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| Still waiting, some 63 years later |
WHAT
STRIKES ME as odd about this is the timing – we’re now in the Age of Trump
where the last thing you’d expect anybody to be doing is to dredge up an old
criminal case that goes a long way to showing how the concept of “Make America
Great Again” is a crock.
The
Till death (he was severely beaten and his body dumped in a lake with hopes
that his remains would never be uncovered) was one that motivated many people
into realizing there was something wrong with the segregationist ways of old.
Even
though I suspect the kind of people who look kindly upon the Donald Trump campaign
theme think we lost something significant in our society when those ways of old
were diminished.
It
may be the kind of people who will try arguing that two men went on trial for
the Till killing (both were acquitted by all-white juries inclined to look
favorably on them).
AS
THINGS STAND now, Justice Department officials admit they have suspects as to
who killed Till – but they’re all dead. Nobody’s going to go to prison for what
happened to Emmett.
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| Priorities; Yankees more important! |
There
could be some value to forcing our society at-large to face up to what
happened. Because it’s all too easy for the passage of time to dim the view of
the atrocities of that era.
Besides,
perhaps the sensibilities of the ‘past’ need to become publicly offended before
we can truly move on as a society from the taint of our history.
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