Thursday, March 28, 2024

Merci Mack, 4th Black Trans Woman Killed in Dallas During Pride Month

Merci Mack, 22, was found unconscious by a passerby in a parking lot, with an apparent gunshot wound to the head
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*The death of a 22-year-old Black transgender woman is making headlines after her body was found during Pride month. 

Merci Mack was discovered unconscious in a Dallas parking lot on Tuesday, with an apparent gunshot wound to the head.

She is the 19th trans person violently killed in 2020, per out.com.

According to the Daily Mail, no witnesses have come forward in connection to the shooting.

“Another Black transgender woman has had her life stolen from her,” Tori Cooper, HRC director of community engagement for the Transgender Justice Initiative, said in a statement. “We cannot become numb to the fact that our community has learned of more killings of transgender and gender non-conforming people in the past few weeks than HRC has ever tracked in the past seven years. Her friends say that Merci Mack was a young, upbeat soul who deserved to experience a full life. HRC is mourning with Merci’s loved ones and are calling for a full, thorough investigation into her death.”

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“What do you do when you don’t have the capacity to wrap your head around the pain and trauma a community of people continues to experience and you know that your feelings aren’t half of what’s required to show up as a member of that community?” asked David Johns, Executive Director of the National Black Justice Coalition in a statement. “You continue the work and insist that others, who purport to believe that #BlackLivesMatter, also get engaged.”

Since May 2018, four trans women of color – including Mack – have been killed in Dallas, according to the report. 

“It’s been a very tumultuous time for the Dallas transgender community,” said Carter Brown, the founder of the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition.

“For transgender people, there’s not really a place — not within the LGBT community, and, especially for the Black trans community, there’s no place in the Black community,” he added. 

“So with no community and no protection from friends or other people — let alone authority or the law — then we are often just attacked and disposed of as a result of transphobia and homophobia. It just feels like we are out here as open targets.”

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