Jordan Neely Is Being Blamed for His Own Death Due to Sanism and Racism
The volatile and toxic intersection of anti-Black racism and our society’s dehumanizing attitude toward people seen by others as “mentally ill” is on full display this week in victim blaming narratives surrounding the murder of Jordan Neely — the 30-year-old Black subway rider who was choked to death by a 24-year-old white ex-Marine on the New York City subway on May 1, as other passengers looked...