All creeps, catcallers are not Men of Color

Remember the video posted about two weeks ago by Hollaback, which showed a white woman, casually dressed, walking the streets of New York City and being catcalled, etc? It shows mostly Black men and Latinos engaging in this behavior. Another example of racial skewing. The director of the video said, “We got a fair amount of white guys, but for whatever reason, a lot of what they said was in passing, or off camera.” Really? In an editorial in this past Sunday’s Daily News, “Creeps, catcallers, color and class,” Rebecca White, who identifies herself as a 33-year-old white woman, writes, “The degradation of white men has come more often in a whisper than a call. And, for me, it has more often happened behind closed doors, including in the workplace, rather than out in public.” Not too long ago, with the Central Park Five, and a little further back, in 1955 Mississippi, where Emmett Till was brutally killed for “sassing a white woman,” we see the effect of this racial skewing. โ€ช#โ€Žstreetharrassmentโ€ฌ.

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About William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

William Eric Waters is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, essayist, educator, criminal-justice scholar, and nonprofit executive. Writing as William E. Waters, he is the author of the epic poem Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass and three poetry collections: Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, The Black Feminine Mystique, and The Black Blood of Poetry. Under the pen name Easy Waters, he is the author of the novel Streets of Rage and the short-story collection Conundrums: Stories of Law & Justice. His work explores Black history, race, law, punishment, institutional power, accountability, redemption, and resilience.
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