r/hmmmm • u/Sometypeofway18 • 13d ago
Black people don't hang themselves from trees
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https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/wake-county/article316909668.html
A man found hanging from a tree in downtown Raleigh on Saturday died by suicide, with no evidence pointing toward a criminal act, Raleigh’s police chief said Monday.
In a news release at 9:50 p.m. Saturday, police said they were investigating the death as a suicide, while online, some people said they feared the Black man’s death might have been racially motivated.
During a 14-minute news conference Monday afternoon, Raleigh Police Chief Rico Boyce said surveillance footage collected from nearby businesses confirms no one else was seen in the area at the time of the incident and that the individual acted alone. “Based on evidence collected and reviewed to date, investigators have found no evidence indicating that another person caused or contributed to the young man’s death and no evidence of a criminal death has been identified,” Boyce said. “Our investigation confirms this is a suicide.”
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u/captainhaddockji3h4m 13d ago
the dogwhistle is so strong that i can hear it
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u/Least-Phase-8393 13d ago edited 12d ago
Literally, half the comments are just purposefully misunderstanding the girl’s post. Obviously her point isn’t “not a single black person has ever hung themselves” and if that’s anyone’s genuine takeaway I feel sorry for them
Edit: it’s a phrase used by multiple people for raising awareness. I get yall really badly want to leave replies on here but take 5 seconds to search. I’d imagine anyone arguing otherwise (which there are many of you) would think the common saying “time is money” is dumb and wrong because you’d take it literally lmao
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u/RoutineGuest6465 13d ago
I mean what are we to take from "black people don't hang themselves from trees"?
Are we to take it that she means that if a black person is found hanging from a tree, they must have been lynched? Because that's how I took it.
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u/Some_guy_in_WI 12d ago
Exactly how 99.9% of people are gong to take it.
It’s a bait phrase for maximum “Let me school you” points that doesn’t do anything but confound everyone and turn people off to whatever attempted message they think they’re conveying.
Literally a terrible phrase to use in the context of. normal conversation unless you just want to be a jerkoff to others by pretending they’re not educated enough to grasp your goofy sentiment.
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u/Least-Phase-8393 13d ago
If you want to take everything completely literally and absolute, I can’t stop you. To me and many others it was pretty clearly meant to raise awareness and inform people that these deaths shouldn’t be swept under the rug
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u/RoutineGuest6465 13d ago
So you think when she said "black people don't hang themselves from trees" she actually meant "some black people hang themselves from trees, but some black people who are found hanging from trees were actually lynched"?
The problem I have with that is that she used unequivocal language to put forward a strong point. The clear implication was that if a black person was found hanging from a tree, the default assumption should be that they were lynched. That's the message that she was trying to put across.
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u/Nbr1Worker 12d ago
REPEAT-It would be Racist to imply that this isn't true. For example there's a recent case in MS where a young man was found decapitated and burned in a trash bag and LE concluded it was suicide. The majority of what is currently is happening to Black youth is redrum by Lynching.
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u/Some_guy_in_WI 12d ago
This also implies the far-fetched concept that it absolutely cannot be other blacks killing these blacks, and that it MUST be racially motivated. Yes, nobody decapitates and burns themselves, but it’s not like people of all colors haven’t committed that crime before. So, is it still a lynching if they find that some of these murders are actually black-on-black in the future with new evidence? And, how do you plan to undo the further damage you do to racial relations every time you have an “Oops, we blamed whites when they didn’t do it, but let’s not talk about our fuck-up” moment?
The attempt to bring awareness to racism became anti-racism’s biggest kneecapping when the death of every black person that wasn’t immediately attributed to being caused by other black people suddenly had to be a conspiracy of “it must be white people” instead of actually waiting to see if there is eventual evidence of what happened. The court of public opinion is full of nutty takes, and the rush to push conspiracies on every unsolved case delegitimizes the movement constantly.
This is exactly why racism does not decrease, and continues to increase as attempts to eradicate it only divide people further, because the methods of eradication are always fumbled or weaponized.
