And “Female” pronounced like tamale. I believe she eventually got a proper name.
I was in a waiting room way back when, back when expectant fathers actually paced and chain-smoked, like in the cartoons.
A nurse brought out a baby so the father, a young black lieutenant (rare then), could check out his daughter. He was furious: her coloring/pigment was very light, as is usually the case, and he said some unkind things.
But he was under stress. His wife had had some trouble, and he was trying to explain that she had some trouble with her `taint.’ Pressed for details, he said “Well, it ain’t pussy and it ain’t ass-hole. We figured out they had to do an episeotomy (sp?).
Don’t get me wrong with the above list, most black folks are good people. What makes most of us mad is, if the assailants had been white, well then bottom feeders like Al Sharpton would have been on this like a pitbull on a t-bone.
And we know this is the last we’ll hear of either of these stories, but we’ll continue to read of similar things happening in different places.