>
Reminder that Martha Stewart, Bernie Sanders, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Simon and Garfunkel were all born the same year as Emmett Till.  
If you think his death long ago, think again.  Carolyn Bryant is still alive. Those that supported his lynching are still alive, still voting, and are still creating policy to this day. >

Also, a reminder that the memorial sign marking the spot where his body was found has been stolen, vandalized, damaged, and shot. The state has had to replace it three times so far, and that's just since 2008. The latest one weighs 500 lbs and is bulletproof, in the hopes that this sign will last. 
So if you think that the kind of racism that led to Till's murder doesn't exist anymore, think again. >

Ahmaud Arbery was lynched by a cop just a couple years ago, and three different prosecutors saw the video of his killers chase him down, corner him three times, and murder him, yet refused to prosecute.
Georgia, and most of the south, is still the same racist shithole it has always been. >

i like how Germany stamps the fuck out of nazi propagation 
wish we did the same >

Lucky us, we keep getting the opportunity to do so. Likely will until we are willing to sacrifice what we have to right our wrongs. >

Soo….2525? Maybe? >

Imho if the SS guys are hunted down even if they are 90 years of age. The lady who falsely accused poor emmett should be given the same justice. >

A grand jury declined to indict her last year. >

If anyone reading this is in any way unclear about the "brutally" part of all this, Till was kidnapped at gunpoint in the middle of the night, repeatedly pistol-whipped en route to a barn, then bound, tortured, and mutilated for hours, to the point that they knocked one of his eyes out and rendered him unrecognizable. They then tied a 70-pound cotton gin fan around his neck with barbed wire and threw him off a bridge into a river, but forgot to remove an engraved ring from his hand that unambiguously identified him when the body was recovered. 
...the all-white jury took barely an hour to acquit, despite overwhelming evidence. "If we hadn't stopped to drink Coca-Cola," one of the jurors was later quoted as saying, "it wouldn't have taken that long."
The next year, the acquitted killers were paid $4,000 for an interview in which they confessed to the crime, knowing they couldn't be retried due to double jeopardy. 
The history of racism in the U.S. is more hideous than is even widely known. And there plenty of loud idiots who want to make sure it stays that way. >

She lied. But they really thought this was the best way to deal with this? Sadistic assholes. >

This medal was given to them as conciliation. It does no justice. >

Emmett Till's mother did one of the hardest and bravest things I could imagine a bereaved parent doing. It should be a national disgrace that it took THAT kind of action to motivate America to get off it's ass and act.
Unfortunately, we still need parents like her. Our kids are still dying, and Sandy Hook and Uvalde proved that just secondhand, sanitized footage and testimony aren't enough to thaw the cold hearts. Maybe next time the parents can sacrifice even more so that it doesn't happen again. Another major national disgrace brought to us by conservatives. >

That sounds like a great way to encourage more mass shootings. >

The cunt named Carolyn Bryant had a warrant that was never served and is technically still active. Serve that bitch, and let her live her final years in prison. The bitch recanted her testimony, it was lie city. Hell, they recently convicted a nazi in Germany, suspended sentence. Get her geriatric ass before she dies with a smile on her rat face. >

The stupid bitch that lied about it should be arrested, doesnt matter how old she is >

That poor baby. Just 14 years old. Ugh. Every time I think of him it breaks my heart so much. He deserved so much more and met such a tragic, terrifying, and lonely end. And his poor mother who had to lose her baby. The fact that there’s been no justice STILL destroys me. Fuck racism and fuck racists. And fuck the institutions that protect them. >

I just watched Till yesterday and it's very powerful. I can't even imagine having to go through something like his mother went through. Agreed 100%. >

The picture of his savagely beaten corpse in his casket will stay with me for the rest of my life. >

The picture of his badly beaten corps should be posted on more things to remind us of our national shame. What happened to him should be taught to every school child. The fact that an all white jury took 67 minutes to find the two white men not guilty and we currently know the location of the women who lied about the whole situation and are doing nothing about it is disgusting. >

