Kobe Braynt Honored With the 2020 Championship Rings

The L.A. Lakers decide to honor Kobe Bryant with the 2020 championship rings. Which are said to include 2 sentimental tributes to the late legend in the design. This comes  shortly after LeBron James, Anthony Davis and the rest of the returning squad of the 2019-20 received their rings right before the start of the season opener against the L.A. Clippers. 

Details​

• ​​The rings are made of ​804 stones, ​16.45 carats, ​​nods to the Orlando bubble, the league's social justice movement, regular-season wins and more.
• ​​The design includes homage paid to the Five-time champion; ​The first tribute is a snake wrapped around each player's jersey number on the side of the ring ... ​

​Which reps Kobe's "Black Mamba" moniker and mentality.

• ​​​​​​A detachable top, revealing each retired number in the franchise;With Bryant's #8 and #24 in the team's Black Mamba jerseys worn during their title run.
• ​​​Then LeBron's actual handwriting inscribing the team's motto, "Leave a Legacy," on one side.

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This was made by Jason of Beverly Hills who told ESPN that it only took him 4 weeks to complete, which was due to the shortened off season.

Rest In Peace, Mamba. Your legacy lives on.

Jessie J Goes Completely Deaf On Christmas Eve.

 

Jessica Ellen Cornish better know by her stage Jessie J apparently spent her Christmas Eve in hospital, completely deaf. The singer shared a video of herself singing, in good spirits on Saturday. This was 2 days before, she revealed that she was apparently hospitalized and diagnosed with Meniere's disease, on an Instagram video post. This is a condition of the inner ear that can actually cause vertigo, which  unfortunately made her, somewhat deaf and unable to walk properly.

Jessie, at the time explained,
“I woke up and felt like I was completely deaf in my right ear, couldn’t walk in a straight line”

“Basically I got told I had Meniere's syndrome.”

She went ahead to say,
“I know that a lot of people suffer from it and I’ve actually had a lot of people reach out to me and give me great advice, so I’ve just been laying low in silence...."

Again indicating that,
"Now’s the first time I’ve been able to sing and bear it. I just miss singing so much and being around anyone."

The singer continued,
“It could be way worse, it is what it is. I’m super grateful for my health. It just threw me off. On Christmas Eve I was in the ear hospital going, ‘What is going on?’ But I’m glad I went early and they worked out what it was real quick and I got put on the right medicine, so I feel a lot better today.”

Having being, I have to confess, a big fan of her music -my favorite album being 'Who You Are"- I sure do wish her a quick full recovery.

What's your favorite track by Jessie?

Helen Keller's Life Time Achievements Deserves To Be Respected.

 Helen Keller, An Underrated Deaf and Blind Heroin

So apparently there seem to be a smear campaign against Helen Keller based on her white privilege. But then, an organization named after her thinks this is a misguided view of her history, and wants to change the conversation.
Sue Pilkilton, director of the Helen Keller Birthplace Museum in Tuscumbia, spoke up saying focusing on Helen's race is just wrong, considering her life time achievements, and all the good she did for others.

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Sue went on to clarify that, Keller's legacy is tied to activism, education and breaking barriers for hearing and sight-impaired people of all races, genders and status -- and all the chatter about white privilege detracts from her life's work.
This was sparked by remarks by Anita Cameron, an advocate of The point Black disability rights, made over the weekend. When Anita remarked, according to TMZ, "..Helen was likely patched through to the right people as a result of being white ... whether she knew it or not..."
This got folks speculating how Helen was wealthy and/or how she came from a rich family...riches amassed from a cotton plantation thanks to slaves her father is recorded to have owned...which according to trolls, somehow compromises her, Helen's, great works and awesome legacy.
Sentiments that got Sue explaining how despite the fact that indeed her family did receive an income from a cotton plantation,"...they were far from aristocrats or big ballers.." Which, in my humble opinion, I think she shouldn't have had to.

Anyway here's what I think, Helen Keller's life time achievements is clear prove that she, for Heroin earned each on every award, title and even more deserves to be respected. Helen certainly refirmed that disability was, and surely is, NOT inability. And that infact totally overshadows her skin's colour and its speculated trivial previledges, period.