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Tim Tyson
@timothybtyson
Sr Research Scholar at @CDSDuke Author of The Blood of Emmett Till, Blood Done Sign My Name, Radio Free Dixie Exec board of @NCNAACP @BRepairers @UNCCivilRights
Jul 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
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. Image 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.