'Emmett Till is Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, and countless other black teenage boys — killed by people who disregard their humanity and failed by a justice system that isn’t designed to protect them.'
The sign in the picture
up in August 2018 — only 35 days after it had been installed as a replacement of the sign before, which had also been shot up.sign was a replacement of the original, which had been stolen and thrown in the same river where Till’s dismembered body was thrown after he was accused of making sexual advances toward a white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, who laterabout the incident. The two men accused of the murder were later acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury.
The Ole Miss story happened to break on Thursday, what would have been Emmett Till’s 78th birthday. Seventy-eight years-old — that’s younger than my grandfather. Had he not been killed and disregarded as if he weren’t a person, as if he weren’t just a boy, he could easily be someone’s living grandparent right now. The unbearably cruel circumstances of his murder may seem distant, like another chapter in a history book, but they’re not.
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