FILE - This undated file photo shows Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy, whose body was found in the Tallahatchie River near the Delta community of Money, Miss., Aug. 31, 1955. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports that a new historical marker was dedicated Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, with members of Till's family in attendance. This is the fourth historical marker at the site. The first was thrown in the river.
GLENDORA, Miss. — A new bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized. The 14-year-old African American teen was kidnapped, beaten and killed in 1955, hours after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. His body was found in a river days later. An all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted two white men of murder charges.
islandpastor Wow! And these are ALSO the people Jesus died for and told us to love... Give us strength Lord!
That's just a goddamn shame after all these years you think ,these are 80 year old,s shooting at this MEMORIAL?😪🤯😰😡🙏🙏👌
I can’t believe someone would do this how could you deface a memorial even if you don’t agree
The rednecks are still shooting at a child. WTF?
JaidahB This is AmeriKKKa.
Can you imagine the rednecks thinking this was fun? They’re still out there.
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TheAHNShow Maybe we need a lil cam too. I think Mississippi might not want you to show their kids but I think it's time we call all of these racists out!
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If you have to make a monument to a dead innocent teenager bulletproof, thats probably a good signal that Mississippi shouldn't be a state anymore
White people tell me why this had to be bulletproof?
shannonrwatts This sums up exactly how far we haven’t come. Bulletproof?Disgusting.
People still want to commit violence against this boy, decades after his murder. The endurance of racism can be shocking, but it must be faced honestly and directly.
Is anything really bulletproof? I hate to think what might be tried next - bombs? Tractors? Maybe hidden security cameras would be useful.
shannonrwatts Why don't they just put cameras around it and cut this off at the start.
shannonrwatts Prolific racism, prolific guns. Ain't America grand?
shannonrwatts 64 years ago Mississippi - Say his name: Emmett Till 'The cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. ' Ted Kennedy Love comes naturally - Hate is learned MS should name a FEDERAL BUILDING after Emmett Till.
Imagine thinking bulletproof was an actual thing.
shannonrwatts Racists who deface it should be publicly shamed. Absolutely disgusting.
shannonrwatts All Mississippi state and local police should be required to wear a memorial pin for Emmett Till.
shannonrwatts Look at that sweet face!🙏
shannonrwatts Imagine a hatred that runs so deep that even after that grimey bitch admitted she lied and cause that boy to be beaten beyond belief there are still people who feel the need to shoot up his memorial
Why are whit ppl so evil
ah 'merica morons
So damn dumb that people still destroy things due to race. C’mon already!
JenniferMktg 🇺🇸NEVER EVER FORGET WHAT THIS YOUNG MAN’S MOTHER DID. IN HER PAIN & DESPAIR SHE SHARED HIS-STORY TO SHOW AMERICA EXACTLY WHO & WHAT IT HAD BECOME. WITHOUT HER WILL WE WOULD HAVE NEVER SEEN WHAT EVIL LOOKS LIKE ALL OVER A INNOCENT CHILD!💔 🇺🇸She is a hero in history❤️
blkagendareport Stared at this for a good 10 minutes...
What it’s made out of doesn’t make a difference. It’s that every day, when that sign gets shot up or torn down, a brand new shiny sign goes right back up! Every Day!
Obviously, because it has to be bulletproof, many in the south would love to return to those grand old 50s. Where minorities knew their place.
Take back our country nuts
Sick animals defacing a memorial... Shoot them
Good and sad at the same time
Put in a state that respects all races! Not in Mississippi.,
Imagine if some idiot racist dude shoots at it and hits his buddy in the crotch after it ricochets at an angle, would be the best.
need to do that to all Confederate statues
Hella reporting there - could we at least see a picture of the memorial?
White women are a trip. They lied about Emmett just the way they lied about Bret Kavanaugh.
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Mississippi. Who's surprised?
Sad
White Southerners don't like to be reminded of such things. Mississippi is actually courageous to do such a thing.
It’s so sad people are still being taught to hate and to hold onto past hate.
A sad reminder that racism in the states is still alive and strong. As if the election of Trump hadn't been enough.
wtf is wrong with people? show some goddamn respect.
All because some chucklefucks think it's funny to spit on a dark part of history.
Disgusting that it was ever vandalized. More disgusting is the fact that this boy was subjected to the horrific death that he suffered. The United States has so much blood on it’s hands that can never be whitewashed away.
Some times it hard to stop stupid.
Bulletproof HaHaHa, NoOneCares
They need one that shoots back at the vandals
I can’t believe this happens, but yet it’s somehow not surprising. So sad.
“Leftists talk about race too much, how dare they call the US a racist country” US: forced to build a bulletproof memorial to a Black teenager lynched by racists after all the previous memorials kept being vandalized by racists
Shoutout to Mississippi being so racist that we gotta out a bulletproof jacket on a dead, black guy
Wonder if 45 use this to promote himself when he is in Mississippi doing his dog & pony show?
Smh
I’m going to need people to let this headline sink in: America is a country that created a system where white people lynched black children and in 2019 we have to have a BULLETFUCKINGPROOF memorial to a murdered black youth because motherfuckering racists keep shooting it down.
Thanks to Donald trumps lovely fans!!! Long live obama! Statistically the best president of all time and should be president forever!!
How Sad Nothing Has Changed
Some people are just vile especially those who lack melanin. Sorry not sorry.
Challenge accepted.
Disgusting that it has to be bulletproof
What sort of people do this?
'Racism is over. We elected a black President twice' - Most Republicans
this is awful. Ii believe a charity football game should be played in his honor ripemmett
I'd put one up that bounces them STRAIGHT BACK
The fact that they have to make a bulletproof sign is sickening
America in 2019
that's one handsome motherfucker.
They should make a memorial that fires back.
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