Such an agenda is reflected in the nearly 5000 comments posted on Blackplanet.com responding to Chris Brown and Rihanna updates. The unendurable sense of these comments was that the Black community needed to discriminate itself from stereotypes of internal violence. Blackplanet.com members even spontaneously created online scrutiny groups to oration the issue.
The media's passion with the Chris Brown/Rihanna incident, alongside a inexperienced direction that seems to accommodate the liability it owes childish voters unquestioningly offers issue civil organizers a peerless opportunity for this generation to draw the lead on dating and domestic abuse. Although hip-hop didn't produce America's gender problem, it's mainstream authoritative representations certainly helped brace it. Today's children Americans--especially those in the Chris Brown and Rihanna majority assembly and the legions of even younger fans who adore them--have come of adulthood consuming a steady food of these images.
Few would argue that they are healthier or wiser as a result. At the same time, there are very few places in our civilization where we make little ones men to learn appropriate behavior for pleasant their female counterparts, especially when relationships relate to sour. (Rhode Island and Virginia theorem for high sect instruction on dating are rare exceptions.) This advancing the reputation quo, alongside our damp squib as a society to entrench a workable finding out into the fabric of our culture, is a dull combination. A latest report from the Bureau of Justice found that 1 in 3 girls in the US is a butt of physical, excited or verbal wrong from a dating partner. 13 percent of teen girls announce they were physically pinch or hit and 40 percent of teenage girls 14-17 year olds judge they be sure someone their mature that has been hit by a boyfriend.
And a 2003 nationwide appraise from the Center for Disease knob of 15,000 9-12 grade boisterous school students found that nearly 9 percent au fait physical dating violence, with rates amongst Black females (14 percent) nearly twice their milk-white counterparts (7 percent). The gauge for Latino females was 9.3 percent. Now is not the schedule for sophomoric woman in the street inspired during the last voting cycle to fall back into complacency.
Instead this intensity should be channeled into the creation of a physical national agenda committed to ending servant violence. This certainly will press an institutional approach. In the same movement that sex education worked it's character into our schools, we paucity a similar curriculum from the earliest grades upward to alter the ways Americans reckon about dating violence, steward abuse and gender equity. At a lay bare minimum, this curriculum must acquaint with boys that physical and emotional passion toward their girlfriends or any boys or men toward charwoman is never an option. Such a move would have several benefits: it would lend a hand create the major societal corps needed to curtail cruelty against women; it would allow hip-hop to let on to the world that it has a moral center; and it would cake a new movement for a new generation.
All are high-ranking steps on the parkway to transforming America into a county that reflects, more accurately than our media representations, the time currently preparing to succeed to it.
No comments:
Post a Comment