JESSE WILLIAMS' SPEECH WAS POLITICAL RHETORIC BUT LONG OVERDUE

JESSE WILLIAMS' SPEECH WAS POLITICAL RHETORIC BUT LONG OVERDUE 

BLACK PEOPLE GET EXCITED AFTER HEARING GREAT SPEECHES BUT DO NOTHING.

WHAT'S NEXT?

Sources: BET,  TIME, Google, YouTube

June 26, 2016 at the BET Awards, actor and activist Jesse Williams (a light-skinned Black Man)  delivered an awesome speech on Racial Injustice in the United States. 

Just as they did after Pres Obama delivered a great speech, Black people became very emotional and celebrated the Orator.

However after their emotional sugar high subsided the challenges and Racial Injustice plaguing Black America returned to business as usual.

While I do admire Jesse Williams demonstrating a great deal of Courage for his bruising monologue, it is imperative that I ask "NOW WHAT"???

When is the Black Community going to UNITE and Help itself??

I'm am referring to CONSTRUCTIVE ACTION not Riots!

**** Full Transcript of Jesse Williams’ Powerful Speech on Race at the BET Awards

"Just because we're magic doesn't mean we're not real"

Grey’s Anatomy actor Jesse Williamswas awarded BET’s Humanitarian Awardon Sunday night. The outspoken human rights activist—who executive produced the recent documentary, Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement— delivered a powerful and political speech about the cause he’s worked so hard on.

Referencing recent victims of police brutality, Williams discussed the violence against black people and the struggles they’ve faced throughout history: “There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There has been no job we haven’t done. There is no tax they haven’t leveed against us,” he said.

The speech received a standing ovation by the audience, who went on to praise Williams on Twitter. A transcript of it has been published in multiple places, including The Washington Post and Bustle. Below, Genius‘s account of the speech:

Peace peace. Thank you, Debra. Thank you, BET. Thank you Nate Parker, Harry and Debbie Allen for participating in that .

 we get into it, I just want to say I brought my parents out tonight. I just want to thank them for being here, for teaching me to focus on comprehension over career, and that they make sure I learn what the schools were afraid to teach us. And also thank my amazing wife for changing my life.

Now, this award – this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country – the activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do.

It’s kind of basic mathematics – the more we learn about who we are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize.

Now, this is also in particular for the black women in particular who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you.

Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday. So what’s going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours.

Now… I got more y’all – yesterday would have been young Tamir Rice’s 14th birthday so I don’t want to hear anymore about how far we’ve come when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on 12 year old playing alone in the park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich. Tell Rekia Boyd how it’s so much better than it is to live in 2012 than it is to live in 1612 or 1712. Tell that toEric Garner. Tell that to Sandra Bland. Tell that to Dorian Hunt.

Now the thing is, though, all of us in here getting money – that alone isn’t gonna stop this. Alright, now dedicating our lives, dedicating our lives to getting money just to give it right back for someone’s brand on our body when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies, and now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies.

There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There has been no job we haven’t done. There is no tax they haven’t leveed against us – and we’ve paid all of them. But freedom is somehow always conditional here. “You’re free,” they keep telling us. But she would have been alive if she hadn’t acted so… free.

Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter, but you know what, though, the hereafter is a hustle. We want it now.

And let’s get a couple things straight, just a little sidenote – the burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.That’s not our job, alright – stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest, if you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.

We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil – black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is though… the thing is that just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real.

Thank you.

James "Uncle Phil" Avery Of "Fresh Prince" Show Fame, Is Dead At 68.....R.I.P.

#JamesAveryRIP

'Fresh Prince' actor James Avery dies at 68.

R.I.P.


"James Avery, Star Of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' Dies At 68"


Actor James Avery, who played the beloved Uncle Phil on the hit 1990s sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," has died, his publicist said Wednesday. He was 68.

The cause of death was complications from open-heart surgery, said his manager, Toni Benson. Avery had surgery on November 11 and died Tuesday evening at a hospital in Glendale, California, according to Benson.

"Fresh Prince" co-star Joseph Marcell, who played the family butler Geoffrey, told CNN that Avery was "a marvelous man and a truly wonderful actor."

Avery played Philip Banks, the stern but loving uncle to Will Smith's character on the show.

"He strove to present an Uncle Phil that everybody wishes was their uncle," Marcell said.

Avery believed the show was important because the "striving of the African-American ought to have been shown on television," Marcell said. "What he has done for television, for African-Americans on television is unsurpassable."

"Fresh Prince" co-star Alfonso Ribeiro tweeted news of Avery's passing.


"I'm deeply saddened to say that James Avery has passed away," Ribeiro wrote. "He was a second father to me. I will miss him greatly.

