PALESA LEBITSE | Touting rape as a black culture only helps conceal rape of black women by whites
Nicholas Ninow is accused of raping a seven-year-old child in the bathroom of a Dros restaurant in Pretoria. Some commentators think the accused may not have done it to a white child.The other day I came across a book which compared lynching and sexual assault of black women in the US.
Women were, however, raped beforehand, she says, and somehow stories of female lynching were left out. What research now reveals is that both lynching and rape were in fact both forms of terror which were racially motivated and were used to threaten the lives of black people in the US. What struck me about this US history is that white males indeed used sexual assault as a weapon to undermine and dehumanise black females.
Reading this reminded me of a heated conversation I had with others and a friend of mine, let's call him Paul, who in the midst of our conversation about Nicholas Ninow, the man who allegedly raped a six-year-old girl at Dros, vehemently proclaimed:"Ninow would not have done that to a white child!"
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