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

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Believe a coroner in Mississippi

And this is why young brehs don't end up gettting the help they need.

 

[Charlie Hustle]

R.I.P

This is messed up and infuriating.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Black people have one of the lowest suicide rates compared to any other ethnic group in the US, and even more so when it comes to suffocation, yet they conveniently always find black people hung outside and always rule it a 'suicide'.

This is nothing more than a public execution. The fact that they can always quickly rule out foul play lessens the public reaction. Heck, it might even be the police themselves doing it. Police officers as members of the kkk and other white nationalist groups isn't anything new.

This is a complete misrepresentation and not even close to being remotely true, and the fact that you're so willing to completely dismiss the possibility of it being suicide is troubling. This board is far too fixated on trying to blame the [white] boogeyman and not taking a step back and acknowledging they're part of the problem by perpetuating this stigma around mental health, particularly in regards to young men.

More young, Black Americans taking their lives amid lack of resources, study finds

For years, experts have warned about a growing mental health crisis among America’s young people. But within that trend, there are important signals about racial disparities. Between 2018 and 2022, the suicide rate among Black youth rose by more than 50 percent. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from...

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Black Adolescent Suicide Rate Reveals Urgent Need to Address Mental Health Care Barriers

The suicide rate among Black adolescents is increasing faster than other racial and ethnic groups. From 2007 to 2020, the suicide rate rose 144% among 10- to 17-year-olds who are Black. Although the overall youth suicide rate is trending downwards, this data raises alarms about the need to...

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Young Black men are dying by suicide at alarming rates

New study suggests racism and childhood trauma may be to blame for high rates of suicidal thoughts among young African American men.

news.uga.edu

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5298065/suicide-rates-are-rising-for-black-teens-new-research-finds

 

[Wepa Man]

WTF

 

[Aprogressivone]

This is a complete misrepresentation and not even close to being remotely true, and the fact that you're so willing to completely dismiss the possibility of it being suicide is troubling. This board is far too fixated on trying to blame the [white] boogeyman and not taking a step back and acknowledging they're part of the problem by perpetuating this stigma around mental health, particularly in regards to young men.

More young, Black Americans taking their lives amid lack of resources, study finds

For years, experts have warned about a growing mental health crisis among America’s young people. But within that trend, there are important signals about racial disparities. Between 2018 and 2022, the suicide rate among Black youth rose by more than 50 percent. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from...

www.pbs.org

Black Adolescent Suicide Rate Reveals Urgent Need to Address Mental Health Care Barriers

The suicide rate among Black adolescents is increasing faster than other racial and ethnic groups. From 2007 to 2020, the suicide rate rose 144% among 10- to 17-year-olds who are Black. Although the overall youth suicide rate is trending downwards, this data raises alarms about the need to...

www.pew.org

Young Black men are dying by suicide at alarming rates

New study suggests racism and childhood trauma may be to blame for high rates of suicidal thoughts among young African American men.

news.uga.edu

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5298065/suicide-rates-are-rising-for-black-teens-new-research-finds

Thank you for posting this. Every time this happens, so many people are always like black people don't commit suicide on this forum. My little cousin lost his father to suicide. He hung himself. My wife has a cousin who committed suicide last month. Last year one of my really good friends lost his cousin to suicide. I am in no way under the belief that lynchings don't happen, but we really shouldn't jump to conclusions on this.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

People need to use their collective efforts to scan the areas for cameras or anyone that might have recorded any movements up until the person ended up there. Work on tracing his whereabouts through the day. The police are obviously unreliable and talking about what it might be just speculating endlessly is fruitless.

All these people who have died on hanging that happened to be Black men need a database and forum where a diligent effort is made to get their stories straight to the end by people in their communities. Just a deeper look into things. The world could get together to catch some cat killer in a random place but shyt like this is left to incompetent police. We need to start using each other. The problem is the conspiracy nuts will start throwing everything they can think of in the way. Only level headed grounded people need to contribute.

 

[Mob H]

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?

 

[O.Red]

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?

what the fukk are you talking about? Who in here is caping or buying "suicide"???

Point them out, name names. But you can't because no one is doing it. Everybody in this thread mad as hell

Your enemy is bad reading comprehension

 

[HarlemHottie]

No to either black and from NYC. Just wondering why a state with so many black people are still suffering under this shyt.

Newswire : Black man is found hanging from a tree in upstate New York

Earl D. Smith By Blackmansstreet Today Earl D. Smith, 58, a Black man, was found hanging from a tree in the middle of the day in Albany, New York, the capital city of the state of New York. His b…

greenecodemocrat.com

Stop it, breh. You embarrassing the city, we supposed to be smarter than this.

 

[Neuromancer]

Stop it, breh. You embarrassing the city, we supposed to be smarter than this.

Fair. Fair. I'm just mad. How can this be stopped?

 

[HarlemHottie]

Fair. Fair. I'm just mad. How can this be stopped?

My honest answer would get me put on a list. Another one.

 

[beenz]

Rest in Peace to him

Articles are incomplete. They say police have ruled out foul play, but make no mention of suicide.

so we are supposed to believe he just climbed up into a tree and put a noose around his own neck.

this is a tale as old as time in the southern united states

 

[Neuromancer]

My honest answer would get me put on a list. Another one.

Is it a feasible solution? Nvm. No need to get you in trouble.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

what the fukk are you talking about? Who in here is caping or buying "suicide"???

