1990s crime discourse defamed Black men just as welfare discourse defamed Black women

Evidence

Just as the discourse on the overblown welfare problem primarily defamed Black women, the discourse on the overblown crime problem in 1994 primarily defamed Black men. Media critic Earl Ofari Hutchinson passionately rebuked the defamers in The Assassination of the Black Male Image, his 1994 scorcher. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1132