Husband asking for people to forgive her because she was "mentally unwell".
ok, so, this story happened in massachusetts about a month ago. this woman strangled all three of her children to death and, according to reports, attempted suicide by jumping from the second floor window of her single family home. she’s a young white woman married to a white man in a relatively upper middle class neighborhood. she’s a nurse at boston’s biggest and most prestigous hospital, and her husband is an engineer employed by microsoft.
the coverage of this, from the outset, has been framed to generate sumpathy for her. almost every story has an emphasis on post-partum depression and her mental state. reading these pieces, you’d think she was the victim, not the three young children around whose necks she wrapped an exercise band and strangled to death.
but, professor black truth, whose work i absolutely love (imo, he’s, by a WIDE margin, the best black youtube personality among the new black media. no one touches his knowledge, intelligence, and cadence. i think he has to work for the media in some capacity) failed to touch upon the STARK contrast in how this story has been covered and the coverage of a similar case several years ago that involved a black mother who stabbed her two sons to death.
Latarsha Sanders was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after she was found guilty of killing her two sons in 2018.
www.cbsnews.com
there was no understanding tone to the coversge of her arrest and trial, no consideration given to her mental wherewithal and how that might factor into her trial. no, she was treated like a monster - by a press that delved into her criminal history, and a public whose comments in the news articles predictably traded in the usual racist invective that the comments section of any article pertaining to black people is filled with.