Essay 190

The Friday Evening News with MultiCultClassics Minutes…

• Victor Edward Willis, aka the Village People cop, is wanted by the real police. Willis failed to appear for sentencing in a drug case stemming from a July 11 arrest, when officers found a gun and crack cocaine in his car. Now the Macho Man is the Invisible Man. Or maybe he enlisted In The Navy.

• Gordon Lee, aka Porky from the Little Rascals, is dead at age 71. Former Little Rascal Robert Blake denied any involvement with Lee’s death.

• NBA legend Charles Barkley is okay with the league’s new dress code. While conceding its racial overtones, Barkley believes it will ultimately send a positive message. “If a well-dressed White kid and a Black kid wearing a do-rag and throwback jersey came to me in a job interview, I’d hire the White kid,” Barkley said. “That’s reality. That’s the No. 1 reason I support the dress code.”

• Star Wars creator George Lucas donated $1 million for a Washington memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. However, Lucas probably thinks any statue should be cast to resemble Lando Calrissian.

• Dasun Allah, editor of The Source magazine, did some freelance writing. Actually, he tagged a Jehovah’s Witness assembly hall in Harlem. The graffiti included numbers, symbols and crazy hieroglyphics. Allah probably just wanted to remind them to renew their subscription.