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Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:28 AM
Original article: The battle of the literary endorsements

Specimens????

My, my, my Ms. Miller. Your "critique" (and I use that word ve-r-r-y loosely) of Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison sound eerily like the exhibition by the British and the later dissection by the French of the late South African woman, Saarti Baartman known as the "Hottentot Venus." Look up her story and maybe you'll not use the word "specimens" to refer to Black women again - or maybe you will.

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