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The discovery of a lynched Black body in the southern United States evokes the history of national lynching

The discovery of a lynched Black body in the southern United States evokes the history of national lynching

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September 17th, 2026

The discovery of a lynched Black body in the southern United States evokes the history of national lynching

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The discovery of a Black woman's death, found hanged from a tree in Mississippi, evoked anguished memories of the tragic history of lynching throughout the American South.

ミシシッピ州において黒人女性が樹木に吊るされた状態で発見された死は、米国南部全域にわたるリンチの悲惨な歴史にまつわる苦悩に満ちた記憶を呼び覚ますものであった。

The body of Tasia Fortune, aged 29, was discovered on 3 August behind an abandoned house in Jackson, the state capital.

29歳のタシア・フォーチュンの遺体は8月3日州都ジャクソンの廃屋の裏手において発見された

Jarques Ratliff, 51, who is also Black, pleaded not guilty to murder on Monday.

同じく黒人である51歳のジャークス・ラトリフは月曜日殺人罪について無罪を主張した

Police and prosecutors have not disclosed any suspected motive, and say further arrests are anticipated.

警察および検察当局は疑わしい動機を明らかにしておらずさらなる逮捕が見込まれると述べている

Irrespective of the circumstances surrounding the incident, for many Black people the imagery of ropes and nooses evokes the legacy of lynching and vigilante violence against Black Americans, inflicting profound anguish and trauma.

事件の状況の如何を問わず、多くの黒人にとって、ロープと縛首索のイメージは、米国における黒人に対するリンチおよび自警団的暴力の遺産を想起させ、深甚なる苦痛とトラウマをもたらす。

"Those who are Black in 2026 harbor feelings identical in every particular to those felt in 1956 and 1966, and are undergoing the very same experience.

2026年において黒人である者たちは1956年や1966年に感じ取ったのと寸分違わぬ思いを抱き同一の経験を経ている

Such a state of affairs must never come to pass," the Jackson activist Brad Franklin said upon Fortune's death.

かような事態は断じて生じるべきではないジャクソンの活動家ブラッド・フランクリンはフォーチュンの死に際して語った。

"Be that as it may, this is Mississippi, and precisely because our state has borne a history of racism, our skin has been considerably toughened in order to contend with it."

「とはいえ、ここはミシシッピであり、わが州が差別主義の歴史を抱えてきたがゆえに、それに対処すべく私たちの皮膚はずいぶんと鍛え上げられてきたのである。」

Editor's note: September has been designated National Suicide Prevention Month.

編集者注記9月は全米自殺啓発月間に指定されております

This article contains discourse pertaining to suicide.

本記事には自殺に関する言説が含まれております

Should you or someone you know require support, the United States' National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline can be reached by calling or texting 988.

ご自身またはご存知の方が支援を必要とされている場合、米国の全国自殺・危機ライフラインは988への通話またはテキスト送信によりご利用いただけます

Fortune's mother, Kristi Spivey, stated that she does not believe race played any part in her daughter's death.

フォーチュンの母クリスティ・スパイビーは娘の死に人種が関与しているとは考えないと述べた

Spivey is white.

スパイビーは白人である

She stated that Fortune's father is Black.

フォーチュンの父親は黒人であると彼女は述べた

"I believe this is an intensely private matter, indeed an intensely private matter," Spivey stated, going on to advance the claim that someone acquainted with Fortune had been involved.

これは極めて私的な事柄であると存じますまさしく極めて私的な事柄であると」とスパイビーは述べフォーチュンと面識のあった何者かが関与しているとの主張を展開した

Over the past two years, roughly half a dozen Black women and men have been found hanged across the South.

過去2年間にわたり南部全域においておよそ半ダースの黒人女性および男性が首を吊った状態で発見されている

In several of these cases, the police swiftly ruled the deaths suicides, yet when investigators present only limited evidence sufficient to rule out the possibility of homicide, a historically grounded skepticism is often aroused.

これらの事件のうちいくつかについて警察は速やかに自殺と断定したものの捜査当局が他殺の可能性を排除するに足る限定的な証拠しか提示しない場合、歴史的に根拠のある懐疑心がしばしば喚起されることとなる。

"They should present the evidence," said Sean Joe, a professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis who is recognized as a national authority on suicidal behavior among Black people.

「証拠を提示するべきである」とセントルイス・ワシントン大学のソーシャルワーク教授にして黒人の自殺行動に関する全国的権威として認知されているショーン・ジョー述べた

"However, if... they arrive at a definition or conclusion of suicide, they must present the evidence to that effect."

「しかしながら仮に…自殺という定義や結論に到達するのであればそのために証拠を提示しなければならない。」

Spivey stated that he was utterly convinced that it was absolutely inconceivable that his daughter had taken her own life.

スパイビーは娘が自ら命を絶ったなどということは断じてあり得ぬと確信していると述べた

"Absolutely impossible. Even supposing she had been capable of climbing that treeno, no, she would never, never, never do such a thing," Spivey said.

絶対にあり得ぬ仮に彼女がその木に登ることができたとしても、いや、いや、彼女は決して、決して、決してそのようなことはしない」とスパイビーは述べた

In Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, police are conducting an investigation into the death of Demetrius Eugene Fleming, aged 38, which occurred on August 21.

ノースカロライナ州ロアノーク・ラピッズにおいて警察は8月21日に生じたデメトリウス・ユージン・フレミング38歳の死をめぐる捜査を遂行中である

Police Chief Lawrence Wiggins stated on Tuesday that the department is currently awaiting a report from the medical examiner.

ローレンス・ウィギンズ警察署長は火曜日同署が検死官からの報告を待っている段階にある述べた

In February, police in Cobb County, Georgia, discovered the body of 21-year-old Kyle Bassinger in a park.