Jada Pinkett Smith, wife of Will Smith, posted the couple's condolences Wednesday on her verified Facebook page.

"Our condolences to aunt Florence (his mother), Miss Barbara (his wife) and all those who loved him," Pinkett Smith wrote.

A classically trained actor and poet, Avery grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he was raised by a single mother.

He served in the Navy during the Vietnam War and first appeared onscreen as a dancer in an uncredited role in the 1980 film "The Blues Brothers."

A biography provided by his manager said that after he served in the military, Avery moved to San Diego, California, where he began writing TV scripts and poetry for PBS. Before joining the military, he once said, he had dreams of being like Richard Wright and living in Paris. But life took a different turn.

"I knew I loved the arts," Avery said in an interview for the show "Unscripted." "I knew I wanted to be a writer, but the theater was something I had been involved in before."

Avery appeared in multiple TV shows and movies, including "CSI," "That '70s Show," "The Closer" and several appearances as a judge on "L.A. Law."

Indeed, with his deep, mellifluous voice, he frequently played judges, professors and doctors -- Uncle Phil began as a lawyer and eventually became a judge -- and was much in demand as a voice actor. His voice roles included Shredder in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series and James "Rhodey" Rhodes in the 1990s animated series version of "Iron Man."

He most recently appeared in Zach Braff's new film, "Wish I Was Here," which will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival later this month.

But his most famous role was on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," which aired from 1990 to 1996.

The show, co-executive produced by Quincy Jones and created by Andy Borowitz and Susan Borowitz, cast Smith -- then best known as a rapper -- as a Philadelphia teenager who is sent to live with his wealthy Los Angeles relatives. As Banks, a former civil rights activist and Harvard Law-trained attorney, Avery provided a role model for Smith's sometimes wild character.

Avery, too, leveled with youthful audiences, noting in "Unscripted" that he left home at 18 because "I had too good a time."

In a 2007 interview with the New York Film Academy, he was forthright about his abilities.

"You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor," Avery said. "(But) I've done pretty good."

He is survived by his wife of 26 years, Barbara Avery; his mother, Florence Avery of Atlantic City; and a stepson, Kevin Waters.


Sources: CNN; Youtube

Peter O' Toole Star Of "Lawrence Of Arabia" Film Is Dead At 81....R.I.P.

Peter O’Toole, Star of ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ Is Dead at 81




Peter O’Toole, an Irish bookmaker’s son with a hell-raising streak whose magnetic performance in the 1962 epic film “Lawrence of Arabia” earned him overnight fame and put him on the road to becoming one of his generation’s most accomplished and charismatic actors, died on Saturday in London.

He was 81.

His daughter Kate O’Toole said in a statement that he had been ill for some time.



A blond, blue-eyed six-footer, Mr. O’Toole had the dashing good looks and high spirits befitting a leading man, and he did not disappoint in “Lawrence,” David Lean’s wide-screen, almost-four-hour homage to T.E. Lawrence, the daring British soldier and adventurer who led an Arab rebellion against the Turks in the Middle East during World War I.

The performance brought Mr. O’Toole the first of eight Academy Award nominations, a flood of film offers and a string of artistic successes in the 1960s and early ‘70s. In the theater — he was a classically trained actor — he played an anguished, angular tramp in Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” and a memorably battered title character in Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.”



In film, he twice played a robust King Henry II, first opposite Richard Burton in “Becket,” then with Katharine Hepburn as his queen in “The Lion in Winter.” Both earned Oscar nominations for Best Actor, as did his repressed, decaying schoolmaster in “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” and the crazed 14th Earl of Gurney in “The Ruling Class.”

Less successful was his Don Quixote in “Man of La Mancha,” Arthur Hiller’s 1972 adaptation of the Broadway musical, but it emphasized that his specialty was increasingly becoming the outsider or misfit: dreamy, romantic, turbulent, damaged, or even mad, but usually larger than life.



Mr. O’Toole threw himself wholeheartedly into what he called “bravura acting,” courting and sometimes deserving the accusation that he became over-theatrical, mannered, even hammy. His lanky, loose-jointed build; his blue eyes; his long, lantern-jawed face; his oddly languorous sexual charm; and the eccentric loops and whoops of his voice tended to reinforce the impression of power and extravagance.



Mr. Burton called him “the most original actor to come out of Britain since the war,” with “something odd, mystical and deeply disturbing” in his work.



Some critics called him the next Laurence Olivier. As a young actor Mr. O’Toole displayed an authority that the critic Kenneth Tynan said “may presage greatness.” In 1958 the director Peter Hall called Mr. O’Toole’s Hamlet in a London production “electrifying” and “unendurably exciting” — a display of “animal magnetism and danger which proclaimed the real thing.”

