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THE RESURRECTION OF EMMETT TILL
Powerline ^ | 22 Feb 2019 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 02/22/2019 7:46:40 PM PST by Rummyfan

On Wednesday, the New York Times published a long article about the murder of Emmett Till. This tweet sums it up:

In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till walked into a Mississippi store to buy candy. After being accused of whistling at the white woman behind the counter, he was kidnapped, lynched and dumped into a river. https://nyti.ms/2E17f4P

What made the Till story timely this week? Could there be a connection between the Jussie Smollett fiasco and the Times’s interest in the 64-year-old Till case? Steve Sailer actually predicted the Times story on Till a week ago:

As I predicted in a February 15, 2019 iSteve post on the New York Times’ credulous coverage of Jussie’s Hate Hoax:

I imagine we’ll once again be deluged with NYT stories about late-breaking developments in the Emmett Till case.

Sailer recalls his own column from last August, which is a pretty brilliant analysis of how the press operates, and why it influences us even when we are aware of its profound bias:

There is always vastly more news than a person can remember. Thus your picture of reality is inevitably distorted to some extent by the power of the media, what I call the Megaphone, to pound over and over into your head certain true news, but not other true news.

For example, consider two black teens who once were true news.

In 1955, Emmett Till was murdered by two white men who were quickly acquitted, making his story memorable for being one of the last examples from a long era of state-excused white-on-black civilian violence over black males hitting on white females.

In 1987, Tawana Brawley launched our present era of making up hate hoaxes against whites by claiming that the reason she got home late was because she was being gang-raped by six white policemen.

Which incident is more rationally relevant to 2018? But which does the prestige media consider more au courant?

The statistics that follow call out for an explanation:

In 1980, the name “Emmett Till” did not appear in the pages of the NYT. In 1990 it showed up twice, and in 2000 four times.

From 2004 through 2012, the Times mentioned this old incident an average of nine times per year, and from 2013 to 2016 almost two dozen times per year.

Last year, “Emmett Till” appeared in 72 different Times articles. And this year is on track for 92 stories about the 63-year-old tragedy.

Tawana Brawley, on the other hand, has gone down the memory hole–to the point where Al Sharpton, of all people, was quoted seriously in the “prestige” media to the effect that Smollett should be punished if he fabricated the MAGA assault!

[I]n the 2010s, Tawana Brawley has come up in only 15 articles versus 249 mentioning Emmett Till.

So, why does the New York Times believe that the Till case has somehow gained ever more relevance, more than a half century after it occurred? Because large numbers of similar cases are taking place? Of course not. Rather, the opposite. Given the lack of racist outrages in contemporary America, the Times has to keep going back to the historical well to fire up its constituency. Some have put this in economic terms:

Black-on-white crime vastly exceeds white-on-black crime, as everyone knows. But the Times stubbornly pursues its partisan agenda.

The problem is that the Megaphone, as Sailer calls it, is effective even though nearly everyone is on to the leftists’ game. I liken the insistent agendas of papers like the New York Times and the Washington Post to annoying jingles in radio and television commercials. We all know what the marketers are up to. Nevertheless, we can’t get the annoying jingles out of our heads.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: Mississippi; US: New York; US: Vermont
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1 posted on 02/22/2019 7:46:40 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

“Trayvon was an angellically-smiling L’il League player doing nothing wrong, killed by a savage WHITE HISPANIC..!”

“Gentle Giant had his hands up, said ‘I jess wanna go ta college an’ haff KIDS..!”

Look, this yuge lying machine didn’t start this just yesterday.

I’m sorry, but I no longer believe the stupid, “He just WHISTLED at a white lady” story anymore.

SORRY..!


2 posted on 02/22/2019 7:49:26 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Rummyfan

Democrats are getting really scared that they might lose a few black votes come 2020


3 posted on 02/22/2019 7:49:33 PM PST by digger48
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To: Rummyfan

Poor Jussie isn’t even Black, he is Mulatto who has a White Russian Father.

He still identifies as a Black Russian though.

Rimshot...


4 posted on 02/22/2019 7:50:14 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Rummyfan

I got tired of Emmett Till stories many years ago. He’s a prop used by racists to beat white people up. It’s disrespectful to him, insulting to me, and just plain boring.


5 posted on 02/22/2019 7:54:14 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: gaijin

Matthew Shepard, killed by his gay friend in a drug deal gone bad is a classic example where the truth of the incident was put aside for the narrative.


6 posted on 02/22/2019 7:59:51 PM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Rummyfan

It is amazing how all hate crimes used to be real, and now they are all fake. Funny, that.


