Emmett Till would by 79 years old today, had it not been for that horrible night in the Mississippi Delta in 1955.
Till's brutal murder was not a Southern horror story committed by Redneck Frankenstein. It's an American horror--one that we have seen play out for centuries.
Till's brutal murder was not a Southern horror story committed by Redneck Frankenstein. It's an American horror--one that we have seen play out for centuries.
As I said in my book, too often when we tell the story of Emmett Till, we "lay the responsibility of [his] terrible fate on the redneck monsters of the South and congratulate ourselves on not being one of them."
The problem is WHY we blame them.
The problem is WHY we blame them.
"We blame them to avoid seeing that the lynching of Emmett Till was caused by the nature and history of America itself and by a social system that has changed over the decades, but not as much as we pretend."
In many ways, America is still killing Emmett Till.
In many ways, America is still killing Emmett Till.
"To look beneath the surface is to ask ourselves what our relationship is to the legacies of that caste system—legacies that still end the lives of young African Americans for no other reason than the color of their skin and the content of our character.”
If your interested in learning more about the connection between Emmett Till and the building of movements, check out my 2017 interview on @1a
The Blood Of Emmett Till | 1A the1a.org/segments/2017-… #EmmettTill
The Blood Of Emmett Till | 1A the1a.org/segments/2017-… #EmmettTill
