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Who's to Blame When a Black Man Rapes a Woman?

A "recovering progressive" friend on Twitter apologized to me recently for the offensive behavior of fellow leftists who called in and left hateful messages at the headquarters of the conservative group FreedomWorks in Washington, D.C.

My response to the embarrassed liberal? "I don't believe in collective guilt."

This man did not need to apologize to me. He had done nothing wrong. The responsibility for the reprehensible behavior is squarely on the shoulders of the base, unimaginative, hate-spewing individuals who left the messages. Were they representative of the left generally? Well, you don't see a great hue and the cry in the press today, do you? Had this situation been reversed, on the other hand ...

But that's not the point.


But liberals don't believe this. For example, a white person carries the shame of slavery even if his family members never owned slaves and even if he himself worked to free those in bondage. White equals guilt. Or, as another example, "society" is guilty for creating the psychosexual environment in which frustrated men must rape in order to feel dominant. And then there are the more mundane things like "if she weren't poor, she wouldn't be compelled to steal that Ralph Lauren dress."

A criminal wouldn't be a criminal if he were loved more and society supported him, therefore it's society's fault that he is committing the fill-in-the-blank crime.


What follows is the harrowing and cognitively dissonant account of a woman's rape at the hands of a black man she considered a friend. Her name is Amanda Kijera and here is her story:

