2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Interrupting Bernie: Exposing the White Supremacy of the American Left" [View all]zazen
(2,978 posts)Why are you ignoring this issue? Is only the violence against POC by strangers important to you, but not intimate partners like that poor woman and her children who were murdered by her batterer (all African American) in Houston this past weekend?
Women murdered by violent partners know them, so it must be "natural" somehow and not worthy of a national movement where we disrupt presidential candidates and storm the stage. Oh, yeah, and there's the beating of a woman by an intimate partner every 7 seconds. Not to mention sexual violence and harassment by intimate and non-intimate partners.
Millions of women of all races in this country are slaughtered by their intimate partners and you behave like this is invisible. Women of color are particularly isolated in battering situations because of community guilt for turning in their partners, who are likely to face greater danger at the hands of police, and because criminal justice may in fact harm the woman herself. They statistically have less of a financial safety net to the degree that can help them safely leave. We won't even get into sex trafficking and pornography.
Where's your outrage about that? Why are you obsessed only with white stranger violence against mostly male African Americans and unwilling to look at how African American males are just as likely to batter as men of any other race? Why are you rendering African American and non POC women's experience invisible?
The most self-righteous human beings I've ever met are white people who want to call out other white people for racism. You are as human and flawed as the rest of us, but your behavior now is outright destructive. I am saddened by the change I see in you. You do not speak for African Americans and you're not God's appointed Jeremiah to lead us out of the wilderness of our supposed pervasive racism. Talk about blindness to your own white privilege. Sadly from someone who once respected you, Zazen