Black girls are adultified and oversexualized. This stigma helped the singer get away with serial sexual abuse.
When people treat Black girls as adults, they’re less likely to listen to Black girls’ accusations or look for them when they go missing. The cases of missing Black girls often go ignored and underreported in the media.
“It was always made clear that your body was to be used, owned and determined how to be used by someone else in your life other than you,” Douglas said. “These were individuals who knew what they were getting into,” Becker said during opening statements. “What we have described is a number of women who are out for revenge.”Throughout the trial, the defense argued that the survivors were women “scorned” and that they were “lying” to profit off of the singer. In closing arguments, Cannick called Pace “a super-stalker,” “a super-hustler” and “a groupie extraordinaire.
“It has been really bred into us to protect Black men at all costs, and we don’t extend that same grace and support to our sisters in the same way,” Odeleye told HuffPost. “So we have a narrative going on that Black men are unduly persecuted in society, which is based in a lot of truth, but we ignore what is also happening to Black women in society.”
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