[Verginius Rufus]

Horowitz ought to learn the facts about Till. He was 14, not 12, and did more than "whistle at a white woman." He aggressively propositioned a married woman and was killed by her husband after taunting him by bragging about having slept with white women. Still a totally unjustified murder and maybe Till was heroic, but he was a one-person banzai charge against white racism in Mississippi, not a naive 12-year-old who merely whistled inappropriately.

The early church honored martyrs, but some people refused to honor those who courted martyrdom by deliberately drawing the authorities' attention to themselves. Till was a martyr who courted his fate--if he had shut his mouth after the husband grabbed him he might be alive today. But maybe that makes him the African American equivalent of Achilles.

[smoothsailing]

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