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Dozens and dozens of white Emmit Tills have been murdered by racist blacks since then for reasons far less than got Till murdered.

White victims have been murdered for “disrespecting” blacks by yelling at them to slow down when they drove recklessly through their neighborhood, having their dog that they were walking sniff a black thug, yelling “Will you please hurry up at a car full of blacks blocking the exit of a parking garage, disrespecting them by not showing sufficient fear when they were being robbed, etc etc

None of these brutal murders was a national news story like the Till murder but was immediately dropped down the Memory Hole

White victims have been murdered for “disrespecting” blacks by yelling at them to slow down when they drove recklessly through their neighborhood

This "maybe" a residual effort of the culture being "incubated" in the South(As a Southerner I can say this and I have witnessed this in action).

Somewhere down the line in our history brewed the idea of a man, however humble, was a "king" in his own right and woe to anyone who dared step on his robes. And it seems the more desperate, the more violent the person reactions.

It may have something to the fact that the Scots(whose descendants later heavily populated in the South) were subjects of the king so long with intermittent periods of self rulership(of a sort).

In America, these people got what was denied them so long and what made Kings and lords in the old world.

Land.

And woe to anyone who stepped on HIS land and told him what to do on HIS land. Which may help why the poorest white man, who didn't have slaves and realistically never would, marched off to support the right of those who did have slaves(and sneered at the ones who didn't.) Northerners "dissed" Southerners and they rallied around the flag they would also die.

The newly freed slaves were born into this situation which they carried with them like a mutation, not always apparent but simmers along until the right conditions set it off.

The killers of Emmett Till were part of that "system" and Emmett posed a threat, however distant it seems to most today but was very real to those involved.

Add in race and one sees the forces in a collision course. Just my opinion, of course.