The world has become a terrible place, and we thought the modern world would keep women safe. While several incidents have gone unnoticed by the world in the past, thanks to social media, many happenings have gone viral, and perpetrators have been brought to justice.
A similar incident happened when a viral video began circulating on Instagram, and apparently, it had to do with a man not accepting rejection.
On Sunday, September 3rd, 2023, a video shared by the Shaderoom Instagram channel went viral as a woman named Rho Bashe was hit in the face by a brick when a man asked for her number and didn’t accept it when she rejected him.
What Exactly Happened at the Scene?
According to the video shared on Instagram, the woman can be heard saying, “Y’all, this man just hit me in my face with a brick, and all these Black men just watched. This man…grabbed a rock and hit me in my face because I wouldn’t give him my number.”
While there was no exact clip of a man hitting her on the scene, the video did feature several men who stood aside as she kept sobbing about how helpless they were as the perpetrator escaped the scene.
Furthermore, as you swipe the post we shared above, you can see the video of Bashe wearing a hospital gown as she shows the right side of her face, which is swollen, and explains the incident in detail. Apparently, the incident took place in Houston, Texas.
Before being discharged from the hospital after 12 hours of treatment, she suffered a concussion and added that she could not chew her food for at least a week.
How People Are Reacting to the Unfortunate Incident
While she blames all the black men at the scene, several X users have revealed a few videos Bashe previously posted about how black women must protect each other and men only protect what they possess. You can view the tweet here:
One woman named Uju Anya, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, commented on X, saying that the tweets criticizing the victim are not helping her and need to be addressed from a different perspective. In her words,
“Black men pulling stuff from a Black woman’s social media, they claim show she didn’t ‘deserve’ protection when a Black man smashed her face with a brick for not giving him her number. Same thing white supremacists do after cops murder Black people to claim they deserved to die.”
Another X user, Candice Marie Benbow, a Multi-Genre Theologian, also commented on how it is unjust to label her as a feminist while the men who stood aside during the incident actually didn’t know who she was. Here’s the actual comment in her words:
“Nevermind dudes didn’t know she was a feminist when they literally stood and watched a man hit her in the face with a brick. Nevermind them searching her socials for a reason to justify what happened to her actually proves the point she made in her videos about men/protection.”
“The worst part of social media is that it puts us in community with the gutter rats and swamp swine that we could have gleefully gone our entire lives never knowing they existed.”
While the debate of how certain few men are digging up into her past videos and fellow women defending the victim aside, the Houston Police Department is currently investigating the issue to catch the culprit and bring him to justice.
So, what is your stance on the situation? Should the culprit be punished severely?
Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.
