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Ellisandra.
A classmate told me white people’s butts are so flat because during slavery they sat on them all day doing nothing, while black people worked all the time. I agree, but I want to know if any white or black people have ever heard of this.
I have to admit, I’ve never heard of this, though it did give me a giggle. Take my word for it; I’ve seen many white women with enormous rears. And by the way; not all whites have slavery in their past. My family, though white, were poorly treated servants. Slaves, no. But they certainly didn’t sit on their keesters. Just thought I would clarify.
What I have heard has nothing to do with the flatness of white people’s butts, but rather why they look flat compared to black people’s. As I understand it, the larger black butt is due to the fact it was used as a water storage location needed to sustain life in the harsh hot climates of Africa. It is left over from that. With respect to white butts: yeah, I guess white people have had more opportunity to sit down and work while the labors of slaves was that of hard field work, very physical in nature. Also, not all whites have flat butts. It just depends on the genetic background. Director’s Note: After 40,000 postings, Y? thought it had seen and heard it all until receiving this question and response…
Surely that is a joke (and on a surface level, a bit funny). Only a small percentage of ‘whites’ have ever owned slaves (I’d venture to say, historically speaking, more had probably been on the slavery end; just look at early European history).
Hell, German companies have paid reparations for using Polish slave labor during World War II, and I don’t see any difference in the size of their butts. So that doesn’t make a whole lot sense. Also, slavery is not entirely a ‘white’ vs. ‘black’ issue; history is awash with stories of people enslaving each other, of all cultures and races.
Talk about a blatantly provocative post. I assume you are aware that the majority of white people didn’t own slaves? That the majority were poor and worked their asses off as much as anyone else? Obviously, having their freedom, their situation was infinitely better than that of enslaved people, but please, you really think that every single Caucasian in the States at that time was a wealthy landowner whose only exercise was to occasionally arise from his chair to beat his slaves? You do neither yourself nor those who share the same heritage any favors by spouting ill-informed revisionist ‘history’ around the place.
How did racist tripe like this appear on Y? Forum? I’ve had albeit divisive but nonetheless genuine questions ‘moderated’ out, and yet overtly provocative racism like this passes muster? Why?
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Lisa, That is THE dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. You are just mocking whites, this site, and showing what an incredible waste of resources a good education is on you. Spare your teachers. Drop out and go get pregnant now. Maybe your children will redeem you.
Are you trying to live up to the ignorant black stereotype? You sure seem to make a good argument for it.That is like saying your lips are so big from sucking on watermelon seeds and chicken bones.
I am a black female and am embarrassed by the tone of your question. It is so ignorant and racist. I’m sure you already know there are many differences between the races and that Europeans and Africans have different body structures, hair textures, etc. However, your question reads more like slander than a question seeking an intelligent response.
If this were true – that a way of life 300 years ago would manifest as physical changes – then wouldn’t African Americans’ brains be underdeveloped, considering the lack of ‘work’ their brains were required to do during slavery? The statement could also be reversed – that white people work so hard that they burn off all excess body fat, whereas African Americans do so little work that they retain all of their body fat. These, of course, are riduculous statements, to mirror you ridiculous question
C’mon Lisa. You can’t possibly be serious. I have never heard of this theory before, neither in earnest nor in distasteful jest. Even if the greater likelihood of white people to have ‘flat’ bottoms could be researched and quantified well enough to be called a biological fact, the evolution of such a trait would have taken thousands of years, at least. So the slavery idea is impossible as well as silly.
If your comment had any merit, there would be a large percentage of black Africans who would have flat butts. There are many more blacks in Africa today who own black slaves than there were whites who owned slaves.
Do the black slave owners in Africa today have flat butts?
Before anyone else comments on this message, let me say I do not agree with what my classmate said. I just wanted to know if anyone else had heard of that theory. I am sorry if it offended anyone.
but your original message does say that you agree. I’m glad to read that you don’t.