The historical record is pretty clear the Emmitt Till was openly rude and disrespectful to the white citizens of the town he was visiting, up to and including being sexually suggestive to at least one white female. Numerous people attested to that fact, even black witnesses.
According to the values of the day, that was not acceptable.
Feel free to point out the “distorted and inaccurate” aspect.
I agree with the Governor.
Till was the Trayvon Martin, Michael "Gentle" Giant Brown of his day, with hoopla orchestrated by the usual suspects.
Again a distorted representation. In Mississippi at that time if a colored person even made eye contact some folks would have that person charged.
A fourteen year old who grew up in the north would not have realized any danger. The people with Till that day did not say he was rude. They said he broke the rules. He talked to a white woman.... the whites are the ones who turned it into something sexual
Even if it was as you describe explain to me exactly how any of that behavior justifies my Ching this fourteen year old?
“On August 24, while standing with his cousins and some friends outside a country store in Money, Emmett bragged that his girlfriend back home was white. Emmett’s African-American companions, disbelieving him, dared Emmett to ask the white woman sitting behind the store counter for a date.
He went in, bought some candy, and on the way out was heard saying, “Bye, baby” to the woman. There were no witnesses in the store, but Carolyn Bryant—the woman behind the counter—later claimed that he grabbed her, made lewd advances and wolf-whistled at her as he sauntered out.”
Read all of it here, including Carolyn Brant’s recanting of her initial claim,
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till
And additional comments in this story. Read it all the way through
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/emmett-till-lynching-carolyn-bryant-donham.html
Now you can quit spreading lies
Part of Big Milam’s interview with Look magazine, $4000 paid for it, after his acquittal
Milam: “Well, what else could we do? He was hopeless. I’m no bully; I never hurt a nigger in my life. I like niggers — in their place — I know how to work ‘em. But I just decided it was time a few people got put on notice. As long as I live and can do anything about it, niggers are gonna stay in their place. Niggers ain’t gonna vote where I live. If they did, they’d control the government. They ain’t gonna go to school with my kids. And when a nigger gets close to mentioning sex with a white woman, he’s tired o’ livin’. I’m likely to kill him. Me and my folks fought for this country, and we got some rights. I stood there in that shed and listened to that nigger throw that poison at me, and I just made up my mind. ‘Chicago boy,’ I said, ‘I’m tired of ‘em sending your kind down here to stir up trouble. Goddam you, I’m going to make an example of you — just so everybody can know how me and my folks stand.’”
Does that make you feel proud?