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Tameka Foster's recent blog entry for The Huffington Post hits a little too close to home for a self-published author.
When Tameka Foster posted the blog entry "She's Pretty for a Dark-Skinned Girl..." on The Huffington Post, both celebrities and regular women alike celebrated her blog message on Twitter and Facebook.
Unbeknownst to them, while they were saluting Usher Raymond's soon-to-be ex-wife's essay on skin complexion, author Aisha Curry, who wrote the book 'Pretty For a Black Girl' (AuthorHouse/$10.49) read the piece and felt outraged that her tome had been apparently been lifted and used by Foster, who allegedly passed the work off as her own.
Read Foster's full essay here.
"My heart sank into my stomach. All the hard work, all the sleepless nights I had endured was playing back in my head as I read this article written by a woman I didn't even know," Curry told BV Buzz. "Why did I feel so connected to this article? Suddenly, it came to me. It was my work! It was my work, my voice, but in her words. I was frozen.
Read the rest of this article on BlackVoices.com .
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Aisha Curry's claims of plagiarism are weak. The articles here on The Root and BlackVoices don't tell where Tameka Raymond actually lifted pages or even sentences from Ms. Curry's book. African-American women have heard those backhanded compliments about being pretty for a black and/or dark-skinned girl for years. Neither Curry nor Raymond is the first to address this issues. Raymond specifically wrote about it from the persective of being a dark-skinned woman. Curry's title suggests that she is addressing the issue of black beauty not being appreciated. I very seriously doubt that Raymond took the time to read an obscure self-published author's book and lifted ideas from it.
In the big scheme of all things, who really cares about this golddigger? Usher was just duped into marrying her anyway.