Thank you for investigating the (seeming) increase in deaths by hanging that are being summarily dismissed as suicides. Although you rightly call your work based on suspicion, that suspicion does not come from a vacuum. The rise in hate groups, unleashed by a racist administration, offers cover for such acts. Notably, a preponderance of reports (including all of those from this year) come from the south, where lynchings have a lengthy pedigree, as does quick dismissal of attribution of death to anything but suicide, despite the history of the rope (around non-white necks) in these regions. The increasing frequency in your list fits with the rampant racism sponsored by this administration. The only way to curtail this is to elect honorable candidates who will expose the reprobates.
Your larger caution about "The Massacres are Coming" bears broad significance with growing inequity and the fight for resources owing to the increasing effects of climate change. Again, it is incumbent on us who want a just world to elect honorable office holders who will pursue that, as imperfect and partial as it will inevitably prove.
Suicides, hangings or both, Could be either, Sad if people are going back to this. Doesn't say much about our society as a whole. But it could also be a response to the excessive black on white crimes that occur at a disproportionate number as reported by FBI satistcs and documented monthly by Kenn Gividen at Abate Hate - https://kenngividen.substack.com/
Unfortunately while reporting these facts, Kenn also tends to bring out the racists comments to his postings. Is he a racist or just saying it like it is. Not sure. I suppose it all depends on what someone feels is racist. Kind of like the Anti-semitic issue.
Thank you for investigating the (seeming) increase in deaths by hanging that are being summarily dismissed as suicides. Although you rightly call your work based on suspicion, that suspicion does not come from a vacuum. The rise in hate groups, unleashed by a racist administration, offers cover for such acts. Notably, a preponderance of reports (including all of those from this year) come from the south, where lynchings have a lengthy pedigree, as does quick dismissal of attribution of death to anything but suicide, despite the history of the rope (around non-white necks) in these regions. The increasing frequency in your list fits with the rampant racism sponsored by this administration. The only way to curtail this is to elect honorable candidates who will expose the reprobates.
Your larger caution about "The Massacres are Coming" bears broad significance with growing inequity and the fight for resources owing to the increasing effects of climate change. Again, it is incumbent on us who want a just world to elect honorable office holders who will pursue that, as imperfect and partial as it will inevitably prove.
I have no doubt they are warnings. The KKK is back out from under their rocks.
Fuck, the white ignorant Christian supremacists
Suicides, hangings or both, Could be either, Sad if people are going back to this. Doesn't say much about our society as a whole. But it could also be a response to the excessive black on white crimes that occur at a disproportionate number as reported by FBI satistcs and documented monthly by Kenn Gividen at Abate Hate - https://kenngividen.substack.com/
Unfortunately while reporting these facts, Kenn also tends to bring out the racists comments to his postings. Is he a racist or just saying it like it is. Not sure. I suppose it all depends on what someone feels is racist. Kind of like the Anti-semitic issue.
Tragic but this kind of crime is VERY rare. Intra-racial is the vast majority of danger to black people.
“Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday immediately comes to my mind. Nothing has changed in all those years since she sang those words. It’s dreadful.