1. Ann wrote:

***wiping away tears***

This photo always hurts my heart when I see it.

2. ChgoSista wrote:

Do you mean no mention of it was made in Obama’s speech? Because Chgo media mentioned it several times.

3. carisma wrote:

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this is why I hate crakkas!

Killed that beautiful child because he supposedly whistled at a white b*tch, and she was probably was flirting with Emmett.

4. wouldn't you love to know? wrote:

I watched his documentary yesterday. Ann, i’m with you…this shit is terrible, i’m getting misty just thinking about it.

Naw carisma, that bitch wasn’t flirting. she was just being an evil bitch. she was a store clerk, who barely even wanted to take the youth’s money.

Emmett wasn’t from the south, so he didn’t know not to whistle at the ol hag…may he and his mama’s spirits rest in peace!

5. Blaxx wrote:

Do we really have to call the white woman a bitch and a hag? It doesn’t change anything that happened 53 years ago so let’s be productive and make sure nothing like this happens ever again.

6. wouldn't you love to know? wrote:

listen blaxx, if she was white, black, blue, purple…i would still call her a bitch and a hag…

please notice that i didn’t put a color reference in my post.

shit, let some yellow bitch try to chop your head off on a grey hound bus, just because you were taking a nap…and see what i do and say

7. DCI74 wrote:

This was what triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Thanks for mentioning this moment Marc.

8. amy's friend wrote:

thank you so much for posting this. we must never forget emmitt till.

9. dave wrote:

he looks better than he did before……

10. Dave wrote:

He looks better……

11. kelle wrote:

Its really sad when most of the whites dont believe or even want to hear about this young man. And the ones that usually dont care are the racist, AT HOW they add their own spin to it. makes me angry. Its still hate out there and it doesnt make any sense. We are all suffering and most of the (whites) what to blame the black because they dont have anything. They continue to make cracks about our NEW President. And I laugh at the facts that They think that they are perfect. And if they read thier history, Jail wasnt built for blacks at that time it was built for them. Blacks were slaves either they were whipped or they were lynched.

12. JB wrote:

Has there even been a serious movie made about Mr. Till?

13. qwerty wrote:

i hope african americans know that not all white people are racist. i actually hope those 2 people who did it die painfully…just as they did to emmitt.

14. skeys wrote:

This is so crazy. A friend dared him to do it,and he didnt know any better. He was very handsome, and was killed for something so stupid. I hope the people who did it will rot in hell.

15. Tamika wrote:

I think God has a plan, he did not let this child suffer, in my heart I believe Emmitt was taken out of his body before he endured the pain we see upon his face. God plan was to show man who really are the evil people in this world for grown people to take a child and mutalate his body in such a manner is simply evil.

16. Laura wrote:

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote a great poem from the perspective of the white woman Emmett winked at..It’s called “A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon.”

I learned about Emmett Till in high school and in college and I started to cry while retelling his story in a class presentation. It was embarrassing and everything but I’m bringing this up because I’m white and I don’t think its particularly fair or helpful to generalize about white people being racist and uncaring and trying to cover up Emmett’s story. That is definitely the case sometimes but a lot of times it is not. My teacher in college who had us read Gwendolyn Brooks and other black poets was a white woman from the South.

17. Cheryl wrote:

my heart breaks that this beautiful child is not remembered today. I hold a master’s degree in history but only learned about Emmett within the past year. His story should be taught to middle-school or even elementary school children.

His mother handled the funeral in the best manner possible, by showing the world what the sickness of racism (which is utterly a social construct, man-made) can do.

I am a white, female southerner, and I will be the first to call Emmett’s accuser a bitch. White southerners need to check their DNA, btw. Anybody here before the Civil War is very, very likely tri-racial. Southerners are an amazing blend of people from around the world and we should stand together and love one another.

18. Debra wrote:

Yesterday was the 55th year anniversary of Emmett’s death. He died 12 years before I was born. When I first heard his story I was appalled, horrified, and disgusted. As a 40 something white girl – what disturbs me now is the number of younger African Americans who do not know who Emmett was nor do they know the strength & courage that Mrs. Till had.

I’m also frustrated at some of the posters here who continue with the hate in their heart. My understanding is that the lady that Emmett whistled at simply shared the story with her husband. He and his cronies are the ones that should have been held to the wall. Maybe the lady shouldn’t have told her husband. I can only imagine that if that idiot treated Emmett as he did — he probably was also abusive to his wife. We just don’t know, do we. Maybe I’m wrong … maybe she insisted her husband “teach Emmett a lesson”. The whole story (while very important) is just appalling.

No one is any better than anyone else. We all make mistakes, we all love and we all hurt.

I don’t know anyone who was a slave or a slave holder. I’ve never known a time when blacks and whites weren’t segregated on some level. And we still have folks (both black & white) who keep using the “race card”. How I dream of a time when the color of someones skin means nothing more than the color of their eyes.

I’m tired of the disrespectful youth of our society. I’m tired of the bickering. I’m tired of the hate & fear. We need better education across the board.

19. brandi wrote:

i hate that this happen to him

20. Nicole wrote:

First of all, Dave,you are a disgusting idiot. Second, this photo literally churns my stomach,and I hope the people who did it and let those disgusting P.O.S’s get away with it, rot in the eternal flames of Hell,as I’m sure they are now roasting as we speak. I sincerely hope. And I’m white.And I’m from GA,as southern as you can get.As for the white hag who started it all,she can rot in hell too.