White - Blaqly https://blaqly.com Latest Black News and Gossips Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:44:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Hate Crimes: White Man Sentenced 41 Months In Prison For Punching 11-Year-Old Black Child In Racist Attack https://blaqly.com/sub/hate-crimes-white-man-sentenced-41-months-in-prison-for-punching-11-year-old-black-child-in-racist-attack/ https://blaqly.com/sub/hate-crimes-white-man-sentenced-41-months-in-prison-for-punching-11-year-old-black-child-in-racist-attack/#respond Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:44:07 +0000 https://blaqly.com/sub/hate-crimes-white-man-sentenced-41-months-in-prison-for-punching-11-year-old-black-child-in-racist-attack/ Source: towfiqu ahamed / Getty Back in June 2024, BOSSIP apologized in advance for reporting a story that we said would ruin ...

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Back in June 2024, BOSSIP apologized in advance for reporting a story that we said would ruin your day. Today, we are pleased to update that story with news that will brighten your Friday, and it might just motivate you to have an early happy hour.

43-year-old Paul Jonathan Bittner of Ukiah, California, has been sentenced to serve 41 months in prison after being convicted of second-degree assault of a child and commission of a hate crime, according to The Bellingham Herald. Bittner’s charges stem from an incident in which he punched an 11-year-old Black student from Whatcom Middle School while he was walking with his friends. Not only did Bittner punch the boy and break his tooth, but he also followed up by berating him publicly with racist slurs. Bittner pleaded guilty to all charges.

Sufficed it to say, the boy’s family is happy that justice was swift (or swift as it can be, considering the often long and arduous legal process) and they look forward to healing and moving on with their lives.

“I’m feeling good,” the child’s father, DeVante Blow, told The Bellingham Herald following the sentencing. “I’m feeling as if justice was served and the community is safer.”

Every community is safer when racist white folks are imprisoned. Hopefully, the universe continues to punish Bittner long after his prison term is up. As for the child, Blow says that his son “is in a great place”.

After his arrest, Bittner spent over five months remanded to Western State Hospital, where he was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, and initially found not competent to stand trial. However, Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Benjamin Pratt described Bittner’s current state of mind as “substantially different” than the one he exhibited at the time of the incident.

We don’t care what this man is suffering from, he committed a heinous crime and prison is the only place for people like that.

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Epstein Files Fallout: Trump Tries To Tame Turmoil As MAGA Masses Melt Down Over White House ‘Hoax’ Claims https://blaqly.com/sub/epstein-files-fallout-trump-tries-to-tame-turmoil-as-maga-masses-melt-down-over-white-house-hoax-claims/ https://blaqly.com/sub/epstein-files-fallout-trump-tries-to-tame-turmoil-as-maga-masses-melt-down-over-white-house-hoax-claims/#respond Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:02:28 +0000 https://blaqly.com/sub/epstein-files-fallout-trump-tries-to-tame-turmoil-as-maga-masses-melt-down-over-white-house-hoax-claims/ Look, it may never amount to anything more than a temporary distraction from the frustration and horror brought on by a racist, ...

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Look, it may never amount to anything more than a temporary distraction from the frustration and horror brought on by a racist, incompetent federal administration that is sliding deeper and deeper into all-out authoritarianism — but it’s been amusing watching the MAGA world crash out over the White House’s handling of the imfamous (and possibly mythical, but maybe not because why is everyone sooo nervous?) client list of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 

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President Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and other members of the contemptible Caucasian clown car that is the Trump administration have been scrambling to deal with the MAGA fallout of Trump trying his best to dismiss the Epstein files as a “hoax” after Bondi said, in February, that the files were sitting on her desk, which happened before the Justice Department claimed they didn’t exist, which happened after Bondi calimed the FBI was pouring through “truckloads” of evidence previously withheld by the Biden administration (but before she agreed with the DOJ that they didn’t exist), which happened before Trump essentialy claimed they didn’t exist but, if they do, it’s somehow Obama’s fault. (This is clearly a White House full of stable geniuses who communicate well.)

I’m not sure why Trump and his people thought that the MAGA world — which is largely comprised of people who treat substanceless conspiracy theories like they’re Bible verses, because that’s what you do when you don’t actually know things — wouldn’t lose it over this, but, apparently, they are. (Alex Jones has, predictably, been running wild with it.)

