No, completely the opposite. She is not claiming victimhood at all, because it was her choice to begin with. This is a cultural thing, and she is encouraging black women to change the culture:
WE have to change. Black women especially. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, blacks have 51 percent higher obesity rates than whites do. We’ve got to do better. I’ve weighed more than 200 pounds. Now I weigh less. It will always be a battle.
My goal is to be the last fat black woman in my family. For me that has meant swirling exercise into my family culture, of my own free will and volition. I have my own personal program: walk eight miles a week, sleep eight hours a night and drink eight glasses of water a day.
I call on every black woman for whom it is appropriate to commit to getting under 200 pounds or to losing the 10 percent of our body weight that often results in a 50 percent reduction in diabetes risk. Sleeping better may be key, as recent research suggests that lack of sleep is a little-acknowledged culprit in obesity. But it is not just sleep, exercise and healthy foods we need to solve this problem — we also need wisdom.
I expect obesity will be like alcoholism. People who know the problem intimately find their way out, then lead a few others. The few become millions.
A lot of self destructive aspects in the American Black culture have evolved out of reaction to slavery and hatred and resentment towards the white race. In everything, unforgiveness is poison to the ones who wallow in it.
The demand that Blacks don’t “act white” has been enacted in very destructive ways like, don’t act law abiding, don’t act like a good student, don’t act good, happy, nice or polite, don’t act successful, don’t act rational, don’t act cooperative nor caring... It was boiled down to don’t act civilized.
Christianity should be a help in this melt down because it is based in the understanding and miracle of forgivness which is release from enslavement to every kind of evil.
But Black church leaders, in order to keep themsleves segregated and entitled, reject the very foundation of their own faith in order to nurture hatred and rage against the white race in the name of evil slavery.
The Rev. Jesse Jacksons, Rev. Wrights, etc. are a dime a dozen ensuring the Black race are never delivered from evil by Jesus. They nurture racism, resentment and entitlement in the name of Jesus.