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"So. She came to this country and lollygagged and had two precious babies and all the while studied for her LPN and won. First to Maimon Ides, then to Brooklyn Methodist, and finally to Jamaica Hospital the mother learned the ropes in all the right places. She learned that hospital people favored white faces most of all, in second place Chinese, third place Puerto Rican. She learned that janitors would yak your ear off about the way Indian doctors talked, like it was pretend English.

The Dominican cashier in the gift shop bragged that her family had come from Spain, the conquistadors, just look at the shape of her own noble face. The Trinidadian phlebotomists said Spain was nothing but a dumping ground compared to the West Indies. The mother listened and learned. Secrets being that every nurse dreamt of houses, though the Jamaican ones usually got no further than Laurelton or else redeployed toward Valley Stream.

The Chinese nurses made a beeline to Huntington Station on Long Island. The Catholic nurses headed even farther out, to Babylon, where the breezes of the Great South Bay dampened their uniforms. Where was someone like her to go? The Black/white/Black LPN whose eyes had once been compared by the original father to stones in a river?"
-Excerpt from Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell
#booksmatter #thefreeblackwomenslibrary #currentlyreading #dearmissmetropolitan #carolynferrell #fulltimemommy #parttimebookworm 📚🐛

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Watching folks drink Henny and eat McDonald's in #2021 🥃🍟

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Look who popped in to drop off some Heeling Soles!
Big shouts to @mizshazo for the support!!

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Real talk meets real food. #gratefulplateful

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"The biggest gift! Tha BIGGIESSSST!" 🎁

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That time it was #tacotuesday in Texas. 'Cept it wasn't Tuesday.
#thegoodness

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Under Woodrow Wilson, the United States intervened in Latin America more often than at any other time in our history. We landed troops in Mexico in 1914, Haiti in 1915, the Dominican Republic in 1916, Mexico again in 1916 (and nine more times before the end of Wilson's presidency), Cuba in 1917, and Panama in 1918. Throughout his administration Wilson maintained forces in Nicaragua, using them to determine Nicaragua's president and to force passage of a treaty preferential to the United States.

During the first two decades of this century, the United States effectively made colonies of Nicaragua, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and several other countries. Wilson's reaction to the Russian Revolution solidified the alignment of the United States with Europe's colonial powers. His was the first administration to be obsessed with the specter of communism, abroad and at home. Wilson was blunt about it. In Billings, Montana, stumping the West to seek support for the League of Nations, he warned, "There are apostles of Lenin in our own midst. I can not imagine what it means to be an apostle of Lenin. It means to be an apostle of the night, of chaos, of disorder." Even after the White Russian alternative collapsed, Wilson refused to extend diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union. He participated in barring Russia from the peace negotiations after World War I and helped oust Béla Kun, the communist leader who had risen to power in Hungary. Wilson's sentiment for self-determination and democracy never had a chance against his three bedrock "ism"s: colonialism, racism, and anticommunism. A young Ho Chi Minh appealed to Woodrow Wilson at Versailles for self-determination for Vietnam, but Ho had all three strikes against him. Wilson refused to listen, and France retained control of Indochina. It seems that Wilson regarded self-determination as all right for, say, Belgium, but not for the likes of Latin America or Southeast Asia. #48laws757

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SEXY MAN POSE!!!!!!!(inside joke)😍😍😍 @mizshazo that's your jacket 😨😁

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Family ❤

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😂 seriously one of a kind!

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