By Steve Sailer
12/24/2022
From the Twin Cities Pioneer Press in Minnesota:
MN task force details unique plight of missing, murdered Black females
African American women and girls in the state are almost three times as likely to be murdered as their white peers, data show.
By NINA MOINI | Minnesota Public Radio
PUBLISHED: December 22, 2022 at 5:23 p.m. | UPDATED: December 22, 2022 at 11:16 p.m.
African American women and girls in Minnesota are almost three times as likely to be murdered as their white peers. And while Black women make up 7% of the state population, a new report found they make up 40% of domestic violence victims in Minnesota.That’s according to data contained in a report from the Missing and Murdered African American Women Task Force released earlier this month.
In 2021 in Minnesota, black women made up 15 homicide victims out of 52 female homicide victims' or 29% of female victims.
Black female homicide victims in Minnesota increased from 6 in 2019 (The Year One Before George Floyd) to 15 in 2021 (The Year One After George Floyd).
In 2021 in Minnesota, black men made up 95 out of 161 male homicide deaths or 59% of male homicide victimizations.
Black male homicide victims in Minnesota increased from 59 in 2019 (The Year One Before George Floyd) to 95 in 2021 (The Year One After George Floyd).
So, it would seem to me as if the big cause of the high rate of domestic violence against black women in Minnesota is the high rate of violence committed by black men in Minnesota. And that the George Floyd Racial Reckoning got a whole lot more black Minnesotans, especially black women, murdered 2021 relative to 2019.
WRONG!
We’re not talking about causality, we are talking about equity, your equity and how black activists can get their hands on it. Hence,
… Some key causes of violence against Black women in the task force’s findings included racism and other remnants of slavery, as well as harmful stereotypes and hypersexualization of Black people. The task force also cited low wage employment and financial disparities as contributing factors.
According to the report, Black women have fewer opportunities to save for and find safe, affordable housing, which is one of the most important factors in quality of life and protection from violence.
Overall, the report found systemic racism in various areas of life continues to make African American women and girls less safe.
“It is not one thing, it is a real true intersection of things,” Richardson said. “For example, we know Black girls are less likely to get Amber Alerts than their peers, they are more likely to be classified as runaways.”
Richardson said these types of disparities amount to a target on Black women and girls.
“Individuals know they will be more likely to get away with something if they target a group of people that are not getting the same type of attention,” Richardson said. …
The MMAAW task force report called for a similar structure but recommended such an office be physically housed in a community space instead of sharing an office with a law enforcement agency, “given the history of harm and distrust with law enforcement and perceived and actual imbalances between funding for reactive law enforcement efforts versus proactive, preventative community-centered efforts to reduce violence against Black women and girls,” reads the report.
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