Young Girls Raped by Rich White Men Never Stood a Chance
FLet the record reflect, I’m going to spend one story writing about the plight of young white women raped by rich white men for whom there has never been justice in American history. Their number pales in comparison to Black women of all ages who were raped throughout history, sometimes by the same subset of rich white men who considered it their right. The rape of Black women created the labor force that powered the South; sometimes it was forced breeding with selected enslaved men (still rape), and others, rape by white men who felt entitled to sex on demand. If the woman was taken against her will or could not say no, it was rape.
I’ll get to the young white women in a minute. I don’t intend to omit Native American women who have also been raped throughout history, mostly with little recourse. In their case, it wasn’t forced breeding but mainly white men having their way. The number of Native women who have gone missing, many of them raped and murdered, is still well above the national average. Black women suffer the same fate.
When Thomas Jefferson began raping fourteen-year-old Sally Hemings, it didn’t go unnoticed. J.T. Callendar published accounts of the affair in an attempt to embarrass…