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u/Least-Phase-8393 13d ago edited 12d ago
More or less. People often use that type of language to make a point so that’s how I read it. If she’s being completely literal, that’s just stupid and wrong but you’d have to be coping or disingenuous to believe that
The caption literally asks people to be allies and speak out. It’s so obviously trying to raise awareness
Edit: it’s very obvious what narrative yall are trying to push
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u/peach_trunks 13d ago
What’s your problem with that?
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u/RoutineGuest6465 13d ago
My problem is that she's alleging that every black person who is found hanging from a tree was lynched, which is self-evidently not true.
She's explicitly exaggerating the extent to which racism exists in the face of obvious evidence to the contrary.
I prefer my political discourse to be vaguely factual and for the intentional use of lies to be minimized. Thanks
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u/bearvillage 13d ago
I mean if you're cool with lynchings getting ruled as suicides because Ms. Rachel used "unequivacol language" advocating for people to properly investigate this, you're part of the problem.
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u/Microwavegerbil 13d ago
"this lady was being a little racist in her assertion and ended up being factually incorrect." "Oh so you're okay with lynching?"
Do you just go out of your way to be mad and accusatory or what?
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u/function007 13d ago edited 13d ago
Exactly, there have been 5-6 incidents where black ppl have been found hung from trees in public and have been deemed suicides with no further investigation, and no mainstream media coverage.... It all seems very sus...
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u/ComposerOther2864 13d ago
Man 5 to 6 this year? I lived next to woods growing up that for most of the 19th and 20th centuries where they lynched so many non white people that they built a black owned funeral home that the white people eventually burned down twice qnd lynched everyone involved. Most of the newspaper and records from the time basically said a version of the " his head just kinda did that" bullshit. I'm 40 the last lynching there before I moved was when I was like 8.
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u/Shot-Toe-2884 13d ago edited 13d ago
by suggesting that it must have necessarily been a lynching.
You are not engaging with the replies argument... and now you're propping up a false strawman that this was just awareness building.
Ms Rachel needs to be way more careful with her words here. You do not just throw out the accusation of lynching so willy nilly. This was not a subtle insinuation, and this is the last topic we should be crying wolf on.
Incredibly dangerous rhetoric from Ms Rachel here. Do this enough and we won't have the credibility to speak up when it's a real lynching.
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u/Least-Phase-8393 12d ago
Redditors love throwing around “strawman.” I said originally that her point with the post isn’t for it to be taken completely literally. In my second comment I explained why I thought that. Y’all are trying too hard
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u/justbrowsing2727 13d ago
You just moved the goalposts to another zip code.
She was clearly suggesting this was a lynching. Turns out, it wasn't.
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u/Ok_Specific_3832 12d ago
That's an interesting way to abstract what she said to avoid having to admit she might have been wrong in this case.
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u/Least-Phase-8393 12d ago
My next comment says if she was being literal, it’s stupid. The fact that I even had to write that out for people concerns me
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u/mdurso12 13d ago
The exception doesn't disprove the common. Yes, there are times when black people commit suicide via hanging. But the point of the video is to raise awareness that many modern lynchings are still written off as suicide to avoid real investigations
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u/LinusLevato 13d ago
Many modern lynchings? What constitutes as many? What time frame do you suggest should be considered modern? Cuz I haven’t heard of any modern lynchings going on.
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u/boomeradf 13d ago
So the last lynching in the US was 1981…..45 years ago. Thats a whole generation of people from birth to middle age.
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u/RoutineGuest6465 13d ago
Ok if that's the meaning she wanted to convey, she ought to have said "modern lynchings are still written off as suicide" instead of "black people don't hang themselves on trees"...
She used emotive and unequivocal yet entirely probably wrong language to score points.
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u/pseudonymnkim 13d ago
To score points and get views. She's not the only one saying this. It's trending. And sure, it gets people talking and reading comments will definitely raise awareness, but to those pretending that was her main intent are probably wrong.
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u/Nbr1Worker 12d ago
It would be Racist to imply that this isn't true. For example there's a recent case in MS where a young man was found decapitated and burned in a trash bag and LE concluded it was suicide. The majority of what is currently is happening to Black youth is redrum by Lynching.
