White supremacists gathered around civil rights martyr Emmett Till's memorial today with a Mississippi Flag & a League of the South flag to film a racist propaganda video. The Emmett Till Interpretive Center's security cams at the now-bulletproof monument caught them. 1/
Shortly after, members of the white supremacist org disperse & scurry to their cars after apparently setting off a security alarm at the newly-replaced Emmett Till memorial, now bulletproof, after being shot up repeatedly. (Warning: loud video). Story + more footage coming. 2/
(Note: You can connect with the @EmmeTillcenter on their website at emmett-till.org or on Facebook at facebook.com/TillCenter/) 3/
@EmmeTillcenter Here's our story in
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on the white supremacists who the
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caught making a propaganda film at the Emmett Till memorial today. Story will be updated. 4/
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on the white supremacists who the
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caught making a propaganda film at the Emmett Till memorial today. Story will be updated. 4/
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UPDATE: The @EmmeTillcenter tells me they have raised $1,500 from 30 donors at emmett-till.org since first releasing the video hours ago that shows a group of white supremacists filming a racist promo ad for their org in front of the Emmett Till memorial. 5/
I'd also just like to put a fine point on the fact that the League of the South is a neo-Confederate group that seeks to "finish" the work of Southern secession, but chooses to use what is a predominantly white flag as its symbol. Oddly appropriate. #TheseColorsRun 
UPDATE #2: The @EmmeTillcenter says they have received over $5,000 in donations at emmett-till.org since this video of white supremacists at the Emmett Till memorial went up yesterday.
For those saying it's just a small handful, our history of race is always with us in MS.
In 2 days, we will have an election under an 1890 Jim Crow law. A Dem leads polls for gov, but may need 55%+ to actually win thanks to our "electoral college." 1/
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In 2 days, we will have an election under an 1890 Jim Crow law. A Dem leads polls for gov, but may need 55%+ to actually win thanks to our "electoral college." 1/
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A framer of Mississippi's electoral college system said it was done "for no other purpose than to eliminate the n----r from politics; not the ignorant—but the n----r."
As @wspittman writes, it could prevent the election of the 1st black woman AG. #MSelex
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As @wspittman writes, it could prevent the election of the 1st black woman AG. #MSelex
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Consider this: In one MS Senate race in Natchez, both the Democrat & Republican candidate told me they graduated from segregation academies and talked with me about their family's history of slave plantations—& a horrific civil rights murder. 3/ #MSElex
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UPDATE: The League of the South posted their video (not linking). What leader Michael Hill said was:
"Where are all the white people over the last 50 years that have been murdered, assaulted, & raped by blacks going to be memorialized like this? We are the League of the South."
"Where are all the white people over the last 50 years that have been murdered, assaulted, & raped by blacks going to be memorialized like this? We are the League of the South."
h/t: @nickmartin for pointing me to where the League of the South uploaded their own video (sorry, not linking).
What's so insidious about standing in front of Emmett Till's memorial asking where the monuments are to white people raped by black men:
Emmett Till was murdered after a white woman falsely claimed the boy, 14, WHISTLED at her.
1000s were lynched bc or false rape claims.
Emmett Till was murdered after a white woman falsely claimed the boy, 14, WHISTLED at her.
1000s were lynched bc or false rape claims.
In other instances, black boys and men have spent decades in prison after being falsely imprisoned for rape.
Like the Central Park Five, whom Donald Trump called for be executed and who he still claims are guilty despite the real rapist's confession.
Like the Central Park Five, whom Donald Trump called for be executed and who he still claims are guilty despite the real rapist's confession.
The League of the South is based in Killen, Ala.
Says something that these guys use our state flag as a symbol of their hate, when most aren't even from here.
And before you trash Mississippians: Rememebr we are the blackest state in the US, nearly 40%.
Says something that these guys use our state flag as a symbol of their hate, when most aren't even from here.
And before you trash Mississippians: Rememebr we are the blackest state in the US, nearly 40%.
This should say **100s, not thousands.
UPDATE: The @EmmeTillcenter says they have received over $9,000 in donations at emmett-till.org since this video went viral yesterday.
