On Thursday, Quanell X, a community activist, traveled from Houston to help stage a town hall meeting called to address rising concerns — especially in Cleveland’s African-American community — about the case.
Among other issues, he said that the girl didn’t do enough to stop the alleged assailants.
“It was not the young girl that yelled rape. Stop right there — something is wrong, brothers and sisters,” Quanell X said.
And, speaking over yells of support from the crowd, he also questioned the role of the girl’s parents.
“Where was the mother? Where was the father?” he said.”
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Alleged gang rape of girl, 11, ignites firestorm in Texas community - CNN.com
Where were the boys’ mothers and fathers? And why are the grown men involved not responsible for their own actions, if an 11-year-old girl is expected to be responsible for hers and theirs both?
(Additional layers of grossness can be found—where else?—in the comments section of this article. Quannel X’s despicable comments about the girl in question—which are par for the course following a rape allegation—are attributed to the fact that he is black, and therefore a shitty human being, instead of to our society in general, wherein comments like this are ubiquitous when it comes to rape victims. How completely unsurprising is it, though, that a bunch of [almost certainly] white men only see the wrongness in victim-blaming, or in raping someone for that matter, when it’s a black man doing it?)
