RIP - Page 6

UofMfan · 02-12-2012, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by GPS

http://keanu.reeves.mediafetcher.com...tor_skiing.php

this link is working all over facebook

This one is. Still nothing in the major news feeds.

Hoaxes are easily done, this is why I always check credible sources.

SoulShineFemme · 02-12-2012, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by GPS

nice, my apologies

No worries. I'm just so glad the story wasn't true. I was kinda freaking out there for a min.

GPS · 02-12-2012, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by UofMfan

This one is. Still nothing in the major news feeds.

Hoaxes are easily done, this is why I always check credible sources.

i feel bad enough lol so i deleted them luckily i could do that. i have searched all over. i will watch and read before posting a death

UofMfan · 02-12-2012, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by GPS

i feel bad enough lol so i deleted them luckily i could do that. i have searched all over. i will watch and read before posting a death

Thank you. Due diligence is important when posting any such news.

CherylNYC · 02-12-2012, 11:25 AM

I was and am inspired by this woman's life and work.

(I'm really bad at this, so this link may or may not work.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/us...nt&tntemail1=y

Patricia Stephens Due Dies at 72; Campaigned for Civil Rights

Frank Noel, courtesy of the State Archives of Florida
Patricia Stephens Due, center, in a protest at a segregated theater in 1963 in Tallahassee, Fla.
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Patricia Stephens Due, whose belief that, as she put it, “ordinary people can do extraordinary things” propelled her to leadership in the civil rights movement — but at a price, including 49 days in a stark Florida jail — died on Tuesday in Smyrna, Ga. She was 72.

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The cause was thyroid cancer, her daughter Johnita Due said. She had moved to Smyrna, an Atlanta suburb, to be near her family after living in Miami.

At 13, Patricia Stephens challenged Jim Crow orthodoxy by trying to use the “whites only” window at a Dairy Queen. As a college student, she led demonstrations to integrate lunch counters, theaters and swimming pools and was repeatedly arrested.

As a young mother, she pushed two children in a stroller while campaigning for the rights of poor people. As a veteran of integration and voting rights battles, she went on to fight for economic rights, once obstructing a garbage truck in support of striking workers. As an elder stateswoman of the movement, she wrote a memoir to honor “unsung foot soldiers.”

She fought beside John D. Due Jr., a civil rights lawyer, whom she married in 1963. For their honeymoon, they rode the Freedom Train to Washington to hear the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have a Dream” speech.

Mrs. Due paid a price for this devotion. She wore large, dark glasses day and night because her eyes were damaged when a hissing tear gas canister hit her in the face. She took a decade to graduate from Florida A&M University because of suspensions for her activism.

Her F.B.I. file ran more than 400 pages. Her stepfather urged her to give up civil rights, to protect her and his own job. She was kicked and threatened with dogs, including a German shepherd whose police handlers gave it a racial slur for a name.

Mrs. Due’s greatest prominence came after she and 10 other students were arrested for sitting at the “whites only” lunch counter at a Woolworth’s store in Tallahassee, Fla., on Feb. 20, 1960. It was 19 days after four black students in Greensboro, N.C., had made civil rights history by doing the same thing.

Mrs. Due and seven others refused to pay $300 fines for violating laws they abhorred. Five served the full 49-day sentence.

As leader of the sit-in, Mrs. Due became a national figure. Jackie Robinson sent her a diary for her jail-time thoughts. James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte and Eleanor Roosevelt endorsed her efforts. Dr. King sent a telegram saying, “Going to jail for a righteous cause is a badge of honor and a symbol of dignity.”

It was not easy behind bars. She and her sister, Priscilla Stephens Kruize, her compatriot in many battles, had to share a narrow bed. They suspected that a mentally disturbed woman was placed in the cell to unnerve them. Food was awful; nights were cold.

Thurgood Marshall, head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, questioned whether it was all worth it, given the deplorable state of Southern jails. But the drama of righteous incarceration seized the nation’s attention, a freed Mrs. Due went on a national fund-raising tour and the “jail-in” became a movement standard.

Patricia Gloria Stephens was born on Dec. 9, 1939, in Quincy, Fla., and was raised in Belle Glade, Fla. As high school students, she and Priscilla, who was 15 months older, started a petition to have the principal removed, The Miami Herald reported in 1990. Patricia said the two were “always testing things.”

In 1959, she formed a local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality. It was the beginning of life as “a professional volunteer,” in her daughter’s words. She worked with youths, helped out in political campaigns and spoke on human rights issues. In the last year of her life, state, county and local governments in Florida honored her.

In addition to her husband of 49 years, her sister and her daughter, Mrs. Due is survived by two other daughters, Tananarive Due and Lydia Due Greisz; a brother, Walter Stephens; and five grandchildren.

In 2003, Mrs. Due and her daughter Tananarive, a novelist, wrote “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.” The book discusses thorny issues like black people’s ambivalence about the civil rights struggle in the movement’s early days and the emotional turmoil of children whose parents are activists. It also contains many tales of courage.

“Stories live forever,” Mrs. Due liked to say. “Storytellers don’t.”

