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Henrietta Lacks: The Cellular Queen

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Henrietta Lacks

How many of us have ever heard of this woman? Who was this woman? What is her story? What does she have to do with me?

If you’re like me, you’ve never heard of this woman or her remarkable, yet puzzling, story. And if you’ve ever even taken a Tylenol, she has EVERYTHING to do with you.

Henrietta Lacks, née Loretta Pleasant, was born on August 1, 1920 in Roanoke, Virginia to Eliza (1886–1924) and John Randall Pleasant I (1881–1969).

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Does anyone remember the story of the Island of Roanoke, North Carolina? Totally different city, but I wanted to point out something connecting the name of the birthplace of Henrietta to the crazy, secretive, and mysterious life she lived.  Anyway, The Island of Roanoke (aka, Roanoke Island), an island in Dare County near the coast of North Carolina. It was named after the historical Roanoke Carolina Algonquian people (another Native American tribe who was severely oppressed by the English colonists and early American settlers) who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English exploration. Long story short, John White, the governor of the colony, went back to England to re-up on supplies, but didn’t get the Queen’s status update letting him know the entire country was at war with Spain and any and all ships were to be used in battle. So, while poor John was only expecting to vacation back home for three months, he was stuck for three years. Upon his return to the island, he was greeted with desertion. Every person in the colony had picked up and left. I mean, seriously, what exactly was the mystery? He had been in England for 3 years! Didn’t he just run to the store to get supplies? How  were they to know he would eventually be back? The only clue to this ‘mystery’ was the word “CROATOAN” was carved into a tree. Man, what these colonists could have done with text messaging?! Anyway, when John White got to Croatoan…wait, he never made it there. WHAT?! Yeah, seriously, he was on his way down there because the island was inhabited by ‘friendly’ Native Americans, but ran into some bad weather, and instead of heading south to check on his family, he heads right back to England. They ‘mystery’ of what happened to the settlers was never solved.

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Sometime after her mother had passed during the birth of her 10th child, John Pleasant, a railroad brakeman, took his children to be raised by his wife’s family in Clover, VA.

Ok, brace yourselves, this is where things get interesting. See, in 1941 Henrietta  married her first cousin, David Lacks, who was 5 years her elder.  David had already been living with Henrietta’s grandfather when she moved there at age 4, making him around 9 at the time.

Henrietta and David ‘Day’ Lacks

I’m not too sure how people did things back in the day, but I would think their relationship would have raised at least a few eyebrows, especially since the odd couple were raised as bother and sister, yet had two children prior to their marriage, having had the first at the age of 14.

**Can we say INCEST?!**

During their honestly ‘unholy’ marriage, they parented 5 children: Lawrence (b. 1935), Elsie (b. 1939), David “Sonny” Jr. (b. 1947), Deborah (b. 1949), and Joseph (b. 1950). Joseph Lacks, Henrietta’s last child, was born at John Hopkins Hospital in November 1950, just four and a half months before Henrietta was diagnosed with cervical cancer, by the same hospital.

John Hopkins Hospital

A little background on this so called ‘hospital’ is the fact it’s technically a hospital at all, but the teaching hospital and biomedical research center for  John Hopkins University School of Medicine. Basically, its the portion of the medical school which gives students the chance to have some hands-on training from the 1st semester of freshman year to post grad residency. Poking, prodding, and researching on patience, all in the name of medicine of course ( Just like Dr. Joseph Mengele). No one thinking of the consequence of possible contamination of even things unseen. Which I feel was the case for Henrietta Lacks.

In the book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, author Rebecca Skloot recounts the insane struggle the Lacks family has endured many years after the death of this woman. Mainly because they found out she could possibly have never died. Let me explain.

As I stated before, four and a half months after the birth of her son Joseph, Henrietta started noticing lumps and extreme pain in her cervix. After a biopsy at the wonderful John Hopkins Hospital, it is revealed she has cervical cancer. This is a common disease effecting millions of women world wide on a regular basis, however, Henrietta’s case was a little different. When the doctors found what was wrong, they realized the tumor was nothing like anything they had ever witnessed before. So, what would any self respecting doctor do in this type of situation? Well, steal a sample of the tumor for research, of course. And what did they find in the tumor?

