Oprah Doesn't Know Everything
Huff PostAs I stepped from the podium, a young Black woman approached. Years earlier, Oprah, the Queen of talk television, addressed a Black woman on her couch, "I never met a Black person who was anorexic. Using data from a 10-year survey of more than 2,300 girls from the lowest income bracket in schools in California, Ohio and Washington, D.C, Economist Michelle Goeree, John Ham and Daniela Iorio found the following: Black girls scored an average of 17 percentage points higher than their white counterparts on the widely-used medical gauging of the severity of the bulimia. When I wrote my memoir chronicling my struggle with bulimia, Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat, I was excommunicated for spilling family secrets even though they were mine. After I revealed my past experience with bulimia two Black and two Latino girls shared their struggles with anorexia and bulimia.
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