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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Copy article link Save If civil rights activists who came to Bowling Green from multiple states on Saturday wanted to get attention, they succeeded.
If they wanted to achieve their aim of seeing the arrest of a woman who touched off the infamous lynching of Emmett Till in 1955, they will have to wait.
The protest, though, did lead to a disruption for Bowling Green residents because of what law enforcement officials called a credible threat of violence against the planned protest. As a result both the Miracle on College Street Mile road race and the Jaycees Christmas Parade were cancelled Saturday morning.
Private security was guarding the main entrance to the Ashton Parc apartment complex where the woman the activists were searching for – Carolyn Bryant Donham – reportedly lives, and about two dozen officers from both Bowling Green Police and the Warren County Sheriff’s Office were out in force at nearby Big Lots.
Some three dozen protesters – members of the T.H.U.G. (True Healing Under God) civil rights organization, some New Black Panthers members armed with military-style rifles, and other organizations – congregated around noon in the parking lot of Big Lots on Scottsville Road, hoping to gain access to the adjacent Ashton Parc on Shive Lane.
About 15 protestors and an equal number of spectators gathered at the Warren County Justice Center downtown before joining the others near Big Lots, where the group eventually spilled over onto Shive Lane and briefly blocked Scottsville Road.
Impassioned speakers at both sites called for the arrest of Donham, now 88 and reportedly in poor health, because of her role in Till’s death.
In 1955, then-Carolyn Bryant was living in Money, Miss., and working at the family grocery store. She claimed at that time that 14-year-old Till, who lived in Chicago and was visiting cousins in Mississippi, whistled at her when he came into the store. Her account of what Till did, or didn’t do, has varied over the years.
Days later, Till was abducted from a relative’s home, brutally tortured and killed. His body was dumped in the Tallahatchie River.
Donham’s then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam were charged with murder, but an all-white jury quickly acquitted them. The two men, however, later confessed to the crimes in a magazine interview.
Till has long been an icon of the civil rights movement, but more attention has been brought to the case recently, largely due to a new movie, “Till,” about the case.
Earlier this year, an old arrest warrant for Donham, charging her with kidnapping, was found in a Mississippi courthouse.
That prompted T.H.U.G. and other organizations to attempt to locate Donham.
The Mississippi Attorney General’s office has said the state will not be prosecuting Donham because there is no new evidence in the case, but that hasn’t stopped T.H U.G. founder John Barnett from pursuing her.
“Five months ago, we were in Raleigh, N.C. looking for her,” Barnett said during a Friday-evening stop at the Warren County Justice Center. “I later found out through a news reporter that she was in Bowling Green.
“The Department of Justice closed the case in December of last year, but the warrant was found a few months later. We’re here to send a message to the Department of Justice that we have a warrant.”
Priscilla Sterling, cousin of Emmett Till and head of the Emmett Till Justice for Families Foundation, said at the Justice Center that people “have no idea what our family has gone through.”
She said Donham has been protected by a system of white supremacy.
“We want (Donham) brought to justice, brought to trial,” she said.
Barnett, who lives in Charlotte, N.C., said his group is continuing to plead with the office of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch to execute the 67-year-old warrant.
“A reporter asked me if I didn’t feel sorry for an elderly woman,” Barnett said. “I don’t care if she’s 97 years old; she needs to go to jail.”
E. Faye Williams, president of the Washington, D.C.,-based Dick Gregory Society and one of the protestors who came to Bowling Green, expressed similar thoughts.
“Some people may think that because this (Till’s murder) happened a long time ago that we should just forget it,” Williams said. “But no. It’s always a good time for justice.
“I’m here today working for justice for the family of Emmett Till.”
The protest at Big Lots was briefly interrupted when one member of the New Black Panthers was arrested by Bowling Green Police on an outstanding warrant from Ohio.
Barnett seized on the arrest, saying it was an example of what should be done to Donham.
The Warren County Regional Jail website showed no record of the arrest by Saturday afternoon, and Barnett said he didn’t know the man’s full name, but he still used him as an example.
“He has an outstanding warrant, like Carolyn Bryant Donham,” he said. “This is what they should be doing to her.”
Although Saturday’s protest didn’t yield the result he was hoping for, Barnett promised that Bowling Green hasn’t seen the last of him and his fellow activists as long as Donham is living here.
“We’ll be back,” he said. “We’re going to
Black on black murders are usually whitey’s fault because whitey manufactured and/or sold the gun at some point in the chain of possession.
