Phat Tuesday.

A survey conducted by the Kaiser Foundation and the Washington Post found that African American women are heavier and happier with themselves than white women.  According to the WaPo article reporting the results, "although 41 percent of average-sized or thin white women report having high self-esteem, that figure was 66 percent among black women considered by government standards to be overweight or obese."  Also from the article:

In 2008, Heather Hausenblas,  a University of Florida professor of exercise physiology, co-wrote a study looking at the role the media played in body image among white and black women.  Both groups were exposed to the ideal tall, thin white woman's physique, and their moods were compared before and after.  White women felt badly about themselves after viewing the idealized physique; black women were unaffected.

Black women "are just not comparing themselves to these white models," Hausenblas says.  Caucasian women are internalizing the images; black women are not.

Even causasian males are prone to internalize the sight
of the tall uber thin white woman's physique, as writer
Jim Rash revealed at Sunday's Academy Awards.

Here's the link to the WaPo article:  http://tinyurl.com/6otlgnb