Poor Hannah Pool is feeling miserable:
Sometimes it is indeed hard to be a woman. Right now, however, it is doubly hard to be a black woman, especially one who reads newspapers or, heaven forbid, happens to be remotely newsworthy.... Individually, these stories aren't so remarkable, but the glut makes it feel that this spring is open season on black women...
Even Condoleezza Rice, arguably the world's most dangerous woman, doesn't escape being patronised and reduced to some sort of sex object. I'm as embarrassed as the next person by Jack Straw's labrador act, but what's really behind all this talk of their oh-so-very-special relationship? The implication is this: he's a white man, she's a black woman, how could he possibly not fall under her spell? It's about the sexualisation of black women as "exotic" that's as old as colonialism itself.
Oh, puh-leeze... Could it be that DC's latter-day martyr, Cynthia McKinney is using a pen-name?
I presume you've seen Scott Burgess ...
http://dailyablution.blogs.com/the_daily_ablution/2006/04/racist_sexist_b.html
Posted by: Laban Tall | Saturday, April 08, 2006 at 10:53 AM