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| Reverend Wendell Anthony |
Remember, I went to that Black Legislative Caucus last month? I had a little trouble with Wendell Anthony. President of the NAACP Detroit Branch. He and a few of his cronies, including his daughter create a smorgasbord in front of me and ate like hogs. Even invited a Michigan leader to join, I however, was not invited to the party. Steele Hughes was seated at the table with me. In fact, he is the man that I refer to as "the young man". He sat in front of me with his burritos, pulling cheese with his fork and looking at me like I wanted some. Actually, taunting me with his food. I guess the police had informed Reverend Anthony that I didn't have money to eat. What I didn't have time to do was lose my parking, ride around looking for food and ending up missing Garlin Gilchrist's speech. I have to watch who I speak of fondly, because the police will harass them, too. But, Lt. Gilchrist was next, after lunch. I sat and ate my turkey sandwich anticipating his speech. I by no means wanted to miss him. I'm not bigger than the State, by any means.
Mr. Steele is good friends with Wendell Anthony, head of the Detroit Chapter of the NAACP. I have to say it again, because I can't believe that what is going on is going on. I watch Channel 7 Action News this evening, and there is Steele Hughes. If that's his name. He was arrested and "beat up" in Detroit by some police. He was awarded $45K for his trouble. Absent was his friend Wendell Anthony who will probably be showing up tomorrow with his righteous indignation about what happened to Mr. Hughes. Chief Craig also has a problem, because if this is a fake incident to get Hughes money, create police brutality where there is none, or hype the notoriety and power of the NAACP, his officers are involved! Not only did they wrestle Hughes to the ground, take him to jail and cause him to stay there for 72-hours, but they lied on purpose. Creating a scenario that they lied to cover-up their "abuse" of Hughes. It was all on Channel 7, today.
Now, I know from the Black Caucus meeting he's a flunky, because I sat quietly and was picked on by him. He and all the rest of the people that Reverend Anthony had trying to make my mouth water? I really don't know what eating food in front of someone can actually do for their status. I don't know Mr. Anthony or any of his staff. I don't know if Mr. Hughes works for him or not. I do know that he is not a gentleman, and a very sorry and petty man. I'll let you see for yourself in the video. Excuse Anthony's daughter, who is a size zero and is trying to convince the world she eats by chowing down on her chips and salsa. She knows how to be fake legitimately. Hughes is the guy in the blue suit pretending to be interested in what Lt. Gilchrist has to say. You can see his fake demonstration of that on the video, too.
What I want to know is this: If Wendell Anthony, President of the Detroit Chapter of the NAACP, is your friend. Where is he during your misunderstanding with the Detroit Police? Furthermore, where is he in your interview with the local news. See, even if this was settled, it can be the cause of a lot of political activism in the city with the police. It can cause loss of morale in the police department, trust in the community, between the citizenry of Detroit and the police. Not to mention the city had to settle an amount of money for a fake crime. I'm watching the news report and I don't believe any of it. Wendell Anthony has a lot of power in Southeastern Michigan. You should have seen the way those Legislators came to him and gave their salutations, while I sat amazed at his level of rudeness, superiority and lack of chivalry. I think that he and Hughes need to read the book on how to treat a woman. In this so-called attack, he was with his fiancee. They had just had dinner and he was walking to his car, with a doggy-bag of craw-fish and rice. Well, I know he can eat, but I didn't know he was also good at running game. This is Hughes on Channel 7 Action News, today:
Now, this is the thing that is most disturbing. How many times has this happened in Detroit? I know in Pontiac, the City Council President conferred with an attorney and got $95K, Nobody knew he was talking to an attorney. Not the Mayor, not even his fellow City Council Members. He did it all on his own! The City didn't pay, because they had not retained an attorney. More than likely they saw it as a money grab. Since the Mayor got in office, stealing is hard to do. City Council President, Kermit Williams, not able to steal, may have gotten desperate. In my opinion, the law firm was guilty of fraud. You can't charge someone without a retainer. Nope, crooked judges at Oakland County award them a sum of nearly $100K. With all the right players, they could get away with small sums like this over and over again, because people complain about large sums. When millions of dollars are at stake. People don't think twice and such a minuscule amount. The City of Detroit is out more than just that $45K, but those police salaries, lawyer fees and the bad publicity! The publicity alone should be enough to start an investigation. If it's what I think it is, Wendell Anthony is sick. The African-American Community deserves so much more from an organization that was started to lift up our people. To have it destroyed by a power hungry individual that just wants to be seen as some kind of King, can't stand. W.E.B. Dubois is rolling over in his grave. We must ask for better. We must demand better!
Update:
It seems that The NAACP National Convention was coming up, soon. It seems that Reverend Wendell Anthony might have been wanting to use this contrived incident to boost attendance and attention to the event, with his righteous indignation. Now that I have shared this blog with people in the news, he has shifted his righteous indignation to Donald Trump, President of the United States of America. That was smart, because no one dislikes Trump more than African-Americans in the US. This is just insane that a man in his position would need to create controversy in order to boost the number of people that attend his event and pay attention to the NAACP. I feel that many people in the community are tired of his falseness and opportunistic ways and no longer run to him for help. Mr. Steele seems to come from the same kind of uppity background, himself. During the interview there was a picture of him and four other men. That may be his fraternity or some other kind of social organization. Some people have eternal devotion to their frat. Exposing that picture to a local news report, could be his way to show some kind of loyalty to the group. I don't know, but it seems that they were going to blow this small and made up arrest to sell more tickets to the convention. Just like movie stars suddenly have naked photos leaked, family members exploit their lives or a DUI just before their movie is about to be released. I guess the Detroit Chapter of the NAACP knows the same tricks of the game!
