*It has become really cumbersome for a Black American woman to prove she has been injured or abused. Few people are willing to believe, support, or protect Black women. The shooting of Megan Thee Stallion further exposed just how lightly the matter of Black women’s vulnerability is treated.
She generally received no moral support, even from the friends she expected to stand by her. Worse, she was roundly blamed for what she went through. Some fellow stars even ridiculed her. It is one thing to blame her for her misfortune, and totally another to laugh at her misery. At the end of the day, she got injured and she needed to be comforted, not accusing fingers directed at her.
Megan Thee Stallion was shot in the Hollywood Hills on July 12, 2021, after she attended a party hosted by Kylie Jenner, with rapper Tory Lanez and her ex-best friend, Kelsey Nicole. She initially said she injured her foot on broken glass. Three days later, she released a statement to the effect that she underwent surgery to remove bullets after suffering gunshot wounds.
After a month, she identified her shooter as Tory Lanez. She cited her safety as the main reason she was reluctant to name the shooter.
“I didn’t tell the police what happened immediately right there because I didn’t want to die,” She explained. She also claimed Lanez and his team tried to buy her silence; they offered her money if only she would keep silent. Tory Lanez denied he shot Megan. He went ahead and addressed the issue on his album “Daystar,” claiming he was in an intimate relationship with Megan but he didn’t shoot her. He instead blamed her team for trying to frame him.
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To add salt to injury, the social media community, the hip-hop industry and society, in general, turned against Megan. They poked holes in her version of what really happened, and blamed her for her woes.
Lanez stepped up campaigns aimed at discrediting Megan’s credibility. Megan found herself having to convince everyone she was not in a romantic relationship with her alleged shooter.
Public opinion was and is still divided on the matter. But the question remains: who shot Megan Thee Stallion, a Black woman, and why? Why would someone just pull the trigger after a party and shoot a defenseless woman? These are the questions that should be answered.
Megan Thee Stallion brought the painful incident to the stage on October 2, 2020, when she gave a powerful performance on “Saturday Night Live.”
“I was recently the victim of an act of violence by a man,” she said. “After a party, I was shot twice as I walked away from him. Truthfully, I was shocked that I ended up in that place. My initial silence about what happened was out of fear for myself and my friends. Even as a victim, I have been met with skepticism and judgment. The way people have publicly questioned and debated whether I played a role in my own violent assault proves that my fears about discussing what happened were, unfortunately, warranted.”
She added that it’s ridiculous that some people think the simple phrase “Protect Black women” is controversial.
“We deserve to be protected as human beings,” she concluded.
Crimes and violence against Black women usually attract more skepticism than support, so Megan’s case shouldn’t surprise those concerned about women’s plight. More often than not, women find themselves trying to substantiate their experiences while undergoing biased interrogations.
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