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Lafayette French Bakery, a pastry shop in New York’s Greenwich Village, started selling “Drunken Negro Face” cookies on Martin Luther King Day in ‘honor’ of President Obama.

One customer told My Fox NY that store owner Ted Kefalinos said to her, “Would you like some drunken negro heads to go with your coffee? They’re in honor of our new president. He’s following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln; he will get his.”

Kefalinos spoke with Gothamist, and denied suggesting that Obama would be assassinated. However, he saw nothing wrong with the cookies themselves.

Later, he apologized to the New York Daily News.

“I’m sorry that people were offended by the cookie. We were just trying to make a large number of people happy, and instead we made a large number of people confused and angry.”

In a followup interview with My Fox NY, Kefalinos said he had been getting death threats over the cookies. Watch:

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***UPDATE***
It appears that this racist pig has had so many threats from people that his phone is ringing off the hook. Instead of that arogant smirk he had in the previous clip, he now has a look of fear on his face because he knows his much beloved bakery will be out of buisness within in month. See this is why I love New Yorkers. They do not fu*k around. I love being liberal, I love NYC, and I love my white brothers and sisters who live there who always keeps it real!

Watch this sorry sack of dough attempt a real apology this time.

“Red Hook High” may be the antidote to all that. Instead of stick-thin blondes toting $3,500 Hermes bags, there are black boys toting bags of drugs. Instead of postcard-perfect mansions and cityscapes, there are cramped apartments and construction zones. Part drama, part documentary, “Red Hook High,” a new pilot that premiered at the New York Television Festival (NYTVF) this week, shows a high school experience few network and cable series touch on, one that unfolds in a gritty Brooklyn community among teens with the odds stacked against them. Forget prom queens and valedictorians. “Red Hook High’s” stars include a budding drug dealer, an emerging gay crusader and a possibly pregnant teen.

“It’s the opposite of ‘Gossip Girl,’” said director Trac Minh Vu. “It’s not a glossy Hollywood fashion show. There are probably people who actually live lives like what is portrayed on ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘The OC.’ But they’re fantasy shows. They’re about showcasing high fashion and the small population of people who can live like that.”

“But my own high school experience is not at all reflected in the current crop of teen dramas,” he continued. “Part of this is trying to show that the teen experience is far wider than what’s portrayed on TV, especially for kids of color.” Vu came to the United State from Vietnam at age 2. By day, he’s a video producer for an investment bank. Nights and weekends, he works on independent projects: Last year, his teen drama about the Upper East Side’s wannabe Ivy Leaguers, “Dear Harvard,” picked up three major awards from the NYTVF, which showcases independent pilots (those not backed by an established studio).

This year, Vu channeled his experience as a nonwhite student in an Oregon Catholic school, his time working as a teaching artist at South Brooklyn Community High Schoo and his affinity for classic coming-of-age dramas like “My So Called Life,” “Dawson’s Creek” and “Felicity,” into a pilot portraying teen life on the other side of the East River.

Beyond a basic story outline, Vu left the dialogue and development of “Red Hook High” up to his actors, students from Brooklyn high schools with an interest in performing arts. They rehearsed over the course of seven weeks and shot the pilot in four days, on a sub-$20,000 budget financed out of Vu’s pocket, pennies compared to the average $3 million budget networks allot for pilot production. For many of the stars, their story lines mirrored their real-life drama.

“They told us to write down what kind of characters we wanted to be. I said, I just want to be gay because it’s just going to be like, stupid if I’m trying to be straight,” said Michael Maldonado, who’s openly gay and plays a teen coming to terms with his homosexuality.

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As with his last design, he explains that he’s “selling an idea” that will one day hang “in the greatest museums and galleries in the city.” He also wants you all to know how he really feels about Obama, in case it wasn’t clear…click HERE to see the whole story…..

The Apollo Braun is scary enough, but this guy needs lots of therapy

It is a fairly common crime in New York. But this was no common criminal.

