In an August issue of ESSENCE in 2009, KIERNA MAYO wrote an article entitled Black Women Behaving Badly. She asks:

Have you ever looked another Black woman up and down? Checked out her clothes, her body, her face, her hair and secretly sized her up as less than you? Have you ever laughed about another Black woman behind her back? Talked about her to your girls? Spilled her secrets? Have you ever flirted with another Black woman’s man? Woke up next to him in bed? Have you ever had a silent thought, even for a split second wishing failure on a Black woman at your job? Is bitch a regular word in your vocabulary?

Sheesh. I answered yes to all of the above.

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