Cosby and Ferguson: Why Addressing Gender Violence and Racial Violence Is Not Either/Or Option

Why would you believe the accounts given by eyewitnesses to Michael Brown’s slaying, but not believe the testimony of many women who say they were raped in the same way by the same man?

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