Black Contestants to Sue American Idol for Racism

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( 4UMF NEWS ) Black Contestants Sue American Idol For Racism:
Ten black former “American Idol” contestants from various seasons have filed a lawsuit against the show, claiming they were unjustly booted because of their race and they each want $25 million minimum.

The contestants have accused producers of conducting a “cruel and inhumane” scheme to exploit them for ratings by illegally digging up their arrest histories and using the records to humiliate them on national TV.

The contestants — Corey Clark (Season 2), Jaered Andrews (Season 2), Jacob John Smalley (Season 2), Donnie Williams (Season 3), Terrell Brittenum (Season 5), Derrell Brittenum (Season 5), Thomas Daniels (Season 6), Akron Watson (Season 6), Ju’Not Joyner (Season 8), and Chris Golightly (Season 9).

The contestants’ lawyer claims the show used the arrest info to make his clients appear to be “violent criminals, liars and sexual deviants” when they weren’t. In fact, none had ever even been convicted of the charges stemming from their arrests.

Worse, the lawyer claims ONLY black people were ever probed about their alleged criminal pasts never white people.
Not only do the contestants feel they got the shaft, they claim their lives have been ruined by the show’s racist portrayals.
The 10 are suing for discrimination and other alleged misdeeds. They also want Idol to adopt new anti-racism regulations.
Reps for FOX and FremantleMedia had no comment.

Black Contestants to Sue American Idol for Racism

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( 4UMF NEWS ) Black Contestants Sue American Idol For Racism:
Ten black former “American Idol” contestants from various seasons have filed a lawsuit against the show, claiming they were unjustly booted because of their race and they each want $25 million minimum.

7 heads found in a plastic bag?!?

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( 4UMF NEWS ) Seven Severed Heads Found:
Seven severed heads were found along a highway outside Guadalajara, further gruesome evidence that drug wars in Mexico‘s second-biggest city are spiraling out of control.
The heads, stuffed into plastic bags, were discovered on the edge of a highway in Jalisco state, authorities said Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the bodies of two 15-year-old boys were found in a forest outside Guadalajara. Luis Ortiz and Andres Barba had allegedly bullied the son of drug kingpin Jose Angel Carrasco aka “El Changel” and “The Zero Five.”
The narcotics lord was arrested in January after a firefight with the army. He was a key leader in the brutal Sinaloa Cartel, which is at war with the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion and Los Caballeros Templarios over multimillion-dollar smuggling routes and incredibly lucrative meth production sites in and around Guadalajara.
Despite assurances from the Mexican government that murder rates are dropping, homicides in Jalisco state increased more than 5 percent during the first five months of 2013, compared with the same period in 2012, according to police.
In March, Jalisco Tourism Minister Jose de Jesus Gallegos was shot dead in an ambush in an upscale Guadalajara neighborhood, just a week after taking office.
State police have not issued a motive for his murder.

7 heads found in a plastic bag?!?

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( 4UMF NEWS ) Seven Severed Heads Found:
Seven severed heads were found along a highway outside Guadalajara, further gruesome evidence that drug wars in Mexico‘s second-biggest city are spiraling out of control.
The heads, stuffed into plastic bags, were discovered on the edge of a highway in Jalisco state, authorities said Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the bodies of two 15-year-old boys were found in a forest outside Guadalajara. Luis Ortiz and Andres Barba had allegedly bullied the son of drug kingpin Jose Angel Carrasco aka “El Changel” and “The Zero Five.”
The narcotics lord was arrested in January after a firefight with the army. He was a key leader in the brutal Sinaloa Cartel, which is at war with the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion and Los Caballeros Templarios over multimillion-dollar smuggling routes and incredibly lucrative meth production sites in and around Guadalajara.
Despite assurances from the Mexican government that murder rates are dropping, homicides in Jalisco state increased more than 5 percent during the first five months of 2013, compared with the same period in 2012, according to police.
In March, Jalisco Tourism Minister Jose de Jesus Gallegos was shot dead in an ambush in an upscale Guadalajara neighborhood, just a week after taking office.
State police have not issued a motive for his murder.