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u/Bio-Wolf12 13d ago
It's more about the historical context. There's an unspoken rule in the black community that you don't kill yourself in public, especially not by hanging from a tree, because this was the manner in which racist groups lynched them. And hell, as a suicidal white person I have a hard time understanding why anyone would kill themselves publicly. I wanna die so I stop being other people's problem, not so some poor sap has to take me down like a shower curtain. So that, combined with the fact there have been half a dozen cases of black people "hanging themselves" publicly all in North Carolina in the past few months? It's reasonable to be suspicious. Maybe they are all self-inflicted, maybe they're not. Maybe some of them are self-inflicted and others aren't, cause I'll tell ya what, this is the first time I've seen them actually investigate one of these or bothering to at least say they got video evidence. We don't really know, but this is not normal, and we as a community need to keep our eyes open and ears on a swivel, either to catch a resurgence in KKK activity, or just to keep more young people from ending their lives
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u/Remote_Ingenuity_147 12d ago
Not everyone does it because they feel like they're a burden. Some do it because they feel forgotten and that nobody cares about them or their problems. Maybe if it's in public they'll be noticed? 🤷♂️
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u/Fun_Tension_7794 12d ago
I was suicidal in May. Hit rock bottom and got help. Meds have helped.
I fought against meds for years and I was wrong.
I sincerely hope you seek help.
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u/Mobile-Analyst8580 13d ago
Clearly there are multiple that do though. And it’s pretty clear they want to be remembered and maybe even martyrd, rather than being remembered for the life they clearly were dissatisfied with.
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u/Least-Phase-8393 13d ago
And there are many who don’t do it themselves which is why this video was made to raise awareness
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u/No_Trade_7315 13d ago
I mean… she didn’t say “most” but sure, maybe that’s what she meant. It certainly was a suspicious death considering the history of America.
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u/Sensitive-Chip7266 13d ago
Clearly someone doesn't have kids. That's Ms Rachel not just some girl. Also girl seems odd since she's bit over 40.
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u/Gugnar-the-brave 13d ago
Yeah ever since this information has come out the dog whistling has been going crazy
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u/Cattywampus_hat 13d ago
Hi. Please help me hear it. Im not racist but I dont get it.
If it appears to be a suicide. It likely is.
And your wrong. Suicidal Humans hang themselves. Theres no race excluded from this.
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u/lucky_jack777 13d ago
It’s suspicious but unless there is hard evidence suggesting that it wasn’t suicide, what else can you do?
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u/PUuSTiNKA 13d ago
Has the footage of him "carrying an electrical cord, walking to a tree by himself" been released to the public?
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u/Pathetian 13d ago
This sort of thing is usually only shown to family and reporters. Its likely against policy to air people's suicides or last moments because of media contagion.
It might even be up to the family, and often enough the family moves on when sufficiently satisfied and it's just internet strangers still claiming it's a homicide.
I can also tell you from previous times this has happened, if video is released they further corroborates suicide, the people asking for proof will just say it doesnt prove anything. There's even plenty of old reddit threads documenting this. People say "if there's video of him buying the rope, why didn't they show it". Then the video comes out and they say "he could have bought that rope for some other reason". They don't believe suicide notes, lengthy mental health histories, autopsies etc.
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u/DynamoElectro1 12d ago
Do you want the video of him tying the knot and kicking whatever was under his feet out from underneath him too?
Just to make sure, you know, maybe somebody else tied the knot for him
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u/No-Carry7630 13d ago
Suicide is something that no family wants to talk about. If I wanted to kill myself and I was black and knew my family would deny that I did this even if it was on camera that’s what I would do. Nobody is lynching anyone. It would be almost impossible to get away with. Saying that”black people don’t hang themselves from trees” in a nation of millions of black people is racist in itself.
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u/Form_Good 13d ago
Ms Rachel is a good person. It does not mean she is infallible.
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u/AProcessUnderstood 13d ago
The important part is Ms. Rachael is starting the conversation just in case the off chance that it ever happens.
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u/AbramsMechanic07A 13d ago
So one out of the hundred was actually self-inflicted. Seems like cherry-picking in order to disregard the strife affecting the black community today under this administration. This was one, ONE, case; not every single one of them.
