BET: 60% of Black Girls are Sexually Abused By 18

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So thankful me and my sisters were raised in a upper middle class environment :sas2:
This. It's much more prevalent in poverty but it's not exclusive to African descendants.
 

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I feel like the numbers could be even higher, so much goes unreported. I know women who even told their mothers, who did not believe them

So much healing needs to be done its a vicious cycle

The vast majority of women i've talked to have shared a sexual abuse story.

If someone told me it was 85% i wouldn't blink
 

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Hard to get a handle on actual prevalence of sexual abuse b/c we can't trust statistics produced in our community b/c there is clearly an agenda to paint blk men and blk women as the worst group on the planet. The males ain't wrong about this.

At the same time we can't trivialize abuse happening to both black female AND male children at the hands of blk men AND blk women.

If I had to estimate I would say about 40% of blk children go through this. And that might be a conservative number. The sexual abuse and other abuse is happening not because blk men are the bougiemen in our race but b/c of the large number of children born to OOW homes. I keep reiterating this bc it's important.

The majority of children born to our race are born in single family homes to only 3 million blk women who have multiple blk baby daddies.
It's a pool of 7-8 million blk men and women out of 47 million blks fukking irresponsibly and they are the ONLY ones making babies.



This is a blk male AND blk female failure issue. Poverty can be a breeding ground for abuse. The gender war bullshyt gotta stop. People gotta stop hiding behind dikk and p*ssy solidarity when it comes to calling this shyt out.
Also this no snitching culture has been wrongly applied to aspects of the blk community and that creates vulnerability too.
 
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Ah. Male entitlement at its finest. :russ:

You don't get to define what another persons perception of harassment is. Period.

A woman walking from the store to her car may not want to be gawked at, and have comments made about her physical appearance.:comeon:

Take the compliment ,respond or ignore

And move on

Its not bout what u want
 

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Happy BET brought light to it - nothing is wrong with a healthy discussion on it
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On the other hand I would love to see BET (and the media in general) take it a step further and stop promoting some of the music and music videos that have a correlation to the sexual abuse that is happening in our community :ufdup:
 

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i believe it.

hell a dude hugging a chick and slowly putting his hand on her butt is considered abuse, if unwanted.
 

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It says very terrible things about the men in our culture. It's a staple in the Black community to have an "uncle" that you can't leave the kids around. The shyt is out of control.
Look I get that, I even have close family members that were sexually abused, and the remnants are still felt by them til this day, like the incident happened yesterday or a few hours ago, I get that. But to say that this type of thing happens in Most black households sounds far fetched....
 

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If 60% of black girls are abused before 18 then the boys cant be that far behind. We need to find the root cause of abuse in our community.

The major root cause is the sexual abuse that African-Americans suffered from whites from the 1600s to the 1970s. It's the part of our history that we really don't want to talk about and try so hard to cover up because of the shame. We know about the master-on-slave rape and the sex/breeding farms of the slavery era but we don't talk about how sharecroppers used to give their children up to white land owners in exchange for money, food, and favor (if the children weren't just taken). We don't talk about how white women would pick out young black girls for their husbands to rape because they thought it was less embarrassing than their husbands sleeping with other white women. We don't talk about how those old-school gay rights organizations would go down south and pay to watch black people have sex. We don't talk about how white women used to rape black men ("Have sex with me or I'll say you raped me.") and then have them lynched if anyone found out. We don't want to talk about how black women created an entire set of rules concerning their conduct (never wear red, never smile in pictures) in the hopes of dissuading white men from becoming aroused and raping them. We are swimming in the midst of generations worth of sexual dysfunction as the result of being forced to function as a prostitute class for white people. We can't fix the problem until we're willing to face the truth and heal our pain.
 
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