Another musing that I have: Intersectionality is being very efficiently employed here in public discourse, and I think that’s great. This is indeed a sex-and-race based hate crime.
Employing the same logic for Black women always seems to fail and get derailed, with the irony being that we literally invented the concept of intersectionality. I personally made a call to the NYPD hate crimes division after that Black woman got her face bitten in Harlem and they could not conceive that it was a hate crime, because it was a group of Black males. They said that verbatim even after I explained that hate crimes are also sex-based by legal statue. I was so irritated but gave up the venture after the victim decided to post about BM being kings. If those are still her kings, lemme save my daytime minutes and WiFi chile.
My mind is blown at the bolded. For real. Cause this is some important ish.
Its hard with BM. They too are not a monolith. What do you call the BM who stood out the door of that single mother and her child for weeks on guard when those WM were harassing her and her baby? I didn't see a bunch of sisters coming to her rescue, standing guard with guns when it was WM threatening to kill her and her baby and had been caught on her property with weapons. Many, including the BM who stood guard, really feel its their job. They did it, and it was good. Because the police refused to help her, something journalists called them out for. She also lives in NY.
Since we all can walk and chew gum here....I agree with you that the BM who attacked the BW committed a HATE CRIME. I never even considered that but you raise a HUGE point. It would be difficult to have BW and BM gather behind it because even the good BM out there can't conceive or conceptualize it. I mean, I was today years old when I read what you said and definitely felt something leap in my chest. It WOULD be considered divisive when there are some inkling in married and monogamous black couple circles of empowering Black love, the BM protecting BW....Does it mean we shouldn't point it out? Of course not. But education is key. You make me remember when that white incel came to my city in north Florida, kicked in the door of a yoga studio (where its documented by FBI that these incels HATE women doing yoga with a passion for some odd reason) and killed a female doctor doing a class who I knew personally and another young student, he committed a hate crime as well. There were some inklings and rumbling about it, but it died down FAST.
I love and hate men sometimes.