Great minds think alike?
I prefer to see him as a 14-year-old boy who was tragically killed in 1955 and whose death was an important indicator of the level of intolerance that some parts of the country embraced during that time.
The other way of seeing him is as a tool. A useful thing to talk about. Let’s trot out Emmett Till and beat the white folks up about the tragic things that happened before they were born. Yes, yes, decades and decades ago bad things happened – and you should be ashamed of yourself because of it.
The Left doesn’t care about people. It cares about symbols. Emmett Till is a useful symbol, and he gets talked about frequently. If the Left cared about people, then they would oppose abortion, clean up public schools, lower taxes, and promote marriage between men and women as the foundation of stable families and communities. They don’t do that, because the Left doesn’t care about people, and they don’t care about Emmett Till. They just value sticks with which they can beat up white people. Emmett Till is just such a stick.