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> how you can trust the stats

In fact I trust them so little I quintupled them for my analysis.

And despite the Black suicide rate being 2.5x lower than the white suicide rate [1], you would still expect an average of 2 Blacks (and 24 whites) to commit suicide by suffocation/hanging per day [2].

[1] https://www.sprc.org/scope/racial-ethnic-disparities

[2] http://www.lostallhope.com/suicide-statistics/us-methods-sui...

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So 600 black suicides by hanging a year out of ~38 million black americans, or a 0.0016% chance of an individual black american dying a year by suicidal hanging.

So when it clusters around black activists, that's pretty telling.

And to be clear, lynching is a power thing, not a genocide thing. The point isn't to kill all blacks but to make an example of the ones that 'don't know their place'. To 'hammer down the nails that stick out'.

Yeah, it’s a terror tactic.

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