8 stats that reveal just how badly the police state hurts black women

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4. “It wasn’t possible for anyone to understand that she could have been in pain,”

Jordan-Zachery told AlterNet. “What we know from literature is that black women are somehow so strong that we can’t even experience physical pain or that our tolerance level for pain is so high that no one ever listens to black women when we say we are experiencing pain.”

I have seen that in life with white-to-black experiences. It would not surprise me if it was also true black-to-black. The burden of carrying that "strength" must be overwhelming at times.

The 8 stats reveal once again what an abomination our criminal "justice" system is, and how utterly cruel our police state treats AfAms.