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I am a heterosexual white male.
I love black women, have been married to black women, and have had many affairs with attractive black women, and am currently engaged to a beautiful, slender and shapely black woman, so let it not be said that I don't go for black women.
BUT, I work with many African American women and the African American women I work with are nearly all obese, many of them grossly so. The main reason is that they eat monstrously large meals--frequently. They love to watch religious TV and quote the Bible, but they seem to be quite unfamiliar with the sin of gluttony.
I have always felt that there must be some motive beyond just eating, because they seem to eat like they are in some kind of competition. It must be hard work to eat so much, and it must cost a lot to buy so much food. But they do it. Religiously.
I am telling the truth here. And they all have terrible health problems--diabetes, blood pressure, knee problems, shortness of breath, sleep apnoea, and so on.
Is it because they want to look sexy? I really doubt it. None of them seem to be reporting much in the way of good sex. On the other hand, the only one who is fit and lithe is full of it.
