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Pool Boots Kids Who Might "Change the Complexion"
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Kids at Creative Steps Day Camp were thrilled to go swimming once a week at the Valley Swim Club. But after only one trip to the private club, they were...
"I heard this lady, she was like, 'Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?' She's like, 'I'm scared they might do something to my child,'" said camper Dymire Baylor.
The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club. The Valley Swim Club is a private club that advertises open membership. But the campers' first visit to the pool suggested otherwise. "When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool," Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote in an email. "The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately." The next day the club told the camp director that the camp's membership was being suspended and their money would be refunded. "I said, 'The parents don't want the refund. They want a place for their children to swim,'" camp director Aetha Wright said. Campers remain unsure why they're no longer welcome. "They just kicked us out. And we were about to go. Had our swim things and everything," said camper Simer Burwell. The explanation they got was either dishearteningly honest or poorly worded. "There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club," John Duesler, President of The Valley Swim Club said in a statement.
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R.I.P Dolla
Born:Roderick Anthony Burton II Job:Rapper/Model HomeTown:Chicago "Los Angeles police questioned a man Tuesday in connection with the slaying of Atlanta rapper Dolla, who was shot Monday outside a popular Beverly Hills mall. Dolla, born Roderick Anthony Burton II, was gunned down while waiting in the valet area of the Beverly Center, said publicist Sue Vannasing. The Los Angeles Times reported he was shot in the head. He was accompanied by another local rapper, D.J. Shabbazz, and a fellow Jive Recording artist, Scrapp DeLeon. No arrests were made, but police were questioning a man found hours later with a gun in the ticketing area of the Los Angeles International Airport, the Associated Press reported. Police said the man remained in custody early Tuesday for questioning. He is believed to have dropped off a rental car before he was found at the airport with a handgun, airport police spokesman Sgt. Jim Holcomb told the AP. “As the officers approached the suspect, they asked him ‘Do you know why we’re here?’” Holcomb told AP. “He put his (hands) up in the air and said, ‘Yes, I’ve got a gun in my waistband. Don’t shoot me.’” Police recovered a loaded 9mm semiautomatic handgun and turned the man over to Los Angeles police. The celebrity Web site tmz.com identified the man as Aubery Berry. An Aubery Berry was booked into Los Angeles County Jail early Tuesday morning. Berry, 23, was being held on unspecified charges on $1 million bail. Los Angeles Police spokeswoman Karen Rayner said two other “persons of interest” — one male, one female — who were with the man at the airport were being questioned but neither has been charged in connection with the shooting. They were detained before attempting to board a plane out of Los Angeles International Airport, about 10 miles away from the Beverly Center. Vannasing said Dolla, 21, was involved in an altercation before the shooting with an unidentified man and woman who followed him to the mall. Dolla had just arrived in Los Angeles earlier Monday, his publicist said. He was recording his first album, “Another Day, Another Dolla,” which was due to be released on Akon’s Konvict Muzik label. “He had a very promising career,” Vannasing said. “He was being hyped as the next Tupac [Shakur]. He chose music to get off the streets.” Burton was born in Chicago in 1988, according the Times, and moved with his family to Los Angeles. Burton moved to Atlanta when he was five after his father shot himself in front of the rapper and his sister. “He was the man of the house,” Vannasing said. His mother, Joyce Burton, still resides in Atlanta, where Dolla’s funeral will be held, Vannasing said. News of the murder spread rapidly on Twitter where, ironically, the rapper had just opened an account earlier in the day. According to his official MySpace page, Burton began performing in local showcases at age 12 with his group, Da Razkals Cru. He was signed to Elektra Records in 2001, his site says. The label eventually dissolved and the group split in 2003, when Dolla said he returned to Atlanta to focus on a solo career. “I was disappointed but all that made me do was work harder,” he said. “It was a stepping stone.” He soon signed with Jive, where, collaborating with former Elektra acquaintance, Akon, released his first single “Who The [expletive] Is That?” featuring T-Pain. “My music is universal,” Dolla said on his Web site. “I can do street music or pop music. But whatever I do, I attempt to make meaningful songs with substance.”
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