You Hit Like A Girl ~ The Dilemma of The Urban Black Female I’ll never forget a situation in Spike Lee’s movie “Malcolm X”, which turned out to be the most memorable analysis in the entire movie for me. Malcolm X, played by Denzel Washington, was dating an educated, sweet and shy Black girl named Laura. Although she gave him the okay to seduce her, he declined because he felt that she was too good for him and he didn’t want to tarnish her. Good guy, right? Not quite. Instead he dumps (or saves) her and gets with an experienced and lustful White woman named Sophia. To make a long story short, Laura ends up becoming a prostitute. Why, you ask? Because she wanted to be desired as Malcolm X had desired Sophia. It didn’t matter that he didn’t want to ruin her. What ultimately mattered was that he wanted the other more sexual woman. And thus ...