#because 'criminal' also means 'guy who smoked pot when he was 15'

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just saw someone tag one of my posts about how abusive people need to be allowed to change, even if you never forgive them, with something like "it's hard to differentiate between abusive and ultimately human, and downright criminal."

and, i mean this in the nicest way possible, it's hard to differentiate that because there is no difference.

criminals are human. it does no good to pretend they aren't. the ones you're probably talking about, the rapists and serial killers, have certainly done heinous things, and we need to address that, but crucially, they are still people. human beings who made awful, unconscionable choices, that you or anyone around you *could also choose to make*. to declare otherwise is to shield perpetrators that haven't been found out yet.

and i do believe that in an ideal world, people who have done heinous things would have the opportunity to build a new life where they can make society better instead of worse. (that's a bit pie-in-the-sky, but we can still strive to be closer to that than we currently are, even if we know it's ultimately impossible to actually reach it)

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Pizza Place stories in no particular order, leaving out names for safety reasons.

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1: First conversation I had with a coworker. I’ll be green because green is cool, she’s going to be black text to save time-

“Sssooo.... what even are you?”

“Uh... 17?”

“No, I mean... what even are you??”

“Uhhhh????? What?”

“You know, like... what are you?”

“Uhhhhhhhhhh?????? What are you talking about?”

“Like, your race. What are you?”

I then began to tell her about genealogy.

2- Someone was super sick and called out of work. GM said he was good, just to bring in a doctor’s note. He did. Next day, still sick. Long story short, GM was a heartless jerk and the sick person lost his job for missing work two days in a row.

3- Nearly got into a knife fight with a manager after he threatened me. He was arrested for drug possession (former crack head) (and he had a smaller knife, so... that says something about his intellect). I was later told to disarm by the people over me (because screw people defending themselves)

4- Threatened by another member of management... she was just a bitch that threatened to punch me in the throat while I was setting up computers after a power outage because I “got in her way” while she was turned around talking to someone else that worked there. Also, she was high management.

5- Threatened by yet another manager (arrested previously for felony possession of marijuana, I later reported her to the GM for harassment and smoking pot on company time... she was the one angry pothead in the world). She was later happy when my house burned down, so... there’s that.

6- I was called a racist because I told someone on the phone that I didn’t think we delivered to their area... even called my GM and he said he didn’t think we did. I hung up on this guy twice before he came to the store and threatened me.

7- Threatened by a customer because his mom ordered a small pizza, then complained about the size. Woman sent son to call us, son sent his dad to the store and he started shoving the thing in employees’ faces and telling us we were jerks.

8- One of the managers turned out to be an embezzling crackhead. This manager I actually kind of got along with because of his cool raps. A shame he turned out to be a criminal. (He was the first of three drug addicted bosses, the other two I’ve already mentioned in 3 and 5)

9- Had a guy walk through the drive through to order.... with the door literally just around the corner and unlocked.

10- Had someone call in and demand a refund on a pizza that they ate. Told her I couldn’t refund it if they ate it. She then accused me of “wanting her babies to starve”. If her babies were starving, she probably should have DHR called on her and find something better to avoid death with than a pizza.

11- I was fired for reporting manager in 5. This was two weeks after I lost my house and all of my belongings to a fire. It was a veiled lay-off (they found some other excuse by changing the schedules).

12- One of our drivers delivered a pizza to someone who took up ten minutes of his time to tell him about how great Bernie Sanders was.... thus costing a man who wasn’t even making minimum wage valuable time and money. Speaking of which...

13- Drivers don’t even get minimum wage on the road because “you’ll get tipped”. People where I lived then are cheap and don’t tip. In the olden times, drivers did used to make well over that.

14- Construction worker came in and ordered 20 pizzas. I got a $40 tip out of that. Best. Customer. Ever.

15- Reported a driver for sexual assault of one of the managers to the GM and DM. It took 4 weeks for anything to come out of that. Same man later came in the mornings during her shift (and she couldn’t tell him to just get lost because company policy).

16- That rapping crackhead? He made an octopus out of scrapped pizza dough for fun. It was pretty neat

17- One of the people got his girlfriend a goat for their anniversary... I jokingly said “you’ve goat to be kidding me” as a response. *Seriously, awesome gift though.*

18- I put out a fire caused by the heat lamp, a driver and a box.

