Slate: Black Men Harass Women b/c of Institutional Racism

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Institutional Racism, is there anything that it can’t justify or explain?

After a video went viral of a woman in New York walking around and being harassed… mainly by minority men, the cries of racism went up along with assorted justifications.

“Part of being honest about street harassment and creating awareness of it has to be an honest assessment of the ways this kind of harassment can be a way marginalized groups talk back to the white gentrifiers taking over their neighborhoods,” Emily Gould wrote at Salon.

Dee Lockett, an African-American Slate writer, went one step further.

In a statement explaining the absence of white guys in the video, Rob Bliss of Rob Bliss Creative, the firm that partnered with Hollaback on the video, said, “We got a fair amount of white guys, but for whatever reason, a lot of what they said was in passing or off camera.” I’d bet this is because, as Bliss gets at in his quote, white men, on average, don’t catcall in the same way that men of color do—and oftentimes, as I’ve learned, they don’t do it at all.

That, of course, is not to say that white men don’t have their own predatory nature—one that is expressed in ways unique to their privilege. As we know from countless court cases, it’s not that white men don’t hassle women (or rich white men, as Joyce Carol Oates implied this week in a tone-deaf tweet), it’s that they do it in a different way.

“Unique to their privilege”. Let’s recap. All men are evil. White men are evil in more subtler ways because of their privilege.

Men of color catcall vocally and visibly on the sidewalk because they have to—not that there’s ever excuse for harassment. They need the “Sexy!” and “Smile!” to create the illusion of dominance in shared public spaces that social constructs and institutional racism have never afforded them control over.

Ah yes, institutional racism. So what do white men do?

Particularly when I’m in a group with other women of color, they circle us, giving off cues to dance in a way that suggests it’s nothing more than a social experiment for them; it’s as if they’re wondering, “what’s it really like to dance with a black girl?”

I ran that sentence through the computer to try and make sense of it and it moved to Quebec and took up mime.

To recap. Black men harass women on the street. White men make Lockett feel like a social experiment in some undefined way. When black men harass women, it’s because they are oppressed and privileged.

To the left, no one ever does anything because they want to. It’s because they’re acting out a set of privileges based on the left’s rules.

  • cacslewisfan

    Leftists are the absolute worst. They get further from reality every day. And that black woman who says white men are just conducting a social experiment when they try to dance with her, could it be they are NOT racist? Could it be that they are attracted to her? For goodness sake, darned if you do, darned if you don’t.

    • Joe The Gentile

      Yes, by Leftists you are darned if you do, and darned if you don’t. There is a reason for that. The objective is to darn you–to blame you, regardless. The purpose of that is to keep you humiliated, and subjugated.

  • Bill Smith 999935

    Black Privilege in America.

  • tagalog

    You could see THAT one coming a mile away, when it was claimed in another commentary that the white woman only filmed the inappropriate comments in black neighborhoods.

    “Men of color” catcall because they HAVE to, in order to feel in control of their environment? Wow. That’s rich. Good one. It gets ever more ingenious, almost daily.

  • joe kulak

    Maybe it’s just the confusion they feel on Fathers Day that boils over.

  • Boots

    Actually a better experiment would be for the young lady to dress the same and go for a walk in Cairo or Tehran. And don’t forget to videotape it. If she makes it home she can let us know how evil American males are compared to our Muslim brothers.

  • glpage

    I wonder if the leftist social commentators understand the concept of Occam’s Razor. Actually, no I don’t. It is obvious they have no clue what that is and what it means. And somehow I doubt if it was explained to them they would understand it, the idea just runs counter to what they believe,

  • Scar

    Shame on Ms. Lockett! She’s helping to perpetuate the racist stereotype that black people are stupid!

  • El Diablo Matamoros

    These leftists are clinically insane. Seriously, their comments should go into a filing cabinet in a psych ward.