Wednesday, July 18, 2018
The Word of a White Woman
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
The Word Of A White Woman Can Still Get Black People Killed
By Jessie Daniels
“In my opinion, the guilt begins with Mrs. Bryant.” With those words Mrs. Mamie Till-Mobley lay the blame for her 14-year-old son’s lynching in Mississippi on Carolyn Bryant, the white woman who testified in 1955 that Emmett Till made an advance on her.
Till’s lynching was a spark that helped ignite the civil rights movement. And until recently, historians widely agreed on this point: Emmett Till did what Bryant accused him of and, in doing so, violated a social more of the Jim Crow South, unjust as those mores were and appalling as his punishment remains. In other words, they believed Bryant. As historian John David Smith told PBS in 2003, “Till crossed the line of white propriety; he committed what whites considered a betrayal of racial lines. Till insulted Bryant’s wife and insulted the very bases of white racial control and hegemony.” Or so Carolyn Bryant claimed.
Now in her 80s, Bryant has changed the story she told under oath. In 1955, she said Till whistled at her, grabbed her by the waist and “verbally threatened her.” But last year, she told Duke University Timothy Tyson “that part’s not true.” In Tyson’s book, The Blood of Emmett Till, Bryant is quoted as saying that “nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.”
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Bryant is the foremother of contemporary white women who call the police on black people sitting in a Starbucks, barbecuing in a park or napping in a dorm. These white women know their accusations have power, are readily believed and face few consequences for words that can and do end lives.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-daniels-emmett-till-case_us_5b4e4aace4b0b15aba8972d4
The Word Of A White Woman Can Still Get Black People Killed
By Jessie Daniels
“In my opinion, the guilt begins with Mrs. Bryant.” With those words Mrs. Mamie Till-Mobley lay the blame for her 14-year-old son’s lynching in Mississippi on Carolyn Bryant, the white woman who testified in 1955 that Emmett Till made an advance on her.
Till’s lynching was a spark that helped ignite the civil rights movement. And until recently, historians widely agreed on this point: Emmett Till did what Bryant accused him of and, in doing so, violated a social more of the Jim Crow South, unjust as those mores were and appalling as his punishment remains. In other words, they believed Bryant. As historian John David Smith told PBS in 2003, “Till crossed the line of white propriety; he committed what whites considered a betrayal of racial lines. Till insulted Bryant’s wife and insulted the very bases of white racial control and hegemony.” Or so Carolyn Bryant claimed.
Now in her 80s, Bryant has changed the story she told under oath. In 1955, she said Till whistled at her, grabbed her by the waist and “verbally threatened her.” But last year, she told Duke University Timothy Tyson “that part’s not true.” In Tyson’s book, The Blood of Emmett Till, Bryant is quoted as saying that “nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.”
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Bryant is the foremother of contemporary white women who call the police on black people sitting in a Starbucks, barbecuing in a park or napping in a dorm. These white women know their accusations have power, are readily believed and face few consequences for words that can and do end lives.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-daniels-emmett-till-case_us_5b4e4aace4b0b15aba8972d4
When Native American Children Were Ripped From Their Parents' Arms - DAWNLAND trailer
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-legacy-stolen-children_us_5b4c6b47e4b0e7c958fcfff2
Quote
When a president with no shame is backed by a party with no spine and a network with no integrity, you have two big problems. - Thomas L. Freidman
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/opinion/trump-putin-republicans.html
His Determination Was Rewarded
An excerpt from CNN -
He walked all night to be on time for his first day of work. His boss was so impressed he gave him a car
By Elizabeth Elkin and Brandon Griggs, CNN
When an Alabama college student's car broke down the night before his first day at a new job, there was one thing he knew he wouldn't do: Not show up.
So he walked to work. For 20 miles.
After he asked someone for a ride and it fell through, Walter Carr walked all night from Homewood, Alabama, south to Pelham. He needed the job at Bellhops moving company, even though his phone told him it would take him seven hours on foot.
"I've never been that person that gives up," said Carr, 20. "I've just never seen myself doing that. I can only be defeated if I allow myself to be defeated."
And what began as a man determined to get to work on time became so much more -- a community coming together to change a life.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/us/alabama-student-walks-20-miles-gets-car-trnd/index.html
He walked all night to be on time for his first day of work. His boss was so impressed he gave him a car
By Elizabeth Elkin and Brandon Griggs, CNN
When an Alabama college student's car broke down the night before his first day at a new job, there was one thing he knew he wouldn't do: Not show up.
So he walked to work. For 20 miles.
After he asked someone for a ride and it fell through, Walter Carr walked all night from Homewood, Alabama, south to Pelham. He needed the job at Bellhops moving company, even though his phone told him it would take him seven hours on foot.
"I've never been that person that gives up," said Carr, 20. "I've just never seen myself doing that. I can only be defeated if I allow myself to be defeated."
And what began as a man determined to get to work on time became so much more -- a community coming together to change a life.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/us/alabama-student-walks-20-miles-gets-car-trnd/index.html
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
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