Background
In June 2015, Texas police pulled over Charnesia Corley, a 21-year-old college student at the time, for failing to stop her car and searched her under suspicions that she was carrying marijuana. Then, to her horror, they handcuffed her, body-slammed her, put her head under her car, took her pants off, put her ankles behind her ears, and reached into her vagina.
https://www.glamour.com/story/video-texas-police-cavity-search-woman
Texas actually had to pass a law against public body cavity searches without a warrant.
"Without a warrant."
Does that imply police can get that warrant and still do a body cavity search on a woman (while is on the side of the road), proceed to strip search her half naked, then penetrate her?
Do you understand we live in a world where male supremacy lives now? When the cops and judges and congressman are overwhelmingly men, they get to make up rules like this....and go unchallenged for decades.
By the way, how much is two one-hundredths of an ounce? That's what police said they found. And they might have done a Baltimore on her--after all she is black-- with that little amount. But for argument's sake how much marijuana is that?
Half of a cigarette's worth?
The amount that might stick to an eraser if it's wet?So how many states other than Texas allow this, and have police that are so bold with this "right" they have to rape and humiliate. And they are so casual with it, that cops actually allow it to be recorded on dashcam video without thinking anything of it.
The article goes on to discuss how this is probably not happening to white women. I'll let you read the links yourself.
But understand this:
In Texas (and elsewhere) the cops, the judge, the police department, and the grand jury have been participating in the violation of black female bodies for years, decades...
But understand this:
In Texas (and elsewhere) the cops, the judge, the police department, and the grand jury have been participating in the violation of black female bodies for years, decades...
Until 2015, when they violated one woman too many during a black man's presidency, a black man who is feminist father with black daughters.
None of the white people involved will think they are anything like the white supremacists in Charlottesville. And maybe most of them really aren't.
However, many of the white people involved in this and cases like it have white supremacist ideals. And they have male supremacist ideals too.
Male supremacists, white supremacists all choose the same old targets: The only way roadside cop rapes happen under the cover of public strip searches is if they are happening to people who do not count.
And "those people," the people who don't count can probably be described as follows
However, many of the white people involved in this and cases like it have white supremacist ideals. And they have male supremacist ideals too.
Male supremacists, white supremacists all choose the same old targets: The only way roadside cop rapes happen under the cover of public strip searches is if they are happening to people who do not count.
You know perfectly well this wasn't happening to white soccer Mom X (married to while male power that protects her) who is perfectly safe from police abuse while driving in a middle class neighborhood or better, no matter what her car smells like if she's pulled over for a turn signal or a blown stop sign.
Class, race, and gender are always wrapped around one another like a braid. But the white folk in power who thought roadside rape by cop was okay through 2015 for so long as it's happening to "those people"
And "those people," the people who don't count can probably be described as follows
1) black women
2) brown women
3) white sex workers
4) white women married to black and brown men
There may be the occasional middle class white woman. However, as black and brown women experience a lot more poverty and men tend to abuse those with the least power, it's likely that roadside rape by cop is a women of color issue more than it is an "all women's issue."
I'm guessing, but it seems likely that the only reason Texas made any chances at all in 2015--at this late date -- due to the psychological pressure of having a black president. The real of imagined threat of a federal investigation of their actions during a black president's watch, a feminist father who has daughters, is likely the only thing that made white lawmaker's reel themselves in a little.
Again, I know in my bones that this happened to Corley she's black, young, and looked like she probably couldn't fight back. They must have been surprised she showed up with an attorney.
I'm guessing, but it seems likely that the only reason Texas made any chances at all in 2015--at this late date -- due to the psychological pressure of having a black president. The real of imagined threat of a federal investigation of their actions during a black president's watch, a feminist father who has daughters, is likely the only thing that made white lawmaker's reel themselves in a little.
Again, I know in my bones that this happened to Corley she's black, young, and looked like she probably couldn't fight back. They must have been surprised she showed up with an attorney.
Let me say this again about white supremacy:
A) White Supremacy looks like hate when it doubts itself, when a lowlife is having to prove himself or herself.
B) More often than not white supremacy is about adoring the feeling of superiority. And that's usually calmer and less violent.
The cops, the judge, the police union, any grand jury members that may have been involved, most of them probably fall into category B. They probably don't even have awareness of how much they enjoy not having a single pang of empathy for somebody who "probably deserves it"
And it never occurs to them that those they feel "probably deserve it" is an attitude linked to their white supremacy.
This is why the majority of white people will never link themselves to the ambient white supremacy that encourages those alt-Right Nazi's existence and actions.
Never.
Let me tell you something else that's likely: Corey's case isn't going to go anywhere if KKK Pikachu* (Jeff Sessions) is involved.
Keeping Jeff Sessions out of the Department of Justice and Trump out of the presidency was worth putting up with Hillary. (And I don't think she'd be that bad. She's weathervane. And the wind was blowing in our direction)
We can't screw up another election. We have to outvote the white supremacists.
We have to create a people of color led political party or take over the democrats. We have to accept the fact that we'll only have about 1/3 of white people with us --especially if that 1/3 of white people refuse to take ownership of white supremacy problem and clean their own white racism soaked house.
Momma, Daddy, Bubba and nem need to be told off in clear language if they're indeed racists. Anybody who walk with people doing Nazi salutes and carrying confederate flags is a racist. Anybody who makes excuses for these lowlifes is a racist or a racism enabler (no reason to make a distinction)
The one-third of white people who see most of the problem need to stop making excuses and get to work.
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VIDEO IS HERE
Momma, Daddy, Bubba and nem need to be told off in clear language if they're indeed racists. Anybody who walk with people doing Nazi salutes and carrying confederate flags is a racist. Anybody who makes excuses for these lowlifes is a racist or a racism enabler (no reason to make a distinction)
The one-third of white people who see most of the problem need to stop making excuses and get to work.
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A just released dashcam video shows Texas cops strip- and cavity-searching a woman in a parking lot And it might reopen the sexual assault case against the officers.
VIDEO IS HERE
I'm pretty tough. I couldn't really through it. Not the images, because I didn't see much...just the very idea. Use caution)
https://news.vice.com/story/roadside-vaginal-search-revives-calls-for-criminal-charrges
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