US Justice Dept. reopens 1955 Mississippi murder black teenager Emmett Till

New Zealand News ^ | 05-11-04 | By DEBORAH CHARLES

[WKB]

Missippy ping

[Lijahsbubbe]

Emmett Till was tortured and assassinated and his mother was one of the heroes because with all her pain she refused to have that casket closed," Rangel said. "She wanted the world to see how cruel people could be and as a result those people should be brought to justice."

How true. What a horrible thing for a mother to go thru. Too bad Charlie Rangel has to cheapen it by attaching his name to it.

[WKB]

Too bad Charlie Rangel has to cheapen it by attaching his name to it.



I won't write what I am thinking about Charlie Rangle

[onyx]

It's reopened.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Too bad Charlie Rangel didn't seem to care enough about this between January 20 1993 and January 20, 2001. I guess Emmett Till wasn't dead during the Clinton administration. Or, rather, his death wasn't sufficiently disturbing during a Democratic Administration.

[onyx]

From New Zealand news!
LOL!
That'll show the damn C/L.
Don't need 'em no how.

[rdb3]

I remember the last time a thread about Emmett Till was posted.

Some newbie said "Who gives a sh*t?" and got banned.

Don't know why I remember that. I just do.

[rdb3]

^

[onyx]

Some newbie said "Who gives a sh*t?" and got banned.




I ain't faulting your memory.
No sir, not me.
I believe you.

[DefCon]

What's a C/L?

[ikka]

Hmm, the James Byrd story is out of rotation for this election it seems.

[onyx]

What's a C/L?




LOL!
It's supposed to be a newspaper.
It is the Clarion Ledger, out of Jackson, Mississippi.
It's our state's largest newspaper (circulation wise).
But, they're a Gannet enterprise and as such they
won't permit us to post ANY of their articles here.
To heck with them.
WKB will get around 'em.
He's really resourceful as well as charming and adorable.
How'd I do, WKB?

[curlewbird]

It was probably ok then because he (Emmet)was voting for Clinton!!

[rdb3]

Hmm, the James Byrd story is out of rotation for this election it seems.

And just what does James Byrd have to do with Emmett Till?

[mhking]

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[Rodney King]

And just what does James Byrd have to do with Emmett Till?

Well, what they have in common is that the Democrats like to highlight lynchings around election time because they claim that Republicans are for them (never mind the fact that probably close to all lynchings of blacks have been perpetrated by Democrats or their friends). What will happen here is they will drudge up this old story, implying that now we can get the guys who did this terrible crime. The problem is that after all this time it would be almost impossible to prove in a court of law who else was in on this. Therefore, the Feds won't indict anybody. Then Rangel will get up and accuse Bush and Ashcroft of being racists, and Kerry will say that when he's president he will appoint and AG who will make cases like this a priority.

[ikka]

See Rodney King's response in post 17. That is pretty much what I was getting at.

Ever notice how the homeless only seem to appear in newspaper stories when the President is a Republican? That sort of thing...

[connectthedots]

I would imagine the prosecutor in the Till case was a white Democrat who didn't want a conviction.

[Spirited]

Attempt to pick at healed wounds. It can fraction any progress made since then.

May God have mercy on His people and destroy His enemies!