Black College Student Found Hanging from a Tree in Front of Delta State University Dorms in MS.

[Consigliere]

I’ve been looking at buying property in Mississippi for a couple years now. And these are the stories that keep me from doing it.

I do believe that some of these hangings are suicides. Cuz I think suicide is attention seeking behavior. However I don’t believe that it’s statistically possible that all of these hanging incidents are suicide. We should question it. This is America and America has a rap sheet.

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

I’ve been looking at buying property in Mississippi for a couple years now. And these are the stories that keep me from doing it.

I do believe that some of these hangings are suicides. Cuz I think suicide is attention seeking behavior. However I don’t believe that it’s statistically possible that all of these hanging incidents are suicide. We should question it. This is America and America has a rap sheet.

Lack emotional intelligence brehs

 

[ORDER_66]

I’ve been looking at buying property in Mississippi for a couple years now. And these are the stories that keep me from doing it.

I do believe that some of these hangings are suicides. Cuz I think suicide is attention seeking behavior. However I don’t believe that it’s statistically possible that all of these hanging incidents are suicide. We should question it. This is America and America has a rap sheet.

black people do NOT hang themselves.... aint no fukking suicides

 

[Consigliere]

Lack emotional intelligence brehs

I’m not an expert. That’s just my personal experience dealing with manipulative people who use it as a threat.

 

[Consigliere]

black people do NOT hang themselves.... aint no fukking suicides

There are absolutely Black people who have hung themselves.

And I’m not saying that’s what happened here.

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

I’m not an expert. That’s just my personal experience dealing with manipulative people who use it as a threat.

People who go actually go through with it and people who pull stunts are two different types of people

I agree that threats of suicide are manipulative and a red flag. It's attention seeking at best, abusive at worst. However, actual suicidal people are the exact opposite. They want zero attention cause they don't want anyone to stop them.

I'm no expert either, but you gotta be careful of how you speak on subjects like these brehs. Never know who is reading and what they're going through. Cause the stigma around mental health makes suicides more likely.

In this instance, I doubt it's a suicide but that's just my opinion. It's entirely possible I'm wrong when we don't have but so much info to go on. Whether or not it's suicide or a lynching I'm still concerned for other black people. Cause whether voluntary or not, fact is that it's a lot of us leaving this world

 

[NobodyReally]

I’ve been looking at buying property in Mississippi for a couple years now. And these are the stories that keep me from doing it.

I do believe that some of these hangings are suicides. Cuz I think suicide is attention seeking behavior. However I don’t believe that it’s statistically possible that all of these hanging incidents are suicide. We should question it. This is America and America has a rap sheet.

You're not making sense, though, because suicide means the act was completed. Therefore, there is no attention seeking because they are dead. Now the threat of suicide without any intent to complete may or may not be a cry for help, but people who actually go through with it, and do not tell anyone they're about to do it have no interest in attention because they are set on completing it, and they don't benefit from any attention they get after they are dead.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

SMFH

 

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[Suge Shot Me]

black people do NOT hang themselves.... aint no fukking suicides

You can't be serious, brother. Black people hang themselves every day. One of my relatives hung herself.

 

[get these nets]

You're not making sense, though, because suicide means the act was completed. Therefore, there is no attention seeking because they are dead. Now the threat of suicide without any intent to complete may or may not be a cry for help, but people who actually go through with it, and do not tell anyone they're about to do it have no interest in attention because they are set on completing it, and they don't benefit from any attention they get after they are dead.

Attention seeking in the sense that they intend to cause turmoil among family and friends by the way they kill themselves, where they intend to be found, and the message, if any, they leave behind.

Whether they die, or end up surviving.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

You can't be serious, brother. Black people hang themselves every day. One of my relatives hung herself.

It’s not an every day occurrence, but it happens, and it happens A LOT more than posters on this board are willing to acknowledge.

The fact that folks are completely dismissing it as a possibility in this case is a problem.

There’s nothing wrong with being skeptical over the initial examination of the body, especially given the context and circumstances; it’s only instinctual to be wary given the historical weight of something of this nature. But you have to broach this with some level of sensitivity and be careful that you don’t perpetuate the stigma around mental illness. It’s not beneficial to anyone to run up in here with the attitude that young brehs don’t commit suicide. They do, and the number over recent years is growing at an alarming rate.

Unfortunately, it’s a conversation this board isn’t mature enough to have.

 

[Suge Shot Me]

It’s not an every day occurrence, but it happens, and it happens A LOT more than posters on this board are willing to acknowledge.

According to CDC data, in 2023 (the last year for which data is available), 901 black people committed suicide by suffocation (almost all hangings), so yes, it is statistically an every day occurrence.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Sighs...since we're doing this....

Yes there's a suicidal problem that's considered taboo in the black community, along with there's a hidden hate crime pandemic going on towards the black community.

The case itself screams Mississippi back on it's bullshyt, but the stigma that comes with black folks scoffing mental health and being depressed is alarming. It's been a big thing since I was a joey.

Story time: This jawn I used to talked to in NC was like the epitome of depression and suicidal tendencies. One time she told me she was googling ways of hanging herself to make her neck snap. The shyt was eerie and downright sad because you can't really do much but pray for her. Eventually she got married and doing better from the last time I talked to her, but this concept of scoffing off mental health in the black community is gross and holding us as a community to prosper beyond where we need to be.

We are encouraged to drink it up, smoke it away, or dance it off...but reality hits that we are all ticking time bombs away from crashing out on ourselves or others.

The student that was found hanging for all we know could have been dealing with some dark woes, that he was ashamed to talk about.

Or

On the flip side of town , he was approached by the demons that be and became the modern day Strange Fruit.

We don't know a single thing and yes we should be skeptical, but for those that's shrugging off posters that are explaining the suicide aspect of the coin, don't do that to them, because this has been an issue for so long. At the same time, we are not ruling the grim reality out as it could be a strange coincidence giving Jolly McJugglar spread Texas tea in Utah, and cacs want to experiment on black lives because revelations

 

[Heretic]

So they're saying he hung himself? I haven't read much about this because the headline alone bothered me given the state of race relations. I know people do it(hang themselves) but I don't accept that at face value. Especially when initial reports said he was bruised up when he was found.