By A Texas Reader
Sun, Oct 20, 2019 12:13 p.m.
A new bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized.
 | GLENDORA, Miss. — A new bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized. The brutal slaying of the 14-year ... www.washingtontimes.com |
ATR: This is nothing.
I have driven from Dallas to the East Coast a number of times over the past 20 years.
I usually take the Interstate 30 route from Dallas to Little Rock, Arkansas.
This route goes by Hope, Arkansas, the childhood home of Bill Clinton.
The Interstate 30 highway sign announcing this fact is riddled with bullet holes.
The sign gets replaced (frequently?) but still gets riddled with bullets.
So, why the story about Till?
Emmett Till today, yesterday, tomorrow, forever.
ReplyDeleteIt was indeed unfortunate what happened to Emmett. But the reaction has been carried to a ridiculous extreme.
You weep for Emmett Till, and you curse Jim Crow. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know – that Till’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives; and the existence of Jim Crow, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.
ReplyDeleteThat’s a very charitable paraphrase. I’m not sure Till’s death WAS tragic. He was his daddy’s boy, in the worst sense of the word. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
Emmett just plain dumb. His nickname was BoBo. Means dumb in the colored community.
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