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Charlize Theron showed the world a gorgeous young man by the name of Jackson not too long ago.  He appeared to have already mastered the art of the People's Eyebrow, so needless to say, he'll handle the paparazzi well. Sandra Bullock found herself a nice young man from New Orleans and named him Louis.  For some reason, he too, has mastered the art of the eyebrow. I'm starting to wonder if it's a BLACK baby thing because I swear my kids did it. I am joking about the BLACK baby mean mug because yeah, all kids look mad until age two. MOVING ON! Over the last few months, if not years, I have heard and read a lot of Black people lamenting over the adoption of our babies by White parents.  On Tumblr, some mixed/adopted kids stated a frustration at being "forced to live in their culture" and "made to assimilate".  Blogs around the web state a distaste for the "White savior" coming to "save" our kids from a life of "

I guess I'll speak as a Black fat woman. Lately, there have been several blogs and articles wondering how and why Black women love themselves as they are.  Why do we embrace our curves and rolls?  Why do we seem okay with our big asses and bellies?  It seems as if everyone wonders why we like the bodies we have, but don't want to change them.  The articles don't ever really deal with the actual problems in our community.  We get harped on for being big even though we have rampant diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and cancer in our neighborhoods.  The outsiders and analysts assume that jacked up health conditions should serve as a catalyst for change.  But has it ever dawned on anyone that there's a reason why fearmongering hasn't worked?  Does anyone ever ask themselves "why aren't a lot of Black people able to eat better food or take better care of their health"? NO! Because those types of articles don't get readers.  Not as popul