jemima looks differently right now, just walk up to a black woman and call her and jemima. she might look benign but i dare you to do it. [laughter] and yet when i talk to people about it, i did this exercise when i was working on the book. no matter what i was researching i would ask people at the end of the conversation what you think about and jemima? and they would be like what? i will tell you why i'm asking the question in a minute that do me a favor and tell me what you thing. what i realized is that many people, black people have many views on this and many white americans had confiscated views in a different way. i found a woman who runs a restaurant and natchez mississippi if you have ever been there. it is a gigantic and jemima but she is so large that the restaurant is in her hoop skirt. and she too has had a makeover. she has lighter skin and she has a reduction. but the woman who runs the restaurant said i don't understand why people of color denigrate her. why they don't embrace her. i was like,-- in my community so many of us were raised by women of color wh

under the headline and jemima is coming to town. what she said as she would focus on children in these towns because she knew this was the first time they would see a person of color and wanted them to be left with a good impression. she would talk in a certain way to let her know she was educated. this ring true for me even though i had a hard time imagining her because this was a very polished church woman but that rang true because of the kids. did you leave the g at the door? could you finish the words? not i am going somewhere but i am going somewhere. what she did was worked in her own way. by presenting this image of singing church songs was very different from what you would have encountered if he picked up a newspaper or magazine because and jemima didn't look like her now. and she spoke with a certain slave patois which was supposed to let you know that she was uneducated and fairly happy with her life. what i wound up doing was giving my family a gift in filling out pictures of my mom and her siblings and other folks hate