by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Apparently the United States Department of Justice under the control of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III, has decided to reopen the murder investigation of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old young man who was tortured and lynched in Mississippi sixty-three years ago. Till, a black youth from Chicago, was visiting relatives in rural Mississippi in 1955 when he was accused by a white woman of whistling at her. The woman's husband and his brother were arrested and put on trial for the murder of Till, but a white jury acquitted them. Years later the pair admitted that they had indeed killed Emmett Till. The white woman who had accused Emmett Till of flirting with her also admitted late in life that she had lied about the incident.
When Emmett Till's body was returned to Chicago for burial, his mother insisted on holding a public funeral with an open casket because she wanted the world to see the evil that had been perpetrated on her son. Images of the brutalized Till have horrified generations of Americans and were felt to have been a powerful force in instigating the civil rights movement of the 1960's.
The Justice Department closed its case on Emmett Till in 2007 due primarily to the fact that the two admitted perpetrators were already dead and any others who might have been involved were likely dead as well. But now, eleven years on, that same Justice Department says it is preparing to reopen the case based on new evidence.
Why, one must wonder, would the Justice Department, now under the control of a former tool of the White Citizens Council, Jeff Sessions, want to reopen the wound that helped to launch the civil rights movement and destroy his beloved ante-bellum, genteel South? Part of the reason could be the renewed interest in the case following a new book on the murder that was published last year, but another reason might be that reopening the case will frustrate researchers (and members of the general public) who are trying to access official records dealing with the killing.
Doug Jones, the new senator from Alabama and a Democrat, has this week introduced legislation that would require the government to release information about unsolved killings related to the civil rights movement. The family of Emmett Till is also still seeking information and answers from the Justice Department regarding the youth's brutal murder.
If the Till case is reopened, the Justice Department and other lesser law enforcement agencies will have cover for keeping their files on Emmett Till's murder away from the prying eyes of the public - because the records will relate to an on-going investigation.
That's one possibility.
Another possibility, of course, is that Little Beauregard woke up one morning and was suddenly overcome with a desire to achieve some justice for an old racial travesty.
Jeff Sessions seeking justice for a dead black youth?
Don't bet your MAGA cap on that!
If Attorney General Sessions acquiesces to a re-opening of the Emmett Till case, he has an ulterior motive - and that motive isn't based in a burning desire for granting civil rights to minorities. You can bet your MAGA cap on that!
Citizen Journalist
Apparently the United States Department of Justice under the control of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III, has decided to reopen the murder investigation of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old young man who was tortured and lynched in Mississippi sixty-three years ago. Till, a black youth from Chicago, was visiting relatives in rural Mississippi in 1955 when he was accused by a white woman of whistling at her. The woman's husband and his brother were arrested and put on trial for the murder of Till, but a white jury acquitted them. Years later the pair admitted that they had indeed killed Emmett Till. The white woman who had accused Emmett Till of flirting with her also admitted late in life that she had lied about the incident.
When Emmett Till's body was returned to Chicago for burial, his mother insisted on holding a public funeral with an open casket because she wanted the world to see the evil that had been perpetrated on her son. Images of the brutalized Till have horrified generations of Americans and were felt to have been a powerful force in instigating the civil rights movement of the 1960's.
The Justice Department closed its case on Emmett Till in 2007 due primarily to the fact that the two admitted perpetrators were already dead and any others who might have been involved were likely dead as well. But now, eleven years on, that same Justice Department says it is preparing to reopen the case based on new evidence.
Why, one must wonder, would the Justice Department, now under the control of a former tool of the White Citizens Council, Jeff Sessions, want to reopen the wound that helped to launch the civil rights movement and destroy his beloved ante-bellum, genteel South? Part of the reason could be the renewed interest in the case following a new book on the murder that was published last year, but another reason might be that reopening the case will frustrate researchers (and members of the general public) who are trying to access official records dealing with the killing.
Doug Jones, the new senator from Alabama and a Democrat, has this week introduced legislation that would require the government to release information about unsolved killings related to the civil rights movement. The family of Emmett Till is also still seeking information and answers from the Justice Department regarding the youth's brutal murder.
If the Till case is reopened, the Justice Department and other lesser law enforcement agencies will have cover for keeping their files on Emmett Till's murder away from the prying eyes of the public - because the records will relate to an on-going investigation.
That's one possibility.
Another possibility, of course, is that Little Beauregard woke up one morning and was suddenly overcome with a desire to achieve some justice for an old racial travesty.
Jeff Sessions seeking justice for a dead black youth?
Don't bet your MAGA cap on that!
If Attorney General Sessions acquiesces to a re-opening of the Emmett Till case, he has an ulterior motive - and that motive isn't based in a burning desire for granting civil rights to minorities. You can bet your MAGA cap on that!
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