I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
- Bobby Seale
"Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions."
I'm pretty sure it was yesterday that I wrote about the murders of two transgender women...one in New Orleans on Saturday evening and one in Chicago last Tuesday.
Well, another day older and deeper in debt...
Chyna Gibson, 31, who performed under the name Chyna Doll Dupree in the pageant and ballroom community, was shot to death outside of a shopping center in New Orleans East on Saturday evening.
Residents of the area said that they hear 8 to 10 shots. Chyna died at the scene. Her body was found between to cars parked in front of a clothing store.
A very loving person. She didn't do nothing to nobody.
--Chyna's aunt
Chyna was currently living in California but had traveled to Nola to celebrate Mardi Gras with friends and family.
Ten days ago a charred body was found in a burned out car in New Orleans East (The 9th Ward). That body has now been identified as Devin Diamond. The Nola Coroner's Office has classified the death as a homicide. The victim was beaten to death before the car was torched.
Although described as a male by the Coroner's Office, further investigation reveals that Devin had begun transition.
George Melichar, who knew Diamond through a French Quarter retail job, said the two had a conversation on the subject several months ago.
When I asked her if she identified as a man or a woman, she told me that she would answer to both. But being that she was transitioning, I felt that it was the best to refer to her as a woman, and she agreed.
Devin was very loved, and Devin was very kind. And that's what makes this more difficult. In addition to losing a friend, we lost an LGBT leader.
--Melichar
Greetings, what a great week! Yesterday was our 32nd wedding anniversary, last night my Pittsburgh Panthers played the UNC Tarheels, tomorrow is Halloween and Sunday is Sweeties birthday.
This one is one of those songs that sounds good LOUD. Turn it up @ 0:45 and let it rip.
THIS ZERO-WASTE GROCERY STORE HAS NO PACKAGING, PLASTIC OR BIG-NAME BRANDS
"Never in the history of the world was such an exhibition, where with all the prejudices existing against the black man, when the white wage-earners of New Orleans would sacrifice their means of livelihood to defend and protect their colored fellow workers. With one fell swoop the economic barrier of color was broken down."
- AFL leader Samuel Gompers
