article_snippet: Slut, ho, hussy, heifer, bitch -- long before I ever heard those words flow in a rap song, I heard Slut, ho, hussy, heifer, bitch first in my own home, my own neighborhood.
article_snippet: And too many times, Slut, ho, hussy, heifer, bitch were directed toward me or one of my grade-school girlfriends.
article_snippet: You see, for generations, black girls have been so conditioned to being called these over-sexualized names -- first by our slave masters, then our mothers, sisters, friends and eventually the world --
article_snippet: Just about every day in my old neighborhood, a playmate would get called out of a playmate name for violating an unspoken rule about how a 9-year-old girl should behave: "Get your trifflin' ass in the house, you little hussy.
article_snippet: Every little girl I knew heard that rant, including Every little girl I knew.
article_snippet: And as kids do, it wasn't long before we were all giggling and calling one another those very same names.
article_snippet: at least I didn't back then, but in my black neighborhood, often the conversation between mothers and daughters was not pretty.
highlights_snippet: Jones: Black girls conditioned from young age by culture and even family to accept being called over-sexualized names .
  