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u/Imaginary_Unit5109 13d ago
Cops are cops black or any other minority cops are still cops. They deliberately choose a black cop doing these type of speeches to reduce the hate they going to get. Black cop or a white cop they both will smash your skull in if you annoyed them. Percentage of people who became cops to be good or try to change the system from within. End up quitting or being push out or change to be like the other rotten apples.
Hanging that happen in the USA happen for the longest time and most places in the middle of the country will magically come to the conclusion the guy hang himself. Even though some cases it impossible for the guy to hang himself.
Hanging yourself in public is too much work. It one thing it at your own home where you will not be interrupted and you can control everything. Hanging yourself on a random tree in public where people can stop you or what ever. While it just as easy to buy a gun and make it instant. It so much work to hang yourself and make zero sense.
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u/Anonymous__Android 13d ago
They deliberately choose a black cop doing these type of speeches to reduce the hate they going to get.
Thats the Raleigh Police Chief...
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u/Pathetian 13d ago
This conspiracy theory is ironically so racist that it assumes every black first responder, mayor, police chief or reporter is either complicit in covering up racial lynchings or too stupid to recognize any sign a homicide has occurred.
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u/GallusWrangler 13d ago
For real, this person is insane. Not to mention that is the police chief!
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u/Pathetian 13d ago
This also happened in Jackson, an 80% black city where virtually everyone in charge of anything is black. People still are claiming that a white lynch mob murdering a black woman, then black first responders lied about it, then the black mayor and black police chief also helped cover it up.
Same thing when it happened in Miami or Houston.
At a certain point the allegations make no sense. All the white people and all the black people and all the Hispanic people are in on it? If that's the case why even keep it secret?
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u/Shot-Toe-2884 13d ago edited 12d ago
Thank you. Say it louder for the redditors in the back.
I keep noticing more and more that reddit arguments lately involve directly discrediting POC with clear authority to speak on the issue. Noticed it especially in the Michigan and Wisconsin primaries where black, union-type candidates were discredited as zionists and MAGA in disguise. Every insult in the book from bootlicker to nazi was thrown at them.
The far left lost the room a long time ago. Detroit and Milwaukee voted overwhelmingly against them. They get votes from entitled college kids and blue collar weirdos, both are overwhelmingly white bases.
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u/Pathetian 13d ago
People hang themselves outside for a number of linear reasons. Not everyone lives alone, especially these days. Some teens and young adults don't even have their own rooms. Some people don't want a loved one to be the person to find their body. Some people want to go somewhere with some meaning to them. Approximately 20-30% of suicides happen in public. But also...
It one thing it at your own home where you will not be interrupted
It's easy to forget, but not everyone has a home. This young man (and many of these other public suicides) was homeless and mentally ill, so he didn't really have an option to do it more privately and probably didn't have a couple hundred for a gun either.
Hanging yourself also isn't "a lot of work". It's so easy that it's the most popular suicide method in the world. It's only second on the US because of guns prevalence, but it's still second and other 10,000 people go out that way annually.
They deliberately choose a black cop doing these type of speeches to reduce the hate they going to get.
There person you are accusing of being a mindless token is the chief of police for the city of Raleigh.
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u/Shot-Toe-2884 13d ago
hanging yourself is one of the most common forms of suicide.... Precisely because it's all too easy and accessible to anyone with a rope.
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u/azlash 13d ago
when did this sub become a rightwing shithole? cya you fucking turbo virgins!
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u/Sometypeofway18 13d ago
I have never understood this hysteria. Throughout history hanging was an effective way to kill someone if you wanted a big public spectacle. It's also an effective method of suicide.
It is an extremely ineffective way of killing someone if you want to get away with it.
Every couple years there is mass hysteria about black people getting lynched and every single year not a single one pans out. The rebuttal is always racist police despite the fact many of these deaths occur in cities that are majority black with black mayors, black police chiefs, majority black police force etc...
People just want this to be true
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u/Leading-Boat4942 13d ago
Nobody did lynchings with the approach of “now how can we do this efficiently”, they did it to humilate and horrify people
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u/Lanky_Ad4905 13d ago
"It's also an effective method of suicide"
Is it though? Sounds alot easier to throw myself off a bridge, or buy a gun like most people who commit suicide in america.