He showed those strengths somewhat erratically, however; for all his accolades and his box-office success, there was a lingering note of unfulfilled promise in Mr. O’Toole.



It was no surprise when Olivier chose Mr. O’Toole to inaugurate Britain’s National Theater Company in 1963 with a reprisal of his Hamlet. But the first night left most critics unmoved and unexcited and the actor himself lamenting “the most humbling, humiliating experience of my life.”

“As it went on,” he said, “I suddenly knew it wasn’t going to be any good.”



A production in 1965 of David Mercer’s “Ride-a-Cock-Horse,” in which he played an adulterous alcoholic, was booed at its London opening.



Onscreen, mixed reviews followed his performances as the cowardly naval officer seeking redemption in “Lord Jim,” Richard Brooks’s 1965 adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel; as a playboy in “What’s New, Pussycat?” a 1965 comedy with Peter Sellers and written by a young Woody Allen; and as the Three Angels in “The Bible: In the Beginning,” John Huston’s 1966 recreation of Genesis. And his sadistic Nazi general in Anatole Litvak’s “Night of the Generals” (1967) was panned.



His carousing became legend, particularly in the 1970s. As he himself said, he had long been “happy to grasp the hand of misfortune, dissipation, riotous living and violence,” counting Mr. Burton, Richard Harris, Robert Shaw, Francis Bacon, Trevor Howard, Laurence Harvey and Peter Finch among his drinking companions. He lost much of his “Lawrence” earnings in two nights with Omar Sharif at casinos in Beirut and Casablanca.

Though he won many lesser awards during his career, triumph at the Academy eluded him, perhaps in part because he had made no secret of his dislike of Hollywood and naturalistic acting, which he considered drab. He was nothing if not ambitious, but success would come on his own terms, not the movie industry’s.



He had made that plain at 18, when an acting career was already in his mind. In his notebook he made a promise to himself:



“I will not be a common man.

I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security.

I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.”




Sources: Columbia Pictures, NY Times, Wikipedia, Youtube

James Eagan Holmes' 1st Court Appearance & Modus Operandi: PhD Social Experiment ("Analyzing WHITE People")

Comedian Paul Mooney describes James Eagan Holmes' Criminal Behavior & how he will Fool the American Criminal Justice System to avoid Punishment:

"A WHITE Man Shoots a bunch of people and goes before the Judge."
"The Judge asks him: WHITE Man why did you Shoot those People?"
"WHITE Man Answers: I don't know. I have Multiple Personalities."
"The Judge says: Multiple Personalities? Interesting. We will have to Study You."

"A BLACK Man Shoots a bunch of people and goes before the Judge."
"The Judge asks him: BLACK Man why did you Shoot those People?"
"BLACK Man Answers: "I don't know. I have Multiple Personalities."
"The Judge answers: Well one of those Multiple Personalities is going to Pay for these Crimes today, I don't care if its Bob, Tim, Steve, Somebody is going to pay for these Crimes today."


Welcome to AmeriKKKa where there are 2 forms of JUSTICE!
A NON- JUSTICE System for WHITE People & a Harsh JUSTICE System for BLACK People!

THE MEDIA & WHITE AMERICA IS ATTEMPTING TO HELP SAVE JAMES EAGAN HOLMES' LIFE BECAUSE HE IS WHITE & CONSIDERED TO BE AN ACADEMIC GENIUS.

JAMES HOLMES BASICALLY LIVED A PRIVILEGED LIFE BACK IN CALIFORNIA WHERE HE GREW UP & EXCELLED ACADEMICALLY IN ALL HIS CLASSES.

HE LEARNED ALL ABOUT INSANE HUMAN BEHAVIOR DURING HIS STUDIES, THUS JAMES EAGAN HOLMES WILL NOW PLAY CRAZY & WILL NEVER, EVER SPEND A DAY IN PRISON, NOR WILL HE FACE THE DEATH PENALTY.

THE MEDIA & GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS WILL USE HIM AS A CASE STUDY. (HIS MIND, HIS DEVIANT BEHAVIOR & WHAT CAUSED HIM TO FLIP.)

IN FACT JAMES IS PROBABLY LAUGHING AT THE MEDIA, HIS PARENTS, THE JUDGE & HIS ATTORNEYS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE HE IS NOW FAMOUS AND GETTING OVER ON EVERYONE WITH HIS MASTER PLAN.

WHAT WAS JAMES' MASTER PLAN?

JAMES EAGAN HOLMES' MASTER PLAN WAS TO USE THIS MASSACRE AS A THESIS FOR HIS PHD STUDIES.

i.e., A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT!!!

JAMES WILL EVENTUALLY BE SENT TO A MINIMUM SECURITY COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED A BREAK FROM SOCIETY.

