![]() ![]() Although she argues persuasively that slavery is at the root of male-female conflicts in the African-American community, the casualness of her mother’s affairs are still heart-wrenching. Souljah’s description of her own youth is riveting. Page after page, she lovingly describes her luscious form, her perky “mangoes” and generous bottom.īorn Lisa Williamson, the 30-year-old artist grew up on welfare in public housing projects in New York and New Jersey and went on to Rutgers and Cornell before founding a summer camp in North Carolina for children of homeless families in her early 20s. ![]() Unfortunately, Souljah keeps getting sidetracked by ego-gratifying tangents. Rather, it aims to be a discourse on troubled relations between black men and women in America. uprising garnered the wrath of both President Clinton and George Bush while they were stumping in ’92. The book isn’t filled with the revolutionary musings one might have expected from a rapper whose heated remarks in support of the L.A. Throughout, “No Disrespect” is a queer duck. She should’ve been an actress: “Enough about me. It’s no wonder her dalliances have turned out disastrous. A more appropriate title for Sister Souljah’s first work of nonfiction might have been, “Smart Woman, Foolish Choices, II.” For although the self-proclaimed “raptivist” soundly details numerous underlying tensions between African-American men and women, what stays with the reader is her personal journey through one failed relationship after another. ![]()
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