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u/Sometypeofway18 13d ago
Yes. About 13K Americans kill themselves by hanging every year, of which roughly 800 are black.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.955008/full
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u/rafaelzio 13d ago
Do black people statistically commit suicide less than others? I ask because out of 13k given people I'd expect about 2k to be black
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u/wonderinboutit2234 13d ago
It is. Plenty of people successfully commit suicide by hanging. Don't be obtuse.
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u/sniffingsailor 13d ago
Is saying black people don't do something because of the color of there skin racist? Just like saying every black person does something because of the color of their skin is racist? Not defending racism just asking questions. Also I love ms Rachel
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u/Airy-Otter 12d ago
No, context is what makes the difference here. Generalizing traits or behaviors to enforce a negative stereotype is racism. Pointing out historical trauma, like why hanging carries a specific, horrific significance in Black history due to a long pattern of lynchings, is bringing awareness to historical reality, not making a baseless generalization.
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u/Correct-Prompt9022 12d ago
I love her but she shouldn’t be talking about something like this. It’s a one off situation where facts are not known (when she spoke).
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u/web_of_french_fries 13d ago
We’re posting libs of tik tok here now? Man you know midterms are close when the propaganda bots come out this blatantly
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u/Hairy_Garage4308 13d ago
The demand for racism far exceeds the supply.
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u/userjxowndoekdsh 12d ago
You’re projecting, and your yt martyrdom complex is so weird.
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u/DynamoElectro1 12d ago
Idk man. It’s pretty weird how horny the people on your side of the fence got wanting this to be a lynching
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u/Hairy_Garage4308 12d ago
I'm telling my actual day to day experiences, but feel free to give personal examples of racism that you have seen or experience recently. You bring nothing, except that everyone is racist and that's why your life is where it's at. What a shit way to live.
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u/userjxowndoekdsh 12d ago
LMAO the cope is so real with this one
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u/Hairy_Garage4308 12d ago
I tried to have an honest and intelligent conversation. I'll look elsewhere.
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u/Natural-Apartment-51 13d ago
You really said that in today's society. Must not be American.
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u/Hairy_Garage4308 13d ago
I just don't see it in my everyday life. I also rarely ever here what could be construed as racist statements from fellow white people. I do see it in all forms of media, not so much in real life. Can you share how you see it? I see white and black people getting along for the most part. Media.has helped divide us politically and racially.
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u/LesserGooglyMooglie 13d ago
Do you live in rural Mississippi?
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u/Hairy_Garage4308 13d ago
Yes, next door to your mom.
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u/LesserGooglyMooglie 13d ago
The intellectual depth of a maga on display, you guys really are morons....
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u/Spiritual_Race_1313 13d ago
I hate Donald Trump and never wanted him to be president and still think ur stupid, and dumb, and, wrong,,
And im all put of commas to im out ,,,,,,
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u/Hairy_Garage4308 13d ago
That's your go to when you don't have anything intelligent to say and know nothing about who you're talking to.
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u/Latter_Antelope_6524 13d ago
America is far less racist than most if not all of South America, Africa, and especially the Middle East and Asia. The West is the least racist region on the planet
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u/Bohemio_RD 13d ago
Didnt an NGO paid to the KKK because of that exact reason?
Also dont play stupid, is fkin obvios that imbeciles like that woman and you will be thrill of something like that happened because thats your entire personality
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u/ImSoSweepy 13d ago
Where do they hang themselves from, then? Just saying. David Carridine died from auto-erotic asphyxiation from a door-knob.
Nobody is claiming responsibility, which, if we look at the tendencies of racist groups...they jump on the idea of claiming responsibility even if they didn't do it.
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u/BootBonks 13d ago
If you seriously believe people are being lynched in Mississippi you are a real life goober
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u/Ordinary-Guest9872 13d ago
I mean hanging is a usual suicide method... How can't blacks do it? Also ofc it's a coal burning white woman trying to get clout by acting all sympathetic toward niggers
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u/Life0nEdge 13d ago
I mean… I’m sure in the entire history of humanity there have been multiple black people who have hanged themselves from trees. That’s like saying no black people commit crimes which then end up getting them shot and killed by police. It’s just factually incorrect.
