The consumption of Black pain is as American as apple pie.
“You’re being ignored. I’m not letting you bring me down today,” I said to a white staff member at the psychiatric hospital I’d been at for a month and a half. He’d made it apparent he didn’t like me from the day I was admitted. “What did you say to me?” he exclaimed, positioning his body to block my path. I rolled my eyes and attempted to walk around him. Before I could take two full steps, he slammed my head into the wall so hard I nearly passed out.
“I can’t breathe,” I managed to shriek from underneath the dog-pile of staff members helping him hold me down.Two weeks ago I found myself sitting in front of my computer with tears running down my face. I studied a video of, as terror filled Floyd’s eyes. It was a moment that was all too familiar. The post’s caption read, “Final words: I can’t breathe.” The video dredged up unbearable memories and opened old wounds in me.
But today, society takes part in a modern-day form of lynching: sharing trauma porn. The method may have changed, but the motivation is still the same. The extreme discomfort you may have felt while reading the details of last century's lynchings is similar to the discomfort many Black people feel when viral videos of us being publicly murdered are shared all over the internet.
As human beings, death places us at our peak of vulnerability; the deceased, no matter their skin color, deserve privacy, dignity, and respect in those final moments.of Black death if those videos are meant to spark public outrage and seek justice? The viral video of George Floyd being murdered led to multiple arrests which, for many, felt like justice. But even when an officer or vigilante is charged or convicted for murdering Black people, it’s only half of a victory.
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