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.
Yanks gonna yank
Say it with me!
Black 👏 People 👏 Don’t 👏 Hang 👏 Themselves 👏 From 👏 Trees 👏
Nightmare on Elmstreet police department, find a dozen kids clawed to death and skinned in their own beds with no sharp objects near any of them and say it was a rash of suicides.
So far in 2026
Kyle Bassinga — Georgia https://www.cobbcounty.gov/news/statement-investigation-death-kyle-bassinga
Juliana Umba Nzita — North Carolina https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/07/28/family-of-black-charlotte-teen-found-hanging-push-for-more-answers-as-new-records-surface/
To’Nea Nicole Miller — Florida https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/07/01/black-woman-found-hanging-from-tree-near-miami-park-reportedly-sought-help-from-local-organization/
Justice Kai James — Georgia https://www.walb.com/2026/07/20/foul-play-ruled-out-turner-job-corps-student-death-albany-police-say/
Jerard ‘Jay’ Jackson — Michigan https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/07/09/family-of-illinois-man-who-was-found-dead-after-music-festival-suggests-friends-know-something/
Tasia Fortune — Mississippi https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/08/10/person-of-interest-arrested-after-black-woman-found-hanging-behind-vacant-mississippi-home/
Young Black man - North Carolina https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/08/17/police-investigating-black-mans-hanging-as-a-suicide/
2025
Demartravion “Trey” Reed - Mississippi https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-black-student-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-campus-seeks-indep-rcna232411
2024
Javion Magee - North Carolina Note: he was found seated against the tree trunk, dead from being hung, with a rope around his neck. Still ruled “suicide”. The sheriff: "It was not a noose. There was not a knot in the rope, so therefore, it was not a lynching here in Vance County.”
Wtf !? Are we back to the kkk era ?
they just don’t have to hide their faces anymore.
Black communities should put up their own version of Flock cameras, strategically placed to watch trees. …Unfortunately, this isn’t a joke. Seriously, communities would have to take action outside of the law, because the law is Klan aligned. 😦
The last time black people raised up to protect their neighborhood with the black panthers, we all saw what happened.
CIA propaganda made them out to be the bad guys. Imagine that.
The Trump Regime is gonna do that anyways.
The mass surveillance is being run by the klan
Good on her, and sad she’s needing to speak out on this.
As far as I’m concerned the cops in these cases are complicit
For sure. When there’s no ladder on site, no low branches so it would be an extremely difficult tree to climb by yourself, and they’re calling it a suicide the next morning you know they didn’t bother to investigate.
I guess they can be pretty sure what happened if they were there at the time
At best they didn’t bother to investigate and at worst they know who did it and support it. Knowing the behavior of American police I’m unable to narrow it down from there.
i hadn’t even heard of one hanging recently, cause I’m not a news reader. i just looked it up
it’s absolutely insane they were all ruled suicide.
Yeah. No real investigations, all called suicides. Such little attention and coverage that we need a children’s entertainer to bring it up.
The problem is that we don’t have any information
Conspiracy people are going to say it’s a cover up but also it very well could be suicide or non-racially motivated murders
In that article the family straight up agrees one case was suicide, and in another case the family admitted that the victims was constantly being bullied, so good chance for suicide there too
The latest case in that article was so new we didn’t even know the victims name
That’s 3 out of 7 all year.
One case the woman left town for a family reunion and while no arrest was made her on-again-off-again black boyfriend was questioned and witnesses say that two had gotten into a fight the day before she was found. He was a felon who was currently set to appear in court for felony possession of a firearm.
So maybe 4 black people were hung due to racism. More likely, if any, it was 3. But also, maybe not. Not only do we not know any of these were murders, but we also don’t know it was a white person that did it even if it was murder
and you’re talking about a problem that is, at most, 7 people across the entire united states over 8 months
the family admitted that the victims was constantly being bullied, so good chance for suicide there too
Or, the victim was constantly harassed until being found hanging from a tree, so there’s already a motive and likely a handful of suspects
According to the CDC about 12,000 people a year hanged themselves
Any estimates on how many did it outdoors, where they’re likely to be interrupted? See, this is the suspicious part. Basically no-one ever attempts hanging in public. Here, you have seven people over a year and the police just shrugs.
So this is tough to track but the US NVDRS data says that between 2005-2014 there were 25,270 hangings. 90.7% of those involved hanging, so 22,931.
The three most common hanging points were Trees (2215), beams, and closets.
That alone says 221 people hang themselves outdoors every year
The problem is that we don’t have any information
Guess what investigating does. It gives you more information. Imagine that.
It’s not that the police don’t have any information, it’s that we, the people on Lemmy, don’t have any information.
The police said “suicide” and that’s where the story stops. You’re just assuming there is more to it but you don’t have any proof that there actually is
The article says one case even the family agrees is suicide. Another case the family agrees the victim was being bullied and so suicide is a strong possibility. One case the police have a suspect and it’s her boyfriend but there isn’t enough evidence to charge him. One case was so new we didn’t even have a name yet
According to the CDC about 12,000 people a year hanged themselves. You don’t think any of those people are ever black?
