That officer knowingly chose women who were less likely to report him. Women who were black and who were known by police to have a criminal history with drugs or prostitution (except for his last victim, who did not have a criminal record and reported him). He made them completely powerless. For that he is a giant…

All about them respectability politics. If you aren't a member of the majority group, you're always stuck proving that you're one of the "good ones" who deserves respect and has value. It's bad enough on its own. It's worse when the some of the oppressed people end up buying into it themselves. :(

Not all white people feel this way. I'm white. I can't empathize with you, but I have sympathy for these victims. I cannot excuse or make excuses for what some people do. But not everybody feels that way.

Not all of us non-black people feel this way.

I agree with you 100%. Even as a white woman who has been raped more than once, I openly acknowledge that other groups (notably, black women) are more victimized than mine.

Sexism is a whole different beast when it's crossed with racism. The ugliness of sexism is real and oppressive but the intersectionality of sexism and racism is intolerable. In Canada, it is First Nations women who bear the weight of this cross.

Holtzclaw, an Oklahoma City police officer, is alleged to have forced eight women, all of them black, to have sex with him or face arrest.

Given that, as reported above, 1 in 16 WoC report assaults, this data point seems suspect. Additionally, it doesn't mean that only zero to ten black females were sexually assaulted at all that year. Perhaps people stopped breaking it down that way is because the information does absolutely nothing for the problem at…

The pages in support of him are sickening...basically a lot of comparison to the Duke Lacrosse case and a bunch of racist memes.

The man raped a group of women and people set up a go fund me for him? Not only that but people donated thousands of dollars to it? I wonder if these people would have been so giving with their money/support if the victims were white women (probably but the support definitely wouldn't have been to this level)? This is…

What does this have to do with the article at all? Also, seems we are talking about reported assault here whereas the whole article talks about how often WoC are afraid to even report the crime?

Why is it, that every single damn time, that a person of color dies, has a crime committed against them, or does something amazing, the mainstream media always feels the need to say "they were _____ and _____ and participated in ______ so therefore, they're one of the good ones." That shit is infuriating, because it…

What's really weird is that this isn't technically revenge porn. He didn't upload it because his ex pissed him off. . . he uploaded a video of someone he was happily in a relationship with.

She didn't actually agree, she was abused into agreeing. That is different.

Because abusers know how to pick there victims. Believe me, the grooming started long before he pulled out that contract for her to sign.

I'm no lawyer but I'm willing to bet "Slave Contracts" are not actually legally binding so the terms don't really matter do they?

ITS COOL, BARRY. I STILL LOVE YOU EVEN THOUGH SOMETIMES I DISAGREE WITH THINGS YOU DO LIKE WHEN YOU SAY THE WORD 'FOLKS' AMONG OTHER MORE IMPORTANT THINGS

I think his suit looks great on him. It's August and that is clearly a summer suit. I think a badass bright tie would have made it look even more amazing. In conclusion, he looks good and people are stupid.

Really? I thought it was a nice change from dark suit after dark suit. Go on with yourself, Barack.

If this is the worst suit anyone has ever seen, they must not have had their eyes open during the 90s-mid 2000s.