Elle Driver
Veteran
The number of black on white rapes that are reported are higher than white on black rapes, and that's the basis bigots use as their 'proof'.
Till wasn't even flirting with that white woman. There were conflicting stories, but for all intents and purposes he at best MAY have whistled at her. Its been also said that he had some sort of a speech problem when he spoke, and he whistled (correct me if I'm wrong). I watched a few Till documentaries last year and I remember that being mentioned as a theory.
Don't forget even looking at a white woman was against the law. Did you know even looking at a movie poster with a white woman was punishable? There were similar laws made later on for Asian men as well when white men started to notice that a lot of Chinese males were marrying white women.
Bigots talk about black people rioting don't have anything to say about white people who rioted and killed black men, women and children because a black man brushed past a white woman by an elevator (Tulsa) or a white woman who was cheating on her husband lied after being beaten by her male mistress that it was a black man (Rosewood). White women were doing some of the killing themselves. I highly recommend watching John Singleton's movie on Rosewood and documentaries on Black Wallstreet.
Bigots (and their allies) use modern day statistics for proof that black people have things like "higher sex drive" "more out of wedlock children" "higher violent rates" etc. But if that were true, shouldn't those numbers been just as high from the very beginning? The eventual changes in American society affects everyone. As the numbers rise for white folks, it does for everyone else.
Black people had thriving immunities once (and they destroyed it, literally). Europeans had been interacting with Africans for thousands of years but only realized they were inferior in the 16th century?
When Europeans decided they wanted to take over the world, that is when they created racism.
Good points you brought up, the black on white rapes statistic has to be wrong though. I've seen it myself at college, white men preyed on black women (including me) and would intentionally try to get them drunk so they could rape them. They have a sick fantasy and fetish for black women because they believe they have ownership to our bodies. A lot of the conquistadors used to write accounts about how mind blowingly perfectly portioned black women were, but that they were savages so they couldn't be treated like human beings.