2月ジョージア州コブ郡の警察は21歳のカイル・バシンガの遺体を公園にて発見した

Although investigators stated that no indications of homicide were found, Cobb County Commission Chairwoman Lisa Cupid remarked that Bassinger's death "evoked for many the eras of slavery and Jim Crow."

捜査当局は他殺の兆候は認められないと述べたものの、バシンガの死は「多くの人々に奴隷制ならびにジム・クロウ時代を想起させた」とコブ郡委員長リサ・キューピッドは述べた。

In September 2025, the death of Trey Reed, a 21-year-old Black student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was ruled a suicide; yet the death of 39-year-old Denoris Richardson, which occurred in September 2024 in rural Colbert County, Alabama, likewise arrived at the same conclusion.

2025年9月ミシシッピ州デルタ州立大学において21歳の黒人学生トレイ・リードの死自殺と断定されたが、2024年9月アラバマ州田舎コルバート郡生じた39歳のデノリス・リチャードソンの死もまた同様の結論に帰した

Lee, Richardson's wife, has stated unequivocally that she finds it hard to believe her husband took his own life, and it is reported that, as in other cases, an independent autopsy was conducted and was found to be consistent with his death having resulted from hanging.

リチャードソンの妻であるリーは夫が自殺を遂げたとは信じ難いと明言しており他の事件の場合と同様に私人による検死が実施されその死が首吊りによるものであることと符合すると判明したと報じられている

Leigh Richardson told ABC News that, despite her husband's suffering from chronic asthma and other respiratory conditions that triggered anxiety attacks, "that is not even a way he would think about leaving this world."

リー・リチャードソンはABCニュースに対し、夫が慢性喘息およびその他の呼吸器疾患を抱え、不安発作を誘発していたにもかかわらず、「それは彼がこの世を去るために考える方法ですらない」と述べた。

According to a report by the Equal Justice Initiative, which is headquartered in Alabama, more than 4,400 lynchings occurred in the United States during the period extending from the Reconstruction era to the Second World War.

アラバマ州に本拠を置く平等司法イニシアチブの報告によれば再建時代から第二次世界大戦に至るまでの期間に米国において4,400件を超えるリンチが発生した

The lynching of the teenager Emmett Till, which took place in Mississippi in 1955, originated in an accusation that he had made advances toward a white woman, and it helped to catalyze the civil rights movement.

1955年にミシシッピ州において生じた10代のエメット・ティルに対するリンチは白人女性に言い寄ったとの告発を端緒とし公民権運動を触媒する一助となった

"These were public, and they were deliberately public in order to convey terror not only to the individual and their family but to the entire community," said Karlos Hill, a professor of African and African American studies at the University of Oklahoma and the author of "Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory."

「これらは公的であり、意図的に公的であったのは、個人やその家族のみならず、コミュニティ全体に恐怖を伝えるためであった」と、オクラホマ大学のアフリカ・アフリカ系アメリカ人研究教授にして『ビヨンド・ザ・ロープ――黒人文化と記憶に対するリンチの影響』の著者であるカルロス・ヒルは述べた。

In September, nearly 60 lawmakers signed a letter calling on the Justice Department to investigate the hangings of individual Black people and to enforce the 2022 Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Actthe law that designates lynching as a federal hate crime.

9月にはほぼ60名の議員が黒人個人の首吊り死について司法省に捜査を要請し2022年のエメット・ティル反リンチ法——リンチを連邦ヘイトクライムとして位置づける法律——の執行を求める書簡に署名した

"At this moment of anti-Blackness and emboldened white supremacy, we cannot stand by while strange fruit, in the form of Black bodies, hangs from trees across this country," U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley said in a statement.

「この反黒人性と勢いを増す白人の優越性の瞬間に、私たちは黒人の身体という奇妙な果実が全国の木々からぶら下がっているのを傍観することはできない」と、米下院議員アイアナ・プレスリーは声明で述べた。

The office of Representative Pressley, the Massachusetts Democrat who was the letter's principal author, has stated that although the Department of Justice acknowledged receipt of the letter, it has yet to respond.

司法省は当該書簡の受領を確認したものの返答には至っていないと、同書簡の主執筆者であるマサチューセッツ州選出の民主党員プレスリーの事務所は述べている

Trent Thompson, a 58-year-old resident of Florence, Alabama, stated that the recent spate of hangings and deaths of Black individuals had served as a catalyst for sparking discussion within the Black community surrounding the death of Nolan Xavier Wells this summer.

アラバマ州フローレンス在住の58歳、トレント・トンプソンは近年相次ぐ黒人の首吊り死および死亡事例が黒人コミュニティにおいてこの夏のノーラン・ザビエル・ウェルズの死をめぐる議論を喚起する契機となったと述べた

On July 4th, Wells, an 18-year-old Black youth, set out with friends on a boating excursion to an island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast, yet he did not return alongside them.

18歳の黒人青年ウェルズは7月4日友人らとともにミシシッピ湾岸沖の島へボート遠足に出かけたが、彼らと行動を共にして帰還することはなかった

His body was discovered two days later.

彼の遺体は2日後に発見された

Thompson remarked that the state's history of racially motivated violence, compounded by a deep-seated distrust of law enforcement, has intensified rigorous scrutiny of the investigation and, within the Black community, has stirred suspicions regarding the numerous instances involving Black deaths.

州における人種差別的暴力の歴史と法執行機関に対する不信感が相まって捜査に対する厳格な監視の目が一層強まり黒人コミュニティにおいては黒人の死を伴う数多の事例に対する疑念が喚起されているとトンプソンは述べた

"I know within what skin I exist," he said.

「私は自らがいかなる肌の内に存しているかを識っている」と彼は述べた。

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