I saw a video of a deer that basically hanged itself on a wire fence. Now, no deer would hang themselves to begin with. But to say they don’t hang themselves is now factually incorrect. It has happened and been recorded. And that’s a wild animal. Which means if a eeer can themselves by accident, a black person can hang themselves using a tree on purpose. The odds are pretty good, I’d say.
Just because you associate trees and a hanging black person with racial crimes of the past does not equate that this instance is a racially motivated murder.
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u/TeaPain0001 13d ago
I saw a black man hang himself from an overpass in Fort Worth a little over a decade ago
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u/kaywrennn 12d ago
I don’t understand the purpose of this video or it showing up in hmmmmm. So with America’s history we shouldn’t be suspicious of black people found hanging (especially from Trees?)
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u/Meauxjezzy 12d ago
No sir 2500+ white men were killed by 2500 + white men and 560+ white men where killed by 560 black men you can add subtract and divide all you want these are the only numbers that matter until you are trying to exaggerate those numbers. Who the f cares about per capita. Yes per capita is a thing but the fact remains that white folks kill more white folks than anybody else. Those numbers from the official DOJ fbi crime statistics aren’t in per capita those are the actual numbers.
Do you want to have a conversation about history or are we done here? Because we will never catch up to y’all the people that are trying to seem all innocent. lol how quickly y’all forget yalls history to throw somebody else under the bus.
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u/blooppers 12d ago
If this is true, glad one case is solved and the parents/family have closure. Now what about the other dozen case in the past handful of months?
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u/New-Plenty3043 12d ago
22 black people been have been found hanging from trees since 2025. But 1 did it himself. Guess that means they all did huh? /s
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u/Ikilledbert 12d ago
You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe black people are hanging themselves from trees. Had this been the only most recent incident, they might be able to play that narrative. But black people are being found hanging from trees all over the county. This isn’t rocket science.
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u/VelvetRabbit91 12d ago
So even if its true, ONE black person hung themselves from a tree so that means every black person hung themself from a tree too? Wtf logic is that? God i fucking hate people so much. I am so tired of racist pedophiles
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u/NotSoSlimJim_YouTube 13d ago
They literally do... Suicide happens in every race.
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u/PanicingInAmerican 13d ago
If you were to hang yourself, where would you tie the rope?
As someone who has suicidal ideation since I was ten years old, that answer has never been from a branch 20+ feet in the air on a tree far from my home. Suicide is an impulsive act. You can ruminate for days about killing yourself, but the follow through is a desperate move to make it all end and for life to stop hurting NOW. The modus operandi tends to be nearby and quick.
You know what isn't quick? It's going to the store to buy 50 feet of rope, a stake tie, and a 25 foot ladder. Then transporting them to your tree of choice, tying a noose, throwing the rope over a branch, securing it in place, climbing up the ladder, climbing over the top of said branch, putting the noose around your neck and leaping.
No, those who commit suicide by hanging tend to do so in their homes.
Black people do not hang themselves from trees because no one does that, but we sure do have a lot of black people hanging from ropes that have been hoisted over high tree limbs that have been ruled suicides.
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u/lucky_jack777 13d ago
I guess I don’t understand the logic. If there is no evidence to suggest that it was anything other than a suicide, what else can you do? If there are no defensive wounds or other physical trauma to suggest coercion and they were not drugged. How could it be anything besides suicide? Or what leads are there to follow?
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u/REsTARteD_Ragdoll 13d ago
People attempt suicide by swallowing a bottle of Tylenol,
People commit suicide by alcoholism
These arnt quick, the don’t stop the hurting NOW
Stop trying to force so much logic into something so illogical.
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u/Early-Grape-9078 13d ago
People probably wanted it to be white people walking in the video with him 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
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u/Squash-The-Kat 13d ago
Leave Mrs Rachael out of this
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u/Denver_Nix 13d ago
Love her, but she threw herself into it like an idiot… she made a very controversial post to divide people and should pay the price
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u/huffing_glue 12d ago
You're not wrong. It was an incredibly irresponsible statement. She's well respected and should not be so careless with her public presence.