Fuck a medal , arrest Carolyn Bryant >

For what exactly? She said he whistled at her, his cousins said they dared him to do it. Yes, she then changed her testimony and tried to lie on the stand, saying Till was aggressive toward her, but the judge sent the jury out of the room and they never heard it, so it didn’t affect the verdict. She recanted that part afterward, she said she lied because she was scared for her husband, but since it didn’t affect the jury’s decision and the statute of limitations has run out on perjury it hardly matters.
What she did wrong was go home and tell her husband that Till had whistled at her. Yes, I don’t think there’s any doubt she was racist, but it’s anyone’s guess if she could’ve predicted that he would kidnap and torture and murder that child. >

I don't think she even told her husband. I think he found out secondhand >

From whom? Till’s cousins knew, but I doubt in Mississippi at that time there was a lot of crossover between communities in terms of gossip (plus I’m not sure Black adults would have cared about a kids’ prank, or if they did & understood the possible repercussions the last thing they would have done was tell whites about it). I always thought that she must’ve told her husband and he told the brother-in-law. If there’s other evidence…? >


Until March of this year, Congress had failed to pass such [anti-lynching] legislation nearly 200 times

Ima guess that isn't taught in American Schools. >

I don’t think many congressmen are opposed to anti lynching.. many times those legislations fail because they are filled with unrelated, nonsensical, greedy funding that is hidden within the legislation. Those who contribute to the legislations need to be checked >

Go on. Tell us what specific unrelated content is in these bills that made it too objectionable to pass. I'll wait. >

How to read a bill
You may find the above link useful. I encourage you to explore for yourself if you’re doubtful. >

You made the claim. Go ahead and back it up. >

America will do everything EXCEPT make systemic change. >

To anyone that thinks that racism is a thing of the past, part of a bygone era:
In 2008, the state of Mississippi put up a sign marking the spot where Till's body was found. The sign has been stolen, vandalized, and shot through so much that the state has had to replace it three times. The current sign is the fourth one to be put up. It's bulletproof and weighs 500 lbs, so hopefully, it won't need to be replaced again anytime soon. The hatred that led to Till being murdered is alive and well. >

Ahmaud Arbery was lynched by a former cop in Georgia just two years ago.
Despite seeing video of his murderers hunting him down, cornering him three times, and violently attacking him with a shotgun, police didn’t arrest his murderers and prosecutors refused to prosecute them three times.
Most of the south is still the same racist shithole it has always been. >

The truly sad part is all this virulent racism in the US: when the majority allows/accepts /is apathetic to decades of injustice from both the private and public sector to rain down on a minority group it weakens the very system they cherish, designed for the betterment of the larger group. In time that injustice will metastasize spreading into the experiences of the majority and they will be blind to the ability to stop the spread of injustice because it was accepted as SOP for so long for the minority group that the majority won’t be able to recognize the injustice meant for others has come for them. Injustice run amuck does not discern which group to attack and which to avoid. >

Great. Now can we put that old white lady in jail for his murder? >

Arrest the woman who lied about him. >

People of color are still being killed for demanding their rights in this country. We have only been a democracy since the Voting Rights Act, and the Republican Party has succeeded in dismantling it. >

Yes! Until these issues are addressed, this feels like lip service at best. >

Lip service is what they do best. The dems are masters of platitudes, while the gop are masters chaos. >

Don’t both sides this shit. One of the two parties is 100% evil. They are NOT the same. >

I'm not both sidesing anything. As a middle age, blue collar, left leaning,black man, I have only seen incremental platitudes from the dems, and chaos and fear from the gop. Having only two choices, platitudes will always win, with me, for now, but I'm not gonna pretend they have my best interests in mind, when I continue to see differently. >

I’d you’ve only seen platitudes you haven’t paid attention. Dems are the ones bringing about support for veterans, mental health, physical health, enforcing civil right and liberties. Republicans are the ones voting against those measures. Learn the difference. >

Go to your local va, or any low income neighborhood, and come back and tell me where you think that money is going. 
One of the worst things don did was show how easy it is for them to do shit if they really want to. 
Incremental change is better than nothing, yes, but it has become glaringly obvious that it's really just foot dragging. 
Republicans are voting against, and playing dirty, and the dems continue to "take the high road" and make grand gestures. If things continue to slide backwards,like they are, wouldn't it make sense to try to take bigger strides instead of doing more of the same, tiny, platitudinal, pacifying, plays. The right certainly thinks so. 
How does politicians getting rich on insider trading benefit me? Why won't the dems do anything about it?
Our government is broken. Throughout. Decades of voting for the lesser of two evils, has unsurprisingly led us into dark times. 
Sure, they aren't the same, but that doesn't really seem to matter anymore, imo. >

