My birthday was okay - I got a massage - that was great! Sold a piece of furniture - that was good, I needed money for books and I needed more space//I had a date but decided to stay in instead//Its like I got weirded out by my birthday and felt like being alone//My mom didn't call me//my brothers didn't call me//Most of my friends e-mailed me, some from myspace and sg//so weird, I get e-mailed from total strangers to wish me a good birthday, but not from family///goddamn family is so fucked up sometimes//I think I try too hard to get something from them that they aren't able to give me, How hard is it to make a fucking phone call? I don't feel like I am treated like I treat them (the fam). Inspite of the rant, it felt really good to receive happy wishes from people I know and don't know and I am gratefull for them 
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She was given to the brother of her master in the early 1900's in Briain. Britain abolished slavery in 1918, but still had black servants just w/o ownership. Sarah Bartman was taken to
England b/c of the British facination w/ unusual sexual organs. They were up until this time (scientific community) defining humans by their similiar sexual organs, among other phenotypic characteristics.
Sara had a pronounced buttocks that was a facination to the Brits and French. She was put into a freak show and her keeper made money off of her, as millions lined up to see this woman unlike any they had ever seen.
It disgusted me and I felt depressed after seeing this film to say the least, I was angry. I am disgusted the way early Anthropologists treated her and made her different using science as a form of racism. I know it is different now, rather I hope it is. At this point I question being an Anthropologist. It doesn't have a noble beginning.
Although the scientific community was really trying to understand our species and tried to classify everything and everyone by how it appeared physically. Hence, the inception of racism not yet born, just in the gestation period. racism won't come about until the British immigrants start taking land from the Native Americans. Interestingly enough, the Brits do the same thing to the Irish a couple of hundreds of years before coming to America. The Irish were considered less than as a people to the Brits.
I just wanted to acknowledge Sara Bartman this morning and let some people know about her. After she died, Cuvier (an early Anthro/Scientist) had her body casted in a plastic form and cut her genitalia out as well as her brain. I really dislike Cuvier, he is the second ANthro/Scientist that I used to admire but have come to despise. Franz Boas is the secfond I have come to dislike. Mainly their ethics of obtaining data and materials for the scientific community.