7 posted on 02/22/2019 8:01:40 PM PST by cdcdawg
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To: cdcdawg

Over 600 fake hate crimes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/aag2yh/fake_hate_crimes_official/


8 posted on 02/22/2019 8:03:02 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Indeed - same with the Matthew Shepard / Laramie Project case- proven to be that Shepard was murdered in a robbery gone haywire over the drugs he was selling and not because he was gay. Popular mythology still convinces the public at large however that Shepard was killed by white “homophobes” (whatever that is)


9 posted on 02/22/2019 8:08:08 PM PST by atc23
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To: Rummyfan

http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/


10 posted on 02/22/2019 8:09:24 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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JET magazine loves to pat itself on the back and republish the Emmett Till cadaver pics ever so often. But what about the pics of Marcia Trimble and all the Whites murdered by Black? What about Teddy Smith and all the Blacks murdered by Blacks? Why don’t the bigger problems count?


11 posted on 02/22/2019 8:09:47 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: Rummyfan

Unfortunately there is a march of neoconfederates in Oxford Ms tomorrow, which will also include going to the Ole Miss campus. The students/faculty/alums and townspeople want nothing to do with it. Of course, CNN is there to cover any incident that may occur- it seems to me a blatant opportunity for a false flag event at the site of the James Meredith integration riot which happened 55 years ago... another chance to stir up cries of racism in the face of so much positive change here in this state. Yes, a PRIME opportunity for a false flag! Praying for cool heads and heavy rains


12 posted on 02/22/2019 8:10:44 PM PST by radioactivereb ("I'm tryin' to think but nothin' happens!"-Curly Howard)
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To: gaijin

You know there was a trial and nothing else came up about Emmitt Till doing or saying anything else that night and even if he did you don’t go pick im him up in a pick up truck and murder him....the law supposed to handle that


13 posted on 02/22/2019 8:25:17 PM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

Agreed. I don’t know much about that case, but what I’ve heard is not nice. And it wouldn’t surprise me it really did happen that way. He did not deserve such a fate.

Now, though, I’m tired of such old stories being used to browbeat our country. AND to stir up pointless resentment. I honestly believe blacks envy their ancestors and WISH to be martyrs. And all commies wish to make them so as well, to bring down America.


14 posted on 02/22/2019 8:58:10 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: gaijin; Rummyfan
Your post #2.

I remember the details of the case at that time. Till, from Chicago arrived in Mississippi to stay with relatives. His own people had moved out in the years of WW2. Better things in Chicago. He boasted to a sceptical crowd of young pre teens and teens. Said he had relations with lots of white woman.

He was dared to go into a convenience store. To prove he could get off flirting with the clerk. This where a pretty young woman who was pregnant served customers. She was grabbed as he tried to kiss her. She fought him off. He quickly left.

The hyenas and jackals of the leftist press simply said he offended by a "wolf whistle". It sounded so much more of a dastardly crime against him. No physical contact. She told her husband and his friend on their return from a fishing trip. They seized him and intended to scare the wits out of him.

He was said to have sneered and laughed at the two men. Foolishly they killed him. Absolute folly, they could have gone to a juvenile officer and had him sent home. It ruined their lives, their marriages. The press had a field day and still do. Not they give a damn about human tragedy. Just whom they can destroy.

Excuse the rant everyone.

15 posted on 02/22/2019 9:00:16 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: Rummyfan

Just a couple of facts regarding the Emmett Till case:

1). Emmett Till was not killed because he whistled at a white woman. That’s the urban legend pushed by the NAACP. He was killed because he sexually assaulted a white woman by grabbing her ass and grinding on her. In Mississippi that behavior with a man”s wife will result in an ass kicking no matter what your race is.

2) Emmett Till”s dad was hanged while serving in the Army in Italy during WW2 for raping a white woman.

Not excusing an extra-judicial killing, just giving more context.


16 posted on 02/22/2019 9:08:24 PM PST by bort
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To: Bigtigermike
While I don't appreciate the media exploiting Emmitt Till at every turn, may everyone involved in his murder burn in Hell.

This picture of a mother with her son breaks my heart. No mother should have to experience what she did.

I don't know if I could ever find forgiveness or peace.


17 posted on 02/22/2019 9:14:57 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

“This picture of a mother with her son breaks my heart. No mother should have to experience what she did.
I don’t know if I could ever find forgiveness or peace.”

What is the difference between how that mother felt and how the Jolly Teen Giant’s mother felt?

A mother will feel the same no matter how they died, or why.


18 posted on 02/22/2019 9:52:48 PM PST by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: Rummyfan

The Emmett Till case was a horrific example of the racist demokkkrat control of the south. The hatred and racism that allowed this to happen still exist on the left


19 posted on 02/23/2019 12:09:18 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Could there be a connection between the Jussie Smollett fiasco and the Times’s interest in the 64-year-old Till case? Steve Sailer actually predicted the Times story on Till a week ago...

20 posted on 02/23/2019 12:20:39 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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