Downvoted because the truth is inconvenient. >

Just cause I believe what I said to be true, doesn't mean I think resistance is futile, either. I admire anyone that calls for forward movement, and I wish I was still optimistic enough to be satisfied by the bare minimum. >

Take the woman who falsely accused him into custody >

The Emmett Till Antilynching Act, an American law which makes lynching a federal hate crime, was signed into law on March 29, 2022 by President Joe Biden.
"Whoop-de-fuckin-do!"
67 years later let's commemorate the failure of our society and our justice system to make significant progress toward equality. Not just black/white but the whole kit and kaboodle - us/them. >

Great, present her with a warrant for Carolyn Bryant’s arrest next. >

Curious, she's obviously a bad person but what would you possibly convict her of?
It would have to be a crime with no statute of limitations since it happened so long ago, and there is a pretty short list of those in Mississippi.
The best fit would be murder, but she didn't actually commit murder so... you can't convict her of it. >

They could equally charge her with kidnapping or manslaughter.  Along with the murder you mention, those crimes do not have a statute of limitations. >

but... she didnt commit those crimes? >

Congressional medals are just political theater PR bullshit. Maybe try to actially do something good for the american people and stop skimming tax payer money away like the  russian oligarchs you like to condemn >

I am willing to have pr stunts support people like Emmet Till though. >

America will do anything except arrest the white woman that caused all this. >

That's because there isn't an actual crime to charge her with. Unfortunately being a shit person isn't actually a crime.
Like, it would have to be a felony with no statute of limitations the crime happened so long ago, and the only one she could realistically be charged with would be murder.
And since she didn't commit the murder no one would ever find her guilty. >

It’s always when black people are long dead and almost forgotten that they pull this PR medal bullshit. It’s so wrong and messed up. This pretty much goes for almost every other atrocities. >

Reminder that Martha Stewart, Bernie Sanders, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Simon and Garfunkel were all born the same year as Emmett Till.  
If you think his death long ago, think again.  Carolyn Bryant is still alive. Those that supported his lynching are still alive, still voting, and are still creating policy to this day. >

Also, a reminder that the memorial sign marking the spot where his body was found has been stolen, vandalized, damaged, and shot. The state has had to replace it three times so far, and that's just since 2008. The latest one weighs 500 lbs and is bulletproof, in the hopes that this sign will last. 
So if you think that the kind of racism that led to Till's murder doesn't exist anymore, think again. >

Ahmaud Arbery was lynched by a cop just a couple years ago, and three different prosecutors saw the video of his killers chase him down, corner him three times, and murder him, yet refused to prosecute.
Georgia, and most of the south, is still the same racist shithole it has always been. >

i like how Germany stamps the fuck out of nazi propagation 
wish we did the same >

Lucky us, we keep getting the opportunity to do so. Likely will until we are willing to sacrifice what we have to right our wrongs. >

Soo….2525? Maybe? >

Imho if the SS guys are hunted down even if they are 90 years of age. The lady who falsely accused poor emmett should be given the same justice. >

A grand jury declined to indict her last year. >

If anyone reading this is in any way unclear about the "brutally" part of all this, Till was kidnapped at gunpoint in the middle of the night, repeatedly pistol-whipped en route to a barn, then bound, tortured, and mutilated for hours, to the point that they knocked one of his eyes out and rendered him unrecognizable. They then tied a 70-pound cotton gin fan around his neck with barbed wire and threw him off a bridge into a river, but forgot to remove an engraved ring from his hand that unambiguously identified him when the body was recovered. 
...the all-white jury took barely an hour to acquit, despite overwhelming evidence. "If we hadn't stopped to drink Coca-Cola," one of the jurors was later quoted as saying, "it wouldn't have taken that long."
The next year, the acquitted killers were paid $4,000 for an interview in which they confessed to the crime, knowing they couldn't be retried due to double jeopardy. 
The history of racism in the U.S. is more hideous than is even widely known. And there plenty of loud idiots who want to make sure it stays that way. >

