Either way, his violent response to Poyau is a prime example of how black male fragility is killing black women. Black men in this country are already stereotyped and denigrated enough, so calling out black men’s sexual violence against black women is precarious, to say the least. Black women, of course, are often encouraged to ignore this reality when we’re told by black men to ignore the dark pasts of black men like Bill Cosby and Nate Parker. This doesn’t mean that all black men are bad (just as calling out any form of sexism doesn’t mean that all men, period, are bad). And it’s not OK that most of those black women, according to the same study, were murdered by guns.

Source: Huffington Post September 08, 2016 21:20 UTC