Re: [Trisquel-users] Creator of Debian committed suicide…or beign murdered?

[onpon4]

I think he may have been tragically mistaken about how big of a news story  
his experience would be. Some of his tweets suggest that he thought the death  
of a white man would get more attention in the media than the death of a  
black man, but realistically, the whole reason cases of police brutality  
against black people get publicized so much is specifically because they're  
black. All sorts of people face police brutality, but it's black people who  
were systematically oppressed in the past (through slavery, Jim Crow laws,  
and the stuff in between), and that makes it especially easy for us to get  
really angry when a white person does wrong to a black person.

I don't expect this to get any substantial coverage far outside of GNU/Linux  
circles, to be honest. And if it does, I think most people will forget about  
it pretty quickly.