Crews and Keyes are the of black men in America that I would call, what’s the word, I have to be careful here, heroes. They are champions of of democracy because they are openly saying “Hey this guy assaulted me.” It still is very hard to say such direct things as that, for women and as this article points out, even more for men. The victim is silenced by the victimizer because the system almost always, literally 99 percent of time, lets the victimizer off the hook. “This was an isolated one-time incident,” “he was just playing.” “The statue of limitations has run out,” are three phrases I encountered here of the many often repeated strategies to minimize the incident, isolate the incident so it doesn’t look like a pattern, and dismiss the incident with minimum and trivial punishment that really isn’t punishment. That’s just of the incidence that come forward in what is a river of assaults and abuse.
Worse for these two men are as point out that they are not just men, who should be silent and ashamed if something happened because they didn’t stand up like men, but also black men, the meaning they are super sexual and so enjoy it.
I’m glad to see this reported on by the author and highlighting and supporting these brave men, who inspire. Thank you so much for continuing to bring these stories to light with your clear and detailed analysis.