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The cousin of Emmett Till, the black 14-year-old tortured and lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, appeared on MSNBC Friday morning and compared the murder of his cousin to the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Trayvon was fatally shot during an altercation by former neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, a Hispanic, who was found not guilty on all charges. “The comparison to me is similar; there are a lot of parallels between Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin,” Simeon Wright began. “Number one: Trayvon was killed by a white boy that got out of his truck armed to the teeth — chased him...

The cousin of Emmett Till said Saturday that it was "crying time again" in America, because George Zimmerman "stalked another American" who was shot and "died like a dog," but a jury found him not guilty. Speaking at the "Realize the Dream March and Rally" in Washington, Simeon Wright, Till's cousin, said the hearts of his family were broken after Till was lynched for whistling at a white girl in 1955 and recalled how they all cried after his body was found in a river in Mississippi. He urged those marching on Washington for the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther...

<p>Wright participated in a service for the reinterment of the body of the boy with whom Wright, then 12, was sharing a bed in the Mississippi home of Wright's father 50 years ago. It was the night that lit the fuse of the civil rights revolution.</p>