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Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Airing Some Dirty Laundry: On Colorism and Domestic Violence

October 12, 2014

I wrote a piece on ForHarriet.com the other day on domestic violence and colorism. In short, I questioned whether the skin tone of victims played a role in the community’s response to, and lack of social sanctions (within the Black community) against, perpetrators of domestic violence like Floyd Mayweather, The Game, Dream, and Chris Brown. All of the aforementioned men still have booming careers despite committing (sometimes repeated) acts of violence against Black women. The response to the[...]

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