Rape - the destruction of the black woman

Art works by Kevin "Wak" Williams

One of the most destructive experiences, any one can ever be required to experienced and deal with is a common occurrence that the black woman, is often called upon to deal with. The countless number of negative effects, of this often brief but devastating act is awfully damning, and affects a victim for the rest of their life. Unfortunately; for the victims of rape, such damning encounter affects every facet the victims lives, and marks the beginning of severe, medical, psychological, physicals and emotional complications. 

Victims of rape suffer from the following: 

• Anxiety: Can you imagine an individual going through life every single day, with a feeling of persistent nervousness, stress and worries, which are triggered by past events (the rape). 

• Depression: these people always have the feelings of anxiety, sadness, helplessness, hopelessness, worthlessness, pessimism, guilt, restlessness, irritability and they lose or gain weight drastically. They also lose interest in pleasurable and or routine activities, they have reduced sex drive, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, remembering or making decisions, as well as suicidal thoughts; their emotion often changes at the drop of a pin. 

• Obsession: they become obsessed or attached to another human, animal or inanimate object. (the making of a stalker if that attention is not appreciated) Can you remember the young lady who was beheaded in plain view of everybody at the bus terminal in Kingstown? She was a victim of a man with an obsession. 

• Compulsion: This includes persistent, irresistible impulse to perform a repetitive irrational behavior. Common behavioral compulsions include excessive hand-washing, cleaning, checking, ordering, and touching. 

• Post-traumatic stress disorder: This is where an individual that has had a traumatic experience, persistently gets uncontrolled flashbacks of the horrible experience that have cause his/her trauma. These flashbacks can be so frequent that it can prevent the person living a normal life, holding down a job or having wholesome relationship with spouse, colleague, associates, family etc. 

In other words, a victim of rape will never be the same psychologically, emotionally or mentally. After a person was raped, the victim of such vicious and devastating incident, suffers from some form of insanity and becomes suicidal. It is not given much attention because most of the mental illness that are associated with rape goes diagnosed, miss diagnose and are written off as something else. 

Functionally mentally insane: A large number of the victims of rape become functionally insane. - Functionally insane means that the victims of rape, with all of the anomalies that now engulfs their lives, the Victims are able to hold it together and participate in the activities of living, without show the ever present red flags that may alert others that something is clearly not right here. 

Dysfunctional Normal insane: There are a lot of dysfunctional normal insane victims of rape. The high level of dysfunctional behaviors, that are evident in these people, clearly fit the criteria and classic characteristic of being insane. However, they are considered normal for that person; this is do because those who are frequently around the acting out victims, have grown accustom and have developed a tolerance for the person and their behaviors. These people’s mental illnesses often go un-diagnosed also.

Diagnosed insane: while the Functionally mentally insane and the Dysfunctional Normal insane, manage to go undiagnosed and are able to manage their insanity to a point where they can function, there are those who are unable to deal with or mask the effects of rape and acts in a manner that make it impossible for them to function “normally” in the community. everyone can see, there is clearly something wrong with the person and this is evident and can be determined by the content of the person speech, their behaviors, their dress code, and it is visible in the eyes of the person. 

One or all of these characteristic may be a sign that something is extremely wrong with a particular individual. Unfortunately more than 70% of the people who were rape refuse to come forward and report the matter or share their experience with another. And very often, the mental illness of a person, is not associated with the devastation of the traumatizing abuse they may have suffered at the hand of a rapist.

During slavery the white community (Demon Seeds) used rape as a means of control, they devastated our women even our men with rape. Many of our people have been caught in one of the two categories above: Functionally Mentally Insane and the Dysfunctional Normal Insane and their insanity are considered normally.

When we consider a child's primary learning agent is the parent, and the child learn from his or her parents, by mimicking all that they see their parents does; then it will be fair to conclude that a child who were born to, nurtured and socialized by a parent

who is suffering from some form of insanity, that child or those children will obviously learn behaviors that is obviously consistent with one who is insane. The children of such people learns the insane behaviors (not that they are insane) of their parents; for those children, the insane behaviors becomes their normal.

Many people of different race, sees the black woman as easy pray, and they take advantage of the vulnerability and the poverty of the black woman. As a result, these men of other race will rape out ladies knowing that the police will not take their (the black woman's) report of rape serious; unless, the report is against the black man as being the rapist. This give the police the opportunity to fulfill the agenda of the white community - the criminalized of the black community especially the black male. Therefore the rape of a black woman by a man outside her race is never really reported. For the above and other reasons. 

Unfortunately for the black community, in the recent pass generations, the black man have been responsible for inflicting this devastating blight of rape in the people they are responsible for protecting. As a result the black community has been and is still being destroyed from within. We

have got to get together and work on re-teach our men how to respect and protect our women. There need to be a concerted effort to secure the protection of out black women from rape. Until this take priority then the black community will continue to be plagued by mental illnesses, drug use, gang violence and poverty; because all of these antisocial and criminal behavior is tied to the issue of rape and the dysfunction that is associated with this deprived behavior.