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"Fella who came down here and got in trouble — overstepped his bounds to a degree some folks thought. And they cured him of his problems." John Whitten, a former Tallahatchie county PROSECUTOR said this about Emmett Till ON THE RECORD to @npr in 2019.
The “fella” was 14. The “cure” was kidnapping, torture, murder, and the sinking of a child’s body in the river, tied to an industrial fan.
Every conviction of a non white person that Whitten secured when he was a prosecutor ought to be examined immediately.
And every journalist who wrote a wistful profile of so-sad Trump voters staring balefully out diner windows should go profile John Whitten as penance, because when evil is willing to go on the record, you need to listen and let the world hear it.
I know JOHN WHITTEN is probably someone’s grandad whose going to have a fine loving thanksgiving in November, but I hope he looks at any 14 year old grandchildren that might be at the table and thinks about Emmett Till.
Then I hope he vomits on himself in shame and never sleeps again.
Also, I guess they are minors? But we really should name the Ole Miss frat creeps who posed with guns in front of the shot-up Emmett Till memorial sign so that they can’t slink away without facing what they’ve done.
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