HE WILL LATER WRITE A BEST-SELLING BOOK AND THERE WILL BE A MOVIE MADE ABOUT HIS LIFE.

IN ESSENCE JAMES EAGAN HOLMES WILL BECOME A CELEBRITY LIKE ALBERT EINSTEIN & JEFFREY DAHMER.

On Friday July 20, 2012 James Eagan Holmes formerly of California, Assassinated 12 People & Seriously Wounded 59 others in Aurora, Colorado.

Emergency Doctors are now saying that at least 9 More People will most likely DIE from their Injuries caused by James Eagan Holmes on July 20 when he SHOT them in Cold-Blood.

James will NEVER be sentenced to Death, nor will he Ever spend Life in Prison.

He will instead become a Huge CELEBRITY & earn tons of Money!


JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD & LEE BOYD MALVO (2 BLACK Men) Assassinated at least 10 People in the Tri-State Area of Virginia, DC & Maryland.

John Allen Muhammad, a Former U.S. Army Soldier who Served his Country for 15 Years and completed 2 Tours in Iraq, was by all accounts Seriously Mentally-Ill and probably Suffering from PTSD.

However on November 10, 2009 was Executed by the State of Virginia.
Lee Boyd Malvo is now serving LIFE in Prison.

Again Both JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD & LEE BOYD MALVO are BLACK.

Welcome to AmeriKKKa where there are 2 forms of JUSTICE!
A NON- JUSTICE System for WHITE People & a Harsh JUSTICE System for BLACK People!







Colorado theater shooting suspect makes first court appearance


The man accused of opening fire Friday in a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, made his first court appearance Monday, giving the public its first look at the 24-year-old former doctoral candidate since his arrest.

James E. Holmes, his hair dyed various shades of red, looked downward, then straight ahead. He sat without blinking for long periods. At times, his eyes fluttered, then squeezed tight and reopened in a blank stare. Occasionally, his eyebrows arched, giving his face a mournful mien.

But the man who identified himself to police as "The Joker," dressed in a maroon jumpsuit over a white T-shirt, gave little indication that he was paying attention to the courtroom procedure that ensured he will be continue to be held without bond.

He is to be charged next Monday. Those charges are likely to include first-degree murder -- an offense that carries a possible death penalty, if he is convicted -- in the shooting deaths, given allegations over the weekend by police that there is evidence to suggest "calculation and deliberation" in the rampage.

Holmes is being held in connection with the early Friday shootings that left 12 dead and 58 wounded, and the subsequent discovery of his booby-trapped apartment, which authorities believe he rigged before leaving for the Century Aurora 16 multiplex.

Authorities have been tight-lipped about a possible motive in the case, and police spokesman Frank Fania told CNN late Sunday that Holmes has been uncooperative with investigators and requested an attorney.

Arapahoe County public defender James O'Connor has been assigned to the case. The Colorado Judicial Department declined to say whether Holmes requested a public defender. A telephone call by CNN to O'Connor's office was not immediately returned.

Holmes' court appearance will come a few hours before his family is expected to issue a statement.

Lisa Damiani, an attorney representing the family, told CNN the statement would be made at her San Diego office.

The family, which lives in San Diego, issued a statement Friday saying, "Our hearts go out to those who were involved in this tragedy and to the families and friends of those involved." It added, "We are still trying to process this information."

Over the weekend, Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates told reporters that there was "evidence of, I think, some calculation and deliberation."

Holmes received deliveries over the past four months to his home and work addresses, which begins to explain how he may have obtained some of the materials used in the attack and those found at his apartment, Oates said.

As of late Sunday, at least 17 people remained hospitalized -- eight in critical condition -- in five area hospitals.

President Barack Obama met Sunday in Aurora with survivors and relatives of the dead, and thousands of residents gathered in the city for a prayer vigil that drew state and local officials.

"I confessed to them that words are always inadequate in these kinds of situations, but that my main task was to serve as a representative of the entire country and let them know that we are thinking about them at this moment, and will continue to think about them each and every day," Obama told reporters after the meeting at the University of Colorado Hospital.

"It reminds you that even in the darkest of days, life continues and people are strong and people bounce back and people are resilient," the president said, after describing the recovery of some victims. "Out of this darkness, a brighter day is going to come."

Though much attention has been paid to the "perpetrator of this evil act," that spotlight will fade, leaving behind just the good memories of those affected by the tragedy, he said.

Aurora is bracing for another emotional week as families begin making funeral arrangements. It was not immediately known when the coroner would release the bodies.

It also became clear that more people may have been killed if the gunman's semiautomatic rifle had not jammed.

Josh Nowlan suffered gunshot wounds but said he is happy just to be alive. "If that gun did not jam, I am full certain that I probably would not be here," he said Saturday from his hospital bed.

