Posted on 08/13/2022 12:38:56 PM PDT by RandFan
By her own telling, Mississippi authorities provided Carolyn Bryant Donham with preferential treatment rather than prosecution after her encounter with Emmett Till led to the lynching of the Black teenager in the summer of 1955.
Instead of arresting Donham on a warrant that accused her of kidnapping days after Till’s abduction, an officer passed along word that relatives would take her and her two young sons away from home amid a rising furor over the case, Donham said in a 2008 memoir made public last month. The sheriff would later claim Donham, 21 at the time, could not be located for arrest.
Once her husband and his half-brother were jailed on murder charges in Till’s death, she said in the unpublished manuscript, two men with the sheriff’s office drove her and her sister-in-law to the lockup for a relaxed visit outside their cell and even ferried the women back home. Later, before their murder trial, the men somehow were allowed to attend a family dinner without guards, she said.
“I was shocked! How in the world were they released from jail to come to eat supper with us? I didn’t see who dropped them off or picked them up to return them to jail, but we had a wonderful evening together,” Donham recalled in the memoir, written by her daughter-in-law based on the older woman’s words.
Nearly 70 years later, Donham’s retelling of the days surrounding Till’s abduction and lynching stokes fresh frustration among relatives of Till and activists pushing for Donham’s prosecution, particularly now that a Mississippi grand jury has decided against charging her with kidnapping in his abduction or manslaughter in his death.
For them, the revelations also raise questions about whether Donham, now 88, is still being protected despite what they see as new evidence against her.
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I’m waiting for the authorities to reinvestigate and prosecute in the tens of thousands of unsolved black on white murders over the last 60 years. I think I’m in for a long long wait.
Whatever advances the narrative will never be forgotten.
Till shouldn’t have been killed but then again he shouldn’t have attempted to rape a woman.
The AP’s grasping at straws to keep ripping America apart.
Wasn’t Donham the victim?
Didn’t this little thug from Detroit grab her sexually?
Those wore the days my friend, we thought they’d never end. 🙂
(vulgar language and rude behavior and disrespecting women weren’t tolerated.)
Today, that’s called ‘music’ and it’s rewiring the brains that absorb it.
Another try at redefining reality. There was a trial of the men accused of murder. If it was decided incorrectly it was not the first nor the last. OJ comes to mind.
Pretending that telling your husband that you were scared by someone hitting on you is a crime is ludicrous. Even if in anger, the husband was told you should teach him a lesson.
It appears undisputed that she tried to protect Emmitt by saying he was not the boy when her husband brought him to the house which further mitigates her culpability.
There is no basis to try and serve a warrant from the 1950’s that was not served at the time based on the decision of law enforcement personnel in jurisdiction at the time.
These supposed justice seekers are in search of a sense of importance, power, excitement and relevance that they have not earned, just like Antifa.
Where we’re were wear 😜
As an aside and off topic - Emmett Till was raised by his Aunt in Chicago - NOT his mother.
One of the few things a Gore (by marriage) got right
The flood was about to come.
Sheesh they need to let go of the past and focus on todays problems - what a waste of time!
they can try all the s$#4 they want,,,,,still not gonna get reparations....the end goal of all this....
I’m sure it was a typo by Governor Dinwiddie, but I couldn’t resist. 🙂
1955.
Was he convicted?
Exactly. What happened was a tragedy, like thousands of tragedies that occur across the planet every day. This is not to dismiss what happened to Till, but there is a distinct reason people refuse to let things go. There is a race war they need to keep festering just beneath the surface of society. And then at just the right time to coincide with their maximum political advantage they will deliberately lance that festering wound to unleash an overflow of societal pathogens.
I am absolutely convinced that there are people being paid to keep these racial grievances alive on social media and across Internet sites and in newsrooms. I am not advocating forgetting history; however, I am advocating national forgiveness, reconciliation and healing, but these dark forces are simply determined to never let us heal. I believe there is too much at stake for them politically to ever allow national healing to move forward.
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