You’re just assuming these are all racially motivated cases of murder that the police are covering up… but you have zero evidence of that
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
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?
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
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?
They did investigate, they said it was suicide. You’ve just decided on your own that this is untrue
I asked what proof you had and you said none, just a gut feeling that it was suspicious because they were black and not only hanged, but hanged outside. Turns out people track this kind of information so we could look it it up to see if you were right. You were wrong. Not only is hanging still an extremely common form of suicide (even for black people), but doing it outside is the preferred method.
This is how you are suppose to live your life. Walking around assuming everything is a racist conspiracy based on a hunch and that you can trust everything every famous person says is how you end up stupid
We don’t have any information because the cops ruled it a suicide and didn’t look for any information.
Or there just isn’t any information because it actually was suicide
Again, one of them the family agrees probably was suicide. One of them the family admits that the victim was being bullied and so suicide is a strong possibility. One of them is probably murder there just isn’t enough evidence to prove it. The fourth case was so new we didn’t even have a name
The other four we have no information on. It’s not that the police don’t have any information, we, the people of lemmy, don’t have any information on them. All we know is that the police ruled it suicide. We have zero evidence that the police didn’t investigate or that there were signs of a struggle and the police covered it up… all we know is the police said, “suicide”
Which isn’t all that shocking because according to the CDC about 12,000 people a year commit suicide by hanging themselves. You don’t think any of those people are ever black?
And even if there were signs of a struggle that the police ignored we still have zero evidence that the murderer is white. Black people can’t hang each other? Hispanic people can’t hang black people?
It’s ironically racist to just assume that it had to be something only a white person could have done. Like saying every time you hear a story of someone getting shot you just assume the trigger man is black. Doesn’t matter what color you skin is, people are people. Anybody could have done this, including the victim themselves
So the only way this matters is if it turns out all four of the remaining cases turned out to be racially motivated murders committed by a white person but even then, it’s four people across 8 months over the entirely of the United States… not exactly the kind of thing that needs nation wide attention
Black people don’t hang themselves from trees
Well spoken ms Rachel.
And if you 🫵 think you don’t get it, let it sink in a little longer.
Strange fruit
Wow, I never actually listened to this song’s lyrics, so I never made this connection until now. It was always playing in the background on a Nina Simone Pandora station while I was at work (bartending at a restaurant) when I heard it before.
Thanks for sharing.
🫡 Ms Rachel no questions asked
I WILL FIGHT FOR THAT LITTLE WHITE LADY!!! 😭✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Fucking LOVE her. She’s just so full of goodness and uses her platform to the best of her ability despite the personal cost (and there is personal cost to her).
Ms. Rachel is her generation’s Mr. Rogers.
Absolutely perfect analogy. I think most of us were way too late for him but he seems like a genuinely, deeply good human and she definitely fits that.
Ok…now i’m tearin up…😭
I’m not on Instagram and can’t watch any more than a few seconds before it tries to force me to login. Anyone have an alternate link?
picuki.site is how I view Instagram links
I got 10 seconds. Thanks for trying though. Appreciate it.
I actually logged in to Instagram to see if yt-dlp had cut it off or something, but nope, that’s the whole thing.
btw, yt-dlp can download Instagram and TikTok videos.
Ah! Well in that case thanks so much. Very sound of you.
I’m not on it either. Was going to download the video to post but figured it’d be better to give what seems to be the source.
Further more, is there any good front end for Instagram? Most of what I get seaching around either don’t work, are sketchy as balls, or very limited.
Same.
Welcome to the world we live in now. The US and large swaths of the world are going fascist but I saw a guy on the news yesterday that was knocked down by a buffalo.
I don’t know who this is, and I would never use Instagram. But I would read a summary if someone would write one.
She works as the host(?) of a kids show. Basically modern Mr. Rogers, as far as I can tell, in terms of being a good person and just wanting to be a good role-model for children.
The post isn’t long. It’s “black people don’t hang themselves from trees” in regards to the fact that over a half-dozen people have been found fucking lynched and no one has done fuck-all about it.
She’s a children’s entertainer that’s often compared to Mr Rogers (IDK how true it is, I don’t have kids) who like a year or two ago began speaking on politics calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza, particularly focusing on the children of Palestine.
That’s awesome. Too bad it’s on a platform that supports things she is against.
But a summary of what was said?
She’s not an influencer. Not everyone is.
I never said she was? I just don’t support meta, so I will not look at Instagram.
Oh my bad
I didn’t come to discuss OP’s topic. I came because of OP’s name.
I enjoy the claim and the sentiment.
Thanks. I can’t say I enjoy anything about it, but I definitely appreciate that reaction more than the guy who said it must be like the pot calling the kettle black last night.
I’d been imagining lots of people doing similar things and it becoming a news article that could cause an asshole to have an aneurysm.
Asshole aneurysm… Their is either a heavy metal band name or the way gay men are describing hands free orgasms.
Either way seems like a good time
Don’t bring the world in this, it’s your mess USA.
Well the thing is, in this case Jason Arday was targeted by the British media via a compaign orchestrated by a “source” with known funding from Peter Thiel. So I’m afraid this is very much linked to the American cesspit.
