This article focuses on how black people’s experiences with GBV are more severe and that limited culturally competent interventions and services for victims of color are available to address this issue. Bent-Goodley does not conduct any new research, but rather draws upon the black-experience based social work (BEBSW) perspective as a means of accentuating its efforts to help U.S communities to more effectively address GBV among African American populations. Bent- Goodley (2009) asserts that the BEBSW perspective gives voice to countless African American women in the U.S whom wish that the available services were more culturally grounded and based on the recommendations of themselves and other women in their communities. If such available services and social workers were more sensitive to black women’s needs, more black women would seek help and get the rehabilitative needs that they deserve. As Bent-Goodley (2009) points out, many black women are hesitant or reluctant to seek services or report abuse in fear of being stereotyped for being women of color and in fear of discriminatory treatment and further violence/injustice. Because of this hesitation and reluctance, women of color are very likely to mask their problems surrounding GBV.