History: Black Women and Rape

[jimnyc]

Good. I feel like I'm in the third grade when I say stuff like that.

Boys still hit girls at that age, I woulda socked you in the head if I knew you at that age.

[Wind Song]

Boys still hit girls at that age, I woulda socked you in the head if I knew you at that age.

I woulda kicked you where it hurts.

[jimnyc]

I woulda kicked you where it hurts.

You wouldn't have been the first. Women always resort to cheating like that.

[ConHog]

I woulda kicked you where it hurts.

I've heard that if you kick Jim in the dick you'd break some homeless guy's jaw.

[Wind Song]

You wouldn't have been the first. Women always resort to cheating like that.

Third grade dom tee hee

[Trigg]

The history of the rape crisis movement in the United States is also a history of the struggle of African American women against racism and sexism. During slavery, the rape of enslaved women by white men was common and legal. After slavery ended, sexual and physical violence, including murder, were used to terrorize and keep the Black population from gaining political or civil rights. The period of Reconstruction from 1865 to 1877, directly following the Civil War, when freed slaves were granted the right to vote and own property, was particularly violent. White mobs raped Black women and burned churches and homes. The Ku Klux Klan, founded in 1866 in Tennessee, was more organized. The Klan raped Black women, lynched Black men, and terrorized Black communities. Propaganda was spread that all Black men were potential rapists, all white women potential victims. The results and legacy of such hatred were vicious. Thousands of Black men were lynched between Emancipation and World War II, with the false charge of rape a common accusation. Rape laws made rape a capital offense only for a Black man found guilty of raping a white woman. The rape of a Black woman was not even considered a crime, even when it became officially illegal.(1)
http://calcasa.org/education/history...isis-movement/

I trust you know what year it is, so I won't remind you.

The MAJORITY of Black women are raped by black men.

I commend them for being in the forfront of education and I also commend them for reporting it.

Rape is not a racial issue in this county any more.

Once again you are playing the victim.

NO ONE disagrees with you when you say "rape is bad". The problem is you keep bringing up slavery 150yrs ago and Jim Crow 70yrs ago and attributing that to Black women today who DO NOT REPORT RAPES BY BLACK MEN

[Wind Song]

I trust you know what year it is, so I won't remind you.

The MAJORITY of Black women are raped by black men.

I commend them for being in the forfront of education and I also commend them for reporting it.

Rape is not a racial issue in this county any more.

Once again you are playing the victim.

NO ONE disagrees with you when you say "rape is bad". The problem is you keep bringing up slavery 150yrs ago and Jim Crow 70yrs ago and attributing that to Black women today who DO NOT REPORT RAPES BY BLACK MEN

That's not the point. The thread discusses what ALL American women owe black women regarding the Rape Crisis Movement.

[ConHog]

That's not the point. The thread discusses what ALL American women owe black women regarding the Rape Crisis Movement.

That is NOT why you originally started the thread.

[Wind Song]

That is NOT why you originally started the thread.

Really? You're a mind reader? Here is what I said on the first page: "Give black women credit for being at the forefront of the movement."

[SassyLady]

That's not the point. The thread discusses what ALL American women owe black women regarding the Rape Crisis Movement.

Wow...I Read this whole thread and that was not what I thought you were trying to say at all. Maybe next time you can state this up front and then post links to articles to support your assertion.

I thought the point of the thread was to vilify white slave owners...which has already been done ad naseum.

[Wind Song]

Wow...I Read this whole thread and that was not what I thought you were trying to say at all. Maybe next time you can state this up front and then post links to articles to support your assertion.

I thought the point of the thread was to vilify white slave owners...which has already been done ad naseum.

Apparently, you didn't read my words early on. Women in America owe black women a great deal.

[Wind Song]

Check post 5, 8 and 1.

This thread is not about vilifying slave owners. It is more about recognizing the contribution black women have had to the Rape Crisis Movement.

[SassyLady]

Apparently, you didn't read my words early on. Women in America owe black women a great deal.

I believe that. I also believe women in America owe women of all races a great deal for all the courageous things we've done and accomplished.

[Trigg]

That's not the point. The thread discusses what ALL American women owe black women regarding the Rape Crisis Movement.

NO,

The article YOU posted discusses black women and rape.

NO women, myself included, owe black women anything regarding the rape crisis movement.

Women have been raped by men throughout history.

Black women NOT REPORTING RAPE, in this century has nothing to do with slavery or the Jim Crow laws.

black women are raped by black men and white women are raped by white men, MOST OF WHOM ARE KNOWN TO THE WOMEN.

I commend anyone who reports a rape, no matter how painful it may be to stand up, it takes an incredable amount of courage to talk about something so personal.

[SassyLady]

Check post 5, 8 and 1.

This thread is not about vilifying slave owners. It is more about recognizing the contribution black women have had to the Rape Crisis Movement.

I'm sorry if I misunderstood your intent. Your first post stated that once upon a time it was not a crime to rape black women. I thought that was your premise...the crime and not the contribution by black women.