She lied. But they really thought this was the best way to deal with this? Sadistic assholes. >

This medal was given to them as conciliation. It does no justice. >

Emmett Till's mother did one of the hardest and bravest things I could imagine a bereaved parent doing. It should be a national disgrace that it took THAT kind of action to motivate America to get off it's ass and act.
Unfortunately, we still need parents like her. Our kids are still dying, and Sandy Hook and Uvalde proved that just secondhand, sanitized footage and testimony aren't enough to thaw the cold hearts. Maybe next time the parents can sacrifice even more so that it doesn't happen again. Another major national disgrace brought to us by conservatives. >

That sounds like a great way to encourage more mass shootings. >

The cunt named Carolyn Bryant had a warrant that was never served and is technically still active. Serve that bitch, and let her live her final years in prison. The bitch recanted her testimony, it was lie city. Hell, they recently convicted a nazi in Germany, suspended sentence. Get her geriatric ass before she dies with a smile on her rat face. >

The stupid bitch that lied about it should be arrested, doesnt matter how old she is >

That poor baby. Just 14 years old. Ugh. Every time I think of him it breaks my heart so much. He deserved so much more and met such a tragic, terrifying, and lonely end. And his poor mother who had to lose her baby. The fact that there’s been no justice STILL destroys me. Fuck racism and fuck racists. And fuck the institutions that protect them. >

I just watched Till yesterday and it's very powerful. I can't even imagine having to go through something like his mother went through. Agreed 100%. >

The picture of his savagely beaten corpse in his casket will stay with me for the rest of my life. >

The picture of his badly beaten corps should be posted on more things to remind us of our national shame. What happened to him should be taught to every school child. The fact that an all white jury took 67 minutes to find the two white men not guilty and we currently know the location of the women who lied about the whole situation and are doing nothing about it is disgusting. >

Fuck a medal , arrest Carolyn Bryant >

For what exactly? She said he whistled at her, his cousins said they dared him to do it. Yes, she then changed her testimony and tried to lie on the stand, saying Till was aggressive toward her, but the judge sent the jury out of the room and they never heard it, so it didn’t affect the verdict. She recanted that part afterward, she said she lied because she was scared for her husband, but since it didn’t affect the jury’s decision and the statute of limitations has run out on perjury it hardly matters.
What she did wrong was go home and tell her husband that Till had whistled at her. Yes, I don’t think there’s any doubt she was racist, but it’s anyone’s guess if she could’ve predicted that he would kidnap and torture and murder that child. >

I don't think she even told her husband. I think he found out secondhand >

From whom? Till’s cousins knew, but I doubt in Mississippi at that time there was a lot of crossover between communities in terms of gossip (plus I’m not sure Black adults would have cared about a kids’ prank, or if they did & understood the possible repercussions the last thing they would have done was tell whites about it). I always thought that she must’ve told her husband and he told the brother-in-law. If there’s other evidence…? >


Until March of this year, Congress had failed to pass such [anti-lynching] legislation nearly 200 times

Ima guess that isn't taught in American Schools. >

I don’t think many congressmen are opposed to anti lynching.. many times those legislations fail because they are filled with unrelated, nonsensical, greedy funding that is hidden within the legislation. Those who contribute to the legislations need to be checked >

Go on. Tell us what specific unrelated content is in these bills that made it too objectionable to pass. I'll wait. >

How to read a bill
You may find the above link useful. I encourage you to explore for yourself if you’re doubtful. >

You made the claim. Go ahead and back it up. >

America will do everything EXCEPT make systemic change. >

To anyone that thinks that racism is a thing of the past, part of a bygone era:
In 2008, the state of Mississippi put up a sign marking the spot where Till's body was found. The sign has been stolen, vandalized, and shot through so much that the state has had to replace it three times. The current sign is the fourth one to be put up. It's bulletproof and weighs 500 lbs, so hopefully, it won't need to be replaced again anytime soon. The hatred that led to Till being murdered is alive and well. >

Ahmaud Arbery was lynched by a former cop in Georgia just two years ago.
Despite seeing video of his murderers hunting him down, cornering him three times, and violently attacking him with a shotgun, police didn’t arrest his murderers and prosecutors refused to prosecute them three times.
Most of the south is still the same racist shithole it has always been. >

