The fetish for Black suffering in America

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*The* Editorial Board
@johnastoehr
.@richardsudan Racists used to take pictures of Black lynchings, bring kids along to enjoy the suffering. Is there a connection b/w that and the Kobe-Gianna images? Is it a stretch to imagine sheriff's deputies might be guilty of something similar today?

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The fetish for Black suffering in America
Sheriff’s deputies are alleged to have circulated among themselves and others images of the remains of Kobe Bryant and his daughter.
6:15 PM · Jan 26, 2022

https://www.editorialboard.com/the-fetish-for-black-suffering-in-america/

When basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others were tragically killed in a helicopter crash two years ago, it sent shockwaves throughout America, and the world. LA in particular was in a state of mourning. Like a handful of other basketball legends before him, Kobe quite literally changed the game.

For me, as a teenager growing up playing basketball in the UK, obsessed with the game usually at the expense of other priorities, Bryant was one of my heroes. So I won’t pretend I’m not emotional about this. I am. His death truly upset me, and many others I know. It almost felt like a family member had left. And way too soon.

With that said, even if I’d never played the game, my views on the utterly disgraceful saga that followed Kobe’s death would be exactly the same. What unfolded for the Bryant family and the families of the other souls who perished on the helicopter was horrific. And frankly unfathomable at a time when they should have been grieving in peace.

Vanessa Bryant, following the death of her husband and daughter, filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County in September 2020. The lawsuit alleges that graphic images of Kobe and Gianna were leaked by LA county sheriff’s deputies and shared in settings and circles that had nothing to do with the investigation. Why were they shared?

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[Mary in S. Carolina]

1. I had a neighbor that purposely drove

her very expensive SUV through a poor black area on her way home from work even though the neighborhood was out of her way. She is one of the most racist persons I have ever met, she expressed sheer joy by their poverty.

[Haggard Celine]

2. I couldn't read the article, so what did they do?

Trade pictures of the corpses? That's ghoulish behavior, no doubt, but I don't know if it's racist. They would probably be doing the same thing if famous white people had died in the crash. There's death pictures of just about any famous person you want to see on the internet.

[Skittles]

3. I was thinking the same

they lack any sense of decency