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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 11:03 PM

    That's an interesting point...

    >Debra (who always writes bullshit like this) isn't helping black folks. And if she truly wanted to help us, why does she chose to publish in an online magazine whose readership is probably majority white?<

    It's a funny thing--there are a set of AAmerican black women journalists whose stuff regularly appears in ESSENCE, VIBE, or (occasionally) NEWSWEEK or TIME. Does Dickerson write for anywhere else but SALON? If not, why not? Is her stuff so self-hating that most black or mainstream publications pass on it?

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