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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEmmett Till whistled at a white woman — and he was executed for it 60 years ago today
Sixty years ago Monday, Emmett Till flirted with a white woman to impress his friends setting in motion his brutal murder that propelled the civil rights movement into action.
The 14-year-old was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he and some other boys, finished picking cotton, stopped Aug. 24, 1955, outside a country store in Money.
The teen, whose mother called him Bo, bragged to the other boys that he had a white girlfriend back home in Chicago and his friends dared him to speak to the woman working behind the counter.
A 12-year-old cousin briefly went inside but left Emmett alone with the woman the wife of the stores owner for about a minute.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/60-years-ago-today-emmett-till-whistled-at-a-white-woman-and-he-was-executed-for-it-four-days-later/
Of course, if this happened today, things would be different.
- Matt Drudge would run blaring front page stories over whether the boy had tried pot at any point
- Michelle Malkin would borrow fake, "Thugged out" photos of him from Stormfront
- Hannity would have on Mark Fuhrman to call him a thug
- Rudy Giuliani would say focusing on the murder ignores the real problem of black on black crime
- Geraldo would say he brought it on himself by whistling
-and conservatives would establish a gofundme account and raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, who would go on to brag about their crime on Twitter
Thank God we live in a post-racial America!
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Emmett Till whistled at a white woman — and he was executed for it 60 years ago today (Original Post)
Adenoid_Hynkel
Aug 2015
OP
His name is engraved on the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama...
pinboy3niner
Aug 2015
#1
first off where is your sarcasm button after "Thank God we live in a post-racial America!" ?
diabeticman
Aug 2015
#5
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)1. His name is engraved on the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama...
GP6971
(31,228 posts)2. Well, your post
may bring out the racist and bigoted trolls. It did the last time I saw an OP regarding the same subject.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)3. I don't like using the word "executed" in this context.
It suggests some degree of judicial due process. In reality, he was brutally murdered.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)4. "Executed" is too kind, he was viciously and savagely murdered.
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)5. first off where is your sarcasm button after "Thank God we live in a post-racial America!" ?
Second Anyone ever see the episode where a racist man become the racial group he hates?
Kind of wish that would happen...in real life sometimes.
I am ashamed that it happened.