I’ve been doing research on mob violence against black women, an underacknowledged trauma in black history and cultural memory. When I read this headline in The NY Times, “Woman, 20, Was Imprisoned and Tortured, Police Say,” my instincts told me she was black, even though the headline didn’t say so. It will be interesting to follow this case and to see how much support antiracist activists and feminists will offer this young woman.
“What about our daughters?” has a detailed write-up on the case as well as the heinous gang rape of a mother and her son in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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The latest update is that they aren’t being charged with a hate crime.This is absolutely ridiculous. But of course, I’m not surprised. http://www.dailymail.com/display_story.php?sid=2007091276&format=prn
They may be assuming that since she had previously dated a man who was a member of the family that those folks couldn’t be racist, which is so far from the truth.
I agree. Of course what they are saying publicly is that they can get a harsher sentence is they prosecute it under the other laws. So calling her a “n—” and telling her that they are torturing her because she is black doesn’t constitute a hate crime. Also I have two words: Thomas Jefferson. And I’m not gonna cuss in your blog like I do in my own out of respect but I really want to!