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It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Top-tier black college athletes should take their talents to historically black institutions. That's the argument that Jemele Hill is making in a new piece for the Atlantic. She says that doing so could benefit both the colleges and the communities around them.


The piece, It's Time for Black Athletes to Leave White Colleges, argues that when highly-ranked black athletes even look at HBCUs, it "threatens to crack the foundation on which the moneymaking edifice of college sports rests" — that foundation being black athletes drawing acclaim, attention, and money to primarily white institutions.


It's an argument that has drawn some criticism — Hill says she's been called a "segregationist" for even suggesting the idea. To that, she says, "those people don't know very much about HBCUs." (Of course, Hill is no stranger to that kind of critique. She famously drew the ire of President Trump and his supporters after referring to him as a white supremacist on Twitter.)


Hill spoke to All Things Considered about the piece.


Interview Highlights


On the history of student athletes at HBCUs


That was exclusively where [black students] could go, and as a result you had a lot of the top talent. At that point in time you had a college like Grambling State University, which was basically considered to be what would be today's version of the University of Alabama, because they were that talented, putting so many players in the NFL over the course of their history. But obviously once there was desegregation, a lot of these black athletes began to go all over. HBCUs in the major revenue sports — talking about basketball and football — began to lose, or not have as much of a foothold.

If you look at the college landscape now, everybody pretty much knows [it] has become a billion dollar industry, given the television contracts, the money, the interest, the marketing, shoe deals, all of that. But black athletes in general are being exploited, because they're not being paid, and they're clearly the backbone of a lot of these universities, of which their labor has helped them become these huge powerhouses. You're looking at schools like Texas and Alabama who have a 200 million dollar athletic budget — not a school budget, just the athletic budget. All that is built on the backs of black athletes.


HBCUs generally speaking do not have large endowments, nothing that could equal any of some of the universities like Harvard. Why not take your talent to these HBCUs that once were the only place that you could go, and help to reimagine those universities from a financial standpoint the communities around them and to some degree kind of rebuild these historic institutions.


On what it would take for this to work


You would need a group, frankly, a whole exodus of athletes who would think really really really big picture in order for this to happen.


It can't be one or two, because one or two is not enough. There have been individual cases of a top-tier black talent going to these schools. But they need a wave of a conscientious effort on behalf of these athletes to do that, to help to rebuild these schools, the communities around them. And I think it will be a trickle down effect into strengthening essentially a huge base in the black community, which has always been kind of the black middle class. When you look at the number of lawyers, doctors, professionals that have come from HBCUs, I mean Kamala Harris is running for president. She went to Howard University. So when you look at the level of output that most black colleges have in general, to strengthen that even more with a very solvent, steady, stable financial base I think is just a huge benefit all around.





On the precedent for this kind of movement in athletics


We see this happen a lot in college football and college basketball, where you have athletes who have been playing together in high school, maybe on the same team. Because a lot of these guys play on the same AAU teams, two or three of them will go to one university, because they all want to play together.


One of the more famous examples is [University of Michigan's] Fab Five: Jalen Rose and Chris Webber both are from Detroit, both had a relationship, and they got to know the other members — Juwan Howard, Ray Jackson and Jimmy King. And five freshmen went to the University of Michigan and changed college basketball.


I don't see why that couldn't happen for an HBCU. I mean look, we've seen a lot of these athletes. They have chosen to go to smaller schools or be walk ons sometimes at some of these bigger schools. My thing is like, why be a walk somewhere? Go to an HBCU.


I know I was speaking from a standpoint of utter utopia. It's a little bit more more challenging than that. But I do think it's possible. I think some of it has to be a concerted push, and some of this has to come from their own homes.


When I was making my college decision, no one talked to me about going to an HBCU. I'm from Detroit, and that's a black city, right? I knew other people who had gone, but nobody said, "Hey, did you ever think about going here now?" Two HBCUs wound up being on my final list of colleges, and I owe that to the Cosby Show and A Different World.


On the exposure athletes get at larger schools


As we've seen always has been the case in sports, and really virtually anything entertainment based, is exposure goes where the talent is. So the exposure would be, to me, the least of the issues, because again, there are players in the NFL and NBA who went to black colleges and they were found. And I think that's part of what I got at in this piece is the mentality that some of these young athletes have. They think the schools make them.


Now I'm not going to pretend that if you go to a black college there are things you have to prove that say, somebody who goes to Oregon or Florida State doesn't have to prove. That being said, teams want to get better, and they want to go where the talent is, and it's the same with television networks. They follow where the audience goes and where the talent is.

