People of color who don't speak up about issues in their own communities are not helping their communities.
Sexism. Sexual abuse. Child abuse. These things are as prevalent in nonwhite communities as they are everywhere else. What's even worse is that internalized, racist stereotypes make many people in those communities think that misogyny and abuse are normal, even admirable, and so it becomes a status symbol to inhabit those stereotypes. Then those stereotypes are reinforced to the rest of the world, which either cheers wildly and with relief at the "proof" that people of color are beasts after all, undeserving of sensitivity, or shrugs "if that's what they want to do," or, with furrowed brow, timidly acquiesces to these declarations of nonwhite "culture."
