Bitter Crop

I’ve got Billie Holiday and her song Strange Fruit in my head this morning.

Two men were found hanging from trees in Mississippi on Monday. I don’t buy for one skinny-ass minute that either one of them were suicides.

Trey Reed did NOT commit suicide. This happened in Mississippi after all. The state has a well deserved rep.

From 1882 to 1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the U.S., according to records maintained by NAACP. Other accounts, including the Equal Justice Initiative's extensive report on lynching,  count slightly different numbers, but it's impossible to know for certain how many lynchings occurred because there was no formal tracking. Many historians believe the true number is underreported.

The highest number of lynchings during that time period occurred in Mississippi, with 581 recorded. Georgia was second with 531, and Texas was third with 493. (source) 

Law enforcement in the US has a nasty habit of under investigating and plastering a suicide label over any Black person found hanging from a tree. You know, lying. Reed's family is having an independent autopsy done. GOOD!

How did Trey end up in that tree? Who put him there?

Who owns the lynching of Trey Reed? His murder has many fathers beyond the barbarians who strung him up. The perps include Trump, Vance, Stephen Miller, Musk, and a bunch of small time, hate mongering, grifter bros looking to build up their audience (AKA bank accounts) on the blown out neck of their now deceased fellow puke puddle. 

These dimbulbed rage hustlers just can’t seem to wrap their one-slice toaster brains around the fact that Kirk was taken out by one of their own. That just doesn’t fit the script they’ve got in there weird-ass, twisted brains.

The other dude who did NOT commit suicide by tree? Corey Zukatis, the homeless man in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His body was found the same day,

Fox chat show asshole Brian Killmeade owns Corey's murder as well as the shootings at TWO Minneapolis homeless encampments.

At least 13 people have been wounded, five critically, in two shootings that erupted over a span of 12 hours at homeless encampments in Minneapolis with the city's mayor saying he wouldn't be surprised if they are connected. (source) 

How did Killmeade spark the festival of violence?

In response to his Fox and Friends co-host Lawrence Jones saying that unhoused people with mental illness should either accept publicly funded programs (those exist? I thought Reagan got rid of all that 40 years ago) or be jailed, Killmeade responded, “Involuntary lethal injection or something. Just kill ’em.” 

Killmeade did manage, too long after the fact, to croak out an I’m sowwy. 

It contained all the right words – his apology wasn’t the usual “I’m sorry if anyone felt offended by my choice of words…” non-apology BUT the pool of gasoline had already spread and he'd badly fumbled the blazing match. The rabid, plague spewing wildebeest of right-wing violence escaped its bag. The acid drooling MAGA xenomorphs are on the streets now. It’s too late Bri-Bri.

I'm really fed up with the U.S, with people in general, with ALL these stupid players. Today I'm gonna escape into English murder mysteries and cartoons. I'll manage to do some exercising too. Probably annoy Cake too. Someone's got to do it.