19- Walked in from doing the dishes on a pair of employees that were friends playing catch with a giant ball of old dough. It was like, 5-10lbs.

20- Those two friends were later assigned to take out the garbage. They disappeared for twenty minutes because they were playing in the storm drain/ditch while it was raining. GM sent them home for that.

21- One of those two previously mentioned got out of work to visit his grandmother in the hospital... he later lost his job when he checked in to some other place that wasn’t the hospital on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or something (one of the other employees was following him on that website).

22- Me and another employee had to climb the roof of the building next to us during a thunderstorm to take down a blow up ad thing. I held the ladder because of liability or something... and because he was the one who helped set it up.

23- Found out I was loosely somehow related to one of the dough makers and one of the drivers. This revelation began when she described my house and backyard in detail+some of my family members.

24- Spent 10 and 12 hour shifts there without lunch or water breaks because I was the only one there/we were too busy. This hurt even more considering it took me 3 months to get my management pay raise.

Edit: 25- Just remembered this one, The Company put it on their whiteboard that, if we talked negatively about them on social media, they would “be forced to take legal action”.

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BNHA Chpater 177 & 178: Thoughts and Spoilers

Alright, I really haven’t been meaning to do these double chapter reviews, but I’ve been busy. Unfortunately I will remain busy for the next 3-4 weeks. I will try to get out posts of manageable size or possibly just post more diverse content but I’ll figure that out later. For now, let’s get right into these chapters.

Old man with awesome, blocky character design saw the tail end of the accident and is surprisingly chill with it. La Brava tries to throw him off by saying they are just filming something (with a land of quirks, minor explosions could legitimately just be written off as something normal). Despite this, La Brava knows the ruse won’t last long and wants Gentle to retreat. Deku and Gentle are in a “stand” off in the construction site, and they strike up a conversation. Gentle still wants to continue with the operation and Deku wants to know what he plans to do. La Brava eventually gets there and believes that Gentle is “begging for his life.” As the conversation geos on, Gentle just digs himself a bigger hole while trying to barter his way out of the situation. I say that like he is putting in genuine effort but really he’s saying “nah we won’t ruin the festival, we’ll get in without setting off the alarms and everyone wins.” When they realize neither side will budge, the fight really begins.

Gentle makes the whole construction site elastic, and is bouncing around so erratically that Deku can’t predict how Gentle will move. Gentle gets a pot shot or two off on Deku and loosens a girder that may fall on the old guy who is still around watching the “movie.” Deku intervenes and catches the falling girder (damn, like even with One for All Full Cowl, Deku is really getting jacked). Deku is appalled by this action but Gentle says he really wasn’t planning on hitting the old man, but he knew that the hero wouldn’t be able to take that chance. Even though Deku is jacked, it takes a lot of effort to hold the girder, and Gentle takes this opportunity to put some distance between them and head towards UA. The scene then cuts to what is happening at UA.

The band is nervous (Bakugou hasn’t put on the Class 1-A band shirt yet), the dancers are in their costumes, and Aoyama is in his hero suit (probably easier to handle his quirk that way). Several of them are taking not of the fact that Deku hasn’t come back yet. 15 minutes until the start of the festival.

Gentle has launched himself and La Brava towards the school, and Deku pulls off a rad move. Lifts the girder above his head with one arm, and with the free arm lets off a finger flick shock wave after the two airborne criminals. They manage to dodge, but they are both worried by his persistence and La Brava feels like she may have to use her quirk. Dun dun daaaaaa! Cliff hanger ending. The only good thing about these double chapter posts is I can step right over some cliff hangers.

We start with more festival happenings. Class 1-B is there meeting Kendo who is not participating in their mega-movie-mashup play because she is in the beauty pageant. Monoma is making fun of her a bit but there might be a compliment hidden in there somewhere? Kendo and Nejire show some great sportsmanship and hope the best for each other. Then that other girl that Nejire mentioned some chapters ago who won last year shows up, her name is excessively long so I’ll call her Eyelashes. Eyelashes is confident. We see Mirio, Aizawa, and everyone’s favorite, Eri (well at least mine, and I will fight you on that), are in a taxi headed to UA, and Eri is excited to see Deku. Honestly, Eri just needs to be adopted right now. Hatsume is ready for her robotics exhibit. All Might and Midnight are talking about how Deku got a permission slip to go off campus to buy some last minute supplies.

