Since May of 2020, the following black men have been found hung to death across the country. Their deaths are being ruled as suicides even though most of their families have declared their CHILDREN not to have been suicidal.
Amani Kildea (found a few days ago, New Jersey)
Malcolm Harsch (May 2020, Palmdale, California)
Dominique Alexander (June 2020, NYC)
Robert Fuller (June 2020, Victorville, California)
Unidentified LatinX male (spring 2020, Houston Texas)
THIS is why we’re fed up. This is why SOME peaceful protests broke out into riots (mixed with looters taking advantage of the situation which diminishes the point). People of color being “found” hung to death with no witnesses is one thing but a system in place that then rules the wrongful death as suicide comes off absolutely suspicious and systemically evil in light of the HISTORY of LYNCHING in this country.
Research and say their names. Don’t look away just because the victims don’t look like you. Don’t look away if their history is conveniently brought up as not squeaky clean (as if a person’s troubled past warrants a wrongful death/murder. Would a loved one or your past wrongdoing warrant wrongful death?). No one deserves to be killed in fear and separated from their family as a rekindled symbol of injustice and hatred without a thorough investigation. Are you uncomfortable? Good… Now what are you going to do about it that is constructive? #StrangeFruit #HateCrime
Even if no human act of foul play is found, don’t overlook the timing of these hangings. A spiritual enemy is afoot and looking to sow seeds of discord amongst those of us who are supposed to be brothers… #BeVigilant #BeSoberMinded #BeOfASoundMind
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When strange fruit’s depicted
And reduced as fiction,
When nooses of henchmen don’t produce “hanging” on every word…
When coroners seem to conspire more
As they uphold the seeds of bigotry’s higher spores…
Though we’ve seen this crossfire before, southern twangs ‘swang’ on every dirge.
When I see red ticker tape over investigated dismounts,
It leaves a bitter taste of bated breath in my mouth
As brown and black deaths left swaying high above ground are found and lost.
While bodies brutalized are shown as tragedies,
Their murders are ruled as probable suicides sold to their families…
Oh, the humanity! – how low must sweet chariots swing before we bow our lofts?
I mean, how do we allow such loss?
How do some still loudly scoff?
How are scoundrels still getting off uncaught as they gawk at their handiwork?
How does a symbol of hatred, so vilely wrought
Still exist fully riled and cocked?…
How long can we stand down without rounding up the cops who planned this work?
I mean, how else does such a heinous act go unseen
Unless it’s been sanctioned and lapsed by rogue police?
This is what my soul believes – this was the way Jim Crow injustice was enforced!
When hatred’s mission and prejudiced beliefs
Make it into the system to set up its decree…
Such a Matrix of racist deeds feed incredulously upon sin’s substance engorged.
These rebooted matrices are battery-operated.
Their cruel maître des have been sadly indoctrinated –
Vastly inoculated by the bad blood of those beaten and boxed into its corners.
The rudest diction of it all?
Christian views are spewed above it all…
With skewed convictions above the law deepened by the doctrines of coroners.
So with pockets full of Poseys,
They make autopsies floppy – null and rosy.
Reducing them to sloppy tchotchkes to pull wool o’er the eyes of nosey citizens.
I just wonder what thunder they’d loose with the quickness
If we did this to the Crucifixion?…
What if HIS death was overruled with tools that dismissed it as a lowly incident?
Only this isn’t as farfetched is it seems.
I’m not coming from the far-left, this is right in the seams.
Christ said ‘Whatever you do to the least of these, you do unto Me.’
So that means those treated as the least in society
Represent what you do to the KING you deem so highly…
Yet I bet it won’t do a thing for your sobriety – you’re too drunk off power and foolery.
‘And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.’
– Matthew 25:40
#SayTheirNames
#AmaniKildea
#MalcolmHarsch
#DominiqueAlexander
#RobertFuller
