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Stephgirl
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Post Number: 37
Registered: 09-2005

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Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 12:54 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

To all,

What are your thoughts on the 1891 John Singer Sargent painting of the Egyptian girl? I believe she was of mixed race, of black and arabic parentage. She may have been a slave, given the nature of the painting. Here's the link at:

http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/Egyptian_Girl.htm

and a critical essay on the painting at:

http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/printer_page.cfm?key=230

What you say about this?

Stephanie
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Misty
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Post Number: 78
Registered: 02-2006

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Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 01:17 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

she certaily has some of our features....she looks like a lto of mixed people here in america. The lips give it away along wiht the hair texture and yellowish tanned skin
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Abm
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Post Number: 4461
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Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 02:59 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Naw!

A$$ is WAAAAAY to saggy too have descended from West Africa.

WAAAAAY too saggy!!!
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Zuriburi
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Post Number: 93
Registered: 11-2005

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Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 06:21 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

LOL! ABM.

I was thinking the same thing.
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Roxie
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Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 07:30 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Maybe she inherited the butt from her arab parent? ^^'
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Abm
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Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 02:08 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Roxie: "Maybe she inherited the butt from her arab parent?"

Poor girl got the bad end of the family tree.
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Schakspir
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Post Number: 211
Registered: 12-2005

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Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 04:38 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

East Africans are usually tall and skinny, and not all of them have large asses. Arab women are usually short and have humongous butts.
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Misty
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Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 07:26 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

but what i've noticed is that even a lot of the africans with small asses still have asses that sit up kind of high and don't droop.

maybe roxie is right, she probably inherited the ass from an arab parent and most arabs i've seen in america don't have an ass that sits up high.
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Misty
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Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 07:40 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

well that is unless they excercize it and build it up with weights. but you get my point...a high behind is just not "naturally" there when it comes to most arabs.
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Tonya
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Post Number: 2063
Registered: 07-2005

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Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 07:43 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I never knew what people meant when they'd refer to sagging behinds since I never saw one before. Now I understand thanks that painting (yikes!). I'll never complain about my ass again! From now on I'm content with having no ass at all--nassatall, lol.

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