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"The serious theme underlying this article is the way black bodies have been sexualized, exploited and abused throughout history."
I think the statement above greatly over-intellectualizes the historic power dynamic between blacks & whites in the U.S.- there was/is no quasi-mystical power in big black female buttocks- they were simply available to white men whenever the whim struck and could be taken with no recourse available to the woman being assaulted.
Mythologizing the black female form negates a very simple, very ugly truth- for too long black women were seen merely as a warm moist expedient receptacle for a white man's penis in a time of momentary lust, and absolutely no further thought was put into it than that, other than where was the nearest brush to drag her in to.
That is the ugly history we are trying desperately to put behind us, and it is the history that we must again confront on some level when faced by an article like that written by Kaplan- yes, it makes we tight-assed liberals extremely uncomfortable, and perhaps it is from that which Kaplans draws at least some of her "joy"...
