Emmett Till?
Screw Emmett Till. When these whiners start lamenting people such as Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian or any of the other multitudes of whites brutalized by blacks we can talk but otherwise...FU.
The killers of Christopher Newsome and Channon Christian were all convicted (all convicted) and are serving time. One has a death sentence. Another has a life sentence without parole.
The killers of Emmett Till were acquitted by an all-white jury and promptly bragged about how they killed him. When blacks returned to the courtroom after lunch, the county sheriff would welcome them with a loud "Hello, N*ggers!" (if you believe the FBI and countless other contemporary reports).
Newsome and Christian were victims of convenience, out parking in Newsome's car. Till's murder was planned for four (?) days, and Till was the target. His murderers kidnapped other young black men until they found Till.
Till's murderers admitted they kidnapped him and drove him bound in the back of a pickup truck some 70 miles, but claimed they let him go. That was the only alibi.
Till's body was found with a .45ACP hole behind his right ear, most of his face blown off, his right eye gouged out, pistol whipped, beaten, with a broken arm, a broken leg, and a 70-pound weight tied to him with barbed wire, then thrown in the Tallahatchie River.
The defense argument? The face was so destroyed that the body could not be identified as Till.
I lament the death of Christopher Newsome and Channon Christian, but Emmett Till's death was planned and brutal, his killers were acquitted by an all-white jury, his killers bragged about it after the verdict, and nobody served any time.
I can see the difference between 1955 Mississippi justice for a 14-year old black boy and justice for Newsome and Christian's killers.