Suggesting Jordan Neely's mental state was the impetus for his slaying furthers white supremacist talking points. (via The ReidOut Blog)
that made them formidable and imminently dangerous. To me, these conversations are always saturated in a sordid history of racist violence and medical misdiagnosis.
Watching people opine on Neely’s mental state, and hearing them imply this was the impetus for his being choked to death, hearkens back to the day enslaved Black people were said to have been stricken with “drapetomania,” a fictitious condition white racists used to describe people who tried or wanted to flee slavery. And these diagnoses came at a time when an enslaved person escaping could be punishable by death.
We see parallels between the past and the present in the ways Black people are expected to acquiesce to white people's will. Neely’s refusal on this front appears to have cost him his life. And it’s startling to witness so many observers of this story who seem fine with that transaction.with The New York Times in 2000
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