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“No one wants a bone but a dog” is an old saying in the black community that affirms the traditional approval of plus size women by black men. But these attitudes may be changing because today male body-type preferences are no longer easily defined.
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“So, you see, it was an even exchange. The whites offered hygiene, discipline and literacy – the coloreds, starchy but filling ethnic food and gym shoes. I can’t wait for the Disney movie…”
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Hat tip to Tariq. Yet more black-relationships-are-dysfunctional propaganda: “But the obsession with the black female marriage problem has overshadowed an equally daunting fact: Many black marriages don’t survive…”
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“The mayor appointed the first black man to lead the city’s fire department Monday after the previous chief resigned amid a furor involving a black firefighter who was fed spaghetti mixed with dog food…”
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Thanks Bill! Andy Dick drops the n-bomb. “Just when I thought celebrities might actually go two days without saying or doing something stupid – again. It’s official: sagging career? Racial outburst 2.o is the answer…”
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Yesterday’s The VIew: “when i got back to the tv, what i did hear (i’m 90% sure) was “ching chong, ching chong, the view, ching chong, danny devito, ching chong, ching chong”…”
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Body Impolitic - Blog Archive - » Missing Links - Laurie Toby Edison: Photographer on 06 Dec 2006 at 7:54 pm
[...] The wonderful women at Racialicious found this article on a phenomenon we’ve seen increasing in the years we’ve been doing this work: increasing fatphobia in the African-American community. Racialicious reprints without comment; we’d like to say two things: First, this was beginning when we were working on Women En Large in the early 1990s and now it’s endemic. Laurie sees thin African-American teens seeing themselves as fat, as teens from other groups do: a very sad transition. Second, the link itself is informative and useful, but problematic. BlackProf isn’t sure what he thinks about fat women, and his ambivalence comes through a bit too much for our taste. [...]