Lying About Rape

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Ronnie Long, 44 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit. Back then in the South, 
it was common for white women to lie against black men.
 
History. I have nothing to do with it. It’s my life. I choose how to live it. Black women are part of history, if they decide to lie about rape and domestic violence, using the internet, the new lynch tree, for high profile black men like athletes and actors.

Ronnie Long was released in 2020 after 44 years in prison because a white girl falsely accused him of rape. That was the norm. White girls used it during slavery and long afterwards in the South. Black men were toys. White girls who wanted to play, punished them if they refused.

They pouted and told daddy who lynched the arrogant slave. Black men lived in an age where white men in that part of the United States thought their sisters, cousins and wives were every black man’s dream. Some black men lost their lives, others served time like Ronnie Long.

That’s why history is every black woman’s business when it comes to settling scores with boyfriends. Couples fight. You resolve it or walk away.  It comes with the territory, but black women telling lies about black boyfriends because they are mad at them? That’s tantamount to murder.

They must remember black men died because of lies told by white women. It’s easy to forget history because white and black people marry each other now. Advertising is also on overdrive, with TV ads of black men with white wives or girlfriends. Therefore, for some people born after the fax machine, race it not an issue.

But lying, any form of lying is. That’s why courts insist on swearing, to tell the truth, nothing but the truth.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.

 

 

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