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• Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:22 PM

  @AKA Smith

  I never know whether Salon's articles are written by black or white people unless they have an video to accompany them. I don't really care...

  Me neither.

  In my entire life, I have never had a conversation with anyone about black women's butts. Not once.

  Now this is where we differ. I have to admit to having participated in several conferences on the subject. In fact only this morning my wife was suggesting that I should kiss mi culo negro.

  However, this morning I went to the grocery store and standing in line in front of me was a slender black woman. I found myself looking at her BUTT and noticed that she really didn't have one. Unbidden to my mind came the thought, "Poor thing. She just has no BUTT at all.

  Now we are back in sync. I went shopping in Wal-Mart this morning and had an identical experience. I don't know what came over me to make me look at a woman's butt, something I would never normally consider, but it happened.

  It reminded me of that World War II ditty that goes:

  Hitler had only got one ball

  Goering had two but very small,

  Himmler was very sim'lar,

  But Goebbels had no balls at all.

  And, you know, I really felt for her, and now everywhere that I go I am checking out women's rears, black, white, latino, all of them, and feeling so sorry for the emasculated ones who don't have good womanly buttocks.

  Fortunately there aren't many around here, but still when you do spot one, it is a... bummer.

  —Amerigo Read Amerigo's other letters
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