1991 “This is a circus, it’s a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.” “I will not provide the rope for my own lynching or for further humiliation.” With those declarations, Clarence Thomas would help shape the narrative of discourse on sexual violence and Black women for the next twenty years. Thomas’ rhetoric brought with it recollections of an historical legacy that no one wanted to take part in-- the so[...]
Read an online article that addresses male privilege, white privilege, or anything of the sort and you will likely find a comment board littered with defensive comments from the group identified as having privilege. As the targeted parties often have less experience engaging the subject matter than the writers, it’s not uncommon to see people reflexively cry that a writer’s arguments are more offensive than the system that the writer is attempting to identify. Many of these reactions amo[...]