So now we're nearly at "integration was a mistake?" NPR has gone downhill fast over the last year or two. Granted, this is from the "Code Switch" section (aka "The Root Lite") but there's been a huge uptick of this kind of 'tism on NPR lately. Now they've hit the horseshoe.
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This is a great idea. Maybe instead of burning millions of dollars to fund black students to beat the shit out of other for entertainment, non HBCUs can go back to investing in research.
 
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Fast-food giant: The word 'ham' in hamburger too offensive for Muslims

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The U.S. House of Representatives changed its dress code to accommodate a Muslim, so it's clear that the demands of members of that religion are influential.

Now a major restaurant chain is changing its sandwich names to avoid offending Muslims.

The Business Insider reported Burger King in South Africa is dropping the word "ham" from its menu.
What used to be known as the "Double Spicy Hamburger" will now be a "Double Spicy Burger." The "Triple Hamburger with Cheese" becomes the "Triple Burger with Cheese," and a "Hamburger King Jr" on the kids menu will now be just a "Kids Burger," the report said.

The corporation, whose worldwide headquarters are in Miami, Florida, said the changes are being made "to be more respectful of Muslim customers."

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The U.S. House of Representatives in Congress changed its dress code to accommodate a Muslim, so it's clear that the demands of the members of that religion are influential.
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WTF? Pandering to the muzz.

I can see crazy leftist's demanding Burger King change it's name to something more gender neutral next...
 
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Loud sex, mistaken for fight, ends with gunshots and 2nd-degree attempted murder charge
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On Monday, Baltimore County Police officers responded to a possible domestic disturbance at a Days Inn hotel. However, when they arrived, they were informed that what was occurring inside the hotel room was not a fight — it was two women having loud sex.
The romantic rendezvous ultimately ended with a security guard being shot at and a second-degree attempted murder charge for Allison Nicole Daughtrey, 34, according to charging documents obtained by WMAR.

Around 2 p.m., two clerks at the front desk of the Towson, Maryland, Days Inn received a phone call from one of the hotel's rooms. During the call, the workers believe they heard two people fighting in the background, which prompted the on-duty security guard to phone the Baltimore County Police Department.

When police arrived, the two women, who had been in the room in question, informed police that they were not fighting — they were having sex. The security guard requested that police remove them, and the children who were with them in another room, from the hotel.

As Daughtrey's girlfriend packed up their things, Daughtrey and the security guard began yelling at each other, the Baltimore Sun reports.

After the family was escorted to the parking lot, Daughtrey's girlfriend informed the officers that she left her cell phone in the room, and she was escorted back into the hotel to retrieve it. When the officer and woman returned, Daughtrey was no longer by the vehicle.


Shortly after, the responding officer reported hearing a gunshot in the hotel lobby. An employee ran from the hotel and informed officers that the security guard was holding down the shooter.

Daughtrey was arrested at the scene and ultimately charged with attempted second-degree murder, assault, reckless endangerment, destruction of property and gun charges.


After reviewing the hotel's surveillance video, police learned Daughtrey re-entered the lobby and struggled with the security guard. Daughtrey allegedly pulled out a gun and pointed it at the security guard's head. The guard pushed the gun to the side and moved his head just as Daughtrey fired a round, which struck a metal frame nearby. The security guard held the weapon, causing it to jam and preventing Daughtrey from firing again, as she continued to squeeze the trigger and bit his right arm.

The guard was taken to MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital to treat his injured hand. A grandmother picked up the children.

According to Daughtrey, the firing of the gun was unintentional. She claims that the security guard struck her face and, in retaliation, she swung her bag at him when the gun fell out and discharged the single round.

“If I intended to ever use the gun, I would never have missed the target,” Daughtrey said in her defense to police at the Towson police precinct.

Daughtrey currently remains in custody at the Baltimore County Detention Center.
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Loud sex, mistaken for fight, ends with gunshots and 2nd-degree attempted murder charge

Police officers responding to a possible domestic disturbance at a Days Inn hotel found out it wasn't a fight but rather two women having loud sex in a hotel room.
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This doesn’t seem real...
 
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Sweden: Nigerian migrant rapper with 280,000 YouTube subs urges blacks to shoot, enslave, and kill white people - Voice of Europe

Jesse Ekene Nweke Conable, a Nigerian-born rapper who goes by the handle JCBUZ, has openly called for his fellow blacks to commit violence against white people during a hate-filled rant in a social media group.
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Sweden: Nigerian migrant rapper with 280,000 YouTube subs urges blacks to shoot, enslave, and kill white people

Jesse Ekene Nweke Conable, a Nigerian-born rapper who goes by the handle JCBUZ, has openly called for his fellow blacks to commit violence against white people during a hate-filled rant in a social media group.

