Letter: Columnist guilty of perpetuating racial stereotypes
(02/05/03 5:00am)
For a columnist supposedly concerned with racial issues, Nikyatu Jusu showed surprising inconsistency in her Friday column. In the process of describing how victimized she is by racially oriented body image stereotypes, she refers to her own rear end as a "medium-sized Asian-girl booty," thereby accepting and perpetuating a stereotype identical to the one she spends the rest of her column decrying.