A law enforcement source, who spoke Sunday with CNN on condition of anonymity, said the rifle jammed because of a problem with the 100-shot magazine feeding it.

The military-style AR-15 had a separately purchased drum magazine, which can have trouble feeding bullets into the firing chamber if the gun is fired rapidly, the source said.

Investigators say the rifle was one of three guns used Friday by the suspect, along with a shotgun and a .40-caliber pistol.







Probe of shooting suspect James Holmes intensifies

A Computer, cellphone, homemade explosives and Batman mask all seized at the Colorado apartment of James Holmes could help shed light on the mind, motive and Modus Operandi of the suspected mass killer, a federal law enforcement official said Sunday.

The official, who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to comment publicly, said the computer could aid the effort to determine how long the suspect had been allegedly planning the attack and other details of the massacre.

A maze of incendiary devices arrayed inside Holmes' apartment included 10 gallons of gasoline that was likely intended to serve as an accelerant to any fire caused by an explosion inside, the official said.

The devices included about 30 aerial shells commonly used in commercial fireworks displays.

The official said the shells had been cannibalized, reconstructed and set up in the living room, where a stream of wires connected them to a "control box" in the unit's kitchen. The box was disabled Saturday by bomb technicians using robotic devices and a controlled detonating device.

Also Sunday, the University of Colorado said it is helping authorities determine whether Holmes used his position as a graduate student to order materials for the potentially deadly booby traps.

Police said Holmes received deliveries over four months to his Aurora, Colo., apartment and the school. They haven't identified the contents. University spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said the school is looking into those packages received at the school.
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The latest information represents more pieces to a puzzle authorities are constructing to determine what was happening inside the mind of the quiet, intellectually gifted neuroscience student suspected of morphing into a vicious killer.

Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates says Holmes, 24, has "lawyered up" and is not talking.

Was this killer mentally ill?

"It says a lot about the type of prejudice we have when we automatically go to the presumption that a clinical mental illness was the cause," says Praveen Kambam, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California-Los Angeles. "Even the surgeon general of the United States has said there's very little risk of violence or harm from a stranger who has a mental disorder.

"Not all bad behavior comes from mental illness. Sometimes it can simply be bad behavior."

In a résumé posted on Monster.com, Holmes listed himself as an "aspiring scientist" and said he was looking for a job as a laboratory technician.

The résumé, first obtained by The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, paints a picture of a brilliant young man brimming with potential: He worked as a summer intern at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla in 2006 and mapped the neurons of zebra finches and studied the flight muscles of hummingbirds while an undergraduate at the University of California-Riverside.

He also worked as a summer camp counselor to underprivileged children at a Jewish camp in Los Angeles in 2008.

In Rancho Peñasquitos, a community of picturesque hacienda-style homes surrounded by hills and canyons outside San Diego where Holmes grew up, residents have a hard time squaring the quiet teen who didn't call attention to himself with the violent image of Holmes emerging now.

Those who knew Holmes in the upscale San Diego community remember a polite young man who kept to himself and excelled academically.

"He was really talented, really smart," said Porsche Parkman, 19, who attended Westview High School with Holmes' younger sister, Chris. Holmes graduated from the school in 2006. "He was so nice and his family was always there for him. Nothing seemed wrong."

Her description of the young man seen with a ready smile in his high school yearbook photo stands in stark contrast to the 6-foot-tall gunman dressed in head-to-toe black body armor whom police say opened fire with multiple weapons in a crowded suburban Denver movie theater, killing 12 people and wounding 58.

Today, Aurora police portray Holmes as a suspect intent on killing, taking the violence even further by booby-trapping his apartment to kill the first person to enter, most likely a police officer.

"This apartment was designed to kill," Oates said. He said Holmes had a "high volume" of deliveries of materials and ammunition that could explain the aerial shells, trip wires and other explosive devices found in his apartment.

"What we're seeing here is some evidence, I think, of calculation and deliberation," Oates said Saturday. "If you think we are angry, we sure as hell are angry."

In the six months before the shooting, police said Holmes bought at least 6,000 rounds of ammunition, an AR 15 assault rifle, a Remington shotgun and two 40-caliber Glock handguns. He bought them legally, according to a federal law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Oates said Holmes used a rifle, shotgun and one of the handguns during the attack.

At the same time that authorities say he was buying ammunition and weapons, Holmes was in the process of dropping out of the University of Colorado's graduate neuroscience program in Aurora. He had joined the program a year ago, but by June he had withdrawn, the university said in a statement.

Dan Meyers, spokesman for the University of Colorado School of Medicine, would not say why Holmes left.

Oates said the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit is working with local police to try to determine a motive for the shooting.

