Here is history. I watched two Black Ole Miss students carry the bullet-riddled Emmett Till memorial through campus and place it at the base of a confederate monument on campus.
Three white Ole Miss students shot at the Till memorial last year and posed beside it in pictures.
Three white Ole Miss students shot at the Till memorial last year and posed beside it in pictures.
Here is the previous memorial. The bullet holes have literally made it painful to carry, as they’ve created sharp metal edges that can—and did—draw blood. 
The message from the students carrying the sign is that both the desecrated sign and the confederate monument belong to the same tradition of racist terrorism, and their righteous act of linking them in this way cannot be undone. Ever. Salute to them.