Deku gets out from under the girder successfully and continues his pursuit after he left sufficient evidence for the next person that something weird has happened here (put some rods on one of Gentle’s midair trampolines). Gentle tells La Brava not to use her quirk, not yet, it is for the escape. Deku switches into ultra high alert mode and Gentle is shocked that Deku closed so much space so quickly. Gentle puts up a barrier between them, and here is what I mean by ultra high alert mode: Deku remembered the placement of the trampolines as Gentle made a safe landing, and uses them to propel himself forward so quickly that Deku is behind the two of them hardly before either can react. Unfortunately, Gentle does react and puts up another barrier. Fortunate Deku is so freaking smart that he bounces the shock wave off the  first barrier in an incredible bank shot that gets around their defenses and knocks Gentle to the ground. Deku switches around and pounces on the two of them and manages to restrain them with his Full Cowl strength (like I know he’s jacked with a powerful quirk, but Deku, a freshman in high school, is restraining a full grown man with one hand and maybe a leg. Gym goals). As this happens, we see some La Brava back story.

She was a recluse. She at least finished middle school, maybe high school(?), but was crushed by the insensitive rudeness of someone she genuinely liked. It went beyond insensitive and calling her a stalker, but because of the framing of the back story, we aren’t totally sure if that is a valid comment or not, I’ll let y’all decide based on your own opinions of Brava. While she was a recluse, she stumbled upon a video made by Gentle, and she was immediately attached to him. We’ve already seen how she approached him, out of the blue saying that she was a huge fan, but we also see a bit of slice of life. Making tea, working a camera, teaching Gentle how to use the internet, running from cops, you know, normal things. We even see that Gentle changed his style to match La Brava’s, but this I mean he just straight up sharpied his eyes to match La Brava’s eyeliner (at least I believe it was a sharpie, I don’t think eyeliner comes in marker shape but I don’t know). In the present, Deku says he is going to turn them in right this instant, and La Brava takes this opportunity to tell Gentle that she loves him. And her quirk activates.

Love. As simple and metaphorical (and maybe a bit cheesy) as it is, La Brava’s power allows her to infuse power into a person she loves. Gentle has been granted a boost of strength equivalent to how much La Brava loves him, and with this strength, Gentle frees himself and Brava from beneath Deku and goes onto the offensive. Gentle is giving off smoke that we had seen before when he was first introduced, and I’ll be honest, I do love it when a character has so much strength that they radiate it in some way, smoke, aura, electricity, etc. Gentle has heart smoke. Gentle flipped Deku like a pancake and goes to knock him out with a chop to the neck, saying “love always wins.” Deku is curled on the ground, but he blocked the chop with his arm, Deku ain’t having none of that love power-up BS, he isn’t gonna let a trope defeat him. Deku will not only twist fate, but he will destroy tropes as they come at him. Deku has a shock wave attack ready and is very much still in the fight.

So here are my thoughts. I am worried about this fight. I have no doubt that Deku can win, but with the power up, I’d say that Gentle has quite a bit of physical strength over Deku right now. Sure Deku isn’t using all his strength, but he limits himself to prevent physical injury. at this point, I don’t think Deku is getting out of this without a broken something, and a broken anything is gonna keep him from participating in the festival. I am also concerned about how Deku is reacting to his shock wave attacks. After each one he noticeably lets out a grunt or there is some sound effect about throbbing pain. I think the gloves might be keeping his hands functioning, but he is putting too much strength into it and is hurting himself already. But let’s say Deku gets back up, because that old man may have called for help. Deku getting back up is the best case scenario, it means that he may not have to injure himself drastically to win, but the risk is that his back up is heroes from UA, which means that even though nothing occurred on campus, they may still cancel the festival. Best-best case scenario is Deku gets back up, Gentle is suppressed, and the heroes take advantage of the fact that nothing happened on campus and they let Deku run on over to Class 1-A where they dance and party and the school no longer hates them and Eri is there and Deku’s mom or Aizawa agree to take Eri on as their adopted daughter and everyone is happy and Shigaraki turns himself in and Deku becomes the symbol of peace. But that is the best-best case scenario.... I’d be happy with about half of those things.

