He wasn't defending her safety. He was displaying his dominance over what that community, and even the law, treated as white, female, human property.
That was then. This is now:
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Article:
https://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-marital-rape-states-ohio-minnesota.html
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This is current information from a Google search:
In 1955, she had no choice.
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There is no need to pass a law that reinforces the idea that women lie about sexual assault. I'm not against anti-lynching laws; I'm in favor of them. I'm against enshrining the misogynist narrative that has been circulating with a vengeance, as Me Too has crumbled. Article after article about the events of the past several months have revolved around the phrase "long history of white women falsely accusing black men of rape." Once again, the white, male perpetrators, without whom lynching could not have been established, recede into the background as if they are an insensible force of nature, not responsible for their actions, while the culpability is placed on women.
This is lynching:
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Article:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/lynching-memorial-shows-women-were-victims-too-95029
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It is worth asking why the few lynching cases historically given sympathetic press for the victims by the mainstream media have so often had false accusations by white women as their theme.
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