Posted on 01/28/2017 6:37:26 AM PST by lowbridge
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago died a horrific death at the hands of two white men after buying bubble gum while visiting racially segregated Mississippi in 1955.
They beat, shot and disfigured his body beyond recognition - and walked free, acquitted at the hands of an all-white, all-male jury.
Emmett's crime was allegedly whistling at a white woman. The woman, Carolyn Bryant, has lived in relative hiding for the last five decades, haunted by her past. She has now admitted that her testimony, which carried the case, was a blatant lie.
A new book, The Blood of Emmett Till to be published next week, reveals an interview with Carolyn, who accused Emmett of grabbing and verbally abusing her, according to Vanity Fair.
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Timothy Tyson, the author of The Blood of Emmett Till, spoke with Carolyn in 2007, who has since divorced and married twice more, and is a mother of two children. She is now 82 years old.
During their interview in 2007, Tyson said it was evident that the times had changed her, though not in a radical sense.
Regarding her statement that Emmett grabbed and verbally abused her, she simply said, 'that part's not true,' according to Tyson.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
So, what exactly did transpire to so piss off her husband?
Remember when Haley Barbour ran against Stennis in 1982. He didn’t do too well, but I was for Haley; then Haley showed his true inclinations years later.
As an attorney who deals with issues of "evidence" on a daily basis, I can assure you that a confession is, in fact, evidence.
Did you even read the article before you bloviated?
“Probably not, most of the really ardent Southern racists flipped to the GOP after LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act.”
Baloney. The GOP voted in favor of the civil rights act in higher percentages than the democrats. It makes no sense for the ardent southern racists to flee a party that favored segregation for a party that was against it, and in higher percentages.
It’s interesting that Till’s family background is never, ever mentioned. That is, his father was court-martialed and hanged for raping and murdering a woman while he was stationed in Europe near the end of WWII.
Till Jr was originally from Chicago. His mother sent him to relatives in Mississippi because he was getting into trouble with the law in Chicago.
You can believe that if this was some white boys, say on some lacrosse team, all of this information would be extremely common knowledge.
It’s the Dixiecrat and Nixon Southern Strategy meme.
My B-I-L from Mississippi is a dedicated Southern Democrat and he has used those two arguments to attack Republicans since the moment I met him ten years ago.
We Republicans is racists doncha know.
So I've heard
>>As an attorney who deals with issues of “evidence” on a daily basis, I can assure you that a confession is, in fact, evidence.
Do you believe everything that progressive historical revisionist write? Because they tend to lie pretty much all the time.
>Regarding her statement that Emmett grabbed and verbally abused her, she simply said, ‘that part’s not true,’ according to Tyson.
>She claims she doesn’t remember anything else about the evening.
Again, I want real evidence, not progressive’s hearsay.
>>Did you even read the article before you bloviated?
Why don’t you shove it where the sun don’t shine, friend.
Sonny Montgomery was great. A patriot and supporter of the military. He used to keep in touch with my dad.
and compare the coverage of those crimes to what is essentially silence about the Wichita Horror/Wichita Massacre and the Knoxville Horror.
Thanks for your brilliant, well-reasoned, cultured observations. I’ll take them under advisement and reconsider them further at the first opportunity. /s
Why are not their marches over it?
Crime rates have been in decline in the US for a quarter century.
And White on White and Black on Black crime dwarf interracial crime.
You're living in some strange time warp at least as much as the people you're attacking.
“Certainly an agenda here.”
Yep. Emmet’s corpse gets trotted out on a regular basis, and the story has been changed more than once.
The “poor lil Emmet brutally murdered for merely whistling at a white woman” story was the official one for decades.
Subsequently, another version came out, that Emmet’s mama had sent him to stay with Mississppi relatives because she couldn’t control him in Chicago.
He was very “mature” for a 14 year old. Bragged to Mississippi kids that he’d “been with” (dated) white women, and he “bet” he could “date” Mrs.
Bryant.
Mrs. B was working alone at her family’s store, according to this version, while her husband was deer hunting. Emmet made inappropriate remarks, walked behind the counter, and grabbed her. His friends became alarmed and fled, followed by Emmet.
(This was according to statements Emmet’s black friends later made to investigators, after Emmet’s body was found. Very important detail, no? And it was ostensibly the statements made by Emmet’s own friends that resulted in the acquittal of Bryant and the other white men.
Mrs. Bryant later told investigators she had been sufficiently fearful Emmet might return, that she retrieved her husband’s handgun from her car.
HOWEVER, she claimed she did not mention the incident to her husband because she knew how he would react. She only told him “the truth” because he asked her, after he heard townspeople gossiping, suggesting Mrs. B might have encouraged Emmet.
That’s when he and his friends went and got Emmet.
Bryant’s defense was that he was protecting his wife / wife’s honor.
In this version of the Emmet Till story, it was the statements of Emmet’s black Mississippi friends that corroborated Bryant’s story, resulting in his acquittal.
If we accept that racist attitudes of the 1950s rationalized vigilante justice, we must also acknowledge that certain protective attitudes toward women, attitudes now considered outdated and paternalistic, also played a part in this story. And once we consider that, we must also question whether Mr. Bryant would have reacted any differently had Emmet Till been white.
But now we have a civil rights historian rewriting the story again. I haven’t read the book, but the author, Timothy Tyson, has apparently written several books, and it appears that white people are demons and black people are saints in all of them.
It’s race baiting. While important to that family, to put it front and center is pure and simple race-baiting. I wasn’t even born, it couldn’t happen today, I’m not responsible, I feel no guilt.
Bullshit X
None of your crime platitudes have squat to do with black on white crime being a absolute scourge
You’re living fantasyland
Course you always have
Here to feed on silly white guilt
Any white person lives in proximity to large black populations knows it’s dangerous
And nowadays excused by racist progressives or parsed by moderates like yiu
Thanks for being a smarmy yankee bobcut
Here’s your knitting needles
One of the things my dad instilled in us was that there were certain unwritten rules of behavior you better NEVER cross. We had to learn by observation what they were, and when in doubt, back off.
Give me a chance and I’ll put them where they belong.
I offer you Wilmington
Fix that and then you can be snotty to southerners
Delaware has half the proportion black population of Mississippi yet you ceded Wilmington to the goblins with nary a fight but deem yourself superior to us.
Through not one ounce of anything you’ve done yourself
I think not ma’am
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