the Ordinary day.

Women's Portraits Only (WPO)

Laundry to do. Lila by Witold Jankowski Fotografia.

The practical has its glory when it is done. 

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Oct. 09, 2018 

Four Looks Backwards!

Famous actresses when they were young were like other women: full of hope and promise. Prepared for work they worked the systems in place to produce. It is this work ethic that transcends merely looking good and desirable. If it means anything it means work ain't hard, it is necessary to get what one wants out of life! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8/29/17

Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933 in Chicago) is an American actress! 

Carole Lombard's pretty legs.

Virginia Gilmore exiting a car !!!!

Natalie Wood

Towards a Solution

Màat Petrova releasing or letting go.

"Economic expansion cannot alone do the job of improving the employment situation of Negroes. It provides the base for improvement, but other things must be constructed upon it, especially if the tragic situation of youth is to be solved. In a booming economy Negro youth are afflicted with unemployment as though in an economic crisis. They are the explosive outsiders of the American expansion."

~ Martin Luther King Jr. / "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community" p207 ©1968, based on the original 1967 edition

2 old women armed and strengthened by each other.

X'MAS why?

Children are the same the world over. They exude love expecting its return.

What is Child Labor?

Child labor is work that harms children or keeps them from attending school. Around the world and in the U. S., growing gaps between rich and poor in recent decades have forced millions of young children out of school and into work. The International Labor Organization estimates that 215 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 currently work under conditions that are considered illegal, hazardous, or extremely exploitative.

Underage children work at all sorts of jobs around the world, usually because they and their families are extremely poor. Large numbers of children work in commercial agriculture, fishing, manufacturing, mining, and domestic service. Some children work in illicit activities like the drug trade and prostitution or other traumatic activities such as serving as soldiers. - Sonny Red Cloud  

Child in labor.

Birthed into Success by Hard Work.

Tiffany Haddish, comedienne, wonder woman, and dancer.

Tiffany Haddish by Peter Atencio.

The comedienne and now A-list actress was born December 3, 1979.

Between the Weak and the Strong: distance

NEWS

Work Place Discrimination: "In one of the latest incidents, GRAND RAPIDS, MI has reported a case in which a black nurse has sued Spectrum Health System as she claimed that officials had accepted a white patient’s request for no black caregivers.

Michelle Acklen, who was working for Spectrum Health through Cross Country Staffing, said she was re-assigned to patients on numerous occasions until her ...assignment ended in July.

In a lawsuit which was filed in the U.S. District Court, attorney Julie Gafkay said that Acklen felt harassed and humiliated because of the segregation of her duties and discriminated against as she was unable to perform her nursing responsibilities because of her race. Furthermore, her reputation has suffered damage.

According to Gafkay, Acklen, who lives in Tennessee, worked at Spectrum Health Rehab and Nursing Centre on Fuller Avenue NE and had been placed by the staffing agency in early October 2016. Having been assigned to Spectrum Health, Acklen was required to follow its practices and to report to Spectrum Health supervisors, and as such, she was treated as a Spectrum Health worker.

The debacle had started in March when a supervisor told Acklen that a certain patient no longer wanted black caregivers or nurses. According to Acklen, the patient’s request was granted. It was noted in the lawsuit that when she was assigned to the patient’s floor, she had to change patients with a white nurse." - author unknown 

Response

She needs stronger skin. Suing, I feel, is a weak reaction. It is not unreasonable this request. It is better to be clear with what you and your person in the hospital wants and needs to recover and ask for it. Everything is negotiable.

I asked for my mother to be treated like a white woman when she was in the hospital in her last months. I demanded it in such a way the head nurse had to adjust herself and meet my command. I had to make similar demands for my Grandfather-teacher when he was in a hospital. He did not want Nigerian nurses with skills in the dark arts over his body. I demand and insist upon being cared for exclusively by Black women physicians and Black nurses with a healing touch. Being offended and suing is weak, and not my concern in the serious business of caring for a loved one in the hospital.

It is very much like a person in a hospital insisting upon his sacred items be present in his or her room.

One needs to be able to negotiate. Sometimes those requests cannot be met and adjustments have to be made on everybody's part. I finally had to have two white doctors, both of whom were instrumental in keeping me alive. The first one became close to me as a friend for a lot of years.

In a country rooted in slavery, bondage of the soul, the axiom of war and the contradictions of racial superiority favored by white Americans a person of color needs a better thinking process! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/31/17