Now we’re talking “Brave!” (assuming the guy was neither gay nor a member of the Modern Language Association.)

That certainly wasn’t black people who took her around and made her a side show freak. And I know the rap video thing, but who owns the companies who funds that crap. And who buys most of it, black people are only 10% of the population if we were the only market for that I’m thinking that rap music would not be nearly so lucrative.

And who thinks that we black people talk about our butts with each other on a regular basis in the asinine way in which Erin described. Do white people talk about their straight hair with each other, in regards to just it being straight. Do white people talk about their round eyes, just their eyes being round. Why would we talk about our butts with each other and what it means, if we all have the same butt.

And what if a white man had written this? Would that be ok, to me that’s the test. I’m not giving Erin a pass on this just because she’s a black.

And to me its not just the racism in the piece that bothers me (and it is racist even if she is black, she’s using her power to reduce a person’s worth owing to their physical racial characteristics) its also anti-woman, anti-feminist and since she writes for feminist magazines and uses that angle I think that she should rethink her role in that, because this is not something a feminist writes. It’s not something that someone who has the job of writing from the black perspective writes. This is not a black person’s perspective this is a closed minded white person who has one black friend’s perspective and that’s why Joan Walsh (editor of salon) is so very proud.

And my opinion is very close to many women who are feminists of all colors in the progressive blogosphere.

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