The New Standard Of Black Beauty Hurting Your Self Esteem?
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On Saturday I decided to hit up a belly dancing Zumba class to supplement my new workout routine, which I’ve started about a month ago. I’m trying to keep to my New Year’s resolution of losing a couple of pounds, okay 20 pounds, and getting fit and healthy. Anyway, I’m in class, which was held in the top room of a day care center, sweating through a funky mix of Afro-Brazilian beats, Soca music, Whitney Houston and Beyoncé tracks when several things stuck out in my mind:
First, who says that Black women don’t work out? The class I was in was filled to capacity with women of varying hues of the brown scale and sizes.
Photos:Ohio State Spring Game -NFL Stadium Kind To Buckeyes
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Ohio State Issues PSA -Warns Of Possible Cafeteria Shooting Or Explosion
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Beyonce JayZ Trip To Cuba Stirs Republicans
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Jim Foster Out After 11 Years -Big Ten Championships Not Enough
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Feeling Left Out -Buckeyes Dump 52 On Hoosiers
Columbus, Ohio -Story By Michael Goins... In what has to be an empty feeling for buckeye nation's faithful, the thought of capping off an undefeated season with no bowl eligibility seems to be at the height of that emptiness. It's hard to say what is driving this year's buckeye team, ...Oh and yes, big women work out too. It may be hard for some to believe but Black women can carry more weight than what is acceptable by body mass index and still be considered healthy. In fact, our instructor, who was a heavy-set brown skinned woman with huge hips, thighs and an even bigger derriere, worked through the routine like it was nothing while the rest of us grunted and gasped to catch our collective breaths. Which brings me to my final somewhat random but thought-provoking observation: not every Black woman has a big butt…. Read More
