Interesting links, Dovey. And interesting points, too.
But:
You often make it sound as though there's some kind of genocidal Holocaust going on in relation to Black femicide. In other words, as though these victims were targeted expressly because they were Black women. It's not clear to me that this is the case.
In a context where the CDC refers to gun violence as an epidemic that urgently needs to be addressed; where intimate partner violence is on the rise (especially in times of social upheaval and public health lockdowns); and where most Black women, having experienced institutional and structural racism (even at the hands of law enforcement and social service agencies they specifically requested help from); and where the U.S. homicide rate has increased to its highest point in over six decades, it's not a given that nobody could predict this, on the one hand, and that this violence doesn't have "situational" roots rather than "essentialist" ones, on the other.
I've been following--for decades, now--femicide and female infanticide rates in countries throughout the world (an interest sparked by my travels in Asian countries, by connections to my religious studies program at uni, and by my lifelong fascination with both gender itself and with gender disparities); the numbers are, indeed, appaling. The Patriarchy, it seems, is alive and well.
But these numbers reflect the prevailing "undesirability" of female offspring in many traditionally male-dominated cultures. In other words, "boy = good," "girl = bad." It's repugnant, to say the least, and evil behaviours based on this view are criminal (or should be criminalized). In these cases, women and girls are being attacked and murdered precisely because they're women and girls. (As someone who's part of the LGBTQ community, the idea of being attacked and killed because of who you are is something that strikes--again and again--close to home.)
I'm just not convinced (yet) that this type of extremely specific targeting of women and girls is what's going on in the U.S., a country of litigious lethal weapon owners where everybody and their little nephew Timmy own the means to end another human being's life in a flash (rather than first resort to any attempt at civil discussion).
Yes, Black women and girls are attacked and murdered at over twice the rate that, say, White women are, but, again, this (to me) says more about the socio-economic flaws and racial inequities (which give rise to insane crime rates) that plague your country than it does about Black women and girls as a set of special victims. Seems more like Black women and girls are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Massively so.
Of course, none of this is intended to minimize the pain and suffering experienced by those families who were robbed of a loved one. I feel that deeply, I really do.
I just wish Americans would start to address (or work harder at examining) the underlying issues they face when it comes to the tragic and unnecessary loss of life in their communities rather than pointing at a gunshot wound and screaming, "a roll of gauze, stat!"
You alone can fix this.