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Politically Correct Macabre.
ma·ca·bre
Pronunciation: \mə-ˈkäb; -ˈkä-brə, -bər; -ˈkäbrə\ Function: adjective Etymology: French, from (danse) macabre dance of death, from Middle French (danse de) Macabré Date: 1889 1 : Having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death.
2 : Dwelling on the gruesome.
3 : Tending to produce horror in a beholder.
(They can't print that if it's not true.)
The display of Emmett Till’s body and what was done to him served a legitimate purpose.
Emmett Till was a jerk. Yes, he got a lot worse than he deserved, but he was still a jerk who got killed for trying to show off by being rude and obnoxious.
Again, so as not to be misunderstood, what they did to him was terrible and inexcusable. But he was being a jerk and that’s what got him into trouble.
Any word on what exhibits are coming to the Smithsonian White-American museum? Oh wait...
The atrocity is closely identified with the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. I remember the movement. This was a horrible crime. After 50 years still important to remember.
But what about what happens today? The Tribune does not care? Why?
Call me racist for bringing up a horrible crime that's as horrible as it gets.. Mutilation, torture, and death is mutilation, torture, and death even if the victim is not related to a just cause -- and white.
Even the one news article that the Tribune did bother to print described the crime as "unimaginable terror."
Yet google web search got just one Tribune hit
site:www.chicagotribune.com Christian Newsom nashville rape murder
I also tried
site:www.chicagotribune.com Christian Newsom -mayor -scoreboard -gavin
“... I can’t think of a better place to put it,” ...”
how about six feet deep in the ground.
Here’s a good column on the man who did more to bring Till’s case to national attention than any other person, Dr. T.R.M. Howard
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-beito28-2009aug28,0,7350355.story
I’ve read the Beitos’ new biography of Howard, and it is excellent.
How about the White Girl the Savages Butchered in Knoxville?
so it was his casket. where is he now? why was he removed from the casket his mother buried him in? for some reason i cannot get the link to come up. is any of this info in the story?