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"We made it as a tribute to women, because African women are defined by the shape of their bottoms," he says.

I know a bunch of Ivory Coast and Liberian folk. I've not seen an especial emphasis on the size and shape of a woman's butt. This is far more overshadowed by just the general level of mad copulatory mania. Virtually everyone has someone else on the side. In a group that comprises over a hundred people, I know of 5 guys who are actually living with their "wife" and most of them have several other "little wives" on the side. Most of the boys dress and act like rapper videos and most of the girls dress like whores. I know of one 18 year old who was involved with a 25 year old woman (who is just plain nuts even by the standards of the other Liberian women) at the same time he's involved with a 17-year-old and who got a 14-year-old in another state pregnant. The Liberian/Ivorian women basically just tut-tut and laugh it off, even his filming of his activities with the 25-year-old and printing out inch thick stacks of photos that he gave to them. Why? Because it is behavior that is totally within the norm of their particular socio-economic group in Liberia. They are all uniformly illiterate, steeped in magic, fear of witches and spells, lovers of pro-wrestling and Jerry Springer.

A study in the not-too-distant past has about 50% of all Liberian women have had their first child by the age of 15 and over 90% by the age of 19. I know of one who was ridiculed as being an "old woman" with a "sick womb" because she had not yet gotten pregnant by the age of 18 or 19. I saw her 15 year old niece bragging to some 11 year old girls at a party that next year she was the one who was going to be pregnant.

Yet they look down on American blacks as having no character. And these are folks who are church-goers. I've heard them say that God doesn't expect us to live without sin because that's what forgiveness is for.