If anyone is going to offer up any excuse...don't go there

[dezii]

The racial hatred and division of 65 years ago is alive and kicking. Some will say that it was the actions of a couple of sick ones..however the two perps were caught, tried and fully acquitted by a all white jury.

Today the sign that were erected marking the spot where Emmet's body was found in the river has been continuously desecrated..so don't anyone tell me Mississippi today is a different Mississippi then it was   years ago.

I grant you there are now law officers of color..Heads of and chiefs of those departments too...schools are no longer split by race, though I believe there are many private school academies that are basically comprised of kids of one color {white}. I know there are mayors and councilmen of color too ...but with in the souls of so many lurks the sickness of racial prejudice.
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www.yahoo.com/news/emmett-till-memorial-sign-time-185009460.html

[sesfw]

This is so sad .......................   

I was a child when this happened and I have a very hazy memory of it.

It's unbelievable this happened ........... The only thing good that came from it, it did wake people up to this evil.

Evil we are still fighting.

[Tennesseer]

One of the shooters who shot up the original memorial, Ole Miss student Ben LeClere, was from here in Memphis. There was some anonymous local support for LeClere's actions.

[Tennesseer]

White nationalists caught making video at Emmett Till memorial

A group of white nationalists were caught on video apparently trying to make a propaganda video at the site of the Emmett Till memorial in Sumner, Miss., according to NBC News.

Footage making the rounds online shows the group recording a video in front of the memorial, which has been the site of a number of reported incidents of racist vandalism in recent months.

The Sumner Courthouse and Emmett Till Interpretive Center shared footage of the group visiting the memorial on Saturday.

In the video, a group of five white people can be seen standing in front of the sign in Sumner, Miss., with a flag depicting a black St. Andrews cross, NBC News reported. Off to the right side of the video, two other people can be seen standing, appearing to record the group of people. 

During the moment, one of the men standing in front of the memorial can be heard saying: “We are here at the Emmett Till monument that represents the Civil Rights Movement for blacks.”

"What we want to know is, where are all of the white people?" the man continues.

In more footage of the moment obtained by NBC News, the group of people can be seen rushing to their vehicles shortly after security sirens installed around the memorial begin to sound.

Patrick Weems, the executive director of the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, told the publication that the sirens were sounded as part of a surveillance system that was installed after the memorial was shot up with bullets on several occasions. 

However, Weems said the Saturday incident is the first case leaders have “seen of what appears to be white nationalists making a propaganda video.”

Complete article here:  White nationalists caught making video at Emmett Till memorial