• Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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    Was literally arguing about how black/brown life isnt cared about here yesterday yet on the first page you have a lynching, a black and Latino man killed by ICE the beginning of last year, and latino child lost after being kidnapped by ICE.

    What else am I suppose to believe?

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    “Just another black man committing suicide by hanging” -Georgia authorities

    Seriously?! SERIOUSLY?!!

    What a joke.

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    ‘It wasn’t a suicide. It was a murder,’ one user wrote. ‘Black people don’t hang themselves. They get hung.’ Another argued that the fact Bassinga was found hanging in a tree is ‘all the signs of foul play you would need if you had a f****** brain.’

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      Another argued that the fact Bassinga was found hanging in a tree is ‘all the signs of foul play you would need if you had a f****** brain.’

      The problem may be less the absence of brains than the presence of white supremacism.

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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      Don’t say it, don’t say it, it’s not the time, you don’t have to say-

      Actually, he didn’t get hung, he got hanged. He’s not a tapestry.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    I’m curious into what the outcome is. Other then the refusal to believe he committed suicide, what other evidence is there he was murdered? Is there a suspect? Was he seen with anyone earlier? Did the spectre of white supremacy manifest into a physical form and lynch this guy?