You know, if we Black men would simply stop looking at the booty shaking stuff, there would be no demand for it. Thus, the supply (i.e. booty shakers) would hopefully disipate. It actually makes me VERY sad to see it (cover of Black magazines). I wouldn't want my daughter doing that. There are so MANY other ways by which to appreciate women (Black women in particluar). I don't fault the young girls. They are just doing what they see their grown counter-parts do (e.g. sisters, mothers). Children follow the example of their elders. Our actions speak louder than our words EVER will !
By the way, did you know that white men used to rape Black women under the premise that one, their own white women were "too pure" to have sex with (um..er...the kinky type-use your imagination) and two, that Black women (and men for that matter) were actually predisposed to being immoral and lascivious. Google the "Hotten tot woman from Africa" and the autobiography of Fredrick Douglass, to read about this very ugly history. Can you just imagine the painful screams of your great-great grandmother as she is being raped by white men. And the white men are laughing, "Don't let those screams fool ya guys (to his white comrades)! These Black, Nigger bitches love this!HAW! HAW! HAW!" One can also imagine a modern day Black woman being sexually harrassed at work by her White, male supervisors under the same auspices. "Aw come on Laquita, I watched those rap videos! I know how you Black chicks like shakn' those phat asses! HEY FELLAS COME WATCH Laquita! HAW ! HAW! HAW!" Not all Black women may be able to take immediate legal recourse via the employment sexual harrassment laws! They just have to bear the indignations in painful silence! Pardon me for being so graphic, but maybe this will wake some of us up. Whenever a Black girl does the "booty shakn' thang" in an area as public as you tube or a parade (this is actually part of the routine in some Black high school marching bands!), it reinforces the age-old sterotypes.I remember attending a m