A very good app for people living in domestic violence situations
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collectiveray.aspire
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Vilet's Diary Continued
June 14, 1859 Tonight Solomon and Gorgia jumped ovah the broomstick. Now theys man an wife. It be a good thing when two peeples is in love and they promis to watch ova one another. But when Negroes gets wed, they no it aint real. They do it so they has somebody, but they no that a white man can seprate them at any time and fo no reason. This is what happen to me an my husbin Josef. I did love Josef. He was kine to me and kine to our baby. Josef was a free man. They was a law in Virginia that sed he had to leave o go into slavery. It nevuh was a queston to us if Josef wud stay here as a slave. I cud lose him as much as a slave as I did wid him a free man. We node he had to go. October 22, 1859 At our church services they was talk bout that John Brown man who was livin in Maryland. Seems he been takin by the soljers. They say that last week he tried to take some guns from a place called Hoppers Ferry. Dis was a white man figtin for us Negroes! They say his own sons
Throw It Away!
How many of us remember this comment, or something similar? Finish all of that food on your plate. There are kids starving all over the world. I heard it a few times. If you are of my generation (born in the 60’s), your parents grew up in the post-depression era. They grew up hearing about the bread lines and the Hoovervilles, the children who didn’t go to school but worked just in order to put food in their bellies. And many of us in my generation were heirs to the seemingly-stingy upbringing. I remember my mother telling me that money doesn’t grow on trees when I so badly wanted a pair of Jordache or Sassoon jeans. And in the 80’s, people were so comfortable. Fittingly, those years became known as the Me Decade. Our culture coined new terms to name the financial creatures that evolved at that time. Among them: Yuppies (young upwardly-mobile professionals) and Dinks (double income / no kids). Now, fourteen years into the new millennium, things are different.