They found Henrietta Lacks’ cells never die!!!!

See, from the samples of the tumor the hospital staff collected from Henrietta’s tumor, they noticed the cells could not only stay alive, but were multiplying. Which explains why she died so quickly.

To understand how Henrietta’s unique cell structure assisted in her untimely death, you have to first understand how cancer works.

Cancer starts when cells in a part of the body start to grow out of control. There are many kinds of cancer, but they all start because of out-of-control growth of abnormal cells. Cancer cell growth is different from normal cell growth. Instead of dying, cancer cells continue to grow and form new, abnormal cells. Cancer cells can also invade (grow into) other tissues, something that normal cells cannot do. Growing out of control and invading other tissues are what makes a cell a cancer cell.

Ok, so if Henrietta’s normal cells never die and continuously multiply, it’s understandable why the cancer progressed so quickly, however, what concerns me is why cervical cancer? I mean, I totally understand this is a highly common disease among women, however, this is a women who had been with the same man since she was at least 13 years old, but had also contracted syphilis and gonorrhea, and had past neither STD to any of her children or husband. Does anyone else smell something fishy going on here?

I just find it a little TOO convenient a middle class black women, healthy as a workhorse, bares her 5th child in a medical institute, goes back because she’s having uncontrollable vaginal bleeding, has a rare case of cells with eternal life, gets her cells STOLEN, and then she dies never knowing how important she is to the medical world. Call me crazy, but I’m not buying it. As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, our country is no stranger to experimenting on living human beings and not caring about the consequences of their actions. And for this institute to find such a rare gem, why not take what you can and get rid of the evidence? How much money has the Lacks family missed out on because the John Hopkins University School of Medicine hid the truth from them and the rest of the world for so long? Aside from the money, this family missed out of love and affection from a wife and mother. Henrietta Lacks missed out on her life.

But, hey, THAT’S MY OPINION.

First off, I’d like to thank my reader Candice for the heads up.

I’ve been saying that Oprah is nothing more than a whore for the Illuminati.  Remember when she opened her Leadership Academy for gifted South African girls, and it was soon discovered that the girls were being molested by the head mistress?  I instantly recognized this “academy” for what is was, a front for a programming installation like so many other hospitals, rehab centers, and schools right here in the United States.

Recently, a seventeen year old student of Oprah’s charm school was brought into the hospital for uncontrollable bleeding, and guess what they found in her bag?  That’s right the body of an infant child.  This shit screams Illuminati to me.  Now most of you will say that the girl got pregnant, had the baby and panicked.  I say there is some satanic bullshit going on at this school and it should be shut down.

In 2009, several students were expelled for sexual misconduct against other students.  Looks like their “training” was right on time.  What I’d like to know, is how are you going to effectively run a school from across the world? But hey, I guess when you’re an Illuminati Hag, you can do whatever you like, huh?  Trust me, everything that’s has happened in regards to this “school” are not isolated incidences, but part of a wicked satanic pattern and it’s only a matter of time before the whole truth is exposed.  But knowing the sheeple that follow this demon, baaing their heads off, as long as she’s getting that paper, it’s all good.  Some people make me sick to my stomach.

Oprah needs her head whacked off, not only is she a traitor, but she is partly responsible for all of these girls living a tortured existence under the guise of being given a chance at a better life.  An eye for an eye, and in exchange for the baby’s life, Oprah and her “teachers” should be executed.  Read full article here

RIP little baby….

While most celeb-u-slaves make it their job to go out-of-the-way to kiss each others asses, there’s one that doesn’t seem to need or want to play those industry games.  During the Essence Black Women In music event, Prince and The Clown formerly known as Sean Combs had their VIP booths side by side with the velvet rope placed between them.

Sean approached Prince and the two exchanged pleasantries, but while Sean thought he;d be kicking it with Prince, the Funkster sent him back to his booth with his tail between his legs and the legendary rope still intact, showing Sean that he isn’t half as important as he thought he was.  I’m sure Sean is still fuming at that rejection which goes to show that you should never buy into your own press.

Read it here.

Proof positive that anyone related to the entertainment industry should be rounded up and sent off somewhere, preferably to the nearest electric chair.

