Louise is some kind of crazy. Tonight she was very stressed out, she revealed she's been working for 40 years trying to solve a mystery/conspiracy. She claims the continent her people came from had its name changed in 1880, I assumed she meant Africa since she's black but she didn't mention Africa. She said the reason the continent had its name changed was so people wouldn't know where they came from. She told George it might be the last time he will hear from her. 'They' are after her, according to Louise 'they' are going to eliminate her, they travel from continent to continent to countries to cities to eliminate people like Louise who are going to expose their evil. She said doing research is hard now because she's blind. Of course Noory the sensitive soul that he is, a few minutes later told the blind old woman to write him an email with more information about the situation. She had to remind him she's blind. Noory very sensitively told her 'well dictate it to somebody'. Noory learned about Louise's blindness very recently but either his memory is gone or he just doesn't give a fuck so asks her the same questions he did just weeks ago 'How did you go blind? Did somebody throw acid in your face?' Louise knows how the people who are after her blinded her, she had a chipped tooth, went to a dentist and the dentist took many x-rays, unnecessary x-rays, many of them and Louise went blind from the dental x-rays. The evil people somehow got the dentist to take part in their skulduggery, probably violence or threatened to destroy him.
I think it's pretty obvious she creates these fantasy worlds because she's lonely.
Just finished listening to the open lines segment. As Louise was relating her "they changed the name of where black folk came from" speel, I remembered a female black co-worker from back in the 90s who told the same story. She had a boatload of such stories, all pointing the finger at whitie's control of history to the detriment of blacks.
Her favorite story was how Napoleon's troops in Egypt shot the nose and lips off the Sphinx to do away with the "Negroid" facial features. Every time she told the story, and I heard it at least 3-4 times, it got more involved and detailed. The best telling of the tale came during an unofficial Black History Month PowerPoint presentation she gave, complete with an artist's conception of what the Sphinx looked like originally. The face liked familiar, but I couldn't place it. A day or two later it hit me, her Sphinx bore an uncanny resemblance to Bill Cosby's animated brother (Russell) from the 70's cartoon series "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids."
