BRITTICISMS

“For every black woman who reports a rape, there are at least 15 who don’t; approximately 40 percent of black women report coercive sexual contact by the age of 18; and almost half of rapes happen to women who live in the third-lowest income distribution. And no, I am not saying that rape and the devaluing of women is something exclusive to black folks — it happens in all racial communities. But at some point, as black people, we have to admit the undeniable: We have a serious problem.”