This was Rose Gunter, the niece of Recy Taylor, who died in December. The event was organized by Watson Coleman, on whose invitation Gunter would be attending President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address. In fact, the rape of black women was often a counterpart to the lynching of black men, a political tactic used to silence a community. Black women have gone missing from the #MeToo conversation, a different but still disconcerting kind of silence. People don’t think of us as having the same suffering experiences and no justice,” said Watson Coleman.

Source: Huffington Post January 31, 2018 00:22 UTC