Lady Pamela · 02-12-2012, 11:37 AM

Miss Whitney Houston dies at 48

Miss Houston, May you sore free now and your transendance be beautiful and all you ever imagined and then some!
Thank you not only for your voice but also for being such a powerful role model with domestic abuse.
You helped many see it was possible to get out and leave.

You will be seriously missed by many, myself most definately included.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...on-dies-at-48/

.

Chancie · 02-12-2012, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Greyson

May she rest in peace. Certainly one of the best. I am not trying to be disrespectful in any way here. Do any of you remember before she married Bobby Brown all the rumors that she was a lesbian? She had the "friend" that was I believe a friend of her childhood. The friend played basketball and was her constant companion. I wonder where this woman is tonight.

My condolances to Whitney's daughter, mother, her ex-husband, her entire family and all of the people, fans who loved her.

I can't believe that Whitney Houston is dead.

I came out in the '80s and I remember dancing to her music at the Duchess in the West Village. I always thought that she had a gorgeous strong powerful voice. Years later, when she was a guest on Saturday Night Live, she was hysterically funny in a skit with that little girl who used to smell her own armpits.

I did hear rumors that she was a lesbian and I remember her saying, I'm not a gay girl. Why would I be a gay girl? People said, Why doesn't she just say, I'm not a lesbian, but so what if I was.

When I heard that she was struggling with drugs and alcohol, I did wonder if her own internalized homophobia contributed to her suffering, and I felt so sad for her.

Of course I don't know whether she had a girlfriend, or was a lesbian, or that she died from drug use, poor thing.

tapu · 02-12-2012, 04:38 PM

Oh, sure, everyone cares about Whitney Houston dying, but what about the 86 Syrians who lost their lives today? Is it because they're white??

princessbelle · 02-12-2012, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by tapu

Oh, sure, everyone cares about Whitney Houston dying, but what about the 86 Syrians who lost their lives today? Is it because they're white??

Please, please tell me this is a joke!!!! Are you freaking kidding me Tapu? I don't believe i've heard a word said about Syrians and that no one cared. Is it because no one mentioned it? For real? What about the millions of POC AND white people that die and have died daily in wars, in epidemics, due to no food or shelter, and continue to die daily, world wide....are YOU saying you don't care about them now? Because you didn't mention those people either?????

I don't get steamed about many things on here but this has got my blood boiling.

Because we mention someone famous dying and just because she so happens to be a POC, now we are all "haters of whites"? Really????????

That's beyond rediculous!!!!!

SugarFemme · 02-12-2012, 04:46 PM

Are you serious?? Do you realize how racist this post is?? Your post was so wrong and offensive on may levels. We have all posted out of emotion, but sometimes you have to think about how what you say will hurt others.

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Originally Posted by tapu

Oh, sure, everyone cares about Whitney Houston dying, but what about the 86 Syrians who lost their lives today? Is it because they're white??

CherylNYC · 02-12-2012, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by tapu

Oh, sure, everyone cares about Whitney Houston dying, but what about the 86 Syrians who lost their lives today? Is it because they're white??

I've never reported a post before. This one is beyond the pale.

Janny · 02-12-2012, 05:01 PM

The fact that none of you get it, is beyond the pale.

DapperButch · 02-12-2012, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by tapu

Oh, sure, everyone cares about Whitney Houston dying, but what about the 86 Syrians who lost their lives today? Is it because they're white??

What the hell, dude? If this is a joke, it is a poor one. Really, guy. This is the RIP thread for the death of well known figures.

DapperButch · 02-12-2012, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Janny

The fact that none of you get it, is beyond the pale.

I "get it", I just don't find it humorous.

tapu · 02-12-2012, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by DapperButch

I "get it", I just don't find it humorous.

Well, let me hear how you explain it.

tapu · 02-12-2012, 05:09 PM

Here's what I have to say after hearing various reactions, and I'll stand by it:

I'm truly sorry that some are offended, but when I think of a line like that that exposes and challenges the dominant paradigm in our society, I can't concern myself with who won't get it. There will always be those who don't. I still have to just grit my teeth and post it. Believe me: If you got the joke, you'd love it.

BullDog · 02-12-2012, 05:13 PM

Tapu you aren't challenging any paradigms. You're racist.

girl_dee · 02-12-2012, 05:20 PM

i wish i hadn't *gotten it* or read that post. "Humor" in the name of racism is still racism. What an insult to the intelligence of the reader.

clay · 02-12-2012, 05:26 PM

Whether "humor or not" , a place where readers are paying respect and their condolences to anyone who has passed is NOT the place to be posting such remarks. It was simply rude and disrespectful to all of us here!, not to mention to the Memory of the departed...and in very poor taste...SMH.....I just can't believe that remark was even posted here!

CherylNYC · 02-12-2012, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by tapu

Well, let me hear how you explain it.

Well, I would prefer to hear how YOU explain it, tapu.

