By Tonya Whitaker
NDG Staff Writer
Was it a stupid mistake or an offensive remark? You decide. During the announcement of the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Fox 40 in Sacramento, Calif., ran the headline “Obama bin Laden is dead.” Someone should have told the intern or the idiot senior staffer that bin Laden and President Barack Obama are not the same people. This is not the first time that the station has offended me and others by calling the president out of his name on a headline. The first glimpse was during the 2008 presidential campaign when an affiliate, hopefully not the same once, ran Obama bin Laden in a headline. You may not agree with the color of his skin or that the ploy to disprove his U.S. citizenship failed, but you have to give him respect because he is our leader. SMH.
Flavor Flav arrested
Last week, I wrote that rapper Flavor Flav shut down the doors on his restaurant in Iowa for mismanagement and one-month-old potato salad being served to customers. His work to open a House of Flavor restaurant in Las Vegas has hit a minor snap. TMZ reported that while Flav was on business preparing the restaurant’s opening, he was pulled over by Las Vegas police and arrested for outstanding warrants. One of the charges was for driving with proof of insurance. Common now, Flav! He knows better. I hope he gets his stuff together.
Talking about changes
I recently came across a photo of author Sista Soulja (remember her?) and Jada Pickett-Smith at a book-signing event in Los Angeles. I never pay too much attention to Jada’s face, but on this rare occasion I noticed that she is trying to outdo father time. I think she had some work cosmetic surgery done on her cheeks. Her face looks as if she would make a good replacement for Jim Carrey in The Mask. Her cheeks are high and tight. The sad part of it is that she is a pretty lady. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
