• Maeve@kbin.earth
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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.’

    • 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.

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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.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    “Just another black man committing suicide by hanging” -Georgia authorities

    Seriously?! SERIOUSLY?!!

    What a joke.