Saturday, August 29, 2020

Stereotypes

There is no hatred more enduring than intimate hatred.  

I don't know that an antidiscrimination law needs to have a name that reinforces the idea that women maliciously lie.  Women do maliciously lie; so do men.  There is no race that has no people who lie.  People lie.

How many black women have been raped in the United States since the first black woman lived here?  How many black men have been raped?  

What is rape?  What is the definition of rape, filtered through racism?

It's that white women aren't raped by white men, because white men have the rights to white women.  It's that white men aren't raped by white men, because men aren't raped; it doesn't happen.  It's that black women aren't raped by men of any race, because men of any race have the rights to black women.  It's that black men aren't raped, because animals aren't raped.  

Only black men rape white women, and it's all rape, even if all they do is think about it, and that's what they all do, they all think about it.  They are rapists, black men.  

Is that the proud foundation of America?  There is nobody to contradict me before I publish this page; I'm sure someone will let me know.

How many black women have been raped and murdered?  The thing about killing a servant is that you have to replace her.  How many black women have been raped and beaten by white employers, for years?  How many black women have been abused by the husbands and the wives in white employ, and even the children and other relatives, because it's common for a designated victim to be abused by multiple perpetrators in a group?  How many black women have raised their rapists' children, in their own homes, with their black partners, in the irony of black men disciplining half-white children?  Someone has to raise them.  Children need parents.  

Another irony; I have to credit one of Maya Angelou's autobiographical books for this insight, which is that people lose their inhibitions in the presence of people whom they perceive as having no perceptions.  Every idiosyncracy, every vanity, every personalized cruelty, every perversion, everything that white people on their best behavior don't show to each other, what haven't they shown to black people whose ability to live or die they controlled?  

If there is a collective culture among black people in which hatred of white women is agreed upon as entirely justified, it's not difficult to understand why.  It's not that white women aren't raped, were never raped, it's not even that white women never are and never were raped by black men.  It's that they can call it rape; the only ones who can.  The only tears that matter.

There's no rational thing to say to collective anguish, particularly when the person talking is from a symbolized category.