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Binladen
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"How Author Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case"


  

          

I think most people knew she was lying anyway
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/how-author-timothy-tyson-found-the-woman-at-the-center-of-the-emmett-till-case

On a steamy hot September day in 1955, in a racially segregated courtroom in Sumner, Mississippi, two white men, J.W. Milam and his half-brother Roy Bryant—a country-store owner—were acquitted of the murder of a 14-year-old black Chicago boy. His name was Emmett Till. And in August of that year, while visiting a Deep South that he didn’t understand, Till had entered a store to buy two cents worth of bubble gum. Shortly after exiting, he likely whistled at Bryant’s 21-year-old wife, Carolyn. Enraged, Bryant and Milam took matters into their own hands. They would later admit to local authorities that they’d abducted Till three nights later. And when they finished with him, his body was so hideously disfigured from having been bludgeoned and shot that its horrifying depiction—in a photo in Jet magazine—would help to propel the American civil rights movement.

Milam and Bryant were arrested, and, with the aid of NAACP Mississippi field secretary Medgar Evers and other black activists in seeking out witnesses, the prosecution produced compelling evidence. Even so, it wasn’t a surprise when the all-white, all-male jury voted “not guilty,” in little over an hour. Mississippi, after all, had had very few convictions for white-on-black murders. And the state led the nation in lynchings. (Four months after their irreversible acquittal, Milam and Bryant admitted their guilt to Look magazine, receiving a fee of some $3,000 for their story.) But the most explosive testimony, which certainly influenced the local white public’s perception of the motive for the murder, were the incendiary words of Carolyn Bryant, who was working in the store that night. On the stand, she had asserted that Till had grabbed her and verbally threatened her. She said that while she was unable to utter the “unprintable” word he had used (as one of the defense lawyers put it), “he said ’”—done something – “with white women before.’” Then she added, “I was just scared to death.” A version of her damning allegation was also made by the defendant’s lawyers to reporters. (The jury did not hear Carolyn’s words because the judge had dismissed them from the courtroom while she spoke, ruling that her testimony was not relevant to the actual murder. But the court spectators heard her, and her testimony was put on the record because the defense wanted her words as evidence in a possible appeal in the event that the defendants were convicted.)

  

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Just sent the following text to my family:
Jan 27th 2017
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I picked up on that as well
Jan 27th 2017
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THIS. All of it.
Jan 27th 2017
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fam, i got that without reading the article.
Jan 27th 2017
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as an alternate
Jan 27th 2017
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thanks.
Jan 27th 2017
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ALL OF THIS. Its the same 'think of the trump voters perspective' trend
Jan 27th 2017
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feared for her life huh?
Jan 27th 2017
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aint shit changed in this country....
Jan 27th 2017
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They've been using that line for years
Jan 27th 2017
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I'm not reading the article. I'm tired of being Mad all the damn time.
Jan 27th 2017
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right, man...FOH with "your story". Just disappear.
Jan 27th 2017
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She needs to die already
Jan 28th 2017
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complete agreement.
Jan 27th 2017
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I hear Fishbone wrote a song about her
Jan 27th 2017
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Woah, was that about her?!
Jan 27th 2017
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      LOLOL
Jan 27th 2017
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           No, that was the Roots using the song to get a dig in at Bachmann.
Jan 28th 2017
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Fuck Tim Tyson for this:
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as it should have
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Jesus.....and he's better than this.
Jan 28th 2017
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it's a shame perjury has a statute of limitations.
Jan 27th 2017
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MEAT
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Fri Jan-27-17 12:39 PM

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1. "Just sent the following text to my family:"
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There's a new article out which the title suggests that an author found the white woman that led to Emmett tills death. I'd caution reading it. Because while the title gives you the illusion of investigative journalism, the actual content is little more than trying to gin up sympathy for a white woman who's lies led to one of the worst documented murders in history , never apologized, and is now being white washed as remorseful when she's expressed not of that. I say this because I read through the whole thing and ended up feeling angrier (if possible) about the situation than I already had and I want to give heads up to anyone that may click it too.

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Binladen
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2. "I picked up on that as well"
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soulfunk
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3. "THIS. All of it."
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That entire article read like it was written to make us mad.

  

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4. "fam, i got that without reading the article."
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i'm so jaded i can tell when the okey doke is coming.

plus, Vanity Fair.

  

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5. "as an alternate"
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John Edgar Wideman just published a couple of months ago a book about Emmett's dad, who was executed by the US Army 10 years before Emmett's murder.

I feel like that's going to have a lot more truth about white people and racism than a Vanity Fair article.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30194281-writing-to-save-a-life


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shamus
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Fri Jan-27-17 12:58 PM

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6. "thanks."
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the untold want by life and land ne'er granted
now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find

  

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18. "ALL OF THIS. Its the same 'think of the trump voters perspective' trend"
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Fri Jan-27-17 03:52 PM by BigReg

  

          

Its the 'Hey, sucker punches are wrong, we could have changed his mind!' when the nazi got punched, etc.

America will BEND OVER BACKWARDS to try to find the innate goodness when it comes to white skin.

Black skin? Charge em as an adult and execute em at 12.


>There's a new article out which the title suggests that an
>author found the white woman that led to Emmett tills death.
>I'd caution reading it. Because while the title gives you the
>illusion of investigative journalism, the actual content is
>little more than trying to gin up sympathy for a white woman
>who's lies led to one of the worst documented murders in
>history , never apologized, and is now being white washed as
>remorseful when she's expressed not of that. I say this
>because I read through the whole thing and ended up feeling
>angrier (if possible) about the situation than I already had
>and I want to give heads up to anyone that may click it too.

  

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legsdiamond
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7. "feared for her life huh? "
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Fri Jan-27-17 01:15 PM by legsdiamond

          

she sounds like these punk ass cops

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

  

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KiloMcG
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11. "aint shit changed in this country...."
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Binladen
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17. "They've been using that line for years"
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8. "I'm not reading the article. I'm tired of being Mad all the damn time."
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I don't care about her story.

I just want her to go to jail and/or die ASAP. Just being honest.

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13. "right, man...FOH with "your story". Just disappear."
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legsdiamond
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20. "She needs to die already"
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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

  

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shamus
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14. "complete agreement."
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Dr Claw
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9. "I hear Fishbone wrote a song about her"
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(and The Roots got in trouble for covering it)

  

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Pete Burns
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10. "Woah, was that about her?!"
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12. "LOLOL"
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nah..Michelle Bachman...

but this is all too familiar

  

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Pete Burns
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22. "No, that was the Roots using the song to get a dig in at Bachmann."
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The Fishbone original is from '85.

  

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thabrownhornet
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15. "Fuck Tim Tyson for this:"
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"That case went a long way toward ruining her life," Tyson contends, explaining that she could never escape its notoriety.




  

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16. "as it should have"
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>"That case went a long way toward ruining her life," Tyson
>contends, explaining that she could never escape its
>notoriety.


to say her actions/lack thereof 'ruined' Emmet Till's life would be a severe understatement.

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21. "Jesus.....and he's better than this."
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that line has that '.....but ALL lives matter' sentiment to it where someone ignores the greater and more obvious evil to say what about me.

Terrible.
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19. "it's a shame perjury has a statute of limitations."
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because her old ass needs to be locked the fuck up.

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