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

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[–]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.