Thats why china is going to other lands to live becaus ethey can't even fit in their own lands any more, too many people, the same with india. 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Americans Don’t Care About What’s Happening In Egypt by anonymous6(op): 6:09pm On Aug 16, 2013 |
[b]"National Journal’s Brian Resnick takes note that the Americans haven’t really been paying much attention to what’s been happening in Egypt: Americans are not paying much attention to the momentous occurrences in Egypt of the last few weeks. In a report released Wednesday, Pew finds that just 36 percent of people indicated they believe what happens in Egypt is “very important” to U.S. interests. When the Arab Spring began in 2011, that number was 46 percent. (Find information on Pew’s survey and methodology here.) Moreover, as this chart shows, Americans haven’t really been paying attention to the story(click the link) Resnick continues: Here, it would be easy to get all high-and-mighty and say that Americans should care more about the stability of Egypt. But, truthfully, it is a hard news story to follow—involving political groups and pressures that have no United States proxy. Most of the people (55 percent) that Pew surveyed said they “lack the background to understand,” and 46 percent said “they can’t keep up with the changing news.” A similar number, 48 percent, said it’s “hard to know which group best to lead.” But it’s not true to say that Americans never tune in to international affairs. 2011 was actually a big year for international-news interest in the United States. The top story for the whole year, in terms of interest, was the Japan tsuamni disaster (55 percent followed it closely); No. 3 was the bin Laden raid (50 percent followed closely). The Arab Spring protests in 2011 and the Libya conflict also garnered a lot of attention (39 percent and 37 percent respectively). To be fair to the American public, the most recent developments in Egypt happened rapidly and, thanks largely to the fact that the American media wasn’t paying much attention to the ongoing discontent among the Egyptian people, seemed to come out of the blue so they were somewhat hard to even those of us who did follow the events closely to place in the proper context. The fact that it went from protests on June 30th to a coup by July 3rd came as a surprise even to experienced observers of the country it seems. Add to that the fact that it happened during a week when many people were likely on vacation or looking forward to a long 4th of July weekend, and its kind of understandable that many Americans weren’t paying attention to the story."[/b] http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/americans-dont-care-about-whats-happening-in-egypt/ |
| Culture › Re: Why Do People Think Nigerians Women Are The Most Unattractive Women In Africa? by anonymous6(f): 11:25am On Aug 02, 2013 |
[quote author=tpia@]Not sure the film industry actually helped in that regard. I could be wrong though, but nigeria's bad reputation has worsened over the years, not improved.[/quote]it has actually helped, You need to read this article BBC did of Nigeria's impact in Africa: https://www.nairaland.com/777550/bbc-news-special-nigerias-impact http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11429067 To me Nigeria's reputation has been a stand still because Nigeria has been giving mixed messages, one area you see improvement and another is just a mess at times |
| Culture › Re: Why Do People Think Nigerians Women Are The Most Unattractive Women In Africa? by anonymous6(f): 11:24pm On Aug 01, 2013*. Modified: 11:41pm On Aug 01, 2013 |
misskaedy: Why do people think Nigerians women are the most unattractive women in Africa? I personally think everywhere in Africa has beautiful people.I never heard this before, I have actually heard the reverse that Nigerian women are one the top ten most beautiful in Africa. If it wasn't for the film industry of Nigeria people would have still had a negative stereotypical view of Nigeria women and/or african women in general, so I don't know about your question. |
| Culture › Re: If Black Caribbeans And African Americans Wish To Return To Africa? by anonymous6(f): 2:50am On Jul 27, 2013*. Modified: 4:33am On Jul 27, 2013 |
[quote author=Mrs.Chima]No wonder my husband got good hair.  [/quote]lol, nothing wrong with good hair |
| Culture › Re: If Black Caribbeans And African Americans Wish To Return To Africa? by anonymous6(f): 9:52pm On Jul 26, 2013 |