Holmes seems to have little online presence. Unlike many people his age, he does not have accounts on Twitter, Facebook or other social media.

University of Colorado biology student Kaitlyn Fonzi, who was living below Holmes in a student-housing complex in northern Aurora, had seen Holmes in the building several times and remembers a student who looked like any other on the medical and academic campus across the street from their apartment building.

"You never really think anything like this is going to happen," Fonzi said after the building was evacuated when police tried to defuse the trip wires they said Holmes set up.

In Rancho Peñasquitos, the suspect's family still lives in the two-story white house with a red-tiled roof where he grew up.

Holmes, who graduated with high honors with a bachelor of science degree in neuroscience from the University of California-Riverside, was raised in a math and science household. His mother, Arlene, has been licensed as a registered nurse for more than 30 years. His father, Robert, is a mathematician who develops statistical models for financial services, specifically looking at fraud.

Theirs is a community where neighbors are friendly and know each other, said one neighbor, Rose To.

"We know the parents as good neighbors," said To, whose home is across the street. "We watch out for each other here."

Lindsay Van Leeuwen, 32, lives three doors away from the Holmes' family. She has lived there four years and said she was probably one of the newest residents in the neighborhood. She doesn't know the family well, she said, but she received a card from them when her twins were born two months ago.

"It's scary. I'm shocked that it's happened right down the street," Van Leeuwen said.

Parkman and her husband, William, 19, remember a friendly family who kept to themselves but were supportive one another.

She became friends with Holmes' sister during their freshman year at Westview, about 3 miles from where the Holmes family lived.

"Her dad was really smart. Their mom was nice, quiet. They let (their children) be who they were," Porsche Parkman said.

William Parkman marveled at how Holmes had gone from a proud example of a successful graduate of their high school to one of the most hated people in the country.

"The news reports you hear about him, it's as if people are talking about one person in San Diego and one in Colorado," he said. "Who he is now is not who he was in San Diego."

On Sunday, ABC News aired a video showing Holmes as a shy, thin teen speaking at a science camp at Miramar College in San Diego when he was 18.

His presentation is on "temporal illusion," which he defines as "an illusion that allows you to change the past."

A woman who introduces Holmes in the video says he wants to become a researcher and make scientific discoveries.

She says his dream is to own a Slurpee machine, eliciting laughter from the audience and a smile from Holmes.


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Sources: AP, CBS News, CNN, NY Daily News, TMZ, USA Today, Wikipedia, Youtube, Google Maps

Mike Epps Comments On Paying Taxes: Political Humor (Too Funny!)

Feel As Though You Are Paying Too Much In Taxes? Check Out What Funnyman Comedian Mike Epps Has To Say About The Subject On The Video Clip Above?


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Mike Epps: "Cribz" Video (WARNING: LANGUAGE!)

Comedian Mike Epps' Parody Of MTV's "Cribs" Show Is Funny As It Relates To Entertainment, However Its NO Laughing Matter That Too Many BLACK Men Are Currently Incarcerated In U.S. Jails & Prisons.

Instead Of Laughing Or Ignoring This Serious Problem Why Don't Congressional & State Lawmakers Do Something Constructive About It?

I'm Just Saying.


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Sources: Hip Hop Wired, MTV, Youtube, Google Maps

Denzel Washington As Malcolm X (Harlem Speech Video)

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"Just Wright" Movie Trailer & NY Daily News Review

"Just Wright" Movie Review


Hollywood often relegates its most interesting actresses to genre films or supporting roles, and Queen Latifah's been no exception. But she should be a leading lady, and she knows it: That's why she produced "Just Wright" herself.

As it turns out, director Sanaa Hamri depends a little too much on her charismatic star in the hopes that Latifah can elevate average material. And to an impressive degree, she does. But ultimately, this one-of-a-kind woman deserves more than a one-size-fits-all romance.

The title refers to Leslie Wright (Latifah), a physical therapist living in New Jersey with marriage-obsessed parents (James Pickens Jr., Pam Grier) and a social-climbing best friend, Morgan (Paula Patton). Though Leslie's the die-hard Nets fan, it's beautiful Morgan who snares an NBA fiance, All-Star player Scott McKnight (rapper Common).

When Scott shreds his knee, and his prospects, Morgan swiftly moves out of his Manhattan mansion. Meanwhile, Leslie moves in, as a full-time therapist and psychological cheerleader.

What should happen next is that Leslie and Scott strike unmistakable sparks and fall madly in love. What actually happens is that Common and Latifah build a beautiful friendship, while awkwardly fulfilling a story line that pushes them together in the most obvious ways.