The truly sad part is all this virulent racism in the US: when the majority allows/accepts /is apathetic to decades of injustice from both the private and public sector to rain down on a minority group it weakens the very system they cherish, designed for the betterment of the larger group. In time that injustice will metastasize spreading into the experiences of the majority and they will be blind to the ability to stop the spread of injustice because it was accepted as SOP for so long for the minority group that the majority won’t be able to recognize the injustice meant for others has come for them. Injustice run amuck does not discern which group to attack and which to avoid. >

Great. Now can we put that old white lady in jail for his murder? >

Arrest the woman who lied about him. >

People of color are still being killed for demanding their rights in this country. We have only been a democracy since the Voting Rights Act, and the Republican Party has succeeded in dismantling it. >

Yes! Until these issues are addressed, this feels like lip service at best. >

Lip service is what they do best. The dems are masters of platitudes, while the gop are masters chaos. >

Don’t both sides this shit. One of the two parties is 100% evil. They are NOT the same. >

I'm not both sidesing anything. As a middle age, blue collar, left leaning,black man, I have only seen incremental platitudes from the dems, and chaos and fear from the gop. Having only two choices, platitudes will always win, with me, for now, but I'm not gonna pretend they have my best interests in mind, when I continue to see differently. >

I’d you’ve only seen platitudes you haven’t paid attention. Dems are the ones bringing about support for veterans, mental health, physical health, enforcing civil right and liberties. Republicans are the ones voting against those measures. Learn the difference. >

Go to your local va, or any low income neighborhood, and come back and tell me where you think that money is going. 
One of the worst things don did was show how easy it is for them to do shit if they really want to. 
Incremental change is better than nothing, yes, but it has become glaringly obvious that it's really just foot dragging. 
Republicans are voting against, and playing dirty, and the dems continue to "take the high road" and make grand gestures. If things continue to slide backwards,like they are, wouldn't it make sense to try to take bigger strides instead of doing more of the same, tiny, platitudinal, pacifying, plays. The right certainly thinks so. 
How does politicians getting rich on insider trading benefit me? Why won't the dems do anything about it?
Our government is broken. Throughout. Decades of voting for the lesser of two evils, has unsurprisingly led us into dark times. 
Sure, they aren't the same, but that doesn't really seem to matter anymore, imo. >

Downvoted because the truth is inconvenient. >

Just cause I believe what I said to be true, doesn't mean I think resistance is futile, either. I admire anyone that calls for forward movement, and I wish I was still optimistic enough to be satisfied by the bare minimum. >

Take the woman who falsely accused him into custody >

The Emmett Till Antilynching Act, an American law which makes lynching a federal hate crime, was signed into law on March 29, 2022 by President Joe Biden.
"Whoop-de-fuckin-do!"
67 years later let's commemorate the failure of our society and our justice system to make significant progress toward equality. Not just black/white but the whole kit and kaboodle - us/them. >

Great, present her with a warrant for Carolyn Bryant’s arrest next. >

Curious, she's obviously a bad person but what would you possibly convict her of?
It would have to be a crime with no statute of limitations since it happened so long ago, and there is a pretty short list of those in Mississippi.
The best fit would be murder, but she didn't actually commit murder so... you can't convict her of it. >

They could equally charge her with kidnapping or manslaughter.  Along with the murder you mention, those crimes do not have a statute of limitations. >

but... she didnt commit those crimes? >

Congressional medals are just political theater PR bullshit. Maybe try to actially do something good for the american people and stop skimming tax payer money away like the  russian oligarchs you like to condemn >

I am willing to have pr stunts support people like Emmet Till though. >

America will do anything except arrest the white woman that caused all this. >

That's because there isn't an actual crime to charge her with. Unfortunately being a shit person isn't actually a crime.
Like, it would have to be a felony with no statute of limitations the crime happened so long ago, and the only one she could realistically be charged with would be murder.
And since she didn't commit the murder no one would ever find her guilty. >

It’s always when black people are long dead and almost forgotten that they pull this PR medal bullshit. It’s so wrong and messed up. This pretty much goes for almost every other atrocities.