I also want to discuss Gentle’s and La Brava a bit. I really like their dynamic a lot, I think La Brava may be obsessive, so that the guy she had a crush on years ago may have had a point in the “stalker” comment, but her intense adoration meshes incredibly well with someone like Gentle who want’s his name carved into history. I believe their relationship is pure (I’m only saying that because I’ve seen one or two posts where people are weired out with their relationship) and it takes the form of an intense fan and a celebrity. La Brava genuinely loves him and is grateful to be with him at all, she is grateful that he pulled her out of her recluse life style and “accepted her as who she was.” And Gentle feels similarly, he is greatly appreciative to La Brava and her devotion, he was something like a starving artist who finally found a critic/person who supported his work. They understand that without each other, both of them would be much worse off in the world. They are lifting each other up and supporting each other, and reading their backstories, I can’t help but feel attached and root for them. It also goes beyond that a bit for me, because neither of them seem like bad people. Their motives are love and justice (maybe fame), however the injustice they fight is in a hard place for the law. Some of the previous villains (Stain) were obviously bad people, but they had a point, others are obviously bad people who don’t seem to have any redeemable point to their actions (most of the rest), however Gentle and La Brava fall under neither of these categories for me. Gentle has seen a genuine problem with the heroes conduct and wants to act to change it, making his name known in the process (the fame part is the only thing that gives me genuine worry). But they----

I was about to say they weren’t bad people, but I’ve been burned in the past with theories like who is good and bad (I didn’t trust Mirio at first and I turned on Aoyama immediately). In truth we don’t really know what they plan to do at UA. I don’t want to say with total authority that he won’t do anything major, just cause some distress in the media and cause trust issues between the public and UA. I still feel that Gentle and La Brava have a good and pure relationship, but I will remain cautious about what they plan to do at UA.

So that is about it. I apologize for writing that last paragraph only to cut away and say something different. I realized during my writing it that swearing by these villains intentions may have consequences. For now I think of them as some lovable goofs with good intentions. I thought about deleting that thought paragraph, but that wouldn’t really be genuine, it was stream of conscious in a way (though I really hate stream of conscious in literature). Thank you for reading this big post, if y’all have suggestions besides “stay on top of it,” I would appreciate some tips on how to manage a blog properly.But for now, during my busy weeks I’ll leave it as is. So thank you for reading and following and in general working through my scattered thoughts. I hope you have a great day.

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With only some sort of health professionals be aware the particular club’s 10,A thousand participants might acquire cooking pot and rest even though playing songs, nothing at all dangerous by any means! And of course the San Francisco law enforcement officials office ultimately closed your team lower. In our midst will be a huge number of those who are enduring everyday, when they could possibly be experiencing inexpensive getting rid of a huge volume of ache and also weak spot which happens to be attributed to illnesses via cancer malignancy, Aids, MS, and glaucoma. “Taxes, includes, cooking pot with ballots”.State Government Reports. With your medical doctors be aware your club’s 12,000 associates could possibly purchase weed after which unwind while playing music, nothing at all harmful by any means! And naturally the San Francisco law enforcement section gradually closed this team decrease. Immediately after cigarette smoking as well as heroine will come benzoylmethylecgonine, then alcohol. Because on the current concentrate on weed legalization, so many people are in hindsight to be able to the reason why cannabis was criminalized in the first place. Just one doesn’t should excuse your cigarette smoking involving weed so that you can prefer it’s legalization.

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New York: Praeger, 1991 Nonetheless, there are actually not many details that will look into the newest assert. 2) The outward symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune disorders is usually lessened or maybe removed with the assistance of marijuana likewise. Drug addiction is a huge situation the us govenment refers to around the world, each and every customs carries a traditions associated with taking drug elements. Despite the fact that supplemental reports within this subject matter continue to be required, it may be seen that medical cannabis generally is a healthier substitute for conventional opioid painkillers. We will want to look with the methods that felony corporations utilize hire essay writer to get electrical power. The particular tax payers be forced to pay for every single individual who is shipped to be able to prison pertaining to obtaining pot certainly nothing additional.

Advantages and cons of marijuana

However, the particular medicine doesn’t have when damaging final results after apply in comparison with additional unsafe medication such Dennis Peron, he whom launched task Two hundred and fifteen furthermore started your marijuana potential buyers pub inside San francisco bay area. Folks who declare, “A wine glass involving beer from a extensive day will keep me personally laid back and prepared for day of work” appears usual. Keeping that outlawed, most of us placed electrical power into your palms involving scammers and carry levy revenue from the arms of government and also residents.

