Damn this is why you need real people around you, people who can tell you hard truths from time to time. Cuz if I was there I would’ve been like Mike you trippin, 6 million for some urn aka round ass vases? Foh.
Michael Jackson told Martin Bashir he was worth over $1B. In 2009, he died more than $500M in debt.
Las Vegas, 2002.
"I remember getting $200,000 checks in the mail when I was like 12, 13 years old."
Bashir asks what he's worth now.
"It's way up there."
"Come on, Martin. I've done really well."
Over $1B? He says yes.
Then his favorite store in town.
"See, this is the shop. I bought so much stuff here."
2 urns. $275,000 each.
Bashir guesses the bill at a couple of million dollars. The manager won't say.
Later, Bashir put the day at $6M.
To Bashir, it looks like Louis XIV's palace.
"It's my taste."
In 2005, a forensic accountant testified.
His finances at the time of the documentary: $415M owed, about $130M in assets.
He was spending $20M to $30M a year more than he earned.
In June 2009, he died owing more than $500M.
One question came before the shopping.
"Have you always been good with your money?"
"With my money? Yes."
Jimmy Jackson had so much potential. The 1995 Mavs were setting up to be the team of the future
Jim Jackson age 24:
🔹25.7ppg 5.1rpg 3.7apg
Jamal Mashburn age 22:
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Jason Kidd age 21:
🔹11.7ppg 5.4rpg 7.7apg
Nine students walked into a public library in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961 and asked for books.
The library was for white people. Their own library did not have what they needed.
They sat down and read. They were arrested for breach of the peace. For reading.
27th March 1961. The Tougaloo Nine — Meredith Anding, James Bradford, Alfred Cook, Geraldine Edwards, Janice Jackson, Joseph Jackson, Albert Lassiter, Evelyn Pierce and Ethel Sawyer — students at Tougaloo College.
They went first to the Black branch library and requested books that were not held there. Then they walked to the main public library on State Street and requested the same books.
They were told to leave and go to the Black branch. They sat down at the tables and started reading.
The police came. Breach of the peace. They spent about thirty-two hours in jail and were fined a hundred dollars each.
The next day students at Jackson State held a prayer vigil for them and police broke it up with dogs and clubs.
This is called the Jackson Read-In, and it is the first direct action of the Mississippi movement — before the Freedom Rides reached the state, before Medgar Evers's murder, before Freedom Summer. Nine students decided the opening move of the Mississippi civil rights movement would be requesting a book.
The choice of target was not sentimental. A library is the purest possible demonstration. Nobody can argue that a library is about private property, or cleanliness, or protecting white women. It is a building full of public knowledge, paid for by everybody's taxes, that Black citizens were not allowed to enter.
All nine finished their degrees. Several became teachers and professors. In 2011 Mississippi honoured them, fifty years on, in the state that had jailed them.
The Jackson library is desegregated. One of the branches is named after Medgar Evers.
Nine young people in good clothes, asking for a book.
Dear Uninformed Steve Kerr Apologist,
The Lakers offered Jonathan Kuminga a 3 year, $36 million contract. Interest was plentiful around the association. Utter ignorance pretending JK has no value.
Try out @GoldenDazePod if you want to stop espousing ignorance.
7+ minutes in and the Valkyries are still scoreless.
The Dream have only scored 6, but at least they’re on the board.
Another game so far where points are hard to come by.
@Mikeyviews3 Egypt been splitting this country up for over 400 years. They are the goat… they bouta have Sudan claim the dam and reinstate the colonial agreement of Nile water usage with Sudan only.
Golden State has started exploring trade routes for Kristaps Porzingis, who is now seriously contemplating his future in basketball as he deals with recurring symptoms from the autoimmune condition termed as POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), sources tell ESPN.
🛑A 23-year-old Italian man erupts in anger on the streets of Milan after days of violent riots, looting and destruction.
In an emotional speech, he condemns those wreaking havoc in his city, speaks of the generations of his family who helped build it, and lashes out at political leaders for failing to act.
He fears for his family’s safety and calls on citizens to reclaim their streets.
He’s just 23 years old. He wants a future in the city he calls home, not a city consumed by violence and fear.
His anger speaks volumes. Listen to him.
Video: N12 News