The chemistry between the leads is more cozy than sexy, but the biggest issue is Latifah's noticeable - and admirable - discomfort with the rom-com clichés found throughout Michael Elliot's screenplay. When characters plot to snag a husband, for example, or she's required to swan down the stairs like Cinderella, this icon of individuality looks distinctly uncomfortable.

On the other hand, when she gets to banter with Scott's mom (a delightful Phylicia Rashad), or cheer on the Nets - suspend your skepticism at their success - she relaxes and has a genuinely good time. In those moments, so do we.

Latifah has talent and personality to spare, so it would be great to see her taking on more romantic roles. But to sell herself short in the process? Clearly, even she knows that's just wrong.


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Chuck Norris' NRA Speech-2010 Convention In Charlotte

Chuck Norris' Speech At 2010 NRA Convention


Chuck Norris was one of the headline speakers Friday, May 14, 2010 at the NRA Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena.






Chuck Norris' Ten Rules For Personal Code of Conduct


1.) I will develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways.

2.) I will forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements.

3.) I will continually work at developing love, happiness and loyalty in my family.

4.) I will look for the good in all people and make them feel worthwhile.

5.) If I have nothing good to say about a person, I will say nothing.

6.) I will always be as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own.

7.) I will maintain an attitude of open-mindedness.

8.) I will maintain respect for those in authority and demonstrate this respect at all times.

9.) I will always remain loyal to my God, my country, family and my friends.

10.) I will remain highly goal-oriented throughout my life because that positive attitude helps my family, my country and myself.



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"From My Cold Dead Hands" Charlton Heston (Videos)

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Monique Interviews Antoine Fuqua & Wesley Snipes Of "Brooklyn's Finest"

Antoine Fuqua Talks "Brooklyn's Finest"


Antoine Fuqua is like the Phil Jackson of Hollywood.

Like the famed NBA coach, Fuqua has coached some of the best players in Tinseltown, including leading Hollywood MVP Denzel Washington to the Academy Awards promised land for his work in "Training Day," a film that Fuqua directed. A former music video director -- the 43-year-old shot videos for the likes of Prince, Toni Braxton and Stevie Wonder -- he's since transformed his career into that of a successful Hollywood director. His path, as these stories go, wasn't a straight shot, either. The former West Virginia University point guard had to fall out of love with hoops in order to pursue his real dream -- making movies. Fuqua scores again with cop thriller "Brooklyn's Finest," which opens Friday, and chats with Page 2 about his hoop dreams, working with some of the finest actors of our time and why he walked away from an athletic scholarship after playing for two years.

I read that basketball changed your life. How so?

You know, just the discipline of playing ball. For me, playing basketball was something I used to do every day in Pittsburgh, I had to practice hard. I'm just 6-foot, so I'm not the tallest cat on the court. I had to hone in on my game -- even in the winter when it was cold outside and the YMCA or the Boys Club was closed, I had to go outside on the court. I learned discipline and work ethic. It kept me off the street and got me a scholarship and got me in college. It taught me how to be a team player.

What position did you play at West Virginia?

Point guard.

Interesting. That's actually a fitting role for a film director …

I know, right?

So how have you applied that point guard background to filmmaking?

I'm competitive. I watch other films and I'm competitive in that way. The energy that you give off, everybody feeds off you. As a director, you walk onto a set and people are going to react off of you. If you're strong and you're leading them, they'll follow. But if you come into the game and you're weak, it's going to become chaos. And the end result is that you won't win. Trust the leadership -- call the right plays. Just like in basketball when that last shot can be the one to win the game, it's the same in filmmaking. When the clock is counting down -- or in my case, the sun is going down as a director -- and sometimes that last shot can be the one and when you get in the editing bay, that's what nails the scene.

Do you follow any teams now? Which ones and why?

I watch them all -- football, basketball and a little bit of baseball. I love the Lakers right now, they have a good team, well-rounded team. Kobe is exciting; he's that guy that always comes through in the clutch. He's built that way; it's in his DNA. I love watching guys that have that killer mentality, that killer instinct.

What made you pick filmmaking over sports?

I took a Baroque art class and fell in love. I always loved art, but didn't know how to express that. There was a moment in my career playing ball where I wasn't having fun. It wasn't fun. It was a strange change that was happening in the business. I remember Nike bought us a whole bunch of tennis shoes and we put on black and white tuxedos and Nike shoes and were at the governor's mansion and taking pictures. It was weird. It was the beginning of that thing, but it was weird to me. I wasn't having fun. I had so much fun growing up and playing ball on the court as a kid, but I wasn't having fun playing in college. I kind of felt like if you're not having fun -- even if you're good at it, how long are you going to last, really? For a while, I couldn't watch it. I loved it, I wanted to play. I wanted to be in the pros. But I just couldn't do it anymore."

