Debbie Schlussel: New Book: "The Black Man's Guide to How to Cheat on Your Woman"
This one needs no explanatory commentary, other than to say that the author of an adultery guide for Black men has come to Detroit to market it, thinking that since Kwame "The Kingpin" Kilpatrick is Hizzoner, Detroit men might want to emulate the man they elected:
For three days, he's been tooling around Detroit in his infidelity mobile, a tricked-out GMC Suburban screenprinted to promote his 240-page guide to cheating "on your woman." . . ."Free text messaging to all mayors," and "The Book Kwame and Eliot (Spitzer) Didn't Read" are a couple of the slogans stuck to his SUV advertising his "cheat book." . . .
"I have experience," he says, "but I'm not an expert." Once a fan of Detroit's mayor ("As an African-American man, I noticed this leader of one of our biggest cities"), he's adapting quickly to the mayor's slide.
Not surprisingly, Keys' literary pedigree is grounded in advertising slogans and T-shirts. The owner of a Fayetteville T-shirt shop, he self-published the book. His bestselling T-shirt slogans?"Um, ah. I can't say it out loud," he admits, looking embarrassed, "but they did great at biker conventions."
The author of "The Black Man's Guide to How to Cheat on Your Woman," he seized on current events to add lessons on careful use of text messages. . . .
Skyra James, having read a chapter detailing quirks of "the full-figured woman with high self-esteem," hands him $15 for the book and thanks him. "Everyone's fascinated by infidelity," he says, with a shrug.
A question: Full-figured women have high self-esteem? Well, I guess they do with the explosion of stretchy clothes on QVC and Torrid stores with cross-your-heart hammocks, er . . . bras, and size 34 Golden Gate Bridge-sized thongs.
In any event, I bet this dude gets a lot of takers--or is that, "takas" ("TAY-kuz")?--for his book.
Exit questions: Why is this book targeted at Black men? Do they cheat in a different way? Is that the new "diversity" and celebrating "our differences"? Why does this guy feel the need to attempt confirm the worst stereotypes about his own ethnic group?
Just askin'.
Posted by Debbie on June 13, 2008 01:24 PM to Debbie Schlussel