Young Black men are dying by suicide at alarming rates

Durmyyyy · 2024-03-29T03:52:27+00:00

Well maybe the rest of the left will care now at least

jessi387 · 2024-03-29T02:26:16+00:00

By alarming rates, are they referring to a dramatic increase. Because last I checked, and not to be dismissive, white males had the highest suicide rate followed by Alaskan natives.

TURBO_SCROTUM · 2024-03-29T10:40:04+00:00

I saw this article posted in another subreddit last week. There was lots of discussion on race, almost no discussion on gender.

helloiseeyou2020 · 2024-03-29T15:15:02+00:00

This is very interesting (and also, obviously, depressing). You hear a lot about the scores of white or Southeast Asian men taking their lives but this is new ground. TBH, this has been a blind spot for me and I had always assumed the masculinity culture of black men would keep the rates low.

I had always thought racialized poverty and violence were the primary issues affecting black men, but eas operating under the assumption that the end state was that they continued to live while suffering these things. Clearly, not the case.

I dont know what to do about it. Targeting poverty and predatory capitalism in a meaningful way is always a path forward but never seems to happen. More taxes should go toward public schools to better the teacher:student ratio. Police reform and justice reform needs to stop disproportionately locking up the fathers of young black men and boys. It's all just a fucking mess and there's so much to do. I hate that Im just sitting here farting out the equivalent of thoughts and prayers.

Of course black men are killing themselves. Their opportunities are scant for reasons of both gender AND race, and nobody cares in any meaningful way that actually achieves change. I guess Derek Chauvin rotting in jail proves that the next George Zimmerman won't get off, but that only resolves justice after a black man has already been murdered and doesn't mean anything for the broader systemic issues

All I can do is keep magnifying the issue of male suicide ecery chance I get. I can add these facts to my toolbox. But fixing this involves meaningful change for the betterment of black people (which is glacial) and men generally (which actively opposed more often than it makes even glacial progress).

Cheetahfan123 · 2024-03-29T22:30:25+00:00

Most issues that affect black people affect black men at higher rates so I’m not surprised of this

Actual_HumanBeing · 2024-03-30T00:06:19+00:00

As a black man myself, I am not surprised by this. I also was informed about this for a while since I was researching it for personal reasons. Thank you so much for sharing this and bringing awareness to the issue!

Dashing2026 · 2024-03-29T02:19:12+00:00

I would suspect that this is due to economic factors more so than cultural, not to underestimate the latter. A "death of despair" as it's called.

The only hope to break the stranglehold of wealth from the hands of the elites is through worker unions and pro-middle class initiatives

Hovathegod · 2024-03-29T16:57:48+00:00

This thread is super disgusting.

I spend a lot of time trying to impress on other black men that there's commonality on male issues with white men- beyond race (which does have factors) but it seems like the people here actually believe that minority men are considered of worth by the wider left and have no clue to the misandry and general dismissal of where we empirically fall behind black women/other groups or are subjected to more abuse.

This is the inevitable end of the moderation not being strict on keeping the perspective here left wing.

Those who think male advocacy is a white male grievance movement when it's for men over all.

LucastheMystic · 2024-03-30T07:11:59+00:00

Damn, at least I'm not alone in these struggles. Suicide isn't really discussed much in our community, so seeing this disturbs me. Oh, does it disturb me.

Blauwpetje · 2024-03-29T10:31:21+00:00

I predict there’ll be an ingenious theory about white men oppressing black men more than they oppress black women for competitive reasons. It will be completely fact free, but the intersectional crowd will swallow it like caviar.

Title	Young Black men are dying by suicide at alarming rates
Author	mo_leahq
Upvotes	138
Comments	65
Date	March 29, 2024 2:13 AM UTC (2 years ago)
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