Doin the Butt: Loving and Respecting Black Women's Body

We all can name at least ONE song that mentions booty shaking. From Nelly's Tip Drill and Snoop Dogg's Drop it Like it's Hot to Doin' the Butt, the gluteous maximus has been the favorite body part to making a song about. What we seem to not know is that there is a woman by the name of Sarah Baartman that was used and abused because of her bodacious body. She had what some would consider to be the best looking body for a black woman in today's society. Sarah was born a into the Khoisan family which were known for having rather large behinds. The significance between her and the women in the videos today is that Sarah as well as some females today are/were forced to parade around half naked in front of men and sometimes women. Sarah and her body made her money to survive, but only for so long. She died in December of 1815, but her legacy still lives on today in learning that respect for yourself and your body as a black woman is imperative. If you don't respect you, who will?