From The Guardian:

Trump’s former vice-president, Mike Pence, told CBS News on Wednesday that “I think the time has come for the administration to release all of the files regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s investigation and prosecution”, while the conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, a frequent close adviser to Trump, called for the appointment of a special counsel to handle the Epstein files investigation. “Obviously, this is not a complete hoax given the fact that [Epstein associate] Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving 20 years in prison in Florida for her crimes and activities with Jeffrey Epstein, who we know is a convicted sexual predator,” she said.

The podcast host Theo Von, who attended Trump’s inauguration and told Fox News it was “inspiring”, commented “yeah what changed” on a video of the vice-president, JD Vance, appearing on Von’s show in 2024 and calling for the full Epstein list to be released.

Even some of Trump’s most loyal allies in Congress say they are not satisfied by his decision to not release additional files from the Epstein case.

Senator Josh Hawley questioned the justice department’s claims about the files, saying: “I think it is maybe a little difficult to believe the idea that DoJ and the FBI … don’t have any idea who Epstein’s clients were”, and called for Maxwell to testify.

MAGA supporters are even out here burning their MAGA hats on video to show their displeasure with Trump and pals.

Any other time, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene would weat Trump’s hind parts as a hat without even wrapping them in tinfoil first, but when the DOJ announced earlier this month that no further disclosures would be “appropriate or warranted” when it came to Epstein, Greene caleed the dicision “a full reversal on what was all said beforehand,” and declared that “people are just not willing to accept it.”

“I don’t accept it, and I don’t think anyone else should accept it,” she said during a recent interview, according to the New York Times. “I just think that it’s a punch in the gut when regular people go to jail all the time, when they mess up and do something wrong, and then it always seems the rich, powerful elites escape.” 

So, now Trump and his minions are on damage control.

Trump recently praised Bondi for her (non)handling of the Epstein file (non)release, and he said she should release “whatever she thinks is credible” of the alleged (or un-alleged?) Epstein list. He also defaulted to deflection and finger-pointing at anyone but himself.

“And I would say that, you know, these files were made up by Comey, they were made up by Obama, they were made up by the Biden [administration],” Trump said, despite the fact that Epstein was was arrested and unalived in his cell in 2019, during Trump’s first term, three years after former President Barack Obama left office. “And we went through years of that with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, with all of the different things that we had to go through.”

Meanwhile, disgraced conservative commentator (who, miraculously, still has a job somewhere) Bill O’Reilly also publicly embarrassed himself by trying to blame former President Joe Biden for something he had nothing to do with.

On Monday, during a back-and-forth with NewsNation anchor Leland Vittert, O’Reilly got his own blood pressure up over Democrats pushing for the release of the Epstein files and criticizing Trump for his lack of transparency, and he lashed out by calling them hypocrites by not having the same energy for Biden, while being loud and wrong about, well, virtually everything.

From the Independent:

“This is what infuriates me about these people! Jeffries knew the Biden administration had exactly the same thing the Trump administration has on Epstein. Exactly! Because Epstein was convicted during the Biden administration,” O’Reilly exclaimed.

“Hold on, Bill! You said Epstein was convicted during the Biden administration. Epstein committed suicide during the Trump administration,” the NewsNation anchor noted.

“Yeah, so?!” O’Reilly indignantly retorted.

“How do you convict a guy that is dead?” Vittert wondered.

O’Reilly went on to insist that Epstein was “convicted under Merrick Garland’s Justice Department” and then “incarcerated” before killing himself in jail, prompting Vittert to explain that his guest had his facts completely wrong.

“Bill, I think this is important,” the On Balance host noted. “He was arrested in 2019, and he committed suicide in 2019. He died August 10, 2019. So the Biden administration was not involved in a conviction or a trial of him. They were with his madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.”

Acknowledging that Vittert made a “good point of clarification,” O’Reilly proceeded to double down and once again claimed that Garland was responsible for indicting Epstein in 2019, leading Vittert to point out one more time that this was incorrect.

The crash-out is real. The integrity is not. The Trump administration continues to be an imploding mess.