Was the squad pretty good when you were there?

Yeah. We did all right. We went to the playoffs one year. It was a pretty good team.

As a director, you've coached Denzel to his Oscar in "Training Day," coached Ethan Hawke to an Oscar nomination for that same film and in this new movie, you directed Don Cheadle, Richard Gere, Hawke and Wesley Snipes -- some pretty heavy hitters. Any regrets now about leaving the game and not pursing that childhood dream of playing professionally?

Had I done that, it would have been long over by now! That career would have been gone a long time ago.

This film is an underdog, of sorts. It's got an R-rating, and it's going up against "Alice In Wonderland" this week. That said, do you always root for the underdog?

I do. That's why I make movies like this, too. It's all about the abuse of power in an administration. The guys that are out in the field playing and working hard are bleeding. I like that. I like the common man that is on the ground and things that he can't really control. Sometimes, you can beat it if you make the right decisions, and sometimes it can chew you up and spit you out, which we've seen many times in sports, as well. I like the underdog, absolutely. Plus I need to feel that way. It pisses me off and keeps me fighting. You can't get lost in L.A. and in the sunshine. You can't drink the kool-aid. If I did that, I'd end up back in Pittsburgh, playing basketball on the black top in the cold weather.

Kelley L. Carter is a freelance entertainment reporter. She can be reached at thekelleylcarter.com


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Jimmy Jean-Louis' Intense Plea To Find His Elderly Haitian Parents

"Heroes" Actor Searching For Parents After Earthquake


Haitian native and "Heroes" cast member Jimmy Jean-Louis was searching for his elderly parents in Haiti on Wednesday afternoon after a powerful earthquake struck the nation. Jean-Louis learned that a house he had grown up in collapsed, killing several of his relatives.

"I have not slept yet. The second house that I grew up in was down, and some relatives have died, from what I have been told," Jean-Louis said Wednesday. "I haven't been able to reach my parents. I have heard that they are OK, but I do not know what is going on around them."

Jean-Louis was born in Petionville, Haiti, where he grew up without electricity or running water. He moved to Paris, France, when he was 12 to pursue a modeling career and supported his parents by sending money home since he started acting nearly 20 years ago.

He is the founder of Hollywood Unites for Haiti, a Non-profit organization whose original mission was to provide sports and cultural education to underprivileged youth on the island. The group is mobilizing for disaster relief after a magnitude-7 earthquake struck Tuesday.

The actor heard about the quake moments after the news broke. For several hours, he was unable to get in touch with anyone on the ground in Haiti. Late Tuesday, he reached a friend who is the local director of Hollywood Unites for Haiti.





"He was stuck in the chaos, and he was supposed to give me complete details about what was going on on the ground and with my family, but all he could say was that the house was down and that some people from the house died," Jean-Louis said. "I'm trying everyone on their cell phones and on their house phones, my parents' friends and the people in their neighborhood, and I have been unable to speak with one person who is close to them."

Jean-Louis, who is best known as "The Haitian" on the NBC series "Heroes," returned from Haiti only a couple of weeks ago after spending the holidays with his parents. He was planning to return this month but will now be traveling much sooner to provide relief aid.

"I am going to try to get in, but I am going to try to understand the situation first to see how I can best help," Jean-Louis said. "The plan is to at some point visit, and right now, I am trying to be as productive as I can be here."

Jean-Louis and Hollywood Unites for Haiti are encouraging people looking to help to send money instead of goods at the moment.

"People should understand that sending donations of items and goods will be difficult right now because we will be bombarded and have no way to distribute them," Jean-Louis said.

"I don't think people have any idea how terrible this is because of the circumstances on the ground in Haiti and the lack of the infrastructure. There are no roads, and it is going to be extremely difficult for help to reach people."


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Morgan Freeman Replaces Walter Cronkite's CBS Evening News Voiceover Spot

Morgan Freeman Replaces Cronkite


Nearly six months after Walter Cronkite's death, his voice is leaving the "CBS Evening News."

His introduction of anchor Katie Couric was replaced Monday by a voiceover featuring actor Morgan Freeman.

The legendary CBS News anchor recorded the introduction, played at the beginning of most newscasts, when Couric started at CBS in 2006. Cronkite's voice was kept on the air even after his death July 17.

"As comforting as it is to look back on the great career that Walter had, we're looking forward now and we just felt it was the right time to make the move that at some point had to be made," said CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus. "This seemed like the appropriate time since Walter's passing to make the move."

Having Freeman on board gives CBS the flexibility to record different intros when Couric has special reports and is on location, he said.

CBS has replaced Cronkite with a generic voice over the past few months when it wanted to highlight something special.

The change also gives the network more consistency, McManus said.


Sources: CBS News, Politico