updated from December 4, 2024"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James BaldwinSi
When people say, “No one is a slave today. Slavery is over.”
Here is a collective of articles related to Kansas’s decades-long race and sex-based tragedy.
“Why don’t Black women call the police?”
“Why don’t Black people just work with the police?”
“Why didn’t she report?”
“Why are Black women less likely to report?”
Even some of my white female colleagues, women’s rights advocates, expressed the opinion that Black women past and present don’t call the police because we “take violence too lightly“.
They didn’t appear interested or curious about some of the real reasons.
At some point, as a Black person, you get tired of responding to people who have no tangible connection to your community acting as self-appointed experts because “they saw something on t.v., read a book, saw this video, or like hip-hop.”
Ongoing Outside Interference
There are generations-old unspoken reasons that crimes against women and children grow in minoritized communities. That substance use grows. That mental health deteriorates.
Like the not-new and not-uncommon reasons you are about to read about. Historic. Tradition for this country, at this point.
Everyone knows that abuse of power is about as old as human existence and far too prevalent.
Everyone knows that until…..a Black person, especially a Black woman or girl speaks about it from experience.
“How you gone win when you ain’t right within?” Lauryn Hill