Holy hell people reblog this
Something white women overlook is just how much more often black women are sexually harassed than us. It didn't occur to me until an underclassman in high school asked me to walk her home because a man working construction on the street outside the school always harassed her whenever he saw her. I walked with her for maybe 10 minutes and GROWN ASS MEN yelled at her once a block! She was 14-15 to my 18, yet she got harassed more in one day than I do in a month. It really opened my eyes to how young black girls in particular are incredibly vulnerable in ways white girls usually aren't, because people see them as easier targets. And they are! A lot of people don't stand up for black girls the way they do white girls, even though black men and women were consistently the ones who looked out for me when I got sexually harassed as a child. The school administration did fuck all to help her or to get that creepy construction worker to stop until I got my dad to call in and yell at them about it. This poor girl would cry at the end of class because she was scared to walk home, in front of our teacher, but they did jack shit to keep her safe.