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Ms Rachel has to ask the world to investigate hanging black people (www.instagram.com)
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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.

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[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 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 0 points 7 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 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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?

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