She argued that slavery allowed white society to stereotype white women as the pure goddess virgin and move Black women to the seductive whore stereotype formerly placed on all women, thus justifying the devaluation of Black femininity and rape of Black women.
The speaker asserts that slavery enabled white society to establish a system where white women were portrayed as pure and virtuous while Black women were relegated to the sexually promiscuous "whore" stereotype. This, she argues, was used to devalue Black femininity and justify the sexual violence against Black women.