Q: That's something we look for in certain victims — when the victim is a teenage boy of color, or a woman who has been raped, we want them to be perfect. They can't have had a drink or have worked as a prostitute, and if they have, there's a mindset that makes them almost ineligible to be a victim.
A: One of the reasons we have these untested rape kits ... and I can use Detroit as an example, 86% of our victims in these untested kits are people of color. You're not going to find too many blond-haired, blue eyed white women ... Because their kits are treated differently, their cases are solved. That's just the way it is in this country. If you're a person of color, if you're a different economic class, then your case across the board, across the board, not just sexual assault — they're treated differently. And that's just the truth. People may not want to admit it, but I've seen it throughout my career and I know it's true ... It's just true. ... Race is at the center of this in many ways as well, unfortunately, we know that across the criminal justice system."
That doesn't seem to me like rape culture, that to me sounds more like discrimination, racism, etc. I mean, they've accepted rape is wrong for white women. They didn't say it was good for others, they just dismissed them and didn't care or didn't beleive them.
so how can you have a culture that accepts rape and does these behaviors for some but not all? maybe its something else????
that's the way it comes off to me. if anyone else wants to clarify it for me, then by all means... I'm listening.
