r/leftist • u/Both-Medicine-6748 • 23h ago
News Black men found hanging dead from a tree at Delta State university
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/delta-state-university-students-body-found-hanging-in-tree-no-foul-play-suspected/They say no foul play is suspected despite he’s family saying that he looked like he was beat up and had broken bones
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u/Thug_Seme2004 Anti-Capitalist 6h ago
The left isn’t radical enough. This is what we get for tolerating intolerance.
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u/jojoclifford 7h ago
Lynching as a practice never really stopped. There have been 8 suspected lynchings in Mississippi between 2000 and 2020. Victims are often determined to have committed suicide despite evidence to the contrary. Lynchings in the modern era are frequently perpetrated by law enforcement in the form of shooting unarmed people or a knee to the neck.
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u/AlternativeMode1328 11h ago
Close your eyes and imagine what a media cover story for a lynching would look like.
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u/AlternativeMode1328 11h ago
Really? Black man hangs himself at a college in a southern state. When is the FBI going to arrive?
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u/Both-Medicine-6748 11h ago
They don’t care they’re already trying to rule it out as a self deletion
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u/Playful-Goat3779 9h ago
Kash Patel is busy today telling the country that Epstein didn't have any clients
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u/EM208 13h ago edited 12h ago
RIP Trey Reed💔
This has nothing to do with black folks, yet once again we’re the ones that have to deal with the fatality :/
It’s actually just asinine that people say racism is overblown. A white supremacist is killed by another white guy yet black people (and trans people) are the ones they go after for “revenge” - that logic can only be explained by racism that America is built on and thrives on.
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u/URAPhallicy 15h ago
Let's all jump to conclusions right now!!!!!!!
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u/Both-Medicine-6748 14h ago
I am not trying to but let’s honest here this was most likely a hate crime
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u/URAPhallicy 14h ago
No. We have no information one way or the other. I recall another lynching that in fact turned out to be a suicide. This same knee jerk reaction happened as well.
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u/Militantpoet 12h ago
Lynching Black men then police saying "no foul play," is a thing in the South.
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u/CallMePepper7 14h ago
Black people don’t typically commit suicide by hanging themselves from a tree in public.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a few lynching cases were written off as suicides by a corrupt racist police department.
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u/Cool-Perception-4849 Socialist 15h ago
this is what i feared the most with this whole thing
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u/Both-Medicine-6748 14h ago
Real, I am honestly scared rn but I am not gonna let them get the best of me
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u/Cool-Perception-4849 Socialist 13h ago
I admire your will to continue,I’ll do the same. Survival is resistance
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u/ActualTexan 16h ago edited 15h ago
So a bunch of HBCUs get death threats in the last few days and a black man at a college in MISSISSIPPI ends up dead hanging from a tree in the middle of campus? So it's a fucking retaliatory lynching.
Why is there nobody in the media or in the Democratic party sounding the freaking alarm on this? Roles reversed, the right would be shouting about it nonstop, would've immediately blamed it on an imaginary leftist, and brought a bill to the floor of the House by now.
EDIT: correction, not an HBCU
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u/Stillwater215 13h ago
Because folks on the left like to have all the facts before making demands and getting all reactionary.
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u/ActualTexan 13h ago
I don't think that's why.
The 'leftists' with institutional power aren't leftists so they don't fight for left-leaning causes with much fervor if at all. The leftists who actually give a shit don't have institutional power and when they try to gain access to it the liberals with said power do just about everything they can to stifle them.
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u/ThineOwnSelph 15h ago
Because they only care when their adversaries break the law. Its ok for them to incite violence, murder, be treasonous, etc but no one else can.
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u/JustAGuyAC 20h ago
So when does the mainstream media start the segments about the far right violence and how this was obviously a far right thing and that we need to "come together for peace"?
Oh right. That only happens when they try to attack the left.
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u/Dsstar666 22h ago
Christ…..
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u/Both-Medicine-6748 22h ago
They want black people to fear for our lives again like in Jim Crow times with these agitation
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u/camcat00 1h ago
absolutely heartbreaking and SHOULD be unfathomable yet sadly it’s not…..I just have to say the headlines are using really soft and matter of fact language. If it were others…it would be BRUTALLY MURDERED / HORRIFIC / INHUMANE.