Why is “black” in the title? That doesn’t seem relevant to the story. A mother killed her daughter. That is horrible enough. White mothers, unfortunately, do the same thing.
The author is black and is calling out abuse in the black community.
Because that is the subject that content creator Tommy Sotomyer reports about and criticizes.
Good point. It has a lot to do with confirmation bias in both creating the title and consuming it. This helps some folks feel better about themselves, somehow distanced from the evil deeds of humanity.
Not so often...
That is true; and the murder of any child is one murder too many.
Of concern is that the aggregate number of children killed by their mother is almost the same by blacks or by whites (577/white, 549/black in 2022), while the percentage of blacks in the population is around 13% and the percentage of whites around 67%—making the rate of maternal filicide approximately FIVE TIMES higher among black mothers than white mothers.
These charts provide another indicator -- approximately five times more black children than white children grow up in fatherless homes.
The OP is about Tommy Sotomayor's outrage, and he is known for speaking out about the need for reform among people of his own race. I do not agree with him that women are solely responsible; but if anyone is going to call out black people for any type of behavior, it is better coming from a black commentator than any other.
Happens thousands of times every day. Mothers are uniquely empowered to kill children ... it's a sacred right. Or perhaps, rite.