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Thursday, June 7, 2007 12:00 AM

Healthy, my ass

Many blacks love big women, but having a rump the size of Buffie the Body's can put women at risk for disease.
By Debra Dickerson

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  • Thursday, June 7, 2007 09:54 AM

    I'll join the fun!

    Oh, you just didn't tell fat black women they were fat. I hope you have a safehouse somewhere to hide out for a few months. I've seen courage before, but milady you are now Joan of Arc.

    Fat ladies: you're fat. You're not normal, you're not exercising your option to eat well and not work out: you are fat, fat, fat. You're dying like mayflies, you contract diabetes far too often and you're in the grip of a cultural delusion. And it's obvious that there are far too many of you in the grip of the fantasy.

    —Thomas Malkin Read Thomas Malkin's other letters

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