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Titillate and Explain—I’ll Wait!

Come on, ladies, spit it out! What’s your turn-on? What kinds of images get your juices flowing? Do you realize that your sexual viewing appetite tells you more about yourself than anything else can? It is your true you!

by ODETTA FRASER GOD
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Please Don’t Think I am Shoplifting Just Because I am Brown. And Don't Call Me Nicky.

When I was growing up, there was a local furniture store that my family and I would go to. We would walk in, and one of two things would happen. First, we would be ignored and not acknowledged or helped. White families came in after us and were immediately greeted with big wide smiles. They were offered sparkling water and ushered to see the latest living room set. Or second, we would still not be greeted and would be followed around at a distance, as my younger brother and I sat on couches and explored furniture sets. I distinctly remember a white associate with a fierce brown ponytail wrinkling her nose at us, asking us to keep our hands off the couches. Meanwhile, little white children jumped on a myriad of mattresses, squealing loudly and proudly in the other section.

by Mita Mallick
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