black death porn
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The Good, the Bad and the Traumatic: Reevaluating the Role of Sharing Black Death on Social Media
“I think the mainstream media is addicted to trauma porn when it concerns black people…Those horrific images that we have of the Twin Towers falling to the ground are all we remember about 9/11. In cases where we think about mass shootings that predominantly affect white communities such as Sandy Hook, we don’t have pictures…
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Chance the Rapper Livestreams Police Stop in Chicago in Case It Goes ‘Sideways’
After consuming a sickening amount of “black death porn”—that is, black folks being killed by police on video—one could deduce that it is a precarious situation whenever an African American gets pulled over by police—regardless of social standing, celebrity, or the size of his or her bank account. Grammy-winning artist Chance the Rapper, being black…
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Why Detroit’s 1st Black Female Deputy Police Chief, Now 86, Says She Won’t Be Seeing Detroit
Surprise! Yet another black person eschews on-screen black-death porn. This time it is Mary Jarrett Jackson, the first woman to serve as deputy police chief in Detroit, the city for which the new film in theaters is named. “I haven’t seen the movie. I choose not to,” Jackson, 86, told HuffPost. “The riots were…