Muzzammil  ”Mo”  Hassan was found guilty of murder in the second degree for beheading his wife in 2009.  What could wifey do that was so bad to make her husband lop off her head with such force that the long knife he used got stuck in the floor?

Filing for divorce the week before.  Mo’s children told the court that although the couple argued, they don’t recall a time when arguments were initiated by their step-mom.  Now you know you are a piece of crap when your kids testify against you in court!  The nerve that she wouldn’t stay in that abusive marriage!  Anyway, during the trial this idiot dismissed his attorney, and tried to convince the jury that he had a good reason for decapitating her by giving his own closing argument, but the crap didn’t fly, and he was found guilty.  Do you know how much force he had to use to get the “long knife” stuck in the floor?

“Mr. Hassan has felt that throughout the tenure of his marriage, no one had listened to his side,” Schwartz told reporters after the verdict. “It was important for him in the two hours that he had for summation to get across his side and how he saw his marriage.”

Ironically, this man had a cable network aimed at Muslims living in America, whose  focus was showing Muslims in a positive light despite the government smear campaigns against them after 9/11.  Major fail, if you don’t want people to believe that your violent, then why cut off your wife’s head.  So folks, was this “long knife” actually a sword?  Was this some kind of ritual killing?  Did he betray his heritage to join up as an Illuminati puppet in exchange for fortune?  This sounds like the actor who killed his mom with a masonic sword

Rest in peace Aasiya….

Read the article here.

Apparently we Americans that are in the know are not the only ones who despise George W. Bush,  he cancelled a trip to Geneva, Switzerland where he was scheduled to speak at  Keren Hayesod’s annual Jewish (Luciferian) dinner

later this month.  Apparently the Swiss  government has been pressured into arresting and trying the former president for his crimes against humanity by certain human rights organizations stemming from his dirty torture tactics of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay where he admitted to ordering guards to use waterboarding on prisoners locked up there.

I’m pretty sure that if he ever stepped foot in Geneva he would be coming back to the states in a body bag, read the entire article here. I gotta tell you, it would make me all warm and fuzzy inside to see this Ivy League thug in a pair of stainless steel bracelets. It’s a damn shame that we can’t get together and demand that he be arrested right here on his own turf, nice dream but I know that it will never happen.

UPDATE:  I just discovered that there is an actual warrant that was issued for the bastards arrest!

So this Ethiopian woman made a video on YouTube regarding what she sees as the problem with black American women.  On one hand I understand that it is easy for someone who was not born in this country, and doesn’t understand the history of the black woman in America, and what we’ve been through to judge an entire group of people, but on the other hand, for all of her “education” she should seek out the truth before she starts running her mouth.

http://bossip.com/338786/ethiopian-chick-with-meaty-face-goes-in-on-black-american-women-video6969/

She says that black women are the most dangerous women to date.  She says that we lack education, and class.  She says that black women cannot date outside of our race because we don’t realize that the non black world sees us as nothing at the bottom.  She says we come from single parent homes, and don’t have a culture of our own.  She says that we are all damaged.

I will agree with her, that black women in this country don’t know their history, language, and true culture.  But you really have to take the history of the black woman in this country into account beginning with slavery.  The things our ancestors were conditioned to believe have been handed down through the generations, and if nobody is attempting to break the cycle, how can the cycle be broken?   My point is, the playing field was NEVER level.  However, all black women are not from single family homes, and in my opinion a woman can be a total mess regardless if there’s a father in the home or not, it just all depends on how that woman was raised, and what kind of people she comes from her parents are.

I also find it disturbing that she thinks she’s seen any different from all the black women that she’s putting down.  In this country, you are not a woman from Africa, you are a black woman so all of those things you are saying about us, are being said about you.  She can sit there and talk about how black women don’t have decent education when she uses a word like “worser”.  Another thing that bothered me was how she says that she is not interested in the Asian culture because she has her own. Okay smartie, I get it but what about when you and your Asian hubby have children, his culture becomes their culture as well as yours, so you’re not going to be able to teach your children who they are because you weren’t interested in learning?    To say that all black women are desperate is absolutely ridiculous, I know many black women including myself, who are living single and loving it.  I don’t stress over marriage or being in a relationship because I just don’t want to be bothered.  There are other races of women who would be considered desperate because they are willing to settle for whatever comes along, it has nothing to do with the color of your skin as much as it does how happy you are within yourself.

