Ghosts of Mississippi
May. 10th, 2004 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeThey're reopening the investigation of Emmett Till's murder. One quibble with this story--I'm pretty sure it was the boy's great-uncle, not his uncle. I'll check tonight.
This is good. I read on a board that some people are going to have a problem with this--I guess I can understand why people might think it's better not to dig up old bodies, literally, but a grave wrong was done with the trial of the two men that confessed to it after their acquittal. It was an outright travesty--the defense attorney during his closing argument said to the jury "I want every last Anglo-Saxon one of you to do your duty, and find these men innocent." Just appalling. They "deliberated" for an hour, and part of that time was taken up going to the general store getting sodas--they were trying to drag out the time to make it look as though they'd actually discussed the verdict.
Interestingly, Bryant and Milam were shunned in their community afterwards. Kind of a color-reversed OJ Simpson dynamic.
Rest in peace, Emmett Till, murdered at 14 in Money, MS, 1955. I hope it won't be too much longer before we can administer some justice.
This is good. I read on a board that some people are going to have a problem with this--I guess I can understand why people might think it's better not to dig up old bodies, literally, but a grave wrong was done with the trial of the two men that confessed to it after their acquittal. It was an outright travesty--the defense attorney during his closing argument said to the jury "I want every last Anglo-Saxon one of you to do your duty, and find these men innocent." Just appalling. They "deliberated" for an hour, and part of that time was taken up going to the general store getting sodas--they were trying to drag out the time to make it look as though they'd actually discussed the verdict.
Interestingly, Bryant and Milam were shunned in their community afterwards. Kind of a color-reversed OJ Simpson dynamic.
Rest in peace, Emmett Till, murdered at 14 in Money, MS, 1955. I hope it won't be too much longer before we can administer some justice.
