/* In her remarkable story, "Beyond Rape: A Survivor's Journey" Joanna Connors, a reporter at The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, writes about her experiences getting raped by a black man who taunted her in a racist manner as he attacked her. But the story isn't just about rape. It also addresses important issues of race and class. */ The review itself was refreshing in its common-sense approach to racial politics. Everyone knows that almost all rapes -- especially, inter-racial rapes -- in this country are committed by blacks and Mestizos. The FBI and DOJ statistics simply undergird the obvious truth. However, the national media obsessively try to persuade us to ignore the obvious and believe that interracial rape is often white-on-black. When white woman begrudgingly admit that black men raped them, the media usually victimizes them again, insinuating that they wanted it, or that they're making it up because they're racists. (As if a white woman would willingly let a rapist go free in order to randomly accuse some black man of the crime.)
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