Ms Rachel on Instagram: "Just in 2026. Also what the press did to Dr Jason Arday. My heart is with the Black community. Please be an ally. You don’t have to be perfect. But you need to listen, uplift, speak out and show up."
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680K likes, 12K comments - msrachelforlittles on August 18, 2026: "Just in 2026. Also what the press did to Dr Jason Arday. My heart is with the Black community. Please be an ally. You don’t have to be perfect. But you need to listen, uplift, speak out and show up.".

It’s insane to me that there have been so many cases of black people found hanging recently and they’ve pretty much all been brushed off.

There’s something wrong with the world when a children’s entertainer needs to ask the country to bother caring about it.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    11·
    19 hours ago

    The problem is that we don’t have any information

    Guess what investigating does. It gives you more information. Imagine that.

    • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world
      41·
      18 hours ago

      It’s not that the police don’t have any information, it’s that we, the people on Lemmy, don’t have any information.

      The police said “suicide” and that’s where the story stops. You’re just assuming there is more to it but you don’t have any proof that there actually is

      The article says one case even the family agrees is suicide. Another case the family agrees the victim was being bullied and so suicide is a strong possibility. One case the police have a suspect and it’s her boyfriend but there isn’t enough evidence to charge him. One case was so new we didn’t even have a name yet

      According to the CDC about 12,000 people a year hanged themselves. You don’t think any of those people are ever black?

      You’re just assuming these are all racially motivated cases of murder that the police are covering up… but you have zero evidence of that

      And even if it were true it’s 4 cases over 8 months across the entirety of the United States. Not exactly the kind of thing that warrants national attention

      • aesthelete@lemmy.world
        91·
        18 hours ago

        According to the CDC about 12,000 people a year hanged themselves. You don’t think any of those people are ever black?

        I don’t think it’s likely that black people often hang themselves from a tree in a way that looks suspiciously like a lynching.

        And even if it were true it’s 4 cases over 8 months across the entirety of the United States. Not exactly the kind of thing that warrants national attention

        Dude, national attention is given to the most trivial of issues. Why is it undeserving in this case?

        • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world
          22·
          14 hours ago

          I found more data

          Between 2005 and 2014 there were 25,207 suicides by asphyxiation. 90% of these were hanging and the most common place was a tree, at 2,215

          76% of the victims were white, so 1683 people were non-white… over 9 years. SO that’s 59 a year or about 5 a month.

          So yeah, finding 8 black people hanging in public over 8 months is probably pretty normal

          https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29308538/

          • aesthelete@lemmy.world
            4·
            8 hours ago

            So yeah, finding 8 black people hanging in public over 8 months is probably pretty normal

            Yeah I’m sure that you’d love that to be the case.

            I can’t imagine commenting in a public forum telling people to not care and not investigate. Why would you spend your life this way?

            Why would you look up statistics in an effort to tell people to do nothing?