HEylo,
I'm me again. Funky fresh and ready to party.
No, seriously, though i've come to talk about something very very serious. This would be the injustice of the murder of Emmett Louis Till. I saw a movie today callled "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" for those off you who don't know Till was a young black boy who was murdered and lynched for whistling at a white woman in Money, Mississippi. He and his death become a symbol of the civil rights movement and the ugliness of humanity. Two white man went to his grandparents house in the middle of the night to kidnap this man. And the rest is sad. They put him in a truck they only said that they were going to rough him up a bit. Till was beaten and shot. The two men were acquitted of the murder charge and didn't even show up for the kidnapping trial. The case was reopened last year and the body exhumed. No autopsy was done of the body but hopefully one will be coming. The boy was quickly buried and his mother decided to bring him back up. The coffin was closed tightly and she told the funeral director to get a hammer so she could open it. He didn't get her the hammer but he did open the casket so she could see her son's swollen face. She's just such a strong woman. She died in 2003.
He was beaten very badly. His ears were caught off and just nastiness.
He was just a boy visiting his grandparents. Mamie Till his mother was such a strong woman.
The 50 year anniversity of his death will be Aug. 28th at 5 p.m. Please honor this moment with 5 minutes of silence.