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JUST BE YOURSELF!

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“Don’t let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.”– Jaeda deWalt
Be yourselfROAR …JUST BE YOURSELF!

I have decided that at this point …in my life, it is no longer necessary to impress anyone. You can either like me as I am…or leave me the hell alone; if you decide you don’t like me, it’s your loss …not mine. I will always be me.

The best advice you can give to someone is “Just be yourself.” But what if you don’t know who myself is? Even if you did, do you have the courage to follow them blindly into a dark room with no idea of what’s going on inside?

Moreover…wouldn’t it be better for me to pray that my selected self has some light-up shoes or something so that at least there’s a chance they know where they are going?

Let me tell you; it’s a huge deal! Being yourself means being your most authentic self, not just when people are watching but all of the time. It’s hard work and often uncomfortable, but once you get into the habit, it’ll become second nature and more accessible than ever before.

Here are some tips for those who want to take on this challenge:

It’s a common misconception that you’ll be safe from the world if you put on a mask. In reality, it’s just another way to show how vulnerable we all are and how easy it is for people to take advantage of us.

I’m not saying that putting on a mask is never good – especially when your skin is feeling dehydrated in the wintertime – but I am saying that we should all work towards embracing our true selves and accepting who we are.

Here are some tips for those who want to take on this challenge:

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” -Maya Angelou

 

 

 

“ Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.”– Gerard WaBeing yourself quotes

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”– E.E. Cummings

“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”– William Shakespeare 

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”– Friedrich Nietzsche

Hey why not “JUST BE YOURSELF”

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Lawsuit Filed Against Johnson & Johnson

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Getty By Rayna Reid ·July 29, 2021July 29, 2021Yesterday, Ben Crump and Paul Napoli, nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorneys …


Lawsuit Filed Against Johnson & Johnson for Targeting Products Linked to Cancer to Black Women, Group Alleges

Black Women Advocacy Group Filed Lawsuit

A Black women’s advocacy group filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing Johnson & Johnson of selectively marketing the company’s talcum-based products;

Including Johnson’s Baby Powder, to African-American women despite knowing for years that the items had been linked to ovarian cancer, an allegation J&J denies.

The pharma giant sold talc-based powder for more than a century, according to its website;

Before issuing a recall of 33,000 bottles in 2019 and discontinuing its sale in the United States and Canada in May 2020.

But even then J&J said it would allow existing inventory to be sold until it runs out.

Attorneys for the National Council of Negro Women, including prominent civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump, filed their complaint in the Superior Court of New Jersey;

Tuesday morning before hosting a press conference at the council’s office in Washington D.C. a short time later.


AMERICAN Cancer Society

The American Cancer Society says talc that has asbestos in it “is generally accepted as being able to cause cancer if it is inhaled,” but notes that “the evidence about asbestos-free talc is less clear.

“The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer says talc that contains asbestos as “carcinogenic to humans” and classifies the use of talc-based body powder on genital areas as “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” according to the ACS. 

Most experts agree more research is needed.

National Council Of Negro Women

The National Council of Negro Women’s lawsuit filing came less than two months after the US Supreme Court declined to review a Missouri appeals court ruling;

That upheld a billionaward to a group of women who sued J&J after developing ovarian cancer, which a jury determined stemmed from exposure to asbestos in the company’s talcum-based powders.

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/business/johnson–johnson-talc-lawsuit-black-women/index.html

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The Ultimate Guide For Quotes —KEEP HOLDING

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During These Uncertain Times We All Need Something To Lift Your Spirit.

So I have searched and complied some very uplifting quotes and a video. I sincerely hope that whom ever reads this blog find—something that touches you in some way.

They say a person needs just three things to be happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

Tom Bodett AMERICAN AUTHOR, POLITICIAN, VOICE ACTOR, AND RADIO HOST

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.

– Mark Twain

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

– Michael Jordan

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

– Nelson Mandela (more quotes)

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

– Norman Vincent Peale

Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

– George Herbert

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

– Amelia Earhart

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The Case that Changed Illegal Marriages

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Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving Photo ban on interracial marriages
Mildred Jeter and Richard LovingPhoto: Getty Images

Ban on interracial marriages—During the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, the growing number of interracial marriages (also known as miscegenation) between Blacks and whites led to the passage of this new law.

The first anti-miscegenation law enacted was in the colony of Maryland in 1664 and additional colonies quickly followed suit. These marriages were prohibited and penalties included the enslavement, exile or imprisonment of the white perpetrators.

These laws grew and evolved over the years and attempts were even made to modify the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all states.

It would take three hundred years for this law to be overturned.

In 1967, Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a Black woman, were married in the District of Columbia.

Mildred and Richard Loving had been married just a few weeks when, in the early morning hours of July 11, 1958, Sheriff Garnett Brooks and two deputies, acting on an anonymous tip that the Lovings were in violation of Virginia law, stormed into the couple’s bedroom.

When the sheriff demanded to know who Mildred was to Richard, she offered up the answer: “I’m his wife.” When Richard gestured to the couple’s marriage certificate hanging on the wall, the sheriff coldly stated the document held no power in their locale.

Virginia law in fact forbade black and white citizens from marrying outside of the state and then returning to live within the state. 

Richard ended up spending a night in jail, with the pregnant Mildred spending several more nights there. The couple eventually pleaded guilty to violating the Virginia law.

The commonwealth of Virginia asserted that its ban on interracial marriages were in place to avoid a host of resulting sociological ills, and that the law was not in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. 

On June 12, 1967, the high court agreed unanimously in favor of the Lovings, striking down Virginia’s law and thus allowing the couple to return home while also ending the ban on interracial marriages in other states.

The court held that Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statute violated both the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. 

Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the opinion for the court, stating marriage is a basic civil right and to deny this right on a basis of race is “directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment” and deprives all citizens “liberty without due process of law.”

—Biography.com Editor