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Black Church Complicit in Marking Black Females as Hypersexual
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
27 May 2019
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The Black church has preserved and fostered slavery-based views of Black female sexuality, causing Black women and girls to be labeled as “Jezebels,” said Tamura Lomax, author of Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture. “It begins at the point where Europeans first see Black bodies and begin to mark Black women as hypersexual beings,” said Lomax.begging bowl

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