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Three miserable rappers in Atlanta have also shown themselves to be miserable human beings. Joey Garron, 28, Robert Johnson, 23 and Ketorie Glover, 23, apparently thought they had mad skills when it came to freestyle rap. However, over the weekend at a house party they met their match in a 36-year-old black female rapper. During the freestyle battle she matched all three men, rhyme per rhyme, topping them each time. Finally, after the last exchange the three sore losers could take no more. One of the men pulled out a gun and forced her into a car. The other two...

The Reverend Jesse Jackson said presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill) is failing to connect with African-American voters because he appears “too white.” “We can forgive the fact that he has a white mother,” Jackson said. “But he cannot forget his Black brother. Many African-Americans are part white, so that is not his plight. It’s his behavior that’s the crime. For starters, his sentences don’t rhyme. How does he expect to communicate if he doesn’t harmonically pontificate?” Jackson also criticized Obama’s lack of interest in the travails of O.J. Simpson. “When an all-American hero is persecuted by police merely because...