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Hello, it’s me — your resident big, beautiful, Black woman here with a message for all of you who think that me and any other fat Black woman you may encounter are out here down bad, desperate, undesirable and looking for love simply because we are fat.
You are wrong.
I feel like I have to do this again, as I have done many times before because there’s a narrative that continues to be pushed about fat Black women that is both reductive and harmful to all of us.
In case you don’t get on social media or simply don’t care, a woman recently went viral for detailing how she had been taken in, married, and duped by a scammer.
Reesa Teesa, as she’s known, told her story in 52 parts in a series of TikTok videos she called “Who TF Did I Marry?” and people have not stopped talking about her or Legion, the man involved in the scandal.
I have not personally watched the videos, not because I am uninterested, but because I have the attention span of a toddler on sugar, and I don’t think I could sit that long to hear the whole thing out, but if you haven’t seen it, you can find it on her TikTok channel or read one of the many summaries of the drama available online.
To sum it up, Reesa said she met a man on a dating app in March 2020, married him in January 2021, and divorced him in August 2021. She ended up discovering the man was a pathological liar who misrepresented everything about himself including his finances, his personal relationships, and his job.
During a recent segment of “The Breakfast Club” with Charlamagne, Jess Hilarious, and DJ Envy, the topic of Reesa’s viral video series came up. After Jess Hilarious summarized the story for her two co-hosts, Charlamagne decided to get fat-phobic in his response.
“I’mma be honest with you, man,” he said. “I hear a…
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