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Nyc: Lindesmith Center, The mid nineties. All these voters additionally discover how if perhaps legalizing medicinal marijuana happened, it would be only accessible for sick people and never with regard to family utilize. At the moment, north america has to significance every one of it has the hemp coming from nations including Nova scotia along with Asia, who have virtually no laws suspending the bucks plant. The important explanation ended up being very simple, powerful, American organization. Additionally, furthermore enforcement have got to charge they will but also plants spend on each one event.

Fight Versus Marijuana

We have seen research about the benefits connected with medicinal marijuana within individuals using epilepsy. physicians with 14 unique special areas of practice authorized using cannabis around remedial functions. People also need to pay money for just involving lawsuit leading up to the “offender’s” time in jail. a policy in less than a decade. For the most pieces the outward symptoms associated with bud are certainly minor and are an easy task to contend with.

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Netherlands could not just help to make prostitution one of the more successful, legit sectors in the nation, but will also granted the actual sales regarding marijuana around 1976. Unfortunately, much like contemporary times, inside 1930’s these migrants weren’t met with by using open biceps. The very first saved by using bud when drugs was a student in Cina. All these issues will be elements the us government thinks about each day.

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Additionally, a lot of things, just like the Heath/Tulane Analysis, could have some different versions, even so uncovered boat loads of information and facts so i aimed to compile the internet I actually was feeling has been most reliable. The public has gotten the idea into their mind which legalizing marijuana matches condoning the idea, which it isn’t. Marijuana is by far probably the most commonly used banned pharmaceutical. Aside by supporting us lower your expenses, a number of express that legalisation of pot can make an well over 7 enormous amounts! This legalisation isn’t only estimated to begin this, and can basically make a taxed marketplace and prepare thousands new reliable work roles.

Fight Versus Marijuana

Challenging cannabis would certainly essentially be the exact same concept when the way the government fees smoking nowadays. There are wide ranging disputes against the legalization regarding marijuana; several of which I have witout a doubt dealt with. Upon further analysis on the review, it turned out revealed that Generate. In accessory for being a rather ordinary medicine, marijuana is additionally extremely valuable medicinally. The health and ease people ought to be the big issue on the government. Many of the substance lords which supply bud also are owning guns how they utilize to shield this that powers rifle abuse as well as endorses pitch wars. Marijuana is an extremely notable and contentious concern with society today.

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The Weed Numbers, Explained

Whether the statistics are as good as one might hope is always in doubt, but if the NYPD was fudging the numbers for its own sake, they did a pretty lousy job of it.

There are many ways to be arrested on marijuana charges, but one pattern has remained true through years of piecemeal policy changes in New York: The primary targets are black and Hispanic people.

Across the city, black people were arrested on low-level marijuana charges at eight times the rate of white, non-Hispanic people over the past three years, The New York Times found. Hispanic people were arrested at five times the rate of white people. In Manhattan, the gap is even starker: Black people there were arrested at 15 times the rate of white people.

When questioned by the New York City Council, the explanation was that they were just responding to 911 calls, complaints, and, hey, it’s not their fault the calls come in about black guys smoking weed. What are they supposed to do? Except they keep stats on 911 calls too, and that blew the argument up.

But according to stats they handed over after the hearing, of the five neighborhoods with the most arrests for criminal possession of marijuana in 2016, only one ranked in the top five for 911 calls about pot.

In 2017, two of the top five neighborhoods for arrests were also in the top five for 911 calls, but the other three were not.

“It does not add up,” said Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Queens), chairman of the Public Safety Committee. “Every community is calling about this issue, so why are black and brown communities the ones who are overly arrested?”

And the numbers of calls and arrests bore little correlation. In other words, the excuse proffered was nonsense.

This is nothing new.* The NYPD has deployed differently, behaved differently and arrested differently in black and Hispanic neighborhood, precincts, then white areas. Uptown, cops jump out of cars whenever they see a few people on a street corner. They toss kids with abandon, randomly demanding they empty their pockets to see if they’ve got something in there to make their numbers. They close down whole streets uptown to search everyone around.

It’s unimaginable that they would do these things on Sutton Place. And, indeed, they don’t.

The assumptive would argue that the absurdly skewed numbers of minorities arrested reflects nothing more than the “fact” that they’re the ones smoking pot. Is it the cops’ fault they smoke weed and get arrested? If they don’t want to get arrested, don’t smoke weed. Easy.