I also find it funny that she talks of her own heritage, and knowing where she comes from, yet she sits there with bone straight hair.  Just a thought.

She is obsessed with this issue of  black women and Asian men, in which she states that black women have no chance of dating out of their race. Is it just me, or does her entire face tighten up as she spouts her ignorance on this subject?  I’m thinking she’s bitter, maybe her Asian husband has cheated with a black American woman?  After all, I’m sure he didn’t see a woman from Africa when he first saw her, but a black woman.  But I could be wrong ( but I don’t think I am).

She says that most black women are no good, failures, and at the bottom.  I could get mad and call her out of her name, but there’s no need.  If she got out of the fantasy land she’s living in and actually traveled, she would see that those perceptions she has regarding black women are close minded, and shallow.  I know plenty of black women who are doing their thing.  I know black women who own their own businesses, and have very comfortable lives.  They are active in their communities and some are single, and some are happily married.

So anyway one of my loyal readers Candace ( hey girl!)  wants to address the woman bashing that it prevalent in society now more than ever before.  Turning the black men against black women was an agenda from the beginning to stop the creation of more black children so that our race will die out.  The first thing they did was turn us against ourselves.  Stripping us of our dignity, and pride of who we were, and bombarding us with these non black images we see in the media, and in print so that we would hate our own images.   The Gay Agenda  was implemented to further divide us, the State Run School Agenda was implemented to turn our children against us and render us innefective.  As I said, the playing field was never level in the first place, but we continue to strive in a world that obviously doesn’t love us.  She says that we are the most dangerous women, but I think we are the strongest!

I know i’ m late on this one, but thankfully my computer issues have been resolved so look for more posting from me.

These past few months it’s been all about Willow. She’s been whipping her hair from one end of the country to the other all with the approval of the two headed scientology monster known as Will and Jada.  So they push the kid into the spotlight, have her touring and making appearances while the money rolls right into their over-inflated bank accounts.  Seems  if they cared half as much about their children as they pretend to, they’d forget about whipping hair and whip out some books for their daughter.

Willow recently told the world that she was getting dumber as the days go by.  Not only is she not going to school because touring and making that paper for ma and pa is the priority, but even when she has a tutor traveling with her she doesn’t bother doing the lessons, and nobody is making her do them.  Read more about the non-education of Willow Smith here.

I was just wondering why Sean Carter told  a reporter that he didn’t know who Willow was while listening to a track of the then nine year old.  It just seems highly unlikely that he had no clue as to who he was listening to when he’s been working with the Smiths, first with the successful hair care line Carole’s Daughter, and again on the Broadway play Fela!

Moving on…the two have teamed up again to make a remake of the Broadway play Annie with guess who in the starring role?   None other than Willow herself, so brace yourself because she’s going to be pushed in our faces yet again, and her education will be placed further back on the burner.  I was also wondering how brother Jayden feels since he became the Solange of the Smith family.  You never hear anything about what he’s doing, I guess they’ll throw him a bit part in the new musical as orphan girl number three in one of the dance sequences, dress and all.

Recently, best selling author Terry McMillian took to her Twitter account to voice her disgust with the Smiths using their children.

“It feels like the Smith children are being pimped and exploited. Or, they’re already hungry for fame. What about 4th grade? The Smith children already act like child stars. There’s an arrogance in their demeanor and behavior. I find it incredibly sad.”

She later recanted her words when she started getting a bunch of flack from the sheeple.  Now while I can understand why she took the things she said back, I would have more respect for her if she would have stuck to her guns.  While Ms. McMillan has to play nice and kiss ass with the Hollywood Elite, I am under no such obligation.  That’s one of the great things about being an everyday woman with a blog, I can say whatever the hell I want and to hell with those that don’t like it.  Will and Jada are pimping their children, and I’d go as far as to say that they have put those kids in some very compromising positions.  We all know there is a huge pedophile ring in Hollywood and it extends all the way across the country, and the seven seas.  I see nothing good coming for these two and I feel very sorry for them. By the way, a picture is worth a thousand words, what does this one say to you?