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Black women are six times more likely to be killed than white women, data reveals (www.nbcnews.com)
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The paper included a decade’s worth of data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention among Black women ages 25 to 44 across 30 states.

In the U.S., Black adult women are six times more likely to be killed than their white counterparts, troubling new data reveals.

A paper published Thursday in The Lancet medical journal analyzed homicide rates of Black women ages 25 to 44 across 30 states. The data was collected between 1999 and 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics System.

Homicides were classified in this study as death by shooting, piercing, cutting and other forms of violence. Racial disparities varied among states; in Wisconsin, for example, Black women were 20 times more likely to be killed than white women. Black women living in Midwestern and Northeastern states were also more likely to be killed by a firearm, the paper found.

The study was designed to provide more comprehensive data about homicide rates among Black women and fill in the gaps in the existing literature, said Bernadine Waller, the paper’s lead author and a postdoctoral psychiatry research fellow at the Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center.

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Wait until you see those numbers compared to native American women... It's a damn disgrace how women born to the minority population is treated when it comes down to it.

Edit: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6628a1.htm

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

IMO the most important variable left out there is economic status. Which is of course correlated, but not caused with or by minority status (due to historical factors).

All of man are the same, but unfortunately our circumstances are not.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Treated by whom? Who kills black women?

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Who kills black women?

Usually men do.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why would men specifically select women from minorities?

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

I don't think it is necessarily "selecting". I'm not exactly sure what it is. But what I found in the article that at least starts to get at your questions is:

Approximately 45% of Black women experienced stalking, physical and sexual violence in their lifetimes, and an estimated 51% of Black female adult homicides were related to intimate partner violence, according to The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Intimate partner violence was also a key contributor of homicide in Black women, Waller’s paper notes.

...Karma Cottman, chief executive officer for Ujima Inc., a resource center focused on ending domestic, sexual and violence within Black communities. Cottman said the statistics are a direct result of economic instability and a large access to firearms.

It goes on to talk about the relationship stresses of economic instability.

Also

Many Black women also have a fear of calling law enforcement, Cottman added, which puts them “at greater risk for experiencing violence” since they do not ask for police intervention until a situation turns deadly.

I'm just passing along relevant bits of the article. I think the above quote would need more study as it strikes me as complex factors interacting. How many black women are killed by the police? I have no idea. How many die as a secondary result of police encounters? How does that compare to not getting police intervention sooner?

A 2020 study published in the National Library of Medicine found that Black and Latina women who experienced intimate partner or sexual violence were two to three times more likely to experience abuse or a neglectful response from law enforcement when reporting the incident.

Finally, what to do?

Waller is calling for more gun legislation and said more work needs to be done to dismantle inequities that directly impact Black women.

[–] capital@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Black women are murdered at younger ages and higher rates than other women of colour, including Native American and Alaska Native women.

That’s from the paper referenced in the article. I’m reading through it now.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

I was working off information from before this. Lots of personal experiences and studies like this https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6628a1.htm