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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
    91·
    20 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·
      16 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
        41·
        10 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?

        • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 hour ago

          They did investigate, they said it was suicide. You’ve just decided on your own that this is untrue

          I asked what proof you had and you said none, just a gut feeling that it was suspicious because they were black and not only hanged, but hanged outside. Turns out people track this kind of information so we could look it it up to see if you were right. You were wrong. Not only is hanging still an extremely common form of suicide (even for black people), but doing it outside is the preferred method.

          This is how you are suppose to live your life. Walking around assuming everything is a racist conspiracy based on a hunch and that you can trust everything every famous person says is how you end up stupid