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It is time for a dispatch from your Wonkette's Memphis Outpost, because we have a new hometown Best Mom Ever to tell you about. It seems that Jacqueline Alexander was quite unhappy with how "feminine" and "gay" her son is, so she decided to assault him :. According to police, Alexander punched her son in the face around 11 p. Tuesday at their home on Mt. Moriah Road. I mean that's her flesh and blood, her son," said neighbor Tamika Heard. And now she has to appear in court to face these charges, and GOOD, she should go to jail.

As a longtime Memphian, we are both Not Surprised that this happened, and also not at all surprised that the neighbors are like "WTF dude, he is your KID, that is not how parenting works?

It's just that all of the terribles get much more press, because they're loud and stupid. It's unclear how old the kid is, but unfortunately, this kind of stuff is way too prevalent, even in All right.

Also interviewed for the report above is Will Batts, director of the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center, who, full disclosure, is one of your Wonkette's pals. According to Will:. We are in this very weird place right now for LGBT acceptance pronounced "lugbutt" and equality. Yes, there are now thirty-seven states where marriage is legal, and over half the country generally accepts the gays, at least in the abstract. But as the pro-gay side is winning all the prizes, the anti-gay side is getting more extreme, more hateful, digging their little bigot heels into the ground.

So we have a situation where you can have two gay kids, lets call them Brandon and Derek, who live next door to each other, but whose lives are completely different. Brandon's parents are cool and fun, and they've always had gay friends, and they knew Brandon was gay before HE did.

Brandon comes out at 15, gets to grow up basically as a normal teenager. Derek's parents, on the other hand, are fundamentalist Christian assholes. Derek hides his gayness as best as he can, misses out on a normal adolescence, and when he's finally caught with his boyfriend his senior year of high school, his parents disown him and kick him out on the street, but first they rough him up a bit for being such a queer.

Derek also has to recover from years of shame and spiritual abuse due to his parents' chosen fundamentalist lifestyle, whereas Brandon is pretty emotionally healthy, for a dumb teenager. Also, LGBT youth are four times more likely to try to commit suicide than their straight counterparts. What is the disconnect? Oh yeah, terrible families, lack of societal support for kids who are different, etc. It may look, to the untrained eye, like things are on the road to getting nice and peachy for the LGBT community, and maybe one day, that will be fully true.

Trivia The car Dwight Hendricks drives in the series is a Pontiac GTO, the car shown in the opening with Charlie "Whitehead" White getting out of the driver side is a Chevrolet Chevelle with an SS hood but with a small block emblem on the front fender.

It's Me - Your Loanshark User reviews 7 Review. Top review. If Beale Street could talk, Beale Street would walk. The primary stars are a pair of detectives Jason Lee and Sam Hennings and it's Lee who the focus is on. Lee is one cop who's not just about law and order.

The man has an abiding interest in the blues and jazz culture of Memphis shared by his mother played by Celia Weston. She also gives her input on cases and with some pretty good instinct.

If this show catches on and becomes a hit and I hope it does it will eventually develop like In The Heat Of The Night where we got to know the entire community of Sparta, Mississippi. Especially its police department, but not just that. And that is a trend that goes back to Gunsmoke where over 20 years a cast of recurring regulars who never got billing as cast members, but showed up every few episodes like the town banker or the owner of the livery stable. Memphis Beat if done right can have that same kind of familiarity.

I do love Alfre Woodard who admittedly is borrowing a great deal from S. Eptha Merkersson from Law And Order in her role as the head of the detective squad. But Woodard is bringing a certain southern charm that's all her own here. Memphis hasn't done so well since Tom Cruise settled down to practice law there.

FAQ 1. Who does the singing for Jason Lee? Details Edit. Release date June 22, United States. United States. Official site. Delta Blues. Smokehouse Pictures Warner Horizon Television. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 43min.

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