Don’t believe him, Tasha!

A Fresno, California based homemaker felt outraged after reading Tameka Foster Raymond’s Huffington Post essay not because of the subject matter but because she believed Foster tried to pass the work off as her own.

Who’s phony, who’s fake?

“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. Tears began rolling down my face as I read line after line after line. I couldn’t believe it. The idea that someone could gain notoriety from an issue that I first brought to the forefront is mindboggling. People were praising her for tackling an issue that had never been exposed. Hello?!? I wrote the book on it and started it years ago. The only difference between her article and my book is she used ‘dark-skinned’ and I used ‘Black.’ [continue]

Although perturbed by Foster’s alleged plagiarizing, Curry tells Black Voices that she hopes that the message of her book, Pretty For a Black Girl,  resonates with people. Reps from Margeaux Taylor [ahem] had no comment.