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• Thursday, June 7, 2007 04:57 AM

  What Did I Learn This Time?

  Dear Salon,

  Why in the world do you (or anyone) need Debra Dickerson to break the news that many black women are obese and thereby endangering their health?

  Huh?

  I did grimly enjoy reading that Dickerson (who congratulates herself over her own "buff" body) used to self-righteously harangue her non-buff co-workers (some of whom would presumably have been women) over their lunch-choices. I read the article aloud last night while a friend was visiting; he immediately looked up and said "Why doesn't that surprise me?..."

  Nor is it surprising that Dickerson immediately abolves her own,currently non-buff self by mentioning her "kids". why does she award herself a free-pass now that she's had children? I would guess that a large number of her harangued coworkers had children (and maybe even, unlike Dickerson, spouses; keeping a marriage on an even keel does tend to eat into one's gym-time).

  Well (and all other objections aside, such as her chronically shoddy reasoning, when she bothers to attempt sounding reasonable), Dickerson remains one of the most deeply unpleasant voices out there.

  It continues to really bother me that you promote her as a voice for black women.

  Ugh,

  David Terry

  www.davidterryart.com

  —dterrydraw Read dterrydraw's other letters
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