Since Ray Rice was suspended, this event brought up two important questions, to what extent women run into domestic violence, and what are the differences of the extensions for Black women and White women.
According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, an estimated 1.3 million American women experience DV/IPV each year. The bigger problem is that Black women are almost three times as likely to experience death as a result of DV/IPV than White women. Statistically, Black women are experiencing DV/IPV at a disproportionate rate and a higher rate of intra-racial violence than any other group. And most of victims choose not to report the violence.
From my research, racism and sexism are two big problems for Black women getting much easier to suffer in the domestic violence than White women. And comparing the extent of DV on Black men, the rate for Black women is also really high.
Actually most of the Blacks believe that racism is a bigger problem. For example, when a Black woman is punched by her husband, she would ran out of the house and seek help from police. However, sometimes calling police for help won't be useful, they might harm the Black woman instead of helping her. And "we too often experience backlash from members of our communities who believe we are airing our dirty laundry and making ourselves look bad in front of White people."
Another reason why more Black women suffer in domestic violence than Whites is about the economic part. Black women find it's more difficult to get employed than White women. The wage disparity limits for them, especially for Black mother who are supposed to be the role of financial support of the whole family, will also trap Black women into a bad relationship, and then the domestic violence will be induced.
Thus, here are two perspectives to see why Black women are more frequently run into domestic violence than White women from my research.
http://time.com/3313343/ray-rice-black-women-domestic-violence/
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