Posted on 04/30/2010 5:34:12 AM PDT by walford
...A criminal wouldn’t be a criminal if he were loved more and society supported him, therefore it’s society’s fault that he is committing the fill-in-the-blank crime.
So who is to blame, then, when a black man rapes a woman? Would it be the rapist? No.
What follows is the harrowing and cognitively dissonant account of a woman’s rape at the hands of a black man she considered a friend. Her name is Amanda Kijera and here is her story:
Two weeks ago, on a Monday morning, I started to write what I thought was a very clever editorial about violence against women in Haiti. The case, I believed, was being overstated by women’s organizations in need of additional resources. Ever committed to preserving the dignity of black men in a world which constantly stereotypes them as violent savages, I viewed this writing as yet one more opportunity to fight “the man” on behalf of my brothers. That night, before I could finish the piece, I was held on a rooftop in Haiti and raped repeatedly by one of the very men who I had spent the bulk of my life advocating for.
It hurt. The experience was almost more than I could bear. I begged him to stop. Afraid he would kill me, I pleaded with him to honor my commitment to Haiti, to him as a brother in the mutual struggle for an end to our common oppression, but to no avail. He didn’t care that I was a Malcolm X scholar. He told me to shut up, and then slapped me in the face. Overpowered, I gave up fighting halfway through the night.
She continues:
Truly, I have witnessed as a journalist and human rights advocate the many injustices inflicted upon black men in this world. The pain, trauma and rage born of exploitation are terrors that I have grappled with every day of my life. They make one want to strike back, to fight rabidly for what is left of their personal dignity in the wake of such things. Black men have every right to the anger they feel in response to their position in the global hierarchy, but their anger is misdirected.
Women are not the source of their oppression; oppressive policies and the as-yet unaddressed white patriarchy which still dominates the global stage are. Because women — and particularly women of color — are forced to bear the brunt of the black male response to the black male plight, the international community and those nations who have benefited from the oppression of colonized peoples have a responsibility to provide women with the protection that they need.
Yes it does, since she claims to be grateful for the experience of being raped.
Cheney, Rove and Bush.
Wow. It’s rare to see racism so boldly displayed.
And speaking as a Jew... whenever you see the words “white male patriarchy,” just substitute the words “world Zionist conspiracy” to see what the feelings and the goals of the believers are really all about.
Yea, “neo-conservative” was a buzz-word for conservative Jew also.
Well, semen is white, so...
That is so 2008. It's either "teabaggers", "birthers", or "Sarah Palin" now.
Typical lib reaction -- she had already predetermined her conclusion (vis a vis the article she was writing), and therefore had to distort the facts and her analysis of them to fit that outcome.
Team Obama isn’t finished blaming him yet.
good post
I don’t agree.
Some folks are born bent bad.
Dare I suggest that she might have some kind of sick fantasy.
what u said...anyone has a lot of kids already knows this
good behavior is taught...not completely inherent
sure a baby knows instinctively that crushing puppy skulls is wrong but such horror is fleeting...in the next second they will hit their sibling with a bat over a popscicle
what u said...anyone has a lot of kids already knows this
good behavior is taught...not completely inherent
sure a baby knows instinctively that crushing puppy skulls is wrong but such horror is fleeting...in the next second they will hit their sibling with a bat over a popscicle
exactly! implicit in her statement is that if the perp was murdering white men, it would be OK. That is one psycho hose-bag but she clearly displays the kind of thinking that allows one to murder countless innocents with the approval of ones own conscience.
They never stopped the 2008 campaign.
That is correct.
ROFL ROFL
Yes, you are right, but because she BELIEVES she is right, then she is right in the land of Obama.
She has her life story on the web, I found this snippet:
“I had long wanted to visit Haiti. Let me tell you why. Growing up in Ohio, I encountered physical, sexual and emotional abuse in my home. I ran away often and worked as a teenage prostitute in order to survive the streets. My refuge, aside from God, was my local public library; it was there that I found I could escape the limitations of my reality through reading and self-improvement. It was also there that I discovered, around the age of 13, a book whose cover bore an engraving of a white man beating a kneeling Black woman with a whip. I identified immediately with the image and the reality, but the book was about Haiti and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Cracking that book opened a door for me that I will eternally be grateful for having walked through...it introduced me to my brothers and sisters in the struggle for human liberation and it empowered me to suffer through my own circumstances with dignity and self-love, a must for survivors of individual and structural violence!
I came out of foster care armed with a love of self-teaching and a wholehearted belief in self-motivation. Using these tools, I put myself through both high school and college, while shaping a journalism career from scratch that has resulted in two Associated Press awards and a United Nations reviewed publication on Afrodescendant quality of life. I have traveled to 35 cities in eight countries and have presented my scholarship and research abroad on several occasions. My experiences, both personal and professional, have shown me that when we are in possession of the knowledge and self-love that we need as individuals, there is little that can stop us from achieving our dreams!”
I do believe I've detected the root of her real problem right here.
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