Emmett Tills 60 Years Later Analysis

Things aren’t always what they seem to be. Sometimes, it’s just an illusion that makes something the way they appear to be. It was the generation of racism in the novel Mississippi Trial 1955 by Chris Crowe, when the African Americans were held back, against their aspirations by the Jim Crow Laws in the South. Two teenagers, Emmett Till (a 14 year old African American) and Hiram Hillburn (White 16-year-old) made a massive misconception about what they believed in. Both teenagers realized many things beyond their expectation, which created consequences throughout the novel.

The Emmett Till murder shined a light on the horrors of segregation and racism on the United States. Emmett Till, a young Chicago teenager, was visiting family in Mississippi during the month of August in 1955, but he was entering a state that was far more different than his hometown. Dominated by segregation, Mississippi enforced a strict leash on its African American population. After apparently flirting with a white woman, which was deeply frowned upon at this time in history, young Till was brutally murdered. Emmett Till’s murder became an icon for the Civil Rights Movement, and it helped start the demand of equal rights for all nationalities and races in the United States.

In the new proactive book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander dives into the not so complicated racial issues that plague this country that we tend to ignore. In all of history, African Americans have had to constantly fight for their freedoms and the right to be considered a human being in this society. It’s very troubling looking back and seeing where we have failed people in this country. At the turn of the century, when people began to think that we had left our old ways behind, this book reminds us that we are wrong. Racism is still alive today in every way, just in different forms.

The documentary, narrative "The Lynching of Emmett Till" by Christopher Metress, tells Emmett's story of death through various points of view. On August 24, 1955, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago, entered a rural grocery store of Money, Mississippi. Because the young child had been gloating about his bond with white people up north, his southern cousins had dared him to go into the store and say something to the women working the register. Emmett accepted their challenge; seconds later he was at the counter, set on purchasing two items. What he did or said next will never be known for sure, but whatever passed between these two strangers from two different worlds set off a chain reaction that would forever

The idea of racism has evolved and has become less prevalent throughout the last century. Schools and public areas are unsegregated, voting rights, racial slurs being considered as unacceptable behavior etc. American sociologist and race theorist, Howard Winant states that’s “The ensuing approaches increased recognition of racial injustice and inequality, but did not overcome the discriminatory processes” (Winant,2000)Although the United states has come a long way to try to end racism, one cannot ignore the fact that it still exists. It is something that may seem invisible in society, but everybody knows that it still thrives and that it’s racial attitudes affect the way our society functions. One of these invisible forms of

“Racism still occupies the throne of our nation,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pronounced just before his assassination. Almost fifty years later, we are still faced with the same unchanged threat that makes the words of Dr. King true. As individuals, communities, and a proud nation we have made an everlasting fingerprint for the children of our future, yet we lack the strength of acknowledgment to alter the course of racial discrimination and conquer prejudice. Has the formation of structural discrimination rooted itself too deeply into our subconscious that hope for rehabilitation seems unattainable? As a nation, we voted a man with a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya as the first multiracial President of the United States. Racism has not been eradicated because of the racial background of President Barrack Obama and we have not accomplished victory because of his African decent because prejudice has been too deeply fixed within our society. Social circumstance and the insinuation of race continue to change over time, precisely because race has become a social construct that serves political ends. The prior and present leaders of our nation organize, generate, and endorse the laws and public policy that ensure racism continues to maintain itself against people of color. Our historically racist foundation, the rising effects of structural discrimination, and the view of modernized racism all actively participate in shaping our structural

Emmett Till was an 14 year old African- American boy who was brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white women. Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, and went into a small store, but no really knows what happened. His friends may have dared him to ask her out. Carolyn said he wolf -whistled , but he had polio as a young child ,so he was taught to whistle before he’d say a hard word.His friends did hear him say ‘bye baby’ , Carolyn was insulted and told her husband. He was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by J.W. Miliam and Roy Bryant. They gouged out his eye ,threw him in the river, and they were not guilty of this crime. His body couldn’t be identified , tied his body to a cotton gin, and they kidnapped him. Emmett

Spending time with family in Money, Mississippi, 14 year old, African American, Emmett Till, from Chicago, was ruthlessly killed for harmlessly flirting with a Caucasian woman four days prior. His assailants, the Caucasian woman’s significant other and her brother, made Emmett convey a 75 pound cotton gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and demanded him to remove his garments. The two—then beat him almost to near death, dredged his eye out, fired a bullet into his head, and after that proceeded to toss his body, attached to the cotton gin fan with spiked metal, into the waterway.

On August 28th, 1955. A young, African American, fourteen year old boy, Emmett Louis “Bobo” Till, was murdered in Money, Mississippi after flirting with a white woman (“Emmett Till”, 2014). Emmett Till’s story brought attention to the racism still prevalent in the south in 1955, even after attempts nationwide to desegregate and become equal. Emmett’s harsh murder and unfair trial brought light into the darkness and inequality that dominated the south during the civil rights movement. Emmett’s life was proof that African American’s were equal to whites and that all people were capable of becoming educated and successful even through difficulties. Emmett’s death had an even greater impact, providing a story and a face to the unfair treatment

The Civil Rights movement started because the murder of Emmett Till. Till visited Money, Mississippi when he was 14 on August 24, 1955. He was visiting relatives for the summer.

It was on a Wednesday night, October 24, 1955 that Till practically handed his life to Mrs. Carolyn Bryant when he flirted (whistle) and allegedly tried to “rape” her. Although she looked like a slim, white woman, to the Till’s family, she was the angel of death who brought malpractice to the murder of a pure, 14 year old boy.

America is known as the land of opportunity, where every individual has a right to pursue what they desire most in life. A society where every citizen has an equal shot at becoming a successful and involved beings in society. However, as the world is growing and moral values are being forgotten, this image of peace and freedom that America once offered is slowly fading away.  In fact, it is a sad truth that it was just fifty to sixty years ago African American people were finally endowed their rights as people and were considered citizens of their own country. Unfortunately, racism was never completely abolished, because sadly, it is impossible for racism to completely disappear into oblivion. Today in 2017, racism is slowly becoming a prominent issue that is disrupting the peace between people and putting the lives of citizens in danger.

Racism is a quandary that’s all too familiar in our modern society. It’s an issue that dates back thousands of years and is very much noticeable in American history. Since the domination of Native American land and African Slave Trade, we’ve come a long way, but racism still has a lingering presence and perhaps always will. The years between 1870 and 1900 began the age of segregation.

I was a bit hesitant to put out this piece mainly because of the race issue involved and it is certainly not my intention at all to stoke an already lit flame the issue of race has caused in mgtow, so forgive what my reader may perceive as some racial bias in this article. This is an article I felt should be written as a strive towards my goal to underscore the female nature whenever I see it, and the new confession concerning the case of Emmett Till’s death in 1955 perfectly expose further not only female’s attraction to violence but her propensity to utilize the male nature to achieve her selfish goal no matter how costly it is to the men involved. So this absolutely has nothing to do with race even though I’ll be referring to the historical period and events as it pertains to the story. This is only a reasonable analysis of the female nature.

The issue of racism in the United States goes far back as time immemorial; the lynching of blacks for no obvious reasons or killing of blacks for “not-so-justifiable” reasons like failure to address a white man as Mr. or not standing when a white is about to sit. Even after two hundred and thirty nine years, the story has not much changed. From names like Michael Brown to Trayvon Martin, to Dontre Hamilton, and a host of other names, to the most recent Freddie Gray. And the baffling fact about the aforementioned names is that they were all blacks. The color black is only a color of a particular set of people not a weapon.