♥Black women are particularly likely to have sustained numerous assaults on their overall well being, leaving us vulnerable to PSTD when we were assaulted.
♥If friends, family, police, counselors, or hospital workers treat you negatively, their secondary victimization, also called second assault, can further damage your emotional state and cause your healing to take even longer.
♥The rape of enslaved black women reached perhaps it most pathological extremes when slavers decided to "breed" more slaves.
♥Black women were used sexually in a number of ways. Sometimes the masters let their sons sleep with Black women for their first sexual experience.
♥The point is they had no sexual autonomy. And that is the injustice, that Black women did not own their body. Period.
♥This legacy of violence and sexual victimization affects every member of society, but Black women continue to bear more than their share of the fall out.
♥It is not something that families want people to know that their daughters have experienced.
♥"There is this idea that Black women's rapes are not as important as White women's rapes."
♥The racial biases are institutionalized to this day. "Black women's rapes are taken less seriously in the criminal justice system." Recent studies have shown that judges generally impose harsher sentences for rape when the victim is white than when the victim is black.
♥We still buy into several myths. [As] strong Black women, we just can take whatever and move on. And the other one is that we have to take good care of out men. If we take care of our men, then we're not going to report men who are violent
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