Because no other date or a lynch party was suitable except the date for the Christmas Parade, although given that the BP’s are mostly muslim, it’s no big surprise
Check all that apply below
“We cannot let a minority of people—and that’s what it is, it is a minority of people—hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.”
- Hillary Clinton
“When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly .... When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.”
- Bill Clinton
“The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements .... They were elements of disorder and subversion. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.”
- Benito Mussolini
“All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.”
- Charles Shumer
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.”
- Adolf Hitler
“A gun-control movement worthy of the name would insist that President Clinton move beyond his proposals for controls ... and immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.”
- Josh Sugarmann (executive director of the Violence Policy Center)
“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”
- Mao Tse Tung
“If I could have banned them all - ‘Mr. and Mrs. America turn in your guns’ - I would have!”
- Diane Feinstein
“My view of guns is simple. I hate guns and I cannot imagine why anyone would want to own one. If I had my way, guns for sport would be registered, and all other guns would be banned.”
- Deborah Prothrow-Stith (Dean of Harvard School of Public Health)
“I don’t care if you want to hunt, I don’t care if you think it’s your right. I say ‘Sorry.’ it’s 1999. We have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.”
- Rosie O’Donnell (At about the time she said this, Rosie engaged the services of a bodyguard who applied for a gun permit.)
“Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.”
- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
“I don’t believe people should to be able to own guns.”
- Barack Obama (during conversation with economist and author John Lott Jr. at the University of Chicago Law School in the 1990s)
“Yep. And that’s why we’re not hearing much anymore about putting Harriet Tubman on US currency. Turns out she was a 2A Republican.”
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That’s not why they dropped it.(Have they really dropped it? Or is it on hold)
Tubman was going to replace Andrew Jackson the 7th President of the United States on the $20 bill.
Tubman would be on the front and Jackson was going to relegated to the back of the bill.(Absolutely ridiculous)
It was supposed to happen during the Hillary Clinton Presidency to celebrate women’s suffrage under the 19th Amendment.
This proposal is/was stupid, because Tubman doesn’t have the stature to belong on anything more than ‘special money’ like the Susan B Anthony dollar.
The woman by lying or exaggerating contributed to Emmet Till’s murder, but how at this late date, are you going to prove it? What actual evidence is there you can put before a jury?
I like that saying, makes sense.
Is it your’s?
Two important quotes for which I am thankful to you for posting——
“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”
- Mao Tse Tung
“If I could have banned them all - ‘Mr. and Mrs. America turn in your guns’ - I would have!”
—Dianne Feinstein, US Senator
These sum up a lot of the woke movement-——a movement from which the Founding Fathers tried to spare us.
We must not forget that.
I did not know that Harriet Tubman was left-handed.
The worst part is how selectively they seem to enforce their long held beliefs.
Crickets when it’s their side of the aisle exercising their rights and beyond.
It’s always the gun to blame and never the perp, unless that particular perp is not one of their own.
There’s no question that Till was brutally murdered. The murderers, acquitted, admitted to it later, although two of their accomplices, black men, never did (they may have been coerced, but that doesn’t change their complicity).
Now, this group wants to go after the original victim in this sad series of events, Carolyn Bryant. Whatever she said or did, nothing can change the fact that Till was in her shop and whatever happened there prompted her, after Till and his friends left, to run to her car and retrieve a pistol. What happened in the store was disputed by various witnesses, but that she went to her car to get the gun is not. She had a motive for getting that gun, and these fools want to prosecute her for it.
Not guilty.
Absolutely correct.
Anything related to the Black Pampers is just racist trash.
Let’s be clear: the Black Pampers and the THUGs are serving Hell.
…….and the killers were DemocRATS!
It makes for a better picture ...
I'd say she needs to get her finger off the trigger, but with a single-action revolver it probably doesn't matter much. And in those days, it was probably realistic.
If they do that the race pimps are out of business. And those folks ain’t givin’ up that grift without a fight.
CC
I really hate these bastards.
Sorry, God, but my temper can’t take these disgusting THUGS.
Totally agree.
I’m sorry, but while Tubman may have been venerable, she does not have the stature of a Jackson. Meaning, her importance to the country is NOT that big.
Glad this went away. I was pretty damn sure though, that it was a done deal, and not just a proposal.
Wouldn’t surprise me if it was scrapped because it would just cost too much to set up…much less in 5 years as it seemed to be.
LOL!
Like it!
Domestic terrorism.
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