Johnson has been arrested a staggering 53 times — the majority for allegedly groping women on subway trains.

In his latest arrest, Johnson was being followed by plainclothes officers who recognized him from police photos. He was charged with persistent sexual abuse, and if convicted this time he could be sent away for life.

But the fact that Johnson was roaming the subways in the first place has raised questions about how the state deals with the problem of repeat sex offenders. His case even drew the scorn of a recent newspaper editorial that labeled him the “Subway Rat.”

His attorney, Afsi Khot, had no comment on the case.

Johnson, 49, has been convicted at least twice of persistent sexual abuse within the last decade. And he has a lengthy rap sheet, with 30 arrests on charges of sex abuse, 13 on jostling accusations and two grand larceny charges.

Prosecutors say they aren’t sure whether Johnson chose his subway targets before boarding trains, or if he would randomly pick out a woman after he was on a train. In his latest arrest, the undercover transit officers said it appeared that he chose the woman at random, district attorney’s spokeswoman Jennifer Kushner said Monday.

In a jail interview with the Daily News of New York, Johnson said he never touched that woman. However, prosecutors have he was carrying a messenger bag over the front of his torso, slid it to the back to illegally rub up against the woman, and then moved the bag back to the front to avoid being caught.

He was released from prison March 25 after serving four years for persistent sexual abuse. The state attorney general’s office had argued that he should be confined under the state’s civil commitment law for sex offenders, which went into effect last year, because he was at risk for repeat offenses.

A judge disagreed and instead placed Johnson on strict court-ordered supervision and electronic monitoring. Under the mental health laws governing his situation, officials generally can’t comment on details of his supervision.

Whether he should have been confined speaks to a larger issue about what authorities should do with criminals who aren’t violent offenders.

Gropers often avoid prosecution because they usually strike in crowded public places so they can easily escape. It is believed around half are repeat offenders, among the highest of all the sex-related crimes, but there isn’t much crossover into more egregious acts like rape or assault, said Elizabeth Jeglic, a professor of treatment and rehabilitation of offenders at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

“The behavior is disturbing, there is no question,” Jeglic said. “But in the larger scheme you want to commit the people who are grabbing kids off the street, or the rapist in Central Park,” Jeglic said.

Johnson was quoted as telling the Daily News that plenty of men try to grope women on subways, and admitted he’s been doing it for more than 25 years since he saw another man rub against a woman on a train and dash away unpunished.

The goal of the state’s Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act that went into effect last April is to protect society by keeping the most dangerous sex offenders off the streets, and provide long-term specialized treatment to see that they don’t repeat their crimes. To qualify, a criminal must have a “mental abnormality,” and be “predisposed” to repeat the offense, prosecutors said.

Out of 1,299 sex offenders initially referred to the program in New York, 163 have been recommended for civil commitment under the law, according to a report earlier this year by the state Office of Mental Health. Under the program, sex offenders are committed, treated, monitored and eventually discharged.

While it’s painful for the victim no matter the crime, the system doesn’t have room to deal with all offenders.

Currently, 10 percent of sex abuse cases are referred as possibilities for the program, on par with other states that have similar laws, the health department report said. It costs more than $100,000 per person per year to confine them. And there is currently bed space for 181 offenders at three facilities around the state. The development of 150 beds is under way, but it’s obvious there will be shortfalls unless long-term projects are developed. Only 5 percent of those committed to the 19 other state programs in the country have been released.

But Johnson may end up behind bars for good if he’s convicted in the latest incident, because prosecutors say they will push for more serious punishment given his rap sheet. That means he could get up to life in prison.

A survey released last summer by the Manhattan borough president’s office on sexual harassment in the subways found that 63 percent of those responding reported they were harassed in some way, whether it was random groping, lewd comments or unwanted advances. The report was compiled from 1,790 responses collected from New York City straphangers in all five boroughs.

 I feel bad for this moron’s mother. What a freaking mess he is!!–Stacy Dee