With Victory, white people should have no longer have feared black domination. The killings should have stopped, but they didn’t. “Brutality still continued; Negroes were whipped, scourged, exiled, shot and hung whenever and wherever” (Wells 397 ). So, then comes the next excuse, that black men had to be killed to stop the “assaults” that were happening against women. White people made black men out to be monsters, inhumane, and disgusting. But what exactly did a white man mean when accusing a black man of rape? Any type of sexual encounter between a black man and a white woman was seen as rape in the eyes of a white man, even when it was voluntary. These weren’t helpless women getting raped, but women who were willingly sleeping with black men but were too scared of the moral reputation this would leave them
With Victory, white people should have no longer have feared black domination. The killings should have stopped, but they didn’t. “Brutality still continued; Negroes were whipped, scourged, exiled, shot and hung whenever and wherever” (Wells 397 ). So, then comes the next excuse, that black men had to be killed to stop the “assaults” that were happening against women. White people made black men out to be monsters, inhumane, and disgusting. But what exactly did a white man mean when accusing a black man of rape? Any type of sexual encounter between a black man and a white woman was seen as rape in the eyes of a white man, even when it was voluntary. These weren’t helpless women getting raped, but women who were willingly sleeping with black men but were too scared of the moral reputation this would leave them