Real Man of Genius: Keison Wilkins

The newspaper article can tell you better than I can.

DAYTON — The second time Keison Wilkins acted as his own attorney for a felonious assault trial didn’t work out so well.

Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Katherine Huffman sentenced Wilkins to 42 years in prison Monday, June 30.

The sentencing capped off a week of Wilkins’ antics, which frequently caused Huffman to clear the courtroom. At one point he began yelling about lynchings. On Thursday, he apparently faked a heart attack, collapsing to the floor while uninterested observers watched.

After the “attack,” during which medical personnel checked him out and found nothing wrong with him, Wilkins sat in a chair, pretending to be unconscious. When a deputy put an ammonia stick under his nose Wilkins responded, opened his eyes, then went back to feigning unconsciousness.

This is why you should always have a capable and competent lawyer by your side whenever you go to court, although dude seems to have had success in the past representing himself. But his antics are hilarious, especially when they put the smelling salts under his nose and even they didn’t revive him.

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Miss USA Crystle Stewart Takes a Tumble

But Lord she is still fine.

For the second year in a row, a Black Miss USA has taken a fall at the Miss Universe pageant.  But like I said, I don’t care cause she is still super fine.  You’re still alright with me Ms. Stewart. 

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Toccara in Vogue Italia

Oh my.  Oh my my my my my my my my.

Ha, that isn’t the first pic, but you know I had to start off with that one.

Man, I’ve said it before.  Shorty is annoying, but she is def a beautiful woman.

If you don’t like this, don’t come back to the Boxx no more.

Smh.  See the full spread here.

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Sneakerboxx Grabs the Platinum Plaque

A milli, a milli, a milli…m*thaf*cka I’m ill!!!

Haha…that’s right folks. Ya boy lik dot just hit the million mark and he’s ready to celebrate. But first, I wanna give thanks to those who have repped with me over the past year and some change.

On221, Icedotcom, J Long, Cease, Landis91, Big Rob, Mike C the Philly Lawyer, Jay-Slice, D Waller, CO in Charlotte, Big Curt (get well soon my dude), my web designer Kaelin, Big Mike, and anyone else that comments or views the site on the regular that I have forgotten. Your hits are much appreciated and I couldn’t have made it this far without you guys.

So as much as I wanna take yall back to 2000 and flex my MC skills and rhyme over the Milli beat that has been raped to death, I won’t. I’ll just take my platinum plaque and go on home. More posts to come later though…had to check out for the weekend to celebrate my girl’s birthday. She never checks the site (too many Kim K posts), but I will wish her a happy birthday in this space and tell her I love her in the off-chance that she does see this. Y’all should check her site too…it’s def worth the Hype.

I’ll see y’all at the 2 million mark.

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Get Familiar: Juneteenth

I look at myself as an educated black man and even I didn’t know about this celebration until last year.  So I want to take this opportunity while I have this forum to educate you on the momentous day in Black history.

See, most people believe that the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 signed by Lincoln freed the slaves after the Civil War.  True, but not so much.   It took a full 2 years later, on June 19, 1865, for a group of Union soldiers to ride into Galveston, TX and read a general order freeing 250,000 slaves in that state.  Most didn’t even know that they had been freed nearly 2 years before.

Since then, Juneteenth has been a day of celebration for many African Americans, a de facto second Independence Day commemorating the end of slavery and a first step toward inclusion in the greater American dream. It’s a bittersweet holiday, “a time of celebration, but also a time of reflection, healing, and hopefully a time for the country to come together and deal with its slave legacy,” says the Rev. Ronald V. Meyers, chairman of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation. Meyers has worked for almost 15 years to get Juneteenth recognized by state legislatures. Currently, a little more than half of U.S. states acknowledge Juneteenth in some form or another, usually on the third Saturday of June.

Time Magazine online has done a short history on Juneteenth that you should check out if you have a free minute.  It also helps to clear up some of the reasoning why I didn’t know about such an important date.

Yet as one would expect from an unofficial holiday, its popularity has waxed and waned over the decades. It fell from favor during the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and ’60s, as African Americans looked more to change their future rather than focus on the past. Following a resurgence in popularity in the ’70s, however, Texas state legislator Al Edwards in 1979 introduced a bill to make Juneteenth a state holiday; the first state-approved celebration took place the following year.

