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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 2164
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 08:04 pm: | 
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Two Unrepentant About Selling Katrina Gift
By WOODY BAIRD
Associated Press Writer
AP Photo/GREG CAMPBELL
Jean Phillips, realtor and member of the Church of God in Christ, stands in
front of a home in Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006. The home had
been donated to a New Orleans family displaced by Hurricane Katrina, but
the family never moved into the home and soon sold it without the church's
approval. Now Phillips can't locate the family.
(AP Photo/Greg Campbell)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A church that wanted to do something special for Hurricane Katrina victims gave a $75,000 house, free and clear, to a couple who said they were left homeless by the storm. But the couple turned around and sold the place without ever moving in, and went back to New Orleans.
"Take it up with God," an unrepentant Joshua Thompson told a TV reporter after it was learned that he and the woman he identified as his wife had flipped the home for $88,000.
Church members said they feel their generosity was abused by scam artists. They are no longer even sure that the couple were left homeless by Katrina or that they were a couple at all.
"They came in humble like they really needed a new start, and our hearts went out to them," said Jean Phillips, a real estate agent and member of the Temple of Deliverance Church of God in Christ. "They actually begged for the home."
The church was also shocked by an ungrateful interview the couple gave with WHBQ-TV in Memphis.
"I really don't like this area," said Delores Thompson. "I really didn't, and I didn't know anybody, so that's why I didn't move in and I sold it."
Thompson, reached at a New Orleans phone number by The Associated Press on Tuesday, thanked the church for its generosity but said she saw nothing wrong in selling the three-bedroom, two-bath house.
"Do I have any legal problems? What do you mean? The house was given to me," she said. "I have the paperwork and everything."
She refused further comment and hung up.
The church had decided that it would do something special for one Katrina-displaced family, in addition to its other efforts to help evacuees. The church set up a committee to find the right family and conducted several dozen interviews.
Delores Thompson, who did most of the talking for her family, told the committee that she had lost her job as a nurse and that her husband had lost an import-export business in New Orleans, committee member Joy Covington said.
The committee also heard how the family had lost its home and most of its possessions and how the children, a 14-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy, were eager to get back in school. The family said it wanted to resettle in Memphis.
After the church settled on Thompson, real estate agent Phillips helped her pick out the house she wanted, and it was bought in Thompson's name. She took possession in February and sold it in September. Property transfer records for the resale list her as unmarried; the papers from the original sale list her as married.
"I feel like it was a sham or a ripoff," Covington said.
The church hasn't discussed legal action, but the members are upset because the house could have gone to a more needy family, Covington said.
Thompson claimed she and her family were living in an apartment supplied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but did not invite Phillips over during the house search.
"She didn't want me coming over there," Phillips said. "She'd say, `I'll meet you.'"
Covington's husband, Edward, said the family had been listed by FEMA as displaced. But he said the church took Thompson's word for it that their house was destroyed. |
Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1538
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 10:45 pm: |
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Probably scammers. A lot of scam artists took advantage of people here, too......but I'm more interested in this house that only cost 75,000........DAMN! |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 6806
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 08:49 am: |
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Renata,
Builder/developer probably cut the church a deal for the same reason the church donated it to the Katrina survivor: Being charitable.
Neither of them will likely do THAT shyt again. |
Renata
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Post Number: 1541
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 11:12 am: |
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That makes sense, I never thought of that. |
Renata
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Post Number: 1542
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 11:13 am: |
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I hope they end up having to pay over 700 in rent for the rest of their lives. Dumb asses.....even if you ARE a scam artist, a FREE house is something you hold on to as a blessing! |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 3007
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 11:34 am: |
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I wish that people would get as excited about the billions that Haliburton is scamming the government for, but apparently when people run out of fingers and toes they lose all their objections to somebody taking tax money--as well as rich white men taking them for a ride.
This church ain't gonna be out a dime. They can not only write it all off, but will probably get all kinds of donations to cover it.
Typical Negro nitpicking sh*t. |
Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 11:37 am: |
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Oh, I didn't see that Mzuri posted it.
God how do you stand waking up every morning knowing you're black. It kills you doesn't it?
Well, we can't do anything about it.
And you're supposed to be a Christian. God made you black. Isn't it blasphemous trying to second guess Him? |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 6813
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 12:35 pm: |
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Chris,
So because Haliburton gets away with scamming, everyone else should be allowed to? WTF kinda rationale is THAT?
And what about how word of what these scheming mofos have done will disuade others from helping those in need?
I wish the church would sue their a$$es for ALL the money those mofos received from the sell of the house. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 3016
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 12:43 pm: |
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What I'm saying is I don't see nobody getting excited about that. I don't see no posts about that just this. That's what I'm saying. The small fry. This is BS. I ain't concerned with this. I don't give a damn. The church ain't gone broke. Nobody made millions.
Troy you want to know why we ain't up in the Fortune 500 it's because we are some piddling, nickle and dime Mzuriheads!
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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 2174
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 12:57 pm: |
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Well, CH the joke's on you because I'm a hell of a lot closer to the Fortune 500's than your stupid ass will ever be. LOLOLOL!!! |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 6816
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 01:00 pm: |
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Chris,
I KNOW I've mentioned the scamming that Haliburton has gotten away with on this site. But I would agree that most foks seems to ignore it.
My issue is not the housing scam per se. It's that it involves scamming foks who're are giving out of the goodness of their heart to help those in need. BLACK foks in particular can NOT afford further erosion of (the SCANT) goodwill amongst us. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 5826
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 24, 2006 - 02:53 pm: |
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"Stupid ass" is right, Mzuri! chrishayden fancies himself the champion of the "underdog". He defends people like OJ and Kanye and scam artists, but bad mouths people like Bill Cosby and Juan Williams and Stanley Crouch. He can't stand for black folks to criticize or explose other black folks; that's a privilege he reserves for himself, belittling and labling as a "negro" those who don't see things his way. Hope this turkey got stuffed for Thanksgiving.  |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 2184
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 24, 2006 - 04:10 pm: |
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Well one thing's for sure - CH's rants are gradually going down hill. It used to be a time when his posts were halfway thought provoking and now they're just half-assed.  |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1158
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 24, 2006 - 04:15 pm: |
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”I wish that people would get as excited about the billions that Halliburton is scamming the government for, but apparently when people…………….”
They do get excited about it. In fact I was talking to a young law school grad last night who just passed the Cal bar exam and she was livid about it. The friend I was with at the time bonded with her on the spot for her excoriating Halliburton and the master of chicanery who happens to be the Vice President. Sorry bro, but plenty of people find what Halliburton is doing to be repulsive.
”This church ain't gonna be out a dime. They can not only write it all off, but will probably get all kinds of donations to cover it. “
Doesn’t matter. What that couple did is unforgivable. Like ABM suggested, I’m hoping they seek legal action against these con artists. There is no excuse nor justification for the level of betrayal and criminality of these Negro grifters.
”Typical Negro nitpicking sh*t.”
Really? Coning a church out of their attempts at sincere good will is chicken sh*t? Criticizing these con artists is chicken sh*t? What else is ok with you? Crack dealing? Child porn? Rape? Armed robbery? Car jacking? Details please……
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