There are behaviors that make it easier for the cops. Groups of kids hanging around outdoors, whether on corners, in front of bodegas or tenement entrances. They are more likely to be smoking weed in relative public than the white kids downtown, and selling pot isn’t exactly a private affair on many street corners. It’s pretty obvious. And the cops know where it’s happening, sit and watch for a few minutes, then swoop in and take the seller and customer down.

It’s not that white kids aren’t smoking weed as well, but doing so in private makes them harder to find, harder to arrest. That they have the opportunity to do so in private can be chalked up to privilege, but that doesn’t help the argument. If you’re smoking weed in public, you don’t get special dispensation for lack of a safe space to smoke pot.

But this doesn’t come close to explaining the numbers, the differential.

“There is a higher number of this type of behavior being observed in certain parts of the city,” said NYPD spokesman Peter Donald. “And when those observations are happening, appropriate amount of enforcement is being carried out by police officers.”

If you deploy far greater numbers of cops in a neighborhood, you’re going to get far greater numbers of arrests. And far greater numbers of constitutional violations, like randomly stopping and searching people because they look ripe for a bust. Or they’re standing on the corner, which cops have always hated. Why else would they be hanging out if they weren’t up to no good?

Melissa Moore, deputy state director for New York at the Drug Policy Alliance, challenged the NYPD to look at how marijuana is enforced and shift it in a meaningful way.

“Simply continuing to do the same thing year after year, while you are saying you are being responsive to complaints even while the data show that’s not the case is deeply problematic,” she said.

None of this is new, though the explanations and excuses change with whatever seems politically palatable at the moment. Bear in mind that possession of small amounts of pot have been decriminalized in New York for decades. If it’s not “burning or in public view,” it’s a violation, subject to a fine, rather than a misdemeanor. The trick is for the cops to demand the person empty his pockets, which then puts the weed in public view. Boom, it’s now a misdemeanor. Cool trick, right?

And when they’ve got nothing better, they can always claim to smell the odor of burning weed, which obviously can’t be seized as evidence and so relies on the testimony of police. Would cops lie? Of course.

Does any of this happen on the upper east side? If it did, people would go bonkers, be outraged and storm the local party headquarters. If it happened to their little darlings, donations would dry up and torches would be lit. And do these same people know how life goes on above 125th Street? Nah. They’ve never been on the streets of Fort Washington or the South Bronx, watching cops leap out of their cruiser and toss a group of black kids against a brick wall.

Is this racism? The real explanation is that the NYPD, whom Bill de Blasio learned early not to screw with if he doesn’t want to go do war, has always assumed that blacks and Hispanics are criminals, and so that’s where they go to prove they’re doing their job. And if they don’t find crime, they make it. After all, they know who the bad guys are, and it’s not their fault they’re mostly minorities. They’re just doing their job where they’re sure the crime is.

So yes, it’s flagrant racism. It always has been for as long as I can remember.

*One of the reasons I’m disinclined to go turning over rocks to search for racism is that there’s no shortage of it out in the open and no need to employ mental gymnastics to manufacture it when all one needs to do is sit in a bar on 168th Street and watch the cops outside take people down for breathing while black. It’s not an argument. It’s just life uptown.