Point them out, name names. But you can't because no one is doing it. Everybody in this thread mad as hell

Your enemy is bad reading comprehension

This is a complete misrepresentation and not even close to being remotely true, and the fact that you're so willing to completely dismiss the possibility of it being suicide is troubling. This board is far too fixated on trying to blame the [white] boogeyman and not taking a step back and acknowledging they're part of the problem by perpetuating this stigma around mental health, particularly in regards to young men.

More young, Black Americans taking their lives amid lack of resources, study finds

For years, experts have warned about a growing mental health crisis among America’s young people. But within that trend, there are important signals about racial disparities. Between 2018 and 2022, the suicide rate among Black youth rose by more than 50 percent. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from...

www.pbs.org

Black Adolescent Suicide Rate Reveals Urgent Need to Address Mental Health Care Barriers

The suicide rate among Black adolescents is increasing faster than other racial and ethnic groups. From 2007 to 2020, the suicide rate rose 144% among 10- to 17-year-olds who are Black. Although the overall youth suicide rate is trending downwards, this data raises alarms about the need to...

www.pew.org

Young Black men are dying by suicide at alarming rates

New study suggests racism and childhood trauma may be to blame for high rates of suicidal thoughts among young African American men.

news.uga.edu

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5298065/suicide-rates-are-rising-for-black-teens-new-research-finds

Thank you for posting this. Every time this happens, so many people are always like black people don't commit suicide on this forum. My little cousin lost his father to suicide. He hung himself. My wife has a cousin who committed suicide last month. Last year one of my really good friends lost his cousin to suicide. I am in no way under the belief that lynchings don't happen, but we really shouldn't jump to conclusions on this.

These two dummies right here are doing it
How you not see these posts

 

[yardman]

There’s a CDC report that says that there have been 79 unsolved hangings of Black people and that they’ve all been males, in this report, 79 hangings that are unsolved between 2000 and 2016. The overwhelming majority of which took place in southern states.

Two things can be right at the same time, Black men can need help as it relates to mental health and cacs also need to tried and convicted for the racial terror they enact.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/08/modern-day-mississippi-lynchings/​

Raynard Johnson, 17​

JUNE 16, 2000​

Raynard Johnson was found hanging from a pecan tree in his front yard in Kokomo, Miss. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation called the hanging a suicide, according to records. But his family believes Johnson was lynched, Jefferson said.

In 2000, the Rev. Jesse Jackson traveled to Mississippi to call attention to Johnson’s hanging.

“There’s enough circumstantial stuff here that warrants a serious investigation. We will not rest until those who committed this murder are brought to justice,” Jackson told demonstrators before leading a march to the pecan tree where Raynard was found. “We reject the suicide theory.”

In February 2001, the Justice Department announced it ended its investigation into Johnson’s death: “The evidence does not support a federal criminal civil rights prosecution.”

Raynard’s mother, Maria Johnson, says she is still waiting for some kind of justice. “My son’s death marked the modern age of a fight that Black people have been in in Mississippi and this nation for centuries,” Johnson said. “They tried to cover this up, but I’ve never given up hope. And that’s the thing that should scare them, because I never will.”
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Nick Naylor, 23​

JAN. 9, 2003​

Three years later, Nick Naylor, 23, was found hanging from a tree about 11 miles from his house in Porterville, Miss. A dog chain was wrapped around his neck. Police ruled the death a suicide, but an attorney for the family said it was a lynching.

“Every time someone loses their life in a hate crime, it opens up the wound,” said Lequicha Naylor, 43, Naylor’s sister. “We have no closure. His killers are probably still around here, walking around. I have little Black boys. I’ve got grand boys — kids walking around the same place where my brother got hung. And we had tell them what happened for their own protection. One thing we always wonder is what they did to him before he died.”
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Roy Veal, 55​

APRIL 22, 2004​

A year later, Roy Veal, was found hanging from a pecan tree near Woodville, Miss. Relatives said Veal was found with a hood over his head. A state police spokesman told reporters Veal’s death was “consistent with suicide.” Relatives said they believed Veal, who had returned to Mississippi to fight for his family’s land, was lynched. A spokesman for the sheriff’s office in Woodville said the case is with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.​

Frederick Jermaine Carter, 26​

DEC. 3, 2010​

Frederick Jermaine Carter was found hanging from a tree limb in a White neighborhood in Greenwood, Miss. The state medical examiner ruled Carter’s death a suicide. Relatives called it a lynching and demanded for a federal investigation.

Derrick Johnson, then-state president of the Mississippi NAACP, told reporters that the community had “lost all confidence in the ability of local law enforcement to investigate” the case of Carter’s hanging. He called on the Justice Department to investigate.

A spokesperson for the department declined to comment on the case.

The day before Carter was found dead, he had been working with his stepfather on a painting project. Relatives said he disappeared after his stepfather went to buy more paint.

“Not knowing what happened is a torment,” Brenda Carter-Evans told reporters in 2010. “I need to know what happened to my son.”
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Craig Anderson, 49​

JUNE 26, 2011​

One of the most graphic examples of a modern-day racial terror killing occurred on June 26, 2011, when 10 white teenagers killed 49-year-old James Craig Anderson in Jackson, Miss.

The teenagers, who according to court records, decided to “go f---k with some n-----s,” ran over Anderson in a parking lot while yelling “white power.”

That night two carloads of White teenagers drove into a motel parking lot where they spotted Anderson, according to records. Some teens jumped out of the cars and started beating Anderson, in an attack captured on a surveillance video.
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