Black Political Thought

Icon

Just another WordPress.com weblog

Actor Morgan Freeman Being Sued by Demaris Meyer, the Woman in the Car with Him in Car Accident

I am a big fan of Morgan Freeman and I was very disappointed to learn that he may have been stepping out on his wife with Demaris Meyer, her one-time friend. Well, it seems like Ms. Meyer is seeing dollar signs everywhere because she has sued the actor. Yup, my late grandmother always said if you lay down with dogs you will get up with fleas. Yeah, Morgan did just that.

As you recall, Demaris Meyer was the woman riding in the car with the actor in the wee hours of the morning when he crashed. She is telling the press that he had been drinking a lot that night. Naturally that begs the question of why did she get in the car with him knowing that he had been drinking and what could possibly have happened. Geez, why didn’t she offer to drive the actor? She’s suing Morgan for medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost wages, permanent disability for short-term memory loss and damages. Oh, and short-term memory loss. Yeah, the same short-term memory loss she had when she forgot Morgan Freeman was married.

She said that she isn’t his mistress, but what was she doing in the car with a married man in the wee hours of the morning, if something funny wasn’t about to jump off. Meyer told reporters at a news conference Wednesday that when she met him that night at dinner, she saw that “throughout the course of dinner and afterward drinks were consumed by Freeman.”

She said that she later met up with him at a friend’s home, where he “had at least one more drink.” She says it was only after being offered a place to stay — at his home, or rather, the guest house — that she got in the car with him. Haven’t we heard that tired story before? Please, the woman doesn’t deserve one penny. To echo the words of Kanye West — she ain’t nothing but a gold digger and a wannabe homewrecker!

Filed under: Demaris Meyer, Drunk Driving, Lawsuit, Morgan Freeman, Short-Term Memory Loss

Robert Redding Jr. Takes Offense to Blacks Coming Up Empty-Handed at the 81st Oscar Awards

Photo: Viola Davis, Oscar Nominee

I am all for equality and justice for all, but it seems that a sense of entitlement among my fellow African Americans is rearing its head again, especially since President Barack Obama became the first African American president of the United States. Now Robert “Rob” Redding Jr, President of Redding News Review and Redding Communications Inc., has a big problem with blacks coming up empty-handed at the recent Oscar Awards. Yep, entitlement rearing its head once again.

Blacks were snubbed in major categories at last night’s 81st Academy Awards. Although two blacks were nominated to win on Hollywood’s big night in the Best Supporting Actress category – Viola Davis of “Doubt” and Taraji P. Henson of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” – neither won an Oscar. Penelope Cruz beat both Henson and Davis to become the first Spanish-born actress to win an Oscar for her role in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” Blacks were not nominated for best actor, actress, director, or movie.

What’s more, “Trouble the Water,” a film made and produced by blacks during the Hurricane Katrina, also failed to win in the Best Documentary Feature category “Man on Wire,” a movie about tightrope walking won. Source: Redding News Review.

Come on people, there are more important things for us to worry about than to bicker about blacks coming up empty-handed at the Oscar Awards. There are real racist attacks being made against blacks everyday in this country, including the low blow the New York Post and Sean Delonas took against President Obama, for us to get in the muck over the Oscar Awards. Mr. Redding, you provide a valuable service, one that I have used to find news stories for my blog, but I am really disappointed that you engage in this spirit of entitlement that has dogged so many blacks in this country. Didn’t Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morgan Freeman, among others win big at the Oscars? This is much ado about nothing.

Filed under: Brad Pitt, Entitlement, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, Oscar Awards, Penelope Cruz, Robert Redding Jr., Slumdog Millionaire, Spike Lee, Taraji P. Henson, Viola Davis