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Rape As A Weapon
October 30th, 2007
…Darfur to Dunbar Village
I’ve been holding in reserve this post for awhile waiting to be able to finish it. With my planned participation in the pending, Blogging For Justice To Protect Black Women From Rape on November 1st; I figured it was fitting that I go forth with it. The subject of this post also bridges last weeks Blogging Against Genocide to Thursdays action.
For the past four years the Janjaweed has systematically used rape as a weapon of war to destroy women and communities in Darfur.
The Janjaweed are Afro-Arab militia in Sudan, who’ve been on a brutal campaign against ethenic groups they wants to displace from Darfur for financial as well as ethno-centric reasons. They’ve chosen a method of utter demorilization, a shock and awe if you will, to accomplish this goal.
As I noted in my March 2007 post, A Million Miles Away the New York Times Described this campaign as being “…very different than opportunistic rape by individual criminals, this is policy rape.”
Watch the 3 minute Video Janjaweed in America…
…Then understand that the same thing in a sense is happening here. We have an out of control, sociopatic, criminal element that wants to terrorize the neighborhoods, or better yet, Petri dish concentration camps that the poor are often forced into; to establish a reign of preeminence over the area to do as they will.
This is happening in places like Dunbar Village. Dunbar Village is where the 35 year old West Palm beach woman was gang raped for 3 hours, and then forced to perform oral sex on her 12 year old son. This incident was actually just one of many in that area in a short period of time.
I previously wrote about Dunbar Village in Invisible Black Women Part 1 saying
“Despite a rash of rapes in the area, and other general violence, the city of West Palm Beach doesn’t want to bother to provided security in their run down projects (aka concentration camp) that are Dunbar Village.”
Rape is moving from the already horrible tool of self empowerment, and dehumanization and control over an individual to an even greater weapon of war against whole families and whole communities; and is largely going unchallenged by our national or world society.
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Another reason they rape the women is to get them pregnant. That way women will have babies that are not full blood (Tootsie for example), therefor killing off the lineage. They kill the men and boys, and impregnate the women creating a new tribal lineage of mixed blood (Tootsie/Hutu).
So it’s not just for violence, it’s another form of genocide. If women have mixed blood children then no pure blood Tootsie will ever exist. As a culture they value life so much that the women are not going to give up their babies because they were rape. It’s quite tragic. It’s playing on a mother’s love for her child as a way to propagate genocide.
As you have previously stated many times, this type of rape is policy rape in Darfur. In Darfur, the boys and men are killed. They are not even allowed to procreate to strengthen and coninue their family lineage. In West Palm Beach, and elsewhere in the U. S., the boys and men are jailed under long and harsh sentences. When our males are jailed, some might as well be dead, because the imprisonment encourages homosexual activity and unnatural sexual activity which further destroys the Black family unit. Incarcerations also encourage and promote violent temperment and cruelty which renders the male incapable of nurishing a loving relationship with his Black wife or woman, when he is finally released. These type of men are lost to our race forever. All of these actions help to perpertrate genocide in our Black race.
This is why it is so important to reach our children, girls and boys early. They need to be trained and taught about the challenges they are going to encounter when they leave the safety of the Black family, if they are exposed to one. All of these things are initiated against our people for the sole purpose of destruction. First, we as adults need to understand this and then, we must pass this education on to our children. It is so very important for all of us to know that our fight is not against one another, we have a greater evil to fight. If we in the Black community, whether it be Darfur or Dunbar Village, realize that the sole purpose of racism is to destroy our race, then we can adequately prepare ourselves for the battle which is sure to exist.
We, as a people, have to acknowledge our strengths and our ability to continue existing, even with all of the obstacles that are set before us. More importantly, we need to recognize that even if the person whom is hurting us looks like us and is supposed to be a part of us, once that person has lain harm on us, he/she is no longer part of our community. We must cut that person out from among us. Even GOD, in his infinite wisdom tells us that he does not like a coward. We must exhibit our strength sometimes. We cannot continue letting others kill us. We have to take a stand for what is right. There cannot be a blur in regard to our understanding the difference between right and wrong. It is not right for our Black sisters to be subjected to rape. It is a sick and twisted mind of the individual whom would have a woman perform oral sex on her own child, or subject a woman to eating feces of animals just for his/her perverted amusement. It is sinister to subject a woman to rape because the conscious intent is to wipe out an entire race of people. We cannot continue looking away, because eventually, we all have to look into the mirror.
Mrs. Grapevine, in Darfur, the rape is used for dehumanization; the women often can’t go back to her husband or family if it’s a girl. Also many of the rapes are so brutal and with objects that it leaves the room both or either infertile or incontinent. I think that’s how it’s specifically applied as a genocidal method by the Janjaweed.
this makes us all fathers and heads of households sit in anguish and grief at what’s being done to women and teens in war , civil wars and even in plight . People should take personal responsibility for their conduct , closely knit family governments in order for these crimes to diminish .This site is a tribute to concern……
Barbara J. Spraggins,
I agree that the challenge is to reach the kids at the earliest ages. I was just saying last night to some brothers that we have to have a cultural and societal response to the delima’s we face with out children.
We’ve got to rebuild our families, and the extended family; which is the community.
We cannot continue looking away, because eventually, we all have to look into the mirror.
That’s what I hope for people to understand; even if it’s happening half way around the world.
This is appalling…I agree with you, Yobachi…it is up to us to rebuild our families and take a look in the mirror and decide what it is that we want to live with. Can we really live with the fact that these things are happening across the ocean and still do nothing? I am speechless as to why the government would allow such atrocities to continue, but then again why would I expect more…what can we do as a community to escape these mentalities and conditions being put upon us? I really don’t have an answer for that…
Marvalus : “what can we do as a community to escape these mentalities and conditions being put upon us? ”
Those of us of conscious have to individually really take on the prinicple of Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) -
“To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.”
From there we have to go out into our communities and get out people - mentor them, show them we care, build community institition and cultural institutions for them to be apart of. People want to be apart of something bigger than themselves; its the same reason they join gangs, its the same reason they join mega churches, its the same reason people love to compete on sports teams.
We have to begin to build real communities that people want to be apart of, and develop community connections so that the people will take hold of community values, instead of the values of lost rappers, over-sexualized movies, and the Saprano’s.
Excellent post!
Rape is destruction. To give birth to a child of rape and of ambiguous lineage is the ultimate humiliation in many communities across the globe. The employement of this weapon is as deadly as an act of murder because it can be done repeatedly and in some cases produces a child as a constant reminder of the offense
Femigog all true, but actually in Darfur it’s more about the women being rendered
incontenent than having children, and not being able to return to their families or village.
Very disgusting news! I am now becoming more and more convinced that USA is no good at all.
I am confused…what is the difference between the janjaweed and the toosies? or are they the same? Sorry, could someone please explain?
Thank you:)