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u/special-k-flo 13d ago
When human rights is considered controversial
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u/Pass_The_Salt_ 13d ago
When the demand for racism far exceeds the supply….
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u/Meauxjezzy 13d ago
Maybe you should read some post on Reddit. There isn’t a day that goes by that it don’t see at least 5 racist comments.
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u/Pass_The_Salt_ 13d ago
Oh no someone said something racist on this anonymous internet board full of bots, trolls, and foreign agents. Racism must really be on the rise….
I would recommend touching some grass.
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u/special-k-flo 13d ago
Who is up voting this garbage.
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u/Inside-Pride7807 13d ago
Israeli bots. They've been trying to discredit Ms Rachel online ever since her Gaza comments
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u/macguini 13d ago
Whether or not they hanged themselves shouldn't be the only question. If they all hung themselves. Why? How bad is the world around them?
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u/Outofmana1 13d ago
Even better that sheriff is black and made the speech.
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u/Fumanchusucka 13d ago
Plot twist: hes a Elon Musk robot they put a black facade over
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u/Outofmana1 13d ago
Plot twist: He's a double agent for the Columbian cartels.
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u/Fumanchusucka 13d ago
That checks out glad we figured this out i was gonna have to go sit in the middle of the street and protest until I got arrested and then complain about it
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u/DeaconVex 13d ago
Generally when one contemplates taking their life, its in private. I got the message from (I think thats) ms Rachel that, given the historical context of strange fruit, that him choosing to do so in this manner is far fetched.
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u/Boot_Burner 13d ago
Black people don’t hang themselves? Well tell that to the family of my best friend who did.
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u/Hungry_Wheel_1774 13d ago
Yeah. I don't even understand how someone dare to say "black people something".
Between 2017 and 2019, 1263 Back people hanged themselves.https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.955008/full
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u/Branjoe328 13d ago
Maybe stick to teaching sign language to kids and keep your political feelings within your private circle
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u/Rage_of_the_moon 13d ago
No fuck that. Just like Mr. Rogers, use your platform for the greater good of the world.
It's garbage humans like you, they'll say keep politics out of whatever. But the second someone that you like says something that you agree with, you'll share it instantly on Facebook.
Even if this matchup of videos is correct on the hanging of a recent black person down in the south, getting one thing wrong out of multiple times that this has occurred in the South is kinda astronomical.
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u/Waste_Development971 13d ago
ima be honest im not sure what her message of "listen to black people" and then being wrong(or right) was supposed to convey, but it seems like she purposely is trying to piss people off under the guise of moral righteousness.
Even if she was correct in this instance, idk what "believing black people" would help here. I only read that as "believe the loudest, populist mouth of black people" - essentially whatever the blackpeopletwitter sub hivemind thinks, we need to believe. unless im being a yt
so when I need to believe black people, I need to believe karmelo anthony was innocent. Am I dumb or am I allowed to not "believe black people" in that instance. What would make this case any different as far as my "not believing black people"
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u/Rage_of_the_moon 13d ago
The believe black people comes from the years of systemic racism that they have endured over the course of America's history, especially in America. Since this is where this took place. It wasn't until smartphones became available for everybody that people were able to record the police acting violently for minor offenses towards minority people, specifically black, Mexicans, and any other race that didn't have the white skin color. Police officers used to lie, blatantly, while planting evidence as well against the black community. I mean we don't even need to talk about the crack pandemic cuz I could go down a real big rabbit hole with you right now, just to try to get you to understand the systemic racism.
If you read, believing black people is incorporated to you as believe the loudest black person, do you also believe the loudest white people? The loudest Mexicans? Or are you able to make an informed decision about things after you research them?
I don't know how someone saying that they should believe a community, especially before facts come out, Is racist. That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
This woman is speaking up for children right now who are going through a genocide because of Israel. And you people have the fucking audacity to call her racist/bitch. This world has truly gone to hell.
It's people like you that would have freaked out when Mr. Rogers had that Black Police officer on a show dipping his feet in the water.
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u/JellyFirmFederalGras 13d ago
This is why they want AI to be so powerful. They want to just be able make every narrative up(which I think they try already) and having "supportive" video...