Winfrey: 'Trayvon Martin Parallel to Emmett Till...In My Mind, Same Thing'

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Oprah Winfrey on Monday said the killings of Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till are the "same thing."

OPRAH WINFREY: "It's so easy during this time: Trayvon Martin, Trayvon Martin parallel to Emmett Till, let me just tell you. In my mind, same thing. But you can, you can get stuck in that and not allow yourself to move forward and to see how far we've come."

Really? Martin and Till are the same thing?

As race baiters in the media have been dishonestly making this claim since the George Zimmerman verdict was announced, let's take a look at what happened to Till almost 60 years ago and why it is shameful for folks to make such a comparison.

In 1955, Till was a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi. He spoke to a 21-year-old white woman named Carolyn Bryant who was the wife of a grocery store owner in the town.

Several nights later, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam went to Till's great-uncle's house, kidnapped Till, drove him to a barn where they proceeded to beat him, gouge out one of his eyes, shoot him in the head, and dispose of his body in the Tallahatchie River with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire.

Does that even vaguely resemble what happened to Martin?

Of course it doesn't. Not even close.

But liberal media members have been shamefully making this case for weeks further dividing our nation along racial lines.

[Uri’el-2012]

Trayvon Martin parallel to Emmett Till,

The Klan is out stirring race war again.

Today they wear white hoodies

[MeshugeMikey]

hmmmm I wonder oif Noprah has the courage to have al sharpton come on her show...and AXE HIM about Trayvon....and......ah TAWANA???

Perhsps Ricky No_Limit_For_Just_Us_Holder could also participate

TIME TO put an END top the DEAD HORSE known as RACISM once an fo AWL!!!!

[Tupelo]

“if he was the victim history claims him”

He WAS! Even most whites in Leflore County would have told you that in 1955.

[Feckless]

In my mind, same thing

That's because your mind is full of $#!^...

[Gay State Conservative]

HEY,OPRAH...TEL US EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT CARL ROWAN!

[TigersEye]

Doprah proving herself to be an idiot.

[MeshugeMikey]

if oprah had any GUTS...she's bring RIcky Holder and Al Sharpton on her Puhrogramme...and TALK SPIT

IF...ahahah FAT....chance

[Beagle8U]

“Really? Martin and Till are the same thing?”

Well, it is almost the same.

Till was beat half to death and then shot.

That is what TrayDmark was attempting to do to Zimmerman.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

HELP! HELP! This guys face keeps getting in the way of my fists! HELP!

[bassmaner]

"... no one MANIPSNAPES me or my family ..."

[RJS1950]

Who cares what you have to say orca. The death of the POS gang wannabe and the subsequent “for Trayvon” attacks have helped once again to spur the purchase of weapons for defence against these animals. Expect more to be Trayvoned in the future because nobody cares about you anymore. If you don’t like it here with all of the advantages you currently have then move to africa and be a real african; not that you’ll last long among the real africans already there.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

HELP! HELP! THIS WOMANS FACE KEEPS GETTING IN THE WAY OF MY FISTS! SOMEBODY HELP!

[MeshugeMikey]

"no one MANIPSNAPES me or my family ..."

[MasterGunner01]

Oprah has a mind? Really? Who knew?

[Mortrey]

I’m waaaay past my downtrodden colored people saturation point.

Mayors are colored people, senators are colored people, rich entertainers are colored people, company CEOs are colored people, rich athletes are colored people, some of the wealthiest in this country are colored people, including YOU, Oprah. If you hadn’t noticed, we have a colored person squatting in the White House.

(anyone offended by the words “colored people”, take it to the NAACP.)

[Scrambler Bob]

“in my mind”

But NASA has given up on exploring the vast, pristine, empty universe.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“Oprah obviously has more money than brains.”

I’m reasonably sure that would be the case even if she was poor.

[MeshugeMikey]

Can either Oprah or Tawana Read CURSIVE

[from occupied ga]

I wonder if anyone ever ast her wazzup with de'marquis Elkins? If she thought he was the same as Emmett Till

[MeshugeMikey]

Rite Awn Rite Awn RIte Awn!