Fear, Florida, and The 1619 Project
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The Restructuring of Welfare in America
The way that race was developed as we understand it in the United States is very reliant on policing black women's reproductive health and sexuality. In order to exempt white men from any liability for raping enslaved women, the very notion of rape didn't apply to them. So you combine these ideas of no legal right to consent or not to consent to anything with the stereotype that black women are innately unfit to care for their own children. And those ideas heavily influenced social policy in America to today.
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