In the rant, Conable propagates racism and urges fellow Africans living in Europe to kill whites, Samhällsnytt reports.

“If any white guy or white girl is trying to talk shit about you, shoot them!” Conable said in a closed group on social media.

In their report, Samhällsnytt writes that the Instagram account Barasvarta (“Blacks only”) is open only to blacks and enjoys several hundred followers. The account is run by Conable and has slogans like “Black Power in Sweden” and “Fuck White People”.

In one of the videos posted to the page, the Nigerian rapper says, “My brothers and sisters, my black brothers and sisters I have an important message for you. I just want to tell you all my black brothers and sisters out there – you are special and nobody is like you. Continue the war. We blacks will take over – we will become number one – one beautiful day we will become number one – we will take over these whites. So as these whites took us as slaves we should take these as slaves and treat them even worse.”

“We’ll take their bitches and we’ll take their money. To be perfectly honest, we will be the best race ever,” Conable went on. “We are African warriors, they are not on our level. This is just the beginning, black power.”

“This is just the beginning, it starts small but believe me we will grow and become bigger. We will be the strongest group in Sweden – nobody will dare to mess with us. Just wait, it will be a beautiful day.”

Astoundingly, Jesse Ekene Nweke Conable or JCBUZ currently enjoys nearly 280,000 subscribers to his YouTube accounts.

The military-aged Nigerian migrant first came to Sweden in 2008. He now enjoys Swedish citizenship and maintains a residence in Lund.
 
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I.... I just wanted to read about football....


Deadspin: Joe Biden Is A Doddering Old Mummy With A Skull Full Of Dumpster Juice

Joe Biden’s politics are bad and he is a bad candidate. Ordinarily that might be the most important measure of a guy running for national office: That his positions, both as stated and as demonstrated by his decades in national government, amount to a tepid, grey, nutrient-free broth of long-discredited Third Way…
 
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I.... I just wanted to read about football....


Deadspin: Joe Biden Is A Doddering Old Mummy With A Skull Full Of Dumpster Juice

Joe Biden’s politics are bad and he is a bad candidate. Ordinarily that might be the most important measure of a guy running for national office: That his positions, both as stated and as demonstrated by his decades in national government, amount to a tepid, grey, nutrient-free broth of long-discredited Third Way…
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Sounds to me like he knows better than to give a straight answer to a question about slavery and that all you can do is just not say anything coherent that gives anyone a sound bite.
 
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Jesse Ekene Nweke Conable, a Nigerian-born rapper who goes by the handle JCBUZ, has openly called for his fellow blacks to commit violence against white people during a hate-filled rant in a social media group.

In the rant, Conable propagates racism and urges fellow Africans living in Europe to kill whites, Samhällsnytt reports.

“If any white guy or white girl is trying to talk shit about you, shoot them!” Conable said in a closed group on social media.

In their report, Samhällsnytt writes that the Instagram account Barasvarta (“Blacks only”) is open only to blacks and enjoys several hundred followers. The account is run by Conable and has slogans like “Black Power in Sweden” and “Fuck White People”.

In one of the videos posted to the page, the Nigerian rapper says, “My brothers and sisters, my black brothers and sisters I have an important message for you. I just want to tell you all my black brothers and sisters out there – you are special and nobody is like you. Continue the war. We blacks will take over – we will become number one – one beautiful day we will become number one – we will take over these whites. So as these whites took us as slaves we should take these as slaves and treat them even worse.”

“Like these whites took us as slaves we should take them as slaves and treat them even worse,” Conable says during his rant.

“We’ll take their bitches and we’ll take their money. To be perfectly honest, we will be the best race ever,” Conable went on. “We are African warriors, they are not on our level. This is just the beginning, black power.”

“This is just the beginning, it starts small but believe me we will grow and become bigger. We will be the strongest group in Sweden – nobody will dare to mess with us. Just wait, it will be a beautiful day.”

Astoundingly, Jesse Ekene Nweke Conable or JCBUZ currently enjoys nearly 280,000 subscribers to his YouTube accounts.

The military-aged Nigerian migrant first came to Sweden in 2008. He now enjoys Swedish citizenship and maintains a residence in Lund.

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