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After 6 seasons, actress and TV personality Aisha Tyler announced that she would not be returning as a co-host on CBS’ The Talk. Aisha has been part of the show since 2011, when she joined on the second season of the daytime talk show. However, on Thursday’s (June 15th) episode, the Criminal Minds actress told fans and viewers that she would be moving on to the next stage of her career. While making the announcement, the beauty explained, “At the end of this season I’m going to be leaving the show…I have had an amazing six years with you guys. We’ve had babies and weddings, and you know good things have happened, and you know I went through the biggest breakup of my life with you. I could not have done with this without you. I’ll never be able to thank you guys enough.” Inevitably, Aisha got emotional when she made her unexpected announcement, as did her fellow co-hosts, Sheryl Underwood, Sharon Osbourne, Julie Chen and Sara Gilbert. CBS Angelina McDaniel later released a statement addressing Aisha’s decision to leave the talk show, which read, “Saying goodbye to Aisha is a bittersweet moment for all of us at CBS Daytime and The Talk…throughout her six seasons, she has made incredible contributions and shared personal moments, making our viewers, cast and crew all laugh cry and think, as a result of her signature wit, intelligence, and openness. It’s no secret Aisha is one of the busiest women in entertainment, and we support her as she decides to focus more time on her passion for directing, her expanded role on CBS’ Criminal Minds, hosting The CW’s Whose Line is it Anyway? and her other endeavors…and maybe finally find some time to sleep! We love Aisha, and she will always be a part of our family, with a seat waiting for her at The Talk anytime she wants to visit.” About a year and a half ago, E! Network debuted the show Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry. On it, “clairvoyant medium” Tyler Henry talks with various celebrities and tries to help them connect to their past and inner selves. On the most recent installment of the show, Tyler sat down with reality starlets Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, where he brought up some pretty touchy subjects with the two beauties. During the sit-down, Tyler warned Khloe about her “susceptibility” to skin cancer. The “psychic” explained, “Okay this just came through really strongly – skin. I’m seeing skin, I’m referencing to what looks like melanoma. I’m getting a reference to three separate situations that I view as being problem areas. You have susceptibility on your back and there’s susceptibility on your leg and I need you to keep both in mind. This is huge.” In response, Khloe revealed, “I’ve had melanoma on my back, but never on my leg…” Shortly after, Tyler went on to implicitly talk to Khloe about her ex-husband Lamar Odom, who continues to work on recovering from his serious substance abuse issues. Tyler told the Good American entrepreneur, “It’s important that [Lamar] doesn’t isolate himself, as I think he may have a tendency to do. And that’s something that we can only control so much of, you can’t control someone else’s actions, it is not your responsibility. I just hope he stays in the state…. He needs to stay in California.” When talking with Kylie, Tyler said he sensed an unhealthy relationship in the young star’s life. Kylie asked him to look into her love life, which prompted Tyler to note that he was sensing a situation where “someone tries to get with one sister” and then “tries to get with the other.” He then went on to say that he felt that Kylie had a certain, very unhealthy relationship in her life and that she needed to set boundaries in order to protect herself. The latest episodes of Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry air on Sundays on E! "Shark Week" has a new star attraction: Michael Phelps. Discovery Channel's list of "Shark Week" programming next month includes a July 23 show titled "Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White." Discovery Channel billed it as "an event so monumental that no one has ever attempted it before" and added that "the world's most decorated athlete takes on the ocean's most efficient predator: Phelps V Shark - the race is on!" Whether that means the winner of 23 Olympic gold medals is actually racing a shark remains uncertain. The release announcing this event didn't offer many details or specifics aside from saying that Phelps "has one competition left to win." Discovery Channel officials didn't immediately respond to a message seeking additional information. Jada Pinkett Smith is calling the Tupac Shakur biopic "All Eyez on Me," 'deeply hurtful" for its portrayal of her relationship with the rap legend. In a series of tweets Friday, just as the film is opening in theaters, Pinkett Smith contradicted several scenes. She said she never had an argument with Shakur backstage, that their parting was fictionalized and that he never read her a poem, as seen in the film. Pinkett Smith said her relationship to Shakur was "too precious" for her not take issue. Pinkett Smith was close friends from childhood with Shakur. She's portrayed in the film by Kat Graham, whose performance Pinkett Smith complimented, along with Demetrius Shipp Jr., who plays Shakur. Carrie Fisher died from sleep apnea and a combination of other factors, but investigators were not able to pinpoint an exact cause, coroner's officials said Friday. Among the factors that contributed to Fisher's death was a buildup of fatty tissue in the walls of her arteries, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said in a news release late Friday. The release states that the "Star Wars" actress showed signs of having taken multiple drugs, but investigators could not determine whether they contributed to her death in December. Her manner of death would be listed as undetermined, the agency said. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for additional details about whether a full autopsy report and toxicology results were available. Sleep apnea is a condition in which a person's breathing pauses during sleep. The pauses may be brief or last several minutes, according to information from the National Institutes of Health. Fisher, 60, suffered a medical emergency on an international flight on Dec. 23 and died four days later. Her mother, longtime movie star Debbie Reynolds, died the following day. The actresses were laid to rest together at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills, a cemetery where numerous celebrities are buried. Fisher's brother, Todd Fisher, said he was not surprised by the results. He added that his family did not want a coroner's investigation of his sister's death. "We're not enlightened. There's nothing about this that is enlightening," he said. "I would tell you, from my perspective that there's certainly no news that Carrie did drugs," Todd Fisher said. He noted that his sister wrote extensively about her drug use, and that many of the drugs she took were prescribed by doctors to try to treat her mental health conditions. Fisher long battled drug addiction and mental illness. She said she smoked pot at 13, used LSD by 21 and was diagnosed as bipolar at 24. She was treated with electroshock therapy and medication. "I am not shocked that part of her health was affected by drugs," Todd Fisher said. He said his sister's heart condition was probably worsened by her smoking habit, as well as the medications she took. "If you want to know what killed her, it's all of it," he said. Todd Fisher said it was difficult to blame doctors who treated his sister because they were trying to help her. "They were doing their best to cure a mental disorder. Can you really blame them?" Todd Fisher said. "Without her drugs, maybe she would have left long ago." Carrie Fisher made her feature film debut opposite Warren Beatty in the 1975 hit "Shampoo." She also appeared in "Austin Powers," ''The Blues Brothers," ''Charlie's Angels," ''Hannah and Her Sisters," ''Scream 3" and "When Harry Met Sally ..." She will reprise her role as Leia Organa in the eighth installment of the core "Star Wars" franchise, "The Last Jedi," which will be released in December. Bill Cosby's lawyer repeatedly demanded a mistrial in his sex assault trial as five days of deliberations on the fate of the man once known as America's Dad pushed into Father's Day weekend, but the judge said there was no precedent to shut down the jury's talks. "I have no authority to do this," Judge Steven O'Neill said in the 52nd hour of deliberations on Friday night. "I'm sorry it's causing everyone frustration." Cosby lawyer Brian McMonagle fired back that jurors might be under the assumption they have to deliberate until "the cows come home." They will resume deliberations Saturday morning. O'Neill grew testy on the bench as he questioned McMonagle's requests to end the trial without a verdict. The jury might be working toward an acquittal, the judge said. "You don't know why they were deadlocked. Everyone is assuming one way or another," said O'Neill. As jurors left for the night, O'Neill praised their "hard work, dedication and fidelity to your oath." The jury, from the Pittsburgh area, has been sequestered for two weeks about 300 miles from home. The 79-year-old Cosby is accused of drugging and molesting a Temple University employee in 2004 at his home near Philadelphia. As deliberations wore on, Cosby thanked his fans and supporters - first in a tweet, then in brief comments as he left the courthouse Friday night. "I just want to wish all of the fathers a happy Father's Day," Cosby said. "And I want to thank the jury for their long days. Their honest work, individually. I also want to thank the supporters who have been here. And, please, to the supporters, stay calm. Do not argue with people. Just keep up the great support. Thank you." A conviction could send Cosby to prison for the rest of his life, but the case has already helped demolish Cosby's nice-guy image, cultivated during his eight-year run as Dr. Cliff Huxtable on "The Cosby Show," the top-rated 1980s and '90s sitcom. Dozens of women have come forward to say he drugged and assaulted them, but this was the only case to result in criminal charges. On Friday, the jury asked to review multiple pieces of evidence, including Cosby's decade-old deposition testimony about quaaludes. Cosby, who gave the deposition as part of Constand's lawsuit against him, said he got seven prescriptions for the powerful sedative in the 1970s for the purpose of giving them to women with whom he wanted to have sex. The testimony is relevant because Cosby is charged with giving pills to Constand, former director of operations for the Temple women's basketball team, to incapacitate her before their sexual encounter. He has said it was Benadryl, a cold and allergy medicine. Prosecutors have suggested he gave her something stronger, possibly quaaludes. Jurors also asked for, and received, a definition of reasonable doubt, the threshold that prosecutors must cross to win a conviction, and reviewed testimony from Constand and her mother about phone conversations they had with Cosby after the encounter. According to the testimony, Cosby called himself a "sick man" but refused to identify the pills he gave to Constand. Cosby's lawyers have said he and Constand were lovers and that the encounter was consensual. McMonagle objected in court to the panel's repeated requests to review testimony, saying it suggested some jurors were trying to coerce other jurors in an attempt to bring an end to the deadlock. The judge said he saw no evidence of coercion or trouble in the deliberating room after the jurors reported their impasse on Thursday and he instructed them to keep trying for a verdict. "There's a misperception that there's a time limit," he said. Jurors got the case on Monday. They must come to a unanimous decision to convict or acquit. If they can't break the deadlock, O'Neill could declare a hung jury and a mistrial. Then, prosecutors would get four months to decide whether they want to retry Cosby or drop the charges.  

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