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JustAnotherGen

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2. I've got to find a link

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Sun Sep 14, 2014, 10:15 AM

Sep 2014

To one of my posts a few weeks ago . . .

This supremely backhanded compliment first and foremost suggests that all black women are ugly. Not to mention the condescending notion that the woman you're speaking with is a rare exception to a rule that only exists in the first place due to prejudice.

Me, the first black Miss America, St. Martin and champagne cocktails. Her thanking an ex boyfriend for taking offense to that comment being made to her many many years ago.

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9 Things Everyone Needs to Stop Saying to Black Women Immediately [View all] Blue_Tires Sep 2014 OP

whew those are all off my list already, I never tell women they are pretty (or much about their msongs Sep 2014 #1

I've got to find a link JustAnotherGen Sep 2014 #2

Can you teach me how to dance? LiberalAndProud Sep 2014 #3

7 out of 10 Heather MC Sep 2014 #4

My big sis Jamaal510 Sep 2014 #5