Yes, There Actually Is "Rape Culture" In America: In The Inner City
I believe it comes, in large part, out of the breakdown of the black family -- how black children are mostly born to single mothers and not into families with a daddy present. (72 percent of all births to black women are children born to single mothers.)

Heather Mac Donald writes at The Corner that an actual "rape culture" in this country -- in the inner city -- is roundly ignored. That's because it doesn't fit the preferred narrative "that "rape culture" is a product of Western civilization exclusively, practiced primarily by heterosexual white males, and its most egregious seat is the pacific American college campus":

In March 2017, a 15-year-old girl in Chicago was lured into a basement and gang-raped by five to six males. The girl was threatened with a pit bull if she tried to flee; she was picked up and thrown around. One of the participants live-streamed the rape on Facebook. So far, two boys, 15- and 14-years-old, have been arrested in the attack. The 15-year-old slapped the girl in the head while she was performing oral sex on him. Up to 40 people watched the rape live; none reported it to the police or to Facebook.

Since then, threats, taunts, social-media bullying, and physical assaults have been directed at . . . the victim and her family, not at the rapists. A group of girls beat the victim's twelve-year-old sister last week, reports DNA Info Chicago. One of the girl's attackers said: "Why [did] you send my brother to jail," according to her mother. You want to see an example of "blaming the victim?" This is it. People ring the family's doorbell and surround the home in a menacing way, the girl's mother has told the Chicago Tribune. The victim has been moved to an undisclosed location to escape the constant insults and bullying, but the family has not yet raised enough money through a GoFundMe campaign to follow her.

Critics of campus feminists regularly suggest that if those alleged defenders of women's rights and safety really want to upend "rape culture," they might move to Afghanistan or Somalia. So far, no gender-studies professor seems to have taken up the suggestion. But here is a less demanding sojourn. Go to the inner city and confront the routine misogyny and violence directed at females, often by other females...

In another piece, Mac Donald explains -- basically -- that black lives need to be treated like they matter more by those within the black community:

It's no longer vicious white racists from whom black children need protection, thanks to the courageous battles of the civil-rights movement, but the mindless violence of gangs who share those children's skin color. That criminal predation, with its debilitating effects on neighborhood vitality, along with family breakdown, lie behind lingering racial inequality today.

People say it is racism that keeps black people in this situation. And yes, of course, there is racism in this world, and you surely experience more of it if you have black skin (though there's now institutional racism -- or "affirmative action -- giving people benefits because of their skin color rather than by merit).

But about the family breakdown, from a previous one of my posts, there's a quote from Patrick Welsh, a high school teacher -- of a question he asked and the response.

His question -- "to a virtually all-black class of 12th-graders who had done horribly on a test (he) had just given": "Why don't you guys study like the kids from Africa?"

A kid who seldom came to class -- and was constantly distracting other students when he did -- shot back: "It's because they have fathers who kick their butts and make them study."

More from my post:

A 2005 Kay Hymowitz piece from City Journal that I've linked to before takes a historical look at the problem, from the Moynihan Report on:

1. entrenched, multigenerational poverty is largely black; and
2. it is intricately intertwined with the collapse of the nuclear family in the inner city.

By now, these facts shouldn't be hard to grasp. Almost 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers. Those mothers are far more likely than married mothers to be poor, even after a post-welfare-reform decline in child poverty. They are also more likely to pass that poverty on to their children. Sophisticates often try to dodge the implications of this bleak reality by shrugging that single motherhood is an inescapable fact of modern life, affecting everyone from the bobo Murphy Browns to the ghetto "baby mamas." Not so; it is a largely low-income--and disproportionately black--phenomenon. The vast majority of higher-income women wait to have their children until they are married. The truth is that we are now a two-family nation, separate and unequal--one thriving and intact, and the other struggling, broken, and far too often African-American.

As I noted in that post -- and will add about Black Lives Matter:

Black leaders like Jesse Jackson need to take a little time off from blaming white people for everything and start stigmatizing single motherhood in the black community, and start teaching that every time a child is born to some poor single mother, it's a tragedy.