The over-sexualization of Black girls is putting them in danger.
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Last year, my Trinidadian family had a reunion at Miami’s Annual Caribbean Carnival. During the early morning Jouvert celebration (a massive pre-carnival street party), as I was being splattered with paint and colored powder, I noticed a group of girls behind a nearby sound truck. Young girls, couldn’t have been older than high school freshmen in short shorts, mid-drift tanks, and braces. They, too, were dancing, except one girl was being sought after by an older guy covered in orange mud, seeming determined to grind on her. She repeatedly tried to thwart his advances, but the crowd was so thick she barely had space to move.