To be honest, it’s less about random blk men protecting random blk women. It’s more so about changing cultural shifts from “it’s okay to smack a bytch” “Ike Turner”, “dem girls fast”, glorification of pimp culture, and other subcultural norms that get swept under the rug of some men in our race thinking this shyt is synonymous with masculinity. Some blk men wish to take their frustrations from white supremacy out on their women.
We’ve had DECADES of music, media, movies glorifying the abuse of black women. This combined with poverty, drugs, systemic racism, broken families creates these vulnerabilities.
Moving away from unhealthy and abusive paradigms in regards to women and confronting these types is where the real protection is. The best protection for black women is confronting this ignorance and eliminating it from our culture.
However, simultaneously Black women play a MASSIVE role in protecting themselves and black men as well. Namely in having the discernment to avoid drama instead of running to it out of a mentally warped desire for validation. Black women really need to take a hard look in the mirror and seek therapy to break their own cycles of abuse that many continually and willingly enter into.
Black women making better decisions also protects blk men by helping to prevent the need for blk men to INCREASE the risk death they ALREADY carry from systemic racism, by placing them in the precarious position of defending someone who shouldn’t be with someone who is abusive in the first place.