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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most
important
to
me must be spoken, made verbal & shared, even at
the risk of
having it
bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking
profits me. . . . My
silences had
not protected me. Your silence will
not protect you. What are the words you do not yet
have? What do you need to say?
I am myself — a Black woman warrior poet doing my
work — come
to ask you, are you doing yours?
------- Audre Lorde
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Pregnant Dark-Skinned Women in the Netherlands
Exhibit a Predominance of Vitamin D Deficiency
As New Yorkers express both anger and satisfaction about the media-defined, financial serial killer and social pariah, Bernard Madoff’s multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme; there are a disproportionate number of women and children at risk and suffering in northern countries such as Hague, a metropolis located in the Netherlands. Being poor and uneducated has always been a detriment to the health of the disenfranchised, many of whom, reside in ghettos with a plethora of health and safety hazards.
Staggering numbers of dark-skinned women living in the Netherlands showed a predominance of vitamin D deficiency which is common in persons living in northern countries. Consequently, this particular vitamin deficiency will almost certainly have devastating health affects on both the unborn child and the mother carrying it.
Scientists were able to determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women of a host of ethnic backgrounds in The Hague.
America's urban centers have over the last 3 decades experienced an astronomical increase in its family infrastructure; the "extended family" enjoys far more social tolerance than other nontraditional families such as the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender (GLBT) units boasting 2 mommies or 2 daddies. Perhaps the acceptance of this avant-garde cultural norm can be attributed to the fact that, in American cities most of these (formerly unconventional) unions developed out of basic survival. The Crack epidemic crept onto the street scenes of cities like Chicago, Washington and New York almost simultaneously. Veteran drug addicts were well aware of the less popular freebase method of smoking purified forms of cocaine used during the late 1970s expanding in popularity just in time for the 1980s' disco era when it became wildly popular. However, the vets were ignorant to the extremely addictive and powerful pull of crack cocaine! At its inception the 1980s experienced a rash of crack-related crimes which spread throughout the nations' cities: both low-class street walkers and high-priced prostitutes transformed, into what is now referred to as,
