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• Thursday, June 7, 2007 02:58 AM

  Which picture was Debra looking at?

  Surely anyone can see that Buffie has a slim body with a large rear. It's also fairly obvious to most of us who know anything about people who's origins lie in Sub-Saharan Africa that most black women have a rounder more pert backside than do women with origins from Asia or Europe. So what!

  Obesity is nothing to do with having a more prominent backside than the norm in this western culture. That's just the way we (Africans) are made. I'm a guy and I have a rounder bigger backside than almost any white guy for Gods sake! All those lads magazines Dickinson denigrates are simply a welcome recognition of black women's uniqueness. Why not pick on the obsession with disproportionately massive breast, stick thin pre-pubescent bodies that western culture constantly bombards all women with.

  I've never heard of black women feeling/being forced to be or get fat for their men. On the contrary black women are essentially left to their own devices as far as figure goes and I'd guess they are happier with their body images as a result.

  What are the odds that Debs has an unusually small booty for a sister and is just jealous ;-)

  I can assure you that I and my friends have no fetish for obese women, but we are partial to a curvy figure and nice round booty.

  Or Debbies remit is too write controversial things on daft topics that the sites white journalist dare not touch in order get page views from folk like me. Damn I've been suckered again.

  Debra Dickinson should give up journalism and start a fish stall specialising in red herring. She'd clean up.

  —JudgeMental Read JudgeMental's other letters
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