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> 5:27pm: Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a [edit], will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue. Huh?? Ian

by cubano 11y ago

> 5:27pm: Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a [edit], will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue. Huh?? Ian was obviously fighting with some very serious demons. My heart goes out to his loved ones who survive him, and I pray he finds peace where he took himself. From personal experience, this can be a very lonely and painful time of year.

eropple 11y ago
Sounds pretty straightforward (if profoundly sad) to me. Police violence--in the political sense as well as the physical, though I should caveat that without further information I don't know what violence, if any, occurred here--is not new, but predominantly happens to the underprivileged. Which is to say, the use of the slur sounds like it's projecting upon the people who tend to exert this violence very disproportionately upon people of African descent (who, historically as well as today, have much less political power to wield and to have wielded on their behalf).
- cubano 11y ago
  I've quite unfortunately been arrested more time then I care to admit...its always a brutal, scary, and shocking event. I've seen things that I shouldn't even describe as I feel like people would just think I'm making the shit up. Nothing in civil society even come close to what happens to you during the first 6 hours in most US county jails. From reading his tweets, it sounds like he was simply going thru the typical steps that all people who get arrested go thru. The process is as brutal as it is uncaring. I am heartbroken that they guy chose to end his life, but I can hardly believe that this was the only issue he was battling when he chose that path. I am not speculating BTW...I'm relating his actions to my own life and my own feelings and thoughts related to being alone during this time of year. [edits]
cubano 11y ago
I'd really like to discuss the mod downs my comment recieved. I did not just randomingly pick this twitter post for shock value...I picked it for a specific reason. Like I've said..I've spent more time then I care to admit in both county jails and prison. The one absolute thing that a white person never says in those environments is the N-word that Ian used in his tweet. It is literately the third-rail of vocabulary where perhaps 75% of your fellow detainees are of color,and for that reason is why it stood out so much to me, in reflection of MY personal experience. I just thought a bit a deeper explanation may be in order.

by cubano 11y ago

eropple 11y ago

Sounds pretty straightforward (if profoundly sad) to me. Police violence--in the political sense as well as the physical, though I should caveat that without further information I don't know what violence, if any, occurred here--is not new, but predominantly happens to the underprivileged. Which is to say, the use of the slur sounds like it's projecting upon the people who tend to exert this violence very disproportionately upon people of African descent (who, historically as well as today, have much less political power to wield and to have wielded on their behalf).

cubano 11y ago
I've quite unfortunately been arrested more time then I care to admit...its always a brutal, scary, and shocking event. I've seen things that I shouldn't even describe as I feel like people would just think I'm making the shit up. Nothing in civil society even come close to what happens to you during the first 6 hours in most US county jails. From reading his tweets, it sounds like he was simply going thru the typical steps that all people who get arrested go thru. The process is as brutal as it is uncaring. I am heartbroken that they guy chose to end his life, but I can hardly believe that this was the only issue he was battling when he chose that path. I am not speculating BTW...I'm relating his actions to my own life and my own feelings and thoughts related to being alone during this time of year. [edits]

cubano 11y ago

I'd really like to discuss the mod downs my comment recieved. I did not just randomingly pick this twitter post for shock value...I picked it for a specific reason. Like I've said..I've spent more time then I care to admit in both county jails and prison. The one absolute thing that a white person never says in those environments is the N-word that Ian used in his tweet. It is literately the third-rail of vocabulary where perhaps 75% of your fellow detainees are of color,and for that reason is why it stood out so much to me, in reflection of MY personal experience. I just thought a bit a deeper explanation may be in order.