Katherine Agatha

MY BROTHER MADE AN ADDITON AND IT IS FAR SUPERIOR TO THE ORIGINAL POST I CAN'T BREATHE

“My parents are Christian.  They were always telling me stories as to why God was omnipresent, and omniscient, and omnibenevolent.  Our teachers at school would try desperately to cover all the holes.  They’d be unable to answer contradictions and inconsistencies, but for some reason they held on to their beliefs.  My whole life I’ve been trying to not be like them.  I took joy in finding flaws in other people’s beliefs.  Because it’s always easier to find the flaw in a system then to amend it.  But now I’m getting older, and I’m kind of looking for a belief system.  It seems like a starting point.  A psychological anchor of sorts.  Yesterday one of my teachers told a story about how his cat died, and he buried it in the backyard, but wild dogs dug it up.  He was devastated.  But his wife quoted him an ancient Buddhist principle , it’s very short, only four Chinese characters, and it calmed him. That’s the power of a belief system.  The ability to be comforted by a single sentence.“ (Hong Kong)

I asked my friend from Hong Kong what it means and this is what she said.

boot up, Bitch

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During World War II, 600,000 African-American women entered the wartime workforce. Previously, black women’s work in the United States was largely limited to domestic service and agricultural work, and wartime industries meant new and better-paying opportunities – if they made it through the hiring process, that is. White women were the targets of the U.S. government’s propaganda efforts, as embodied in the lasting and lauded image of Rosie the Riveter.Though largely ignored in America’s popular history of World War II, black women’s important contributions in World War II factories, which weren’t always so welcoming, are stunningly captured in these comparably rare snapshots of black Rosie the Riveters.