A few weeks ago, there was a big upheaval over the disparities and inequity of the media and law enforcement treatment of missing white women and girls and missing black women and girls. Too many people want to believe that it's not real.
Yet another stark and cruel disparity is how blacks - especially black women - are mistreated in the criminal justice system. Women generally don't seem to be able to get away with claiming self-defense when it's between them and a white man regardless of the crime committed.
Black women are even less likely to be believed or to prevail. There are cases across the country where black women had to defend themselves in life and death situations, including Kenosha, yet ended up victimized by the very system that failed to protect them in the first place.
No matter how much we pretend, the Rittenhouse case is yet another reminder of how we fail to protect women, disregard their agency, and don't acknowledge their humanity. The safety and sanctity of black women is placed at the bottom of that pile.
I don't know who, but somebody needs to know that.
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