Who is Sara Baartman?

After talking to a good friend. It opened my eyes into seeing the exploitation on BLACK females..( not that I didn't already know that) but it showed me that the first "video vixen" was none other than a black slave named Sara Baartman. She was a video vixen not by choice but because she was fooled. She thought that she could go to Europe thinking she would find riches and fame but instead she found humiliation forced to be a spectacle because they have never seen a naked black woman's body before. They didn't even view her as a human because she did not have a white woman's body. Medical students and doctors were fascinated by her large breasts, hips, lips and buttocks, and elongated labia. She was later sold to a circus were she had to dance naked for the entertainment of white people. No longer wanted she became a prostitute and later died of loneliness, shame, and disease. She was 25 and only in Europe for five years. But it didn't stop there even when she died she STILL had no dignity they cut out her vagina, ,brain and skeleton and preserved them in jars along with a plaster of her actual body and for 160 years people could walk into a museum and look at Sara Baartman. This was the blueprint to the dehumanization of black females. From us being raped as slaves to being raped on video shoot. To being striped of our clothes and sold to slavemaster to dancing with no clothes on in a rap video.
Ladies black or white we must have self respect for ourselves. Males continue to beat us down and degrade us everyday, some because they are dogs and other times because we bring it upon ourselves. Lets have some self respect for each other and stop this dehumanization and sexplotation.



For more info about Sara Baartman go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ7mmMe4klQ

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