Being Superwomen: Justice For Black Women

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I applied the feminist theory to the article titled “Being Superwomen: Justice for Black Women Too” in order to focus on the inequality, injustice, oppression of black women. The article opens up about a Haitian women who was raped with not a lot of media attention about the crime neither did black political leaders do anything to help the female victim at all. Al Sharpton thought that it was unfair that the black men who were responsible for raping the women were not offered bail. The men were portrayed as victims and “young African-American males” that were endangered species. The feminist theory would fit perfectly with this article because black women get the less attention when it comes to rape which is sad since they don’t get the justice

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