Posted on 02/15/2016 4:11:01 PM PST by Second Amendment First
A solemn group stood in the shadow of the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, forming a circle on the snow-caked sidewalk. MarShawn McCarrel, 23, a well-known Black Lives Matter activist, had taken his own life on the statehouse steps. Now his friends had come together in his memory.
As evening turned to night last week, protest organizer Rashida Davison, 25, recounted the personal toll of two years of activism: Trouble sleeping. Bouts of anxiety. Feelings of despair.
“This is really getting to us,†Davison said. “And if MarShawn’s death does not show that… I don’t know what else we need to tell or show to say that this is really going on.â€
Since he died early last week, news of McCarrel’s suicide has rocked the national police protest movement, forcing a round of introspection about a reality that predates the seminal 2014 shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo.: Some of the most prominent activists and organizers are battling not only the system, but depression.
In Oakland, Calif., a prominent activist posted the phone number for a suicide prevention hotline on her Facebook page. In Cleveland, a lead organizer confessed on Facebook that he, too, had tried to take his own life. Dozens of others have shared stories of their battles with depression, anxiety and insecurity on Twitter.
“In the movement you’re just constantly engaging in black death, seeing the communal impact,†said Jonathan Butler, the University of Missouri graduate student whose hunger strike last fall led to the resignation of the school’s president. “You’re being faced with the reality that I’m more likely to be killed by the police, that I’m being discriminated against. You start to see all of the micro-aggressions.â€
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No ones listening to my fake phoney bullsh##
Regardless of what anyone thinks of the cause he supported, that photo is just so sad, a mother’s pride, the high point of his life to date, and then he killed himself. Crashed from manic stage into deep depression.
I’d only feel sorry for his mother.
Suicide by Cop is a constant option for some in BLM. An honored form of martyrdom.
Fairborn police office on leave after posting, “I love a happy ending”
Another poster offered to throw a celebration if someone killed the Fairborn police officer that posted that.
black lives matter?
apparently not
one black activist dead is a good thing
As an award winning astrophysicist, I say
BLACK MATTER LIVES!
Anyone who is taking their lives on statehouse steps does not have depression as the major issue. Instead, attention seeking, manipulative behaviors are the major issues.
Arrest Marshawn the Mooron for murdering a black yute.
Depression? How about downright insanity?
Mark
BLM’s is going nowhere so it’s making their heads explode
Trouble sleeping. Bouts of anxiety. Feelings of despair.
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Constant lying should have that effect on a person.
Go ahead, you're saving us ammo down the road.
#NotToMe
Over the weekend, I encountered my first black man wearing a shirt that said “Hands up. Don’t shoot”. I resisted the urge to tell him to get a life.
You can see a sort of sadness in her eyes even in that photo.
It is just more proof that enabling and endorsing the grievances and delusions of the mentally ill does not cure the underlying problem.
Whether it is a man who thinks he is a woman or a black guy who says it is all the white people’s fault and their mere existence around him is an affront/aggression, same issue, untreated mental illness cheer leaded as fact by the liberals.
It;s because black lives don’t matter to the very people who have them. If they don’t care about themselves, then I certainly don’t care in the least.
Fantastic
I’d be depressed too if I had managed to convince myself that the whole world is out to get me.
“Are more BLM activists considering doing this?”
I can’t explain it, but your question seems to have a feeling of gleeful expectation. Or am I projecting? You bet I am!!! ;-)
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