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210437, RE: Well Put Posted by lsymone, Mon Feb-10-20 02:10 PM
>I mean I have always been skeptical of the mantra "Believe >All Women" because it runs counter to my experience and the >knowledge that though false accusations of rape is rare, Black >Men are disproportionately the victim of it. I grew up in the >South and my parents made so Emmet Till, Scottsboro Boys were >lessons I learned early (that and my dad almost losing his >mind when he saw a white girl riding in my car). > >I think all allegations should be heard and investigated and >treated seriously, but you can't get me to sign off the >blanket statement "Believe All Women given the history of this >country specificallya nd especially if it involves a black man >and a white woman. I am not worried about it for me, I am >grown and have already navigated all of this stuff, but I am >raising two black boys in this country.
DNA which was used to put more black men in prison, turns out to be their savior as we countless see with these articles and many more to come
https://research.msu.edu/innocent-african-americans-more-likely-to-be-wrongfully-convicted/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/florida-pardons-4-black-men-accused-of-1949-rape
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/nyregion/innocence-project-manhattan-rape.html
https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-exonerated-wrongful-rape-conviction-36-years-prison/story?id=61865415
Ida B Wells said it herself in her autobiography as an investigative reporter, the 1st in the country to do it, that after the emancipation of blacks- immediately the lynching began based off of "rape" accusations by black men to white women.
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