I'm Aisha Roscoe and this is the Sunday story.

A warning that today's episode deals with issues of sexual harassment and assault.

I want to start with a personal story.

It's a story that's hard for me to even think about and to have to tell it, but I'm doing

it because I feel like it's important.

A few years ago when I was pregnant with my youngest child, I'm walking to the doctor's

office, minding my business, and these three college-age men approached me.

When they got close to me, it seemed like maybe they were going to ask me a question.

Ultimately, they did ask me a question, but it was very vulgar.

I should note these were three white men, and one of them asked me if I wanted their,

and this is their words, their quote, white male part, but they asked it in a much more

graphic way.

They did not laugh when this happened.

They didn't smile.

It didn't sound like a joke.

It really sounded like a threat.

Another woman saw it who was walking by, and she was like, oh my goodness, I can't believe

they said that to you, like, what jerks?

At the time, I was just so angry, but also just really vulnerable, because I felt like

if my brother or my cousins or a man had been with me, they'd never say that, but these

men felt comfortable, basically threatening me on the street because I was all by myself,

and I'm also pregnant, so I can't really fight, or I can't fight.

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