Jordan Neely’s family condemns the killer Daniel Penny’s vilification of Neely.
have said that Neely’s killing is emblematic of growing repression of poor and unhoused people in the U.S., along with the rise of sanism — the oppression of those perceived as mentally ill — among the far right and liberal Democrats, many of whom spent the days after Neely’s deathof people experiencing homelessness or mental health issues. Tellingly, as right-wing pundits rushed to put Neely on trial in the days after his killing, Daniel Penny’s identity was withheld by officials.
Neely’s death at the hands of a white veteran also highlights the “pathologization of Blackness,” as George Yancy noted in an interview for“In the mad Black person, all the violences of modernity converge to produce death. That is what we witnessed on the New York subway,” said Toronto Metropolitan University professor Idil Abdillahi, Yancy’s interview subject.
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