[quote author=*Kails*]Lol @somebody would have gotten hurt. True. Africans from what I know value their land, last names and heritage. Some ppl of the diaspora wish to obtain all three and end up played. Now dont get me wrong, that one incident doest NOT mean all of africa is like that. Ghana and Eithopia are proof of that.  I heard there were some in nigeria too mostly brazilian right?[/quote]Yeah, the majority of black diasporians are Brazilians(mostly since slavery) but many of them have since assimilated with Nigerians, many married to Nigerians since the 1800's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilians_in_Nigeria |
| Culture › Re: If Black Caribbeans And African Americans Wish To Return To Africa? by anonymous6(f): 6:40pm On Jul 26, 2013 |
[quote author=*Kails*]Idk south east africa is notorious for robbing "repatriates". One guy from trinidad moved to zimbabwe (I think..not sure if it was zim or not but it was S.E.) where they talked all that good "you are our brother" talk only to rob him of his land after he had paid for it, maintained it and even started a family. When he tried to fight it he was deported and banned from the country.[/quote]wow, that is so wrong he didn't deserve that, if that happened to a african somebody would have gotten hurt. Land is a big deal in Africa in general to Africans even more then money at times. 1 Like |
| Culture › Re: The Man Who Has Not Bathed For 37 Yrs (pictures) by anonymous6(f): 6:18pm On Jul 23, 2013 |
He's nutts, all I feel sorry for is his wife and the people around him |
| Culture › Re: Whats Your Favourite Jamaican Dish? by anonymous6(f): 4:53pm On Jul 20, 2013 |
Tough one, I am in love with many Jamaican dishes, Jamaicans are have the cuisine from the Caribbean but have stiff competition from Haitians and Trinidadians |
| Culture › Re: ... by anonymous6(f): 4:48pm On Jul 20, 2013 |
KidStranglehold: I can not disagree with this post. Like I said in the OP...black people in America really do not do much research.true but black americans as yourself are showing it is not all AAs that think that way, your topic is very good though and should be debated because to be honest I am a big fan of game of thrones, downtown abbey, lord of the rings and etc and have the DVDs but don't own the movie precious(I have seen it just once) or watch gangster themed(italian and/or AA) or slavery AA themed movies to much, not my cup of tea but I have seen Django though and it was a excellent movie. |
| Culture › Re: ... by anonymous6(f): 4:32pm On Jul 20, 2013 |
KidStranglehold: I disagree with you to an extent...Every African history before the Atlantic slave trade is history to African Americans and other diasporains. Since we descent from Africans. If White Americans can make films and TV shows about European history then why can't African Americans do it for Africans history. So yes African Americans and other diasporains DO have the entitlement to talk about African history if they choose to. Nobody is talking about culture, but history. That has not stopped white Canadians(who are not even descendants from Northern Europeans) from making TV shows about the Vikings, now has it?I'm not saying AA's can't tell the stories of ancient Africa but I feel a african would better showcase a ancient african movie then a AA, the samething with a AA would be better telling and making a movie of harriet tubman then a african. When it comes to white americans telling movies about Europeans, well their is no problem in them telling their stories as well from their ancestors in Europe but many of these movies have a majority European cast and influence, but if it was a movie about ancient africa by AAs that wouldn't be the case, first of all as you pointed out some afrocentric influence's would be intermingled with it, for example look at coming to America, there are somethings in that movie that have nothing to do with africa, it was a great movie by a great cast, but the movie was a interpretation of what AAs felt about africa to a extent. You are right with your assessment of AAs and their views of ancient african history, and etc. However as you said Africa will be the future of African history films and that it hasn't got into the level of movies such as 300 but the african movies industries are still growing and continue to progress at a faster rate so I feel it won't take long before you see a industry like Nollywood and others to start to get into that level. When it comes to Tyler Perry and precious, you have some points but those movies are embraced by the african american community to a extent, I have seen some tyler perry movies and a few were ok but you are correct it is getting sort of repetitious and being rammed into black american throats as you said. |
| Culture › Re: topic closed by anonymous6(f): 12:35pm On Jul 20, 2013 |
Congratulations and beautiful pictures of your family, make sure your cute kids know their culture |
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