You can read more about Juneteenth on it’s Wikipedia page.  Happy Juneteenth!!!

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MTV Previews Nas’ “Nigger”

We have a release date folks!!! From December to February to April to now July 1.

He’s abrasively frank throughout the album, with his song names and content. He holds back nothing. On the title track, he calls out racists, as well as holds a mirror up to people who actually perpetuate the stereotypes bigots spread.

“N-I-double-G-E-R/ We are much more, but we choose to ignore the obvious,” he raps on the song. “You are the slave and the master/ What you looking for? You’re the question and the answer.”

From reading the article, it sounds as if the album isn’t finished, as their is talk of adding Rick Ross (???), the LOX, and dead prez. I’ll believe July 1 when I see a single and video drop, although he is making the rounds with DJs.

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Hillary on SNL

What a difference a couple of weeks make.

The anticipated big win in West VA will only make this thing longer.

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OJ Mayo- ESPN Outside the Lines

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Part 2:

I’ve been reading about OJ Mayo in SLAM magazine since he was in the seventh grade.  That’s right, there was an article about him when he was in the seventh grade.  I remember looking at the picture and wondering if he would ever pan out to be anything.

My sister recently graduated from Marshall University Medical School in Huntington, WV.  During her time there when I visited, I was able to see OJ Mayo play live with his high school team during his senior year.  He is an amazing talent, and if you know anything about Huntington, I prayed that he would make it out.

And he did.  And if you think that any major college athlete doesn’t receive some type of benefits under the table, you are just as naive as the NCAA.  And now you have this guy “snitching”, acting like a jilted lover b/c now that OJ is going to the league, he’s not going to get his slice of the pie.  Sickening.

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Mike Tyson on ESPN’s E60

If you’re a child of the 80s, then you understand just how important Mike Tyson is to our culture. Although his life was a train wreck, you always rooted for the guy and hoped he would eventually get himself together. This interview shows Iron Mike’s life after boxing, sober and drug-free.

Part 1

Part 2

There also is a documentary of Mike Tyson, narrated by Mike Tyson in the works.  Word is that Nas has recorded a song for the project.

Still rooting for you Kid Dynamite. Glad to see you on the path to redemption.

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Sean Bell Cops Acquitted

Never have I been more disappointed to be a member of the justice system.  It really sounds like poor preparation on the part of the prosecution.  I feel that this quote from Mayor Bloomberg sums up the entire situation.

“An innocent man lost his life, a bride lost her groom, two daughters lost their father, and a mother and a father lost their son. No verdict could ever end the grief that those who knew and loved Sean Bell suffer.”

Emphasis added, although not needed.  How much is a Black life worth?   Everyday we get reminded that it’s not much.  I can’t say much more on this subject b/c I have future political plans, and just like Barack, they’ll dig this silly lil blog I started up while studying for the bar exam back in 2007 and use it against me.  But I will let it be known that I think the outcome in this case is disappointing.

How can you get a people to trust the justice system, when the justice system doesn’t protect them like it does others?  And they wonder why people run around with “Stop Snitching” t-shirts.  This does nothing to improve the relationship between African-Americans and the police.  If the police were really, truly trying to stop something from happening, they did an awful job.  And I will say here and again- why does it take 50 shots to stop someone?  Or 41 shots, like they did Diallo?  I promise you that all is needed is 1 non-kill shot to slow a man down if you really truly feel that you are in danger.  But to reload and keep firing is beyond excessive and when you are acquitted of any wrongdoing, it does nothing to quell the fears that African-Americans and immigrants have of the police.

I deal with police on a daily basis.  They have a hard job that I respect.  What is needed is a better working relationship between the two groups.  They have such a negative connotation when dealing with blacks, that there is nothing that allows them to differentiate the “good” from the “bad.”  In their eyes, it’s shoot first, ask questions last.  And in this case, it wasn’t needed.  Sean Bell was out celebrating his last night of freedom before getting married the next day.  Some careful explaining was needed to all parties involved of their intentions.  Sadly, things went awry and here we all sit with a very appropriate quote from Mayor Bloomberg.

RIP Sean Bell.

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