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Running Head: SEX, RACE, AND VIOLENCE

Sex, Race and Violence
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Sex, Race, and Violence
Abstract

The world has never been a good place. However, it is impossible to keep silent when
the wheels of injustices keep running over the African American community in the name of
human trafficking. The worst thing is that the form of human trafficking here involves
commercial sex for these ladies. Now is the time to stand up against this modern-day slavery.
Even this paper is an attempt to fight this injustice in a small way. It contains the discussions on
the prevalence of the vice within the African American community who hold the first position
when it comes to being the victims and also the perpetrators. There is also the discussion of
consequences followed by some of the strategies that the American government has employed to
curb the vice. In the end, there remain some unanswered questions about this vice.

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Introduction
When people think about slavery, they can only interpret it from the perspective of the
ancient day injustices that happened before most countries gained independence. However, there
is still slavery that takes place up to date. One of these modern-day types of slavery is sex
trafficking, which is quite rampant, especially for underage girls. Sex trafficking is one of the
vices that threaten the achievement of the maximum potential of girls not only in America but in
the world beyond. The term sex slavery means that an individual participates in commercial sex.
They usually engage in these activities either through force, fraud, or coercion. The people who
benefit from the commercial activity view this as a lucrative business venture and rarely care
about the welfare of the affected individual. They will often lie that they have got jobs for these
women and end up exploiting them in such an inhumane way. They could also use threats to put
these women into their bait. Although all women are prone to this vice, the numbers of black
girls that are in danger are astounding.
The FBI reports that 40 percent of the victims of sex trafficking are African Americans.
The number of those that fall prey is high in the metropolitan areas. For instance, in a city like
Los Angeles, the number of African Americans who are victims represents 92 percent of all the
victims. In addition to the information by the FBI, the National Center for Victims of Crime
reports indicates that black girls aged 12 to 19 years are more likely to be victims than their
white counterparts. The pervasiveness of this vice is that African American men are the ones
who mostly engage in the trafficking business. Technically, they are selling their sisters to the
lion's den.
Worse still, statistics indicate that the market for these girls is a mostly affluent white
market. This is a clear depiction of the moral decadence and levels of perversion that exist in

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modern-day society. They are also quite shocking revelations, and it is quite a shame to admit
that the U.S is both a source and a destination country for the victims of sex trafficking. A
reference in this context means the country from which the perpetrators of this crime get their
targets. Transit is a country through which the ladies pass through before getting to the
destination. It is important to note that the U.S automatically becomes a transit country as it may
sometimes act as the intermediary between the girls and their place of work. A destination, on
the other hand, is the country where the trafficked girls will become of use (Boliou, 2018).
America serves both of these purposes. Since trafficking is not usually limited to specific
countries, most countries play the above roles at one point in time.
What happens is that sex traffickers will recruit girls, preferably from a low-end
background from their source. This must be an area where they have previously derived other
girls or can see the potential of getting plenty of girls who would easily fall prey. In America,
these are mostly African American girls. They may use threats, lies, or intimidation as long as
the victim accepts their proposal in the end. Sometimes, they will take these girls forcefully
through crude methods s...