I feel like crying every time I see that picture. I also get very angry that people were, and still are, such hate mongering bastards. It's hard to beleive no one spent any time in jail for doing something so heanous as what they put that 14 year old BOY through. It's really saddening!
I hear you BIG TIME, brother. I don't know if you've ever seen the DVD "The Murder of Emmett Till", but I learned from watching it that it was really this horrific crime against one of our children that angered and motivated black people enough to launch the Civil Rights Movement. The photos I posted were posted in Jet Magazine at the time. Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat in the "whites only" section is often credited with launching the Civil Rights movement; however, Rosa Parks had probably just HAD ENOUGH as many of our people felt. That is a powerful DVD (originally produced for the PBS series American Experience).
I lived in Chicago for a little over a year a couple of years ago. Emmett Till was from Chicago. There is a street named after him there. I felt the welling up of tears and tremendous sadness for that little brother's last hours on earth every time I passed that street and saw his name.
We have Emmett Till's mother (Mamie) to thank for INSISTING on an open casket funeral. Proud (in the best sense), defiant woman that she was, she wanted the world to see just what hateful fate had befallen her son. Thousands of people in Chicago turned out for the viewing of the body.
Never think for a minute, though, brother, that Emmett Till's killers escaped justice. They would have been fortunate had they been imprisoned for the crime. Whatever suffering they endured in prison might have lessened whatever karma they will face from the ONLY BEING.
We, black people as a whole, HAD TO HAVE our hearts broken in that way to GET MOVING! It is a tragedy that this is often the way of the world.
Thanks for sharing your comments, brother. I posted those before and after photos to keep our history before our eyes.
i am deeply saddened to see that this kind of treatment of our beautiful children is still going on... and that a lot of people have not yet changed...
i had hoped that times had changed...
at the moment the compasonate real people are not being heard... but i am encouraged that more and more people are waking up, and finding that the future could be better...
Emmett Till and his family will be remembered, always... as a reminder of the horror that can happen ...when ignorace rules
Thank you for your empathetic comment, D'ner. Though, this crime happened over fifty-two years ago it still breaks my heart. The killing of people everywhere is deeply troubling. The wounds are hardest to heal when children are killed (as they are being killed in Iraq, Dafur, Palestine, Israel and man war-torn areas of the earth today.
Brightest blessings to you for stopping by and showing some Love.
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I hear you BIG TIME, brother. I don't know if you've ever seen the DVD "The Murder of Emmett Till", but I learned from watching it that it was really this horrific crime against one of our children that angered and motivated black people enough to launch the Civil Rights Movement. The photos I posted were posted in Jet Magazine at the time. Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat in the "whites only" section is often credited with launching the Civil Rights movement; however, Rosa Parks had probably just HAD ENOUGH as many of our people felt. That is a powerful DVD (originally produced for the PBS series American Experience).
I lived in Chicago for a little over a year a couple of years ago. Emmett Till was from Chicago. There is a street named after him there. I felt the welling up of tears and tremendous sadness for that little brother's last hours on earth every time I passed that street and saw his name.
We have Emmett Till's mother (Mamie) to thank for INSISTING on an open casket funeral. Proud (in the best sense), defiant woman that she was, she wanted the world to see just what hateful fate had befallen her son. Thousands of people in Chicago turned out for the viewing of the body.
Never think for a minute, though, brother, that Emmett Till's killers escaped justice. They would have been fortunate had they been imprisoned for the crime. Whatever suffering they endured in prison might have lessened whatever karma they will face from the ONLY BEING.
We, black people as a whole, HAD TO HAVE our hearts broken in that way to GET MOVING! It is a tragedy that this is often the way of the world.
Thanks for sharing your comments, brother. I posted those before and after photos to keep our history before our eyes.
I am your brother.
Nasheed
i had hoped that times had changed...
at the moment the compasonate real people are not being heard... but i am encouraged that more and more people are waking up, and finding that the future could be better...
Emmett Till and his family will be remembered, always... as a reminder of the horror that can happen ...when ignorace rules
Brightest blessings to you for stopping by and showing some Love.