Hunters of black women: mass rape and mutilation in the Congo

Dear readers,

I honestly have to pull myself together before I write more about this. There is a level of anger and hatred that I have never experienced before about this subject, and things that I want to say that would be more destructive than anything else.

On April 13th, I will join Amnesty International in speaking against

• the mass murder, the mass rape, and the systematic mutilation of black women and girls of the Democratic Republic of Congo,
• the mass murder, the mass rape, and the systematic mutilation of black women and girls of Darfur

The seeds of this kind of atrocity are easily recognizable:

1) Greed.

2) Hatred of women, or lack of empathy for women outside of your immediate family.

3) Impugnity for violence against women.

4) Poverty of women.

5) Lack of education or miseducation of women , and lack of education or miseducation of the men in their direct proximity.

If you plant those seeds anywhere and allow them to grow into a forest, atrocities like this are guaranteed to follow.

Be sure to watch the following video, in which the UN denies the atrocities of Darfur.

As black women of America, if we think that this worldwide disdain of black women in other parts of the world won't touch American shores, think again. The shift in world power is being made, and the seeds that I mentioned earlier have been planted right here in America, right in our own communities.

As Rev. Weems said, we must become our sister's keeper.

As black women, we can not afford to allow our generalized lack of interest in politics to continue. Real lives are at stake, both here in America, and also around the world.

Every black woman must educate herself politically. Every black woman must use her talents, her intellect, and her vote to force the world to back off from this brutality and violence against us and our sisters.