#otis byrd

[latacomuffin]

Otis Byrd. I loved this shoot.

[odunaacp-blog]

Support is growing, the Claiborne Mississippi #NAACP is seeking justice for the hanging of #OtisByrd. "We want justice, and we want justice now. We're not going to accept suicide. That's just not there." said Claiborne County NAACP president Evan Doss. We want to keep this case in the public eye. http://ow.ly/Lfqez

[mysharona1987]

[forevrdreamingofbetterthings]

When Heard the news about that man in Mississippi, My heart broke and I felt instant dread for what that news implied. But that empathy for him went away when I heard he was a convicted murderer of a woman. It comes from my views on how I believe people should be punished for certain crimes. Should we be compelled to have compassion for people who commit the ultimate crime? Because I dont fell it for him, zimmerman nor wilson.

I understand that and you are completely in your right to feel as you do. Neither you nor anyone else is compelled to feel anything for Otis Byrd and I would not ask you to. 

But while I won’t excuse what he did, I would like to point out that he’s already served 26 years in prison for his crime of fatally shooting a woman while robbing $101 from her convenience store in 1980. That’s a life sentence in Canada and a pretty significant punishment if you ask me.

Also, assuming he DID deserve to be murdered for his crime (I personally do not approve of capital punishment, but that’s a discussion for another day), do you really think a lynching was the appropriate way to go about it? Did it help the community heal from Byrd’s 35 year-old crime or did it make things exponentially worse? /hypothetical.

So while no one is asking you to have compassion for this man, I think it’s important to recognize that no matter what a person did, a lynching is NOT an appropriate sentence. And even if it were (*barfs*), it would certainly not be up to the public to mete out through vigilante “justice”. Fuck that. 

[jinxfmrl]

If you actually think that a black man in the south would commit suicide by hanging himself from a tree, YOU ARE A FOOL.

Stay fucking woke.

[wizzardturd]

Google is not auto correcting the name Otis Byrd.

[some-days-we-get-sundays]

When it comes to black lives

Science, logic and facts go out the window when it comes to black deaths. They don’t try and be thorough, they don’t try and pull out all the stops and look at all the evidence and listen to all the witnesses. They literally act like it’s their first minute on the job when it comes to figuring out who is responsible for a black person’s death. The police, the judges, the lawyers, the medical examiners, the forensic people- they act like they don’t know how to do their job. They half ass everything and then come to the highly educated, well thought out conclusion that the black person caused their own death. Even though the crime scenes are usually uncovered and unprotected, evidence is lost or mishandled, reports that are supposed to be written don’t get written, the fucking jobs they are supposed to do don’t get done simply because they don’t care enough, they don’t care about getting justice for just another dead black person. #blacklivesmatter

Stop showing “incriminating” photos and digging up things from years ago when a black person dies! You don’t do that shit for white people. I  can’t say that I ever heard “he came from a good home” ... “he was a good student” when a black person is killed. The only thing I hear is “he was arrested”.. “he did have weed in his system” ... “he was suspended 10 years ago” ..”he stole a cookie from the cookie jar”. Fucking ridiculous. 

[mango--mami]

Stop demonizing my people.