Monday, January 5, 2009
Life Next Up to Death
Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:59 AM
The new oldest woman in the world is the daughter of black American slaves! How on earth can you be the daughter of slaves and at the same time still be alive? Very impressive indeed.
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Gertrude Baines, a 114-year-old California resident, will likely be crowned the world's oldest woman, according to the organization that keeps track of such honors.The countdown begins.
Gertrude Baines told CNN two years ago that she has taken good care of herself, "the way (God) wanted me to."The previous oldest woman was Maria de Jesus, who died this week in Portugal at age 115, Guinness World Records said.
Baines — born to former slaves in a small town south of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1894 — now lives in a Los Angeles nursing home.
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My grandfather's aunt is still alive and 103 years old. Mind you she was born in 1905 but she stilled spent part of her childhood knowing old people who were slaves, especially her grandfather. But to live to see ex slaves live normal lives to seeing the first black man to become POTUS says how far we've come in such a relatively short amount of time in history compared to other countries.
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She said: ""God. Ask him. I took good care of myself, the way he wanted me to," Baines said."
Do I need to repeat it twice, as as you've done, or is my problem that I didn't read the article with the accurate quote, Mudede?
Sloppy man, sloppy journalism, and don't you have a background in sloppy (bro-hood), Chas?
Do I need to repeat it twice, as as you've done, or is my problem that I didn't read the article with the accurate quote, Mudede?
Sloppy man, sloppy journalism, and don't you have a background in sloppy (bro-hood), Chas?
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"How on earth can you be the daughter of slaves and at the same time still be alive?"
Huh?
We have slavery and many slaves alive today -- 50,000 in Niger and sex slaves in SE asia.
Nearly all the world fails to take action, or care.
Reporting on Foxy Knoxy takes precedence.
Huh?
We have slavery and many slaves alive today -- 50,000 in Niger and sex slaves in SE asia.
Nearly all the world fails to take action, or care.
Reporting on Foxy Knoxy takes precedence.
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did CNN actualy publish the same sentence twice, or did you just take the same liberties that an amateur journalist would (i.e., copy-paste, emphasis on paste and not reading copy):
you said:
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Gertrude Baines, a 114-year-old California resident, will likely be crowned the world's oldest woman, according to the organization that keeps track of such honors.
[b]Gertrude Baines told CNN two years ago that she has taken good care of herself, "the way (God) wanted me to."
Gertrude Baines told CNN two years ago that she has taken good care of herself, "the way (God) wanted me to."[/b]
The previous oldest woman was Maria de Jesus, who died this week in Portugal at age 115, Guinness World Records said.
Baines — born to former slaves in a small town south of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1894 — now lives in a Los Angeles nursing home.
it was so important that you had to say it twice, dan-sucker?
you said:
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Gertrude Baines, a 114-year-old California resident, will likely be crowned the world's oldest woman, according to the organization that keeps track of such honors.
[b]Gertrude Baines told CNN two years ago that she has taken good care of herself, "the way (God) wanted me to."
Gertrude Baines told CNN two years ago that she has taken good care of herself, "the way (God) wanted me to."[/b]
The previous oldest woman was Maria de Jesus, who died this week in Portugal at age 115, Guinness World Records said.
Baines — born to former slaves in a small town south of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1894 — now lives in a Los Angeles nursing home.
it was so important that you had to say it twice, dan-sucker?
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My great grandfather fought in the Civil war. My grandfather was born when my great grandfather was 53, my dad was born when my grandfather was 50, and I was born in the 70s.
Slavery wasn't all that long ago, really.
Slavery wasn't all that long ago, really.
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Obviously, African-American Slavery is the only slavery that matters to Charles. Nope, no more slavery, nothing to see here, move along.
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@3 and @4 - she mostly like said "lawd" like most blacks from that generation used for describing God.
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Charles - very poor choice of terminology. As previous commentators have pointed out, there is more slavery now than at any point in history. Kottke some days ago linked to this story about slavery:
I do suggest you correct your antiquated beliefs.
In the popular consciousness, “slavery” has come to be little more than just a metaphor for undue hardship. Investment bankers routinely refer to themselves as “high-paid wage slaves.” Human rights activists may call $1-an-hour sweatshop laborers slaves, regardless of the fact that they are paid and can often walk away from the job. But the reality of slavery is far different. Slavery exists today on an unprecedented scale. In Africa, tens of thousands are chattel slaves, seized in war or tucked away for generations. Across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, traffickers have forced as many as 2 million into prostitution or labor. In South Asia, which has the highest concentration of slaves on the planet, nearly 10 million languish in bondage, unable to leave their captors until they pay off “debts,” legal fictions that in many cases are generations old.
I do suggest you correct your antiquated beliefs.
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