02-12-2012, 11:25 AM	#105
CherylNYC Member How Do You Identify?: Stonefemme lesbian Preferred Pronoun?: I'm a woman. Behave accordingly. Relationship Status: Single, not looking. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: NYC Posts: 1,467 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,474 Thanked 7,150 Times in 1,206 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	I was and am inspired by this woman's life and work. (I'm really bad at this, so this link may or may not work.) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/us...nt&tntemail1=y Patricia Stephens Due Dies at 72; Campaigned for Civil Rights Frank Noel, courtesy of the State Archives of Florida Patricia Stephens Due, center, in a protest at a segregated theater in 1963 in Tallahassee, Fla. By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: February 11, 2012 RECOMMEND TWITTER LINKEDIN E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SHARE Patricia Stephens Due, whose belief that, as she put it, “ordinary people can do extraordinary things” propelled her to leadership in the civil rights movement — but at a price, including 49 days in a stark Florida jail — died on Tuesday in Smyrna, Ga. She was 72. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @NYTNational for breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors The cause was thyroid cancer, her daughter Johnita Due said. She had moved to Smyrna, an Atlanta suburb, to be near her family after living in Miami. At 13, Patricia Stephens challenged Jim Crow orthodoxy by trying to use the “whites only” window at a Dairy Queen. As a college student, she led demonstrations to integrate lunch counters, theaters and swimming pools and was repeatedly arrested. As a young mother, she pushed two children in a stroller while campaigning for the rights of poor people. As a veteran of integration and voting rights battles, she went on to fight for economic rights, once obstructing a garbage truck in support of striking workers. As an elder stateswoman of the movement, she wrote a memoir to honor “unsung foot soldiers.” She fought beside John D. Due Jr., a civil rights lawyer, whom she married in 1963. For their honeymoon, they rode the Freedom Train to Washington to hear the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have a Dream” speech. Mrs. Due paid a price for this devotion. She wore large, dark glasses day and night because her eyes were damaged when a hissing tear gas canister hit her in the face. She took a decade to graduate from Florida A&M University because of suspensions for her activism. Her F.B.I. file ran more than 400 pages. Her stepfather urged her to give up civil rights, to protect her and his own job. She was kicked and threatened with dogs, including a German shepherd whose police handlers gave it a racial slur for a name. Mrs. Due’s greatest prominence came after she and 10 other students were arrested for sitting at the “whites only” lunch counter at a Woolworth’s store in Tallahassee, Fla., on Feb. 20, 1960. It was 19 days after four black students in Greensboro, N.C., had made civil rights history by doing the same thing. Mrs. Due and seven others refused to pay $300 fines for violating laws they abhorred. Five served the full 49-day sentence. As leader of the sit-in, Mrs. Due became a national figure. Jackie Robinson sent her a diary for her jail-time thoughts. James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte and Eleanor Roosevelt endorsed her efforts. Dr. King sent a telegram saying, “Going to jail for a righteous cause is a badge of honor and a symbol of dignity.” It was not easy behind bars. She and her sister, Priscilla Stephens Kruize, her compatriot in many battles, had to share a narrow bed. They suspected that a mentally disturbed woman was placed in the cell to unnerve them. Food was awful; nights were cold. Thurgood Marshall, head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, questioned whether it was all worth it, given the deplorable state of Southern jails. But the drama of righteous incarceration seized the nation’s attention, a freed Mrs. Due went on a national fund-raising tour and the “jail-in” became a movement standard. Patricia Gloria Stephens was born on Dec. 9, 1939, in Quincy, Fla., and was raised in Belle Glade, Fla. As high school students, she and Priscilla, who was 15 months older, started a petition to have the principal removed, The Miami Herald reported in 1990. Patricia said the two were “always testing things.” In 1959, she formed a local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality. It was the beginning of life as “a professional volunteer,” in her daughter’s words. She worked with youths, helped out in political campaigns and spoke on human rights issues. In the last year of her life, state, county and local governments in Florida honored her. In addition to her husband of 49 years, her sister and her daughter, Mrs. Due is survived by two other daughters, Tananarive Due and Lydia Due Greisz; a brother, Walter Stephens; and five grandchildren. In 2003, Mrs. Due and her daughter Tananarive, a novelist, wrote “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.” The book discusses thorny issues like black people’s ambivalence about the civil rights struggle in the movement’s early days and the emotional turmoil of children whose parents are activists. It also contains many tales of courage. “Stories live forever,” Mrs. Due liked to say. “Storytellers don’t.” __________________ Cheryl

02-12-2012, 11:37 AM	#106
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02-12-2012, 04:38 PM	#108
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02-12-2012, 05:01 PM	#112
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02-12-2012, 05:09 PM	#116
tapu Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Understated butch. Preferred Pronoun?: I Relationship Status: Party of One Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Maine Posts: 1,654 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,324 Thanked 3,112 Times in 1,103 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	Here's what I have to say after hearing various reactions, and I'll stand by it: I'm truly sorry that some are offended, but when I think of a line like that that exposes and challenges the dominant paradigm in our society, I can't concern myself with who won't get it. There will always be those who don't. I still have to just grit my teeth and post it. Believe me: If you got the joke, you'd love it. __________________ Really? That's not funny to you?

02-12-2012, 05:13 PM	#117
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02-12-2012, 05:20 PM	#118
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