But MAGA, right?

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Azealia Banks found herself in the crosshairs of criticism once again, and this time, fans are unified in saying her latest action was tasteless and bordered on revenge porn. Azealia Banks posted and deleted what she said were unsolicited nude photos of UFC fighter Conor McGregor, admitting that the two have done so with each other despite never having met.

On Monday (July 14), Azealia Banks reportedly posted images of Conor McGregor standing nude in his birthday suit on his actual birthday, apparently after a workout, and shared them to her popular X page. Banks, as she’s known for, used her razor-sharp tongue to dress down McGregor’s photo dump and made disparaging remarks regarding his, ahem, situation.

“How you gonna send a b*tch some crooked d*ck pics then threaten her not to tell… do you know who tf I am?… THIS IS HARAM,” Banks wrote.

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McGregor reportedly caught wind of Banks leaking the nudes, allegedly writing in a text, “Don’t be a rat cos all rats get caught.”

Banks looks to have scrubbed her page of the images and spent the bulk of Monday and Tuesday (July 15) addressing fans online while admitting at one point that she and McGregor have been doing the nude pic swap dance since 2016.

As it usually goes with Azealia Banks, trying to keep up with her tweets and replies to fans online is a task in itself. The talented New York rapper who is currently living abroad didn’t make any apologies for her actions, even with some saying the move bordered on revenge porn. McGregor didn’t address the leak on his X account, focusing instead on his new combat sports ventures and celebrating his birthday.

We did our best to try to center the tweets from X that make the most sense and tell the bulk of the story. Check those out below.

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We thought Jim Crow was over, but an unseasoned and uncouth white man has decided that he’s got to pop out and show ni**as that the spirit of 1877 is still alive and well in Amerikkka.

According to reporting done by The Minnesota Star-Tribune, a driver for Jefferson Lines bus service has come under fire for a wild, allegedly racist incident where he forced two Black men to sit in the back of the bus before he would depart the station. One of those men, Xavier Davis, has filed a lawsuit against both the driver and the company in Hennepin County District Court. In 2023, Davis was boarding a bus headed from North Dakota to Minnesota alongside a separate Black male passenger when the “John Doe” driver told them that they had to sit in the back. An argument ensued and “John Doe” threatened to call the police if the men did not comply with his orders.

Jefferson Lines company policy clearly states that passengers are to board on a first come, first serve basis but the driver told the men that policy was for passengers to load in from the back going forward. Meanwhile, white passengers were allowed to sit anywhere they damn well pleased.

Months prior to this week’s lawsuit, Xavier Davis contacted the Minnesota Department of Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero to launch an investigation into the incident. In her memo, Lucero noted that all of the driver’s reasons for why the Black men had to sit in the back were based on racial discrimination, a fact that will surely help Davis in his lawsuit. The driver, when questioned by Jefferson Lines, admitted that he forced the men to sit in the back because they smelled like marijuana, a behavior that Lucero described as “rooted in discriminatory and stereotypical expectations”.

“Driver’s implication that he might need to involve the police was rooted in the trope that a Black man questioning Driver’s decision was somehow threatening or disruptive,” Lucero wrote. “There was no evidence that [Davis] engaged in any activity that would warrant police intervention.”

Davis’ attorney Sam Smith says that they have been negotiating a settlement with Jefferson Line for months but “They just are unwilling to do the right thing,”.

They may be unwilling to do the right thing but the right thing is willing to do them. We hope Xavier Davis breaks the bank.

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Jamal White: 7-Year-Old Abducted At Gunpoint In Milwaukee Found Safe Less Than 24 Hours Later https://blaqly.com/sub/jamal-white-7-year-old-abducted-at-gunpoint-in-milwaukee-found-safe-less-than-24-hours-later/ https://blaqly.com/sub/jamal-white-7-year-old-abducted-at-gunpoint-in-milwaukee-found-safe-less-than-24-hours-later/#respond Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:07:50 +0000 https://blaqly.com/sub/jamal-white-7-year-old-abducted-at-gunpoint-in-milwaukee-found-safe-less-than-24-hours-later/ There’s good news to report after an abduction gained nationwide attention from concerned citizens. A 7-year-old boy who was at the center ...

