[BBC Video] 'Black women are killed by police too' - Gina Best, mother of India Kager

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[–]chrysthefeminist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I read somewhere, sorry can't remember where, that when reports of black women being killed by police come into TV media offices, they often get tossed, while reports of black men being killed by police make it onto the evening news. IOW, there's some deliberate manipulating of what gets to be news and what doesn't in order to keep the attention and focus on men.

[–]Bitchcraft 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I find this very hard to believe. While women are often less likely to be believe than men when they are alive, a dead woman can be politically more powerful than a dead man, think "missing (white) girl effect". Of course this could be true to a lesser extent for black women, but I would be really surprised if it was entirely flipped.

[–]chrysthefeminist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't find it hard to believe. I find it all too easy to believe. Men want all the focus and attention on themselves.

As to "missing white girl effect", it is very obvious that missing/dead black women do not have the same "effect", whatever that is, as missing/dead white women.