The year was 1999, she had just divorced her abusive husband/boss, he hired jlo to try to replace her, she still owed the label one more album, he wrote her off swearing that she wouldn’t still be a hit maker without him, SHE HAD ONCE CHANCE AND 3 MONTHS
“I don’t think I’ll be remembered as a park ranger. I want to be remembered as Betty.”
What a woman and what an accomplished life she lived — author, WWII veteran, Civil Rights activist, singer, etc.
She’s an ICON. ✨🕊️✨
Whenever I hear a white person say that we make everything about race, all I hear is that they don't like being reminded of how cruel white America were to black people because it makes them uncomfortable. But they never considered how uncomfortable we were suffering.
An apartment complex that’s 95% Black in Chicago was massively raided by Immigration where Black folk live.. They broke into people's homes with no notice and no proffered warrants. They zip tied the wrists of US citizens, imprisoning them for hours with zero explanation for their detention.