Black men commiting suicide by hanging themselves from a tree

I mean, there may be nothing more to these deaths than authorities say.

But.........hanging oneself from a tree? Death by hanging, sure, see also, Bourdain, Anthony; Williams, Robin; but from a tree? It happens---when I was in the Navy in Sicily, a dude hanged himself from a tree near base---but it's awwwwwwwwwwwwfully odd, here, now, isn't it?

 

I'm not an expert...... but my uneducated guess is that if a black man decides to take his life, lynching isn't going to be high on his list of choices.

 

Not just from a tree, but a tree on public property. About 22% of suicides are by hanging. I can't find a stat, but most hanging suicides are done in private places, like inside one's home, so they won't be interrupted. Maybe authorities have good reason to think they are suicides, but they've bungled the public relations. In this climate, you've gotta give the public a reason to believe you.

 

With all the cameras around.. There has to be one that captured these dudes at least on the way to the trees.

 

Makes total sense that black men would self-lynch, right?

 

If he wants to cause trouble, it would be.

 

If it was a lynching there should be some signs of struggle I would think

 

Agreed

 

Dark.... but true.

 

Yeah I'm not sure how it could be pulled off, maybe by drugging them or throwing a chloroform rag over their face to knock them out and hang them. Outside of that, it could be like a statement/protest suicide.

 

White people do mass shootings, black people self-lynch? I mean maybe, but there's a lot of ways to fall big if that's your intent.

 

In Houston too. No confirmation of race but it looks like the blacks are suddenly lynching themselves!

 

It was meant to be a statement there should be a note you'd think - or some indication it was a statement.

It's all just very strange.

 

That's a fair speculation, but may assume too much pride or rational self interest for a suicide. Tony Dungy's kid hung himself, so by a reasonable interpretation of self-lynching it's also not at all unprecedented. His depression or hopelessness could certainly overlap with some sense of racial mistreatment and perhaps he could have seen this as some kind of indirect rebuttal. There could also be underlying outright mental illness like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia that undermines any sense of rational action. I just think the kind of depression that leads to suicide draws on too many factors to wholly eliminate an oft used method.

This is still as good a time as any to investigate thoroughly enough to eliminate the possibility of racial terrorism. Large swaths of the traditional majority lack meaningful options and will not follow the crowd or any rational ideals when acting out.

 

Here's another in NY

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...0200615-o5fwog2jsreaniuomxbontxabu-story.html

I saw a tweet that referred to 5 of them but with this one I only count 4 so far. Something is definitely off about it all.

 

This seems like too many to quickly, could be some coordinated terrorist effort by a white supremacy group. That would be very dark.