11:55am July 24, 2013

“I imagine if Trayvon had been a black girl, she might have been raped and then murdered. Her story would have never made national headlines; if anything, a short blurb in a local paper’s crime section. Her family and maybe some friends and acquaintances from the community would have held a vigil in her honor. The perpetrator, if apprehended, would have claimed that she asked for it, probably citing her clothing or the way that she walked as responsible for her sexual assault. The perpetrator would have then blamed her (justified) anger and attempts at breaking free for the homicide, the combination of her “angry black woman” sass and jezebel-like hypersexuality provoking him to rape and then kill her. And that, that would have been the end. There would have been no Million Mini-Skirt March. The NAACP would not have urged the Department of Justice to file civil rights charges against her attacker. She would have just been dead, and most likely forgotten, if ever remembered at all.”

Am I A Race Traitor? Trayvon Martin, Gender Talk, and Invisible Black Women | The Feminist Wire (via guerrillamamamedicine)

This is 1,000% true. This isn’t to detract from Trayvon’s story, and all the love and support we’ve rightfully shown for him, but this is the honest truth on what it’s like to be a Black woman in this country.

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