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There’s good news to report after an abduction gained nationwide attention from concerned citizens.

A 7-year-old boy who was at the center of a statewide Amber Alert in Wisconsin has been found safe, bringing a wave of relief to his family and community. According to FOX6 News, Jamal White was abducted at gunpoint Friday evening near 61st and Hustis in Milwaukee, triggering a massive search that ended with his safe return on Saturday.

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The Milwaukee Police Department’s Sensitive Crimes Division confirmed to the outlet that the Amber Alert for Jamal was officially canceled once he was found. The incident shook the city, especially because of the disturbing nature of his abduction, right outside his own home.

Suspect Arrested, Motive Still Unclear

FOX6 reports that police have arrested a 25-year-old man in connection with Jamal’s disappearance. Charges are expected to be referred to the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office, though authorities have not yet released the suspect’s name or details about the charges.

The motive behind the abduction remains a mystery. Police said Jamal was taken and placed into a white Jeep Renegade with an unknown license plate. The suspect was described as a Black male wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a black face mask.

Almost 24 hours after Jamal was reported critically missing, he was found near 39th and Lloyd. What exactly happened in those missing hours — and how he ended up at that location — has yet to be disclosed.

‘We Haven’t Been Able to Eat or Sleep’

For the boy’s family, the emotional toll has been overwhelming.

“We haven’t been able to eat, we haven’t been able to sleep. We’ve been crying off and on,” said Nikki Herrington, Jamal’s cousin, in an interview with FOX6. She described the family’s sheer panic as they searched for answers overnight.

That fear turned into joyful tears as family members and neighbors celebrated Jamal’s safe return on Saturday. Videos from the scene showed a group of community members cheering, hugging, and breaking down in relief outside the area where Jamal was recovered.

“It’s a lot. I almost had an anxiety attack, my heart’s still racing,” said Raven Jackson, another cousin. “He looked like he was scared, but he was OK. It looked like he was happy to see us.”

Community Help Credited in Breakthrough

According to family members, community support played a major role in locating the child. In Fox 6, the family says widespread sharing of Jamal’s photo and story online helped direct their attention to the area near 39th and Lloyd, where he was ultimately found.

“He’s home, he’s safe and whatever happened, we’re glad that he’s here and he’s alive. Because it’s very rare that you get an outcome like this,” Herrington told Fox 6.

Disturbing Doorbell Camera Footage Surfaces

As the public pieced together the timeline, FOX6 News also obtained doorbell camera video that may have captured the moment Jamal was abducted. In the footage, a child matching Jamal’s description is seen riding a bicycle. A white SUV, believed to be the suspect’s vehicle, appears and turns around, heading in the child’s direction. Shortly after, screams are heard off-camera.

While Jamal’s family believes the child in the video is him, Milwaukee police have not officially confirmed the video’s content.

Still So Many Questions

As of now, there are more questions than answers. What was the motive? How did Jamal escape — or was he released? Why was he targeted? And will the 25-year-old suspect face kidnapping charges?

What is clear is that a young boy is alive, thanks to a rapid police response, a vigilant community, and a family who refused to give up hope. Milwaukee got the rarest kind of ending in these situations — a miracle.
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Mostly White HBCUs? Yep, They’re Real — And In West Virginia https://blaqly.com/sub/mostly-white-hbcus-yep-theyre-real-and-in-west-virginia/ https://blaqly.com/sub/mostly-white-hbcus-yep-theyre-real-and-in-west-virginia/#respond Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:12:59 +0000 https://blaqly.com/sub/mostly-white-hbcus-yep-theyre-real-and-in-west-virginia/ Source: fotoguy22 / Getty Did y’all know there are at least two historically Black colleges in America (West Virginia to be specific) ...

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Did y’all know there are at least two historically Black colleges in America (West Virginia to be specific) that are predominantly white?

Now, you probably read the above sentence and said to yourself: “Nah, that can’t be right. How are they HBCUs if their student body isn’t Black? What do you think the “B” stands for? It ain’t ‘bring on the white folks.’”

