The way some of y'all are so quick to throw the cape on for white people is truly sickening. Y'all really buying that a Black man killed himself by hanging himself from a tree for everyone to see? As opposed to something like shooting himself or taking a bunch of pills somewhere privately? In Mississippi? Conveniently right after HBCUs were getting threats?
Have you ever heard of the term -
death by 1000 cuts?
Well, that's essentially how suicide comes about.
All these accumulative incisions that happen throughout one's life, not one cut necessarily bigger than the other, that all ultimately lead one to ending it all to stop the pain.
Now, the sheer majority of these cuts for Black folks are from systemic racism (poverty, scarce health resources, lack of cultural/community identity, childhood trauma, discrimination etc), so there's no need to fabricate stories of this white boogeyman going around
physically collecting lives because you want to feed your hunger for sensationalism.
The broken [white] system is largely the cause here; a much greater threat than anything you make up.
All you're doing is adding more cuts by dismissing the possibility of it being suicide because you're perpetuating the stigma around mental health in the Black community.