Dr. Vibe asks a group of African American men why aren’t more people talking about the number of Black women getting killed by police
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Dr. Vibe asks a group of African American men why aren’t more people talking about the number of Black women getting killed by police.
I think the first thing that needs to be addressed is that unlike black women, the mistreatment of black men is only brought up because they are black as if gender has nothing to do with it. With that in mind let’s not act like the lack of action on what happens to black women is some sort of sexism that benefits men.
To the GMP editors. This seems to have been pulled off the front page within hours of publication., buried in the interwebs The conversation may not have taken the turn it was expected to have taken, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not a conversation worth having especially for a men’s site. Why did everyone assume that the “silence” (limited discussion) was an example of media bias / social bias against women and why does this view seem to be so at odds with the “facts on the ground”. If women are always victims / always oppressed in the mind… Read more »
Every unnecessary death is a tragedy, but according to the Washington Post 5 black women were killed by police in 2015 compared to 365 men (171 white men).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fatal-police-shootings-in-2015-approaching-400-nationwide/2015/05/30/d322256a-058e-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-national
Maybe it’s being over shadowed because men are being killed at almost 20 times the rate.
What John Anderson said. To put it another way: boys and men are victims of domestic violence and rape too, so why aren’t more people discussing it?
@ peterpedro And when you look at the victimization rates, black men are over 95% of black people killed by police and men in general are about 93% of people killed by police. Compare that to DV and rape. Male victimization rates are estimated to be as high as over 50%. The broader the definition of DV and rape and scope the greater the victimization rate of men increases. When prison rape is included in overall rape statistics male victimization rates go up. When non-penetrative rape is recognized, male victimization rates increase. When child sexual abuse is included male victimization… Read more »