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DorthyDandridgeEyesStassa Edwards
5/04/16 6:37pm
This is terrible I read about it earlier and I feel like especially in this case it has a lot to do with race. Black women are constantly told we need to protect our black brothers and that is fine and dandy until a girl gets raped and then is told to protect her attacker because she shouldn’t want to put a black man in jail.
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  horseasaurusrexDorthyDandridgeEyes
  5/04/16 6:40pm
  ugh this is so unfortunate. Trying to make black women feel guilty for putting an actual criminal in prison...
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  BLACKgRANTDorthyDandridgeEyes
  5/04/16 7:49pm
  ^THIS! THIS! THIS is a huge issue in our community. Sexual and domestic violence are prevelant and we are constantly encouraged to “ride or die” for black men. Yet we end up literally dying at their hands. I am enraged by this. When I was about 16 my mom’s brother attacked my 18 year old sister and I. We were trying to stop him from beating the breaks off his girlfriend. We called the cops, he was arrested. A black female officer at the scene felt the need to remind us that there were too many black men in prison. Why were we doing this to him? There were THREE black females that had just been attacked by this man! In our community we are not protected. This needs to end.
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HappyHighwaymanStassa Edwards
5/04/16 6:11pm
Women: Please start bringing witnesses and tape recorders to your meetings with administration. They clearly cannot be trusted.
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  LookAtThoseCavemenGoHappyHighwayman
  5/04/16 6:16pm
  Considering how fucked our justice system is, sadly this seems to be the best course of action. Christ. Fuck these guys. Fuck these people with the power to help that won't. Fuck the fucking patriarcy.
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  Rule-Breaking MothHappyHighwayman
  5/04/16 6:18pm
  Predictable accusations of falsification aside, even if it’s illegal in your current state and/or ends up inadmissable in court, at least you can publicly shame them for mistreating victims of a violent crime and show that they use coercion rather than human decency in handling rape on campus.
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luna.noireStassa Edwards
5/04/16 6:15pm
It’s time to end using racism as an excuse for black people to coddle and protect black boys and men from consequences when they commit crimes. Justice means a fair investigation and reasonable punishment, not silence from victims and inaction from the authorities.
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  popa1luna.noire
  5/04/16 6:41pm
  I agree, black women need to put ourselves first. We’re always trying to take care and protect black men when they dont do the same for us. im not going to feel bad for a rapist having to go through our racist justice system.
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  cliu122luna.noire
  5/04/16 9:02pm
  I second that. A crime is a crime no matter the race of the defendant.
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imaginaryfriendStassa Edwards
5/04/16 6:55pm
Sooooo...when is Morehouse awarding Josh Duggar an honorary degree?
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  Vulcan Has No Moonimaginaryfriend
  5/04/16 8:30pm
  They’ll get back to you soon. They’re still dealing with Bill Cosby’s.
  
  https://www.facebook.com/morehouse1867/...
  
  http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/25/us/...
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Hoyo AfrikaStassa Edwards
5/04/16 6:15pm
pressured her to ignore the attack.

You mean forget that she was forcible entered by a group of men and most likely left there to figure herself out. OH OK, gotcha.

The Dean also said that Spelman & Morehouse are brother & sister so I should give them a pass.

GIF

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MarusameStassa Edwards
5/04/16 6:51pm
From what i gather of all these college rape stories is if you are a young male wanting to have sex, get a girl drunk on campus and rape her and nothing “Really” will be done to you.

If you are a girl and get drunk at a party, and get raped, there is nothing “Really” you can do about it and if you do, the school will get rid of you because you are “tarnishing” their reputation. No police will be involved, and there seems to be no legal course of action.

For some reason OFF CAMPUS the guy would be immediately thrown in jail. But ON CAMPUS its like in another legal realm, where it has no police authority. Best you can hope for is to have a Friend or Parent willing to come on campus and attempt to kill or stab the attacker, or just something that takes it into your own hands.

Maybe if a guy can get away with rape like that with no one minding, you can get away with slicing his throat open with no repercussions. Seems like a fair trade to me.
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  DEMIREP.Marusame
  5/04/16 8:46pm
  For some reason OFF CAMPUS the guy would be immediately thrown in jail.
  
  Unfortunately, this is not the case. While universities have continually proven to mishandle sexual assault, the legal system (at least in the U.S.; I cannot speak to elsewhere) hasn’t been a shining example, either.
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TolkienNegroStassa Edwards
5/04/16 9:18pm
Okay, this is not a story about black women supporting or not supporting black men. This is a story about an incident of sexual assault and the individual college officials who abdicated their responsibility to protect the young people under their care.

Sexual assault happens at PWI as well and far too often. Rape is wrong no matter who doesn’t or where it happens. This is not an opportunity for black women and black men to regard one another as enemies. This is, however, an opportunity for black men to remember their obligation to respect and protect black women. All these things can be true.
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  FateStayNiteTolkienNegro
  5/04/16 9:52pm
  Yes all of these things are true but if we can’t speak truthfully that is a problem and that race plays a part then it is not a discussion it is silencing. Obviously the majority of black men do not engage in that kind of violence but there are depressing facts that cannot be ignored that black children are the most likely to sexually abused, less likely to have their abuser punished and less likely to receive medical assistance or counselling. Black women are twice as likely to be raped as white women and more likely to be murdered during assaults. Saying every race does it, does not cut anymore.
  
  Black people get deeply uncomfortable about rape because of history, the mass rape of African slaves and using the threat of rape to terrorize, jail and murder black men. This is a crisis in the community no one wants to talk about and it is literally killing people. In public we rarely support and often attack black rape victims for being disloyal and show more concern for the accused, see R Kelly, Mike Tyson as if there is some benefit to accusing someone of rape. It’s more than just telling someone not to do it we must actively engage the community and for the love of cheese support our rape victims.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZTolkienNegro
  5/04/16 9:54pm
  This is, however, an opportunity for black men to remember their obligation to respect and protect black women.
  
  As a WOC, this statement of yours - or from any other man of color - would carry far more weight for me if you were saying it to your fellow men, as opposed to on a site whose audience you know is primarily women.
  
  What you’re saying there is something we already know. We’re not the ones who (still, apparently) need to hear it.
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notasaddoveStassa Edwards
5/04/16 6:23pm
This isn’t at all surprising that a campus administration would do this sort of thing. Let me take a wild guess as to what the admin response will be: meetings will be scheduled with the president of the college and the director of student affairs, coalitions will be created to really study the issue and involve the students, meanwhile the student government will work closely with the administration (who will of course assure us that change is imminent), and throughout campus there will be an outpouring of “empathy, love, and support.”

And of course nothing will truly be done because admin would want to make this all go away.
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Firefly75Stassa Edwards
5/04/16 7:07pm
I don't understand why a police investigation and a formal expulsion of the rapists cannot be commenced on the basis of this evidence. What will it take to get procedural justice on campuses when it comes to rape?
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JennaD79Stassa Edwards
5/04/16 6:18pm
Maybe I’m just naive but the fact that this is the response women get from some university administrations baffles me. We’re brother and sister universities so let it slide?! Oh sure just let your gang rape slide, nbd. Gtfoh with that mess.

I was raped in college and while that was obviously awful, the one silver lining in my story looking back when I compare it to so many we read about is that my university went above and beyond in providing me with all the support I needed, they believed me and treated me with respect, and treated a sexual assault like a goddamn crime like it should be. I was such a trainwreck after my assault, I can’t imagine what it would have done to me if I had reached out for help and this was the response I got.

Shoutout to Cornell administration and faculty for not being monsters like apparently the Dean and Public Safety at Spelman.
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