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[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

In almost every case, the race of the victim and the perpetrator are the same.

Do you have a source on that one?

There are no white guys driving around to molest black girls.

How do you know that it's not that there's no black mothers reporting rapes of the daughters by white guys to the police, because the police are, in some areas, hostile to the black population?

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    [–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

    A large problem with rape in particular is that a small minority are reported. Contributing to this problem is that a tiny minority of reported crimes end in a prosecution.

    If you're aware that race doesn't bias the reporting of child molestation, show me the data that supports that: Because I'd be interested to know.

    I do know that there are instances of under-reporting of rape of black women by white men. Victims of Daniel Holtzclaw said that they didn't report being raped by him because "I didn't think anyone would believe me. I'm a black female."

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    I'm not going to deny that there probably is a fear of being ignored with a number of rape cases. I recall talking to my grandmother about some rather fucked up situations where victims were chastised into staying silent for the sake of the man's family, even. So it wouldn't surprise if a black woman would be afraid of speaking up about rape from a white man. Rape isn't necessarily an attraction driven violence, and outside of that there are plenty of white men attracted to black women. However Daniel Holtzclaw is half Japanese, and would be considered a poc outside of the context where he's a criminal or it's convenient.