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• Wednesday, June 6, 2007 08:21 PM

  Mizmoon got it right

  I agree with Mizmoon: Buffie is not fat, but her ass is akin to Pam Anderson's chest: wildly inflated. Well, to each her & his own -- what turns you on, so long as it's not dangerous to others (and preferably the one doing the inflating).

  That said, I live and work in a predominantly black city, in a predominantly black workplace, and I am astonished at how very fat & obese so many of the black women are. This is not a good thing, and it has nothing to do with aesthetics. These women simply are not healthy and are at high risk for deadly disease. I see them struggle to walk down the halls, or even resorting to scooters which are spread around the building. I see them load up with unhealthy fried food in the cafeteria, and watch as they take the elevator up, or even down, a single flight of stairs. Their poor eating habits and poor exercise habits are killing them. If what Ms. Dickerson says about ol' Buffie's eating and exercising habits is true, then this young, fit woman (with the enormous butt) will be an obese woman before she knows it, and prone to die years before she ought to.

  I don't see nearly as many obese black men as I do black women. It's a real and very sad problem, and one which can't be ignored or dismissed due to scorn for super-skinny fashion models.

  —Anonymous
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