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Ford Fury
Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. fired at media members last week in the ongoing saga of “That Time Someone Stood Behind Him.” Google “Ford and Katherine Burgess” for the full story.
In a Facebook post, Ford said he was right and everyone else was wrong, whined that news stories about him since 2007 have all been false, said media outlets have “emotional problems,” called Burgess a “Karen,” said Black journalism leaders in Memphis — Mark Russell (executive editor at The Commercial Appeal), Otis Sanford (longtime Memphis columnist), and Wendi Thomas (founder and publisher of MLK50) — “still have that slave mentality” and that “it is their duty to defend white privilege and to put productive Black people ‘in their place.’”
Ja and the Jersey
Posted to Twitter by @KingJaffe617
Ja Morant lit up the MEMernet last week after staring down a kid in a Golden State Warriors jersey. He joked about the scene and apologized to the kid but said, “We in Memphis. He looked like he wanted to cheer, but he had that jersey on.”
Buried the Lede
The Memphis Police Department (MPD) Facebooked news last week that a gun had been stolen from a car. It took them a few hundred words and three paragraphs to reveal the gun belonged to MPD’s new chief, Cerelyn Davis.