Well, apparently, for all the griping white people do about DEI, affirmative action, reverse discrimination and the very existence of Black institutions — all of which only exist because Black people have been historically excluded from so many institutions that white people had full access to—some Caucasian administrators don’t mind taking advantage of the minority designation when it suits them.

Also, it turns out that desegregation opened the door for white people to gentrify and take over Black spaces.

Let’s start with West Virginia’s Bluefield State University, a college that held on to its HBCU title and the federal funding that comes with it, despite being around 71% white, which, to be fair, is an improvement from around a decade ago, when it was 90% white.

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Here’s how NPR explained the college’s racial transition in 2013:

It opened in the late 19th century as the Bluefield Colored Institute, created to educate the children of black coal miners in segregated West Virginia. Although it still receives the federal funding that comes with its designation as a historically black institution, today Bluefield State College is 90 percent white. The road that separates those realities is as rocky as any story of racial transition in post-World War II America.

This part of West Virginia was coal country and still is — trains still haul coal along those tracks hugging the college’s southern edge. Many of the black folks who migrated to West Virginia to work in the coal mines sent their children to the Bluefield Colored Institute. By the 1920s, the school was a football power among black colleges and a stepping stone for much of the region’s black middle class.

In 1954, just a few years after Bluefield State earned full accreditation, the Supreme Court declared segregation illegal in Brown v. Board of Education, reshaping the landscape of America’s schooling. Suddenly, black students had more educational options to choose from, in theory anyway. And black colleges and universities like Bluefield State began having to compete with better-funded predominantly white schools for top black students.

At the same time, new technology was making mining jobs obsolete, and many black folks started leaving the state, heading North to go work in the factories. White veterans started coming back to West Virginia after fighting in Korea. And with the government footing their tuition costs through the G.I. Bill, the state’s inexpensive black schools — the other was West Virginia State University — started looking more and more attractive to white students.

“We had an out-migration of students of color because of Brown v. Board of Ed,” said Jim Nelson, a spokesman for the school, “at roughly the same time that we had an in-migration of largely Caucasian students wanting to use their G.I. Bill benefits. So that’s what, as much as anything, that’s what flipped the complexion of the school.”

But that’s not all that changed the racial tides at Bluefield; a change in leadership also served to make this HBCU a predominantly white institution (PWI).

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By the mid-1960s, Bluefield State was about half Black. In 1966, the state selected Wendell G. Hardway to serve as the college’s first white president. By 1968, Hardway had hired 23 new faculty members — all of whom were white. So, the faculty at Bluefield, which had been all-Black as recently as 1954, was, by 1967, only 30% Black. If that’s not a picture-perfect example of why Black people need to gatekeep Black spaces, I don’t know what is.

The situation is similar at West Virginia State University, which, according to its website, was “founded in 1891 as a Historically Black College” but has now “evolved to serve a population that is richly diverse in ethnicity, geography, residential/commuter, high school graduates and adult learners.”

Riiiight, so—let’s talk about that rich ethnic diversity right quick.

Currently, the student body at WVSU, which also continues to maintain its HBCU status, is 67.6% White and only 7.37% Black or African American. And the so-called diversity doesn’t lie in the other ethnic groups either, with mixed race students at 3.27%, Hispanic or Latino students at 2.17%, Asian students at 1.27%, American Indian or Alaska Native students at 0.174%, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders at 0.0868%.

Imagine a school calling itself an HBCU while only its white students even reach double-digit percentage points.

It’s not as if these schools are leading the HBCUs that are actually predominantly Black on an academic level. In fact, of the 107 designated HBCUs in the U.S., Bluefield State and West Virginia State are ranked at No. 38 and No. 42, respectively.

It’s worth mentioning that these aren’t the only HBCUs with growing white student bodies. For example, Lincoln University, an HBCU in Jefferson City, Missouri, is still predominantly Black at around 42%, but 40% of the students there are white.

Again, white conservatives have claimed for generations that the existence of Black colleges is inherently racist (also see Black History Month, BET, etc.), ignoring the fact that white people can and do attend Black colleges, and even receive minority scholarships to do so.

But what happens when we open the gates to our spaces and it results in us getting phased out? It’s almost as if what’s ours is theirs and what’s theirs is still theirs, or else it’s DEI.

Ironic, right?

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