No Justice, No Tears: Why Black Women Aren’t Mourning Telvin Osborne’s Killer Going Free [Op-Ed] - Page 2
Some of Osborne’s family members responded to the backlash in ways that indicate misogynoir might have been a family affair.
“Let this Telvin Osborne killing be a lesson to all the self-hating men and women of the Black community,” one Black woman tweeted in February. “You come out here on social media or in the real world proclaiming how much you hate the people of your community and, in his case, his hate of Black women, please know we will not be out here raising a word or finger. He went out the way he wanted to. Hopefully, the white dogs and white women of America will have his back.”
And maybe that is, indeed, the lesson here. Telvin Osborne’s death was tragic, and certainly nothing to celebrate, but if a Black man got lynched after gleefully expressing his support for the Ku Klux Klan, no one would question why Black people opted not to rally behind him.
We have to apply that same logic to Black men who disrespect Black women while praising their white counterparts. When racial injustice happens to Black men, Black women show up nine times out of ten.
That tenth time? Well, that’s just what happens when Black women receive hate or indifference instead of reciprocity.
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