Jay, get a grip, will you dear? Nobody on this goddamned planet is subjected to as much potential hostility and VIOLENCE

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2009/05/21/spurned_man_shoots.html

as Black women in America are, just for walking down the goddamned streetand ignoring some scummy thugs catcalls and you know it. The article in the link is about two Black women in Atlanta who were shot by a stranger for rejecting his advances. Shit like this happens every fucking day to Black women and not only are we expected to tolerate it, but we are supposed to SHUT UP ABOUT IT, too.

This shit has got to stop, and it will, whether you like it or not, Jay.

I was just looking at someone’s blog post on street harassment, and she posted this video of guys groping every Black woman that exits this club (and a random White woman as well). This video is not suitable for work:

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhXQ462c1QWo9zfsDD

The comments on that hip-hop site are saying pretty much that since the women were “dressed like hos” they were “asking for it.” I am livid! I don’t care if these women were butt naked, no one asks to be groped by random guys they don’t know.

Those guys are definitely predators! I doubt they’d care if someone asked them how they felt if their mother or sister were groped by someone like that. Scum like that have no hearts.

I have had white and Asian guys come up to me and say ‘I don’t know what you black women do to black guys, but I know black guys who have said to me that black women are FILL IN THE NEGATIVE BLANK’

It’s like I don’t know what to trust coming out of a black man’s mouth when they themselves tell you ‘Oh white men just talk about having sex with black women, because I’m always hearing them say that’. Are they uplifting OUR profile though and showing black women the proper respect?

Nope. You don’t have to date me, like me, love me, marry me, or make your black children darker skinned with me as opposed to lighter skinned, you just have to respect me in public.

That’s how you build up trust with me, that’s how you’ll get me to say ‘Hi’ to you sometimes instead of ignoring you no matter how polite you’re being.Then maybe you’ll get a smile out of me.

God nothing annoys me more than people always telling me to smile. Usually black people most of them are the black men.

I ain’t smiley and the street harassment from my own kind sure ain’t gonna make me smile more. Black men have me scared walking down the street, and when you try and say Hi to them and give them an inch, the black men like NO other will take 300 miles.

Not even the one mile.

Hey I’m talking about my own ’supposed’ kind so I never wanted to say anything like this. Why would I? But I have to say the truth.

Black men are sexist especially up against black women, their ‘own kind’. They have no regard, consideration, and they just plain don’t care. They don’t CARE to understand how it’s not safe for strange women to just carry on with any and I mean any strange man she happens to bump into on the street, especially big cities.

I have the right to ignore ANY strange man I don’t know because that makes ME safer.

Don’t try to catch up with me and trail me like a shadow and say ‘If I walk with you and you walk with me, we’ll be safer and we’ll back up each other’.

You wouldn’t be doing that sh** to a white chick. That cannot make ME feel safer because you are a STRANGER.

And these black men need to stop taking that ‘black woman ignoring them on the street’ stuff personal YES I mean even when they are polite.

I mean hello? Where have you been? The world is NOT safe for women sometimes and I can’t be standing talking to Tom, Dick, Harry, Jorge, Jesus, Jose, Jerome, Daquan, Darnell, Shaquille, Seneca, Curtis, etc.

I mean am I painting you enough of a picture here?

Jeez Louise!

Growing up in an urban environment, public spaces have always been male-dominated locations that men own and claim: standing on street corners, talking at women as they go by.

It is their world, we just live in it, having to negotiate spaces which are hostile to us: men talking at women– is he the purse snatcher or the crude, lewd man who will insult? If she recognizes him, will he presume she likes it and will he then try something more? Will her smile of discomfort be seen as interest? In the end, is he the potential rapist?

So in negotiating those spaces, I have always walked with purpose. I go where I have to go and do not loiter. I refuse to make eye contact with random men I pass, and I refuse to listen when they speak at me.

I live now in a (white) suburban/small town environment, and it is totally different. All men and women go about their business freely. Even when I go downtown, where the environment is more integrated, the dynamic is the same: no one trying to accost, talk at, etc.

Our posts tend to get deleted.

CW I think you hit the nail on the head. I can remember a time when I was a toddler and becoming aware that men would not curse or even say certain things around women and children.

I am very sad when I see the results of drugs, under education, the embracing of criminal behavior, and the steady decline in our race. I understand why black women a seeking peace with men of other races. I think you can only ask people to put up with only so much before they give up.

I too want to buy this film and I will continue to search for information on the film maker.

Please continue to do the great work you are doing.