My Sat #breakfast is devoted to Mamie Till-Mobley /
On August 28, 1955 Emmet Till, a 14 years old boy from Chicago visiting his family in Money Mississippi, was abducted, tortured, mutilated, shot in the head and sinked in the Tallahachie River by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam 1/7
On August 28, 1955 Emmet Till, a 14 years old boy from Chicago visiting his family in Money Mississippi, was abducted, tortured, mutilated, shot in the head and sinked in the Tallahachie River by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam 1/7
A brutal racist #lynching execution /
Emmet Till was the only child of Mamie Till-Mobley, a woman of great intelligence and rare courage / Going beyond the privacy of her personal tragedy and grief Mamie demanded for her son a public funeral with an open casket 2/7
Emmet Till was the only child of Mamie Till-Mobley, a woman of great intelligence and rare courage / Going beyond the privacy of her personal tragedy and grief Mamie demanded for her son a public funeral with an open casket 2/7
50.000 people attended the service and the whole world saw the disfigured body of Emmet Till, a fine child murdered by racists / When Rosa Parks was asked why did she decide not to go in the back of the bus, she told that she thought of Emmet Till and simply could not do it 3/7
Mamie Till-Mobley’s public grief sparked the Civil Rights Movement / She spent her life missing her boy and fighting for racial justice 4/7
Today, 65 years later, #Racism and Racial murder is still an issue we need to tackle. The video of #GeorgeFloyd killed by a white man in uniform, begging for his life, calling his mother is yet another Emmet Till’s open cascket 5/7
How many more do we need to see with our own eyes to end this carnage? / #injustice anywhere is a threat to #justice everywhere and, as dr. Michael Rich put it during our Friday #zoomchallahbake “White Silence leads to White Violence” / So let’s end the Silence and speak up! 6/7
Let’s open the cascket of our consciousness and expose it to the world to see / #Racism is a death cult / there is no place for racism in our lives / #thefightison 7/7
