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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.

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  • Thursday, June 7, 2007 12:59 PM

    Not to pick on Dickerson, but...

    Okay, I don't mind Dickerson using Buffy the body as her poster child for obesity, although she was wrong to do so.

    And I can ignore that she used men's magazines as the basis of "black culture", primarily because I can see her overall point.

    But, must Dickerson resort to black colloquialisms towards the end of her article when she is writing to black people? I mean, does she think that she's being "down" when she writes that way? It just makes her seem more condescending.

    Healthy criticism is a good thing, but Dickerson seems like a athletic prig whose black conservative POV barely masks a possible hatred for most things black.

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