How does the murder of Emmett Till affect you?

[Oliverlogan263]

Emmett and his mother

Emmett till

Emmett’s body

Emmett’s face after being found

The killers of Emmett and the lady who accused of Emmett of making of advances at her

Emmett Till (July 25, 1941–August 28, 1955) who was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.

Your thoughts on this?

[Lliam]

His murder was senseless and horribly cruel, and the perpetrators deserved the same fate. But aside from being saddened when I am reminded of it, it doesn't effect me at all.
I have read about countless millions of equally cruel murders, but I don't dwell on them. I just work to prevent more. Right now I am concerned about the horrors facing Palestinians and Syrians in particular.

[Joshydavid25]

That woman and her brothers were evil, and it's definitely upsetting.. But, TBH IMit doesn't affect my everyday life, just my emotions when I see the story..

[Oliverlogan263]

Apparently, that was her husband and brother in law who did that to that boy. I saw the movie Till the other night that was about Emmett Till and it was a great movie but very sad. The fact the lady lied about the boy making advances at her shows she deserved to rot in hell for all I care and those guys who killed Emmett.

I was up here and I was really like how could they do such an evil and sadistic satanic act to a little boy - all because he was black?

[Joshydavid25]

Yeah I wonder what the reason for that was..

[NordicInScandinavia]

Sadly all I think is "eh typical America".

I used to be so sad reading things like that but after reading so much and the fact things still are semi shitty in the US, I'm semi eh about it. I'll close my phone in a second and forget all about it and he'll just be another sad story from the US I've read.

[Agape93]

Wait until you read about kitty genovese and how she died.

[Agape93]

I don't care. Just another dead person from a shitty time period.