https://ujimacommunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Intimate-Partner-Violence-IPV-v9.4.pdf
Black and Indigenous women are the most prone to getting sexually assaulted compared to white women. This was one of the facts in the article below entitled “Intimate Partner Violence in the Black Community”. Even though this article specifically talks about black women in dangerous homes with their significant others, they do speak of women of hispanic, Caribbean, and native descent. in my following blog, I will be expanding on these two races of women to see how they are among the targeted when it comes to intimate partner violence.
“According to the CDC, Black and American/Indian Alaska Native Women experienced the highest rates of homicide (4.4 and 4.3 per 100,000 population) and over half of all homicides (55%) were related to IPV”. In that excerpt from the article, it just shows that black/native women have been the survivors in a feud of the aggressor. Within our class, we talk about how black women are stereotyped to be the ones that are “smarter” than other races of women when it comes to IPV. Within this article, this proves the theory wrong, showing that as black women we need a lot more help when getting out of those environments than people may think. Rape, stalking and even more in this article shows that black women have been viewed as just objects to objectify and scorn. Within the subject of rape the statistics in the article state that nationally, 9% of black women were raped by an intimate partner during their lifetime. This fact shows that within the rape community, it is usually a person that women know that will rape them versus a stranger that they just met.
In closing, another discussion that we have had in class is about IPV with black women being arrested for self defense from their partner. That discussion has definitely stuck with me considering I know a number of black women that are jailed for life without parole for a defense act against their perpetrator. I guess the question that really sticks in my head is when will their every be justice for the black woman when defending themselves against their aggressor? What actions will be in consideration for those that may have children at home? The reason for the last question is that a lot of black women go to jail for self defense against their partner and they have a child at home to take care of. If the mother is arrested, I feel like their should be more options for those mothers that don’t have any family members to take care of their children. Instead of putting the kids in the system they may can make a IPV child system where the women that dealt with that and are imprisoned have some sort of guarantee that if they can get out of jail, they will be able to get their child out the system without all the extra baggage that comes with it.