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I will never forget years ago seeing a bunch of black women complaining (it was either on Oprah or Donahue) that they'd been wearing cornrows for eons, and it was only when Bo Derek wore them in "10" that the hairstyle got any attention. They also took the time to bitch about black actress Vanessa Williams, who was trying to (in their eyes) disassociate herself from her blackness because she had green contact lenses.

Some people are never satisfied. Unhappy, bitter people will always find something to pick at. When did 10 come out? Isn't that movie old? Were these women who were complaining as attractive as Bo Derek? It was just a movie so please. AS for Vanessa Williams she herself comes from a mixed race family. If she were any whiter, she'd look like me. These are the same types that wrote reams of letters about Mariah Carey being a white girl trying to sing black, but then backed off a little when everyone found out her dad was a black hispanic from Venezuela. Now they still pick on her because she asserts her multiracial heritage and has a close bond with her mom. You can never win with hateful, meanspirited people.