Comments on: Feds Exhume Body of Civil Rights Icon Emmett Till

By: Jaquita pryor

Jaquita pryor — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:10:43 +0000

well it was really sad when i seen hes body i was fina cry the dude did not have to do that to hem if he was living i would date hem he hes so pretty god gonna bless hem i wish he was in our world hes in a better place. Sign by Jaquita Pryor Love you Emmet till

By: shelita hilton

shelita hilton — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:08:58 +0000

Is this really your name? My name is Shelita Hilton and because my name is so odd it’s hard to beleive that they’re someone else with the same name as mine?

By: DAWN JONES

DAWN JONES — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:53:15 +0000

IT WAS A DAMN SHAME WHAT THE WHITE MAN DID TO EMMITT TILL.
I SAY WHITE MAN BECAUSE ALL WHO TURNED THEIR BACKS ON THE CRIME, WALKED AWAY AND DID NOT SHOW JUSTICE ARE ALL GUILTY. HE WAS ONLY 14YRS. OLD. HOW COULD PEOPLE BE SO CRUEL AND HEARTLESS. I WONDER IF IT HAPPENED TO THEIR CHILDREN HOW WOULD THEY FILL IF PEOPLE TURNED THEIR BACKS AND WALK AWAY. DON’T THINK YOU’RE GETTING AWAY WITH SOMETHING BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T DO THE TIME. WHAT NEGATIVE THING YOU BRING TO THE TABLE CAN COME BACK ON YOUR CHILDREN OR YOUR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN. THINK ABOUT IT.

By: A. Mac

A. Mac — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:37:09 +0000

I would like to know if anyone knows the result of the new trial that was reopened in 2005 I can’t seem to find out any information.

By: olevia

olevia — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:44:40 +0000

what happend to E,till is very sad every time i see a pic or hear his name it hurts me even more ,and still scares me my granny was growin up back in them days and it just pisses me off the way people think and act how they can be so uncareing and just take an innocent life and sometimes i wounder if( any of them )really care they still here trust me they aint went nowhereand all we can do is pray ,just pray because when jesus comes back they got theirs comin

By: A.B. Madyun

A.B. Madyun — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:56:26 +0000

Ken…I agree with you that that is what was happening at that time. But i didn’t quite get your meaning when you said that they never laid any slain white people out like that. Whites weren’t being slain by blacks in the south. However, blacks were commonly slain by whites, and still are.

Also, if you read the story, you will recall that the reason for the display of Emmitt Till’s body was by his mother’s request to send out the right message to the world. It was not the wrong message, because when injustice is being leveled against innocent people, it’s easy for folks to turn their backs and ignore it as though it’s only business as usual and to think…”well, it didn’t happen to me, or anybody I know.”

But, if it is displayed to them, then people are more likely to get the point, and that’s what happened. Those photographs woke up the whole world. For those who couldn’t stomach the pictures…oh well!

By: Ken Savage

Ken Savage — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:08:58 +0000

A.B. Madyun, I was about 15 years before my time but I have seen those damn pics. They didn’t lay out any other slain white people that I know like that. It was all about the time and the stupid ass people back then. I don’t know how I would act back in those times if I was an adult. I guess it just proves that hate and racism is taught and not born with.

By: A.B. Madyun

A.B. Madyun — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:21:42 +0000

In 1955, I hadn’t quite turned ten yet. My hustle was sales of Jet Magazines. Back in those days, many African American youths my age were couriers for the magazine all over the country. Around the time that the murder occurred, Jet magazine was conducting a sales contest for couriers. Those of us who sold the most jets were awarded various prizes for our efforts. It was this year that a young boy named Emmett Till, a 14 yr old black teen out of Chicago, was murdered in Mississippi.

I don’t know if younger people would be familiar with this infamous murder, but it was such a hot news item, that I had to keep going back and asking for more copies because I kept running out of them. I was awarded numerous prizes including t-shirts, baseball caps, and Jet ball point pens.

The one thing that I never forgot was the gruesome photo of Emmett Till’s mutilated body laying in a casket. I was infuriated at the sight of his mutilated body lying in the casket in the photo I saw in the Jet magazine. It was this murder, and the insistence of Mamie Till, Emmett’s mother, that his casket remained open during his funeral service to show the whole world what the perpetrators of this horrible lynching had done to her son, that sparked the civil rights movement the following year.

To this day, justice has yet to be served on Emmitt Till’s racist murderers. I pray to G_d that that justice is served soon. If not, they won’t get past G_d in the next life unless they repented, and He accepted their repentance.

By: J. HAGLER

J. HAGLER — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:28:47 +0000

Strait and to the point, the case should be reopened. There were eye witnesses who seen no less than (2) two other white males, besides Bryant and Milam, exiting the shed where Emmett Till was being brutally beaten. If those individuals that took part in this crime is still breathing today then that reason alone warrants the reopening of this murder case.

By: La'Vondaa

La'Vondaa — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:55:35 +0000

Well, this is just so wrong. God how could someone do this? Have that kind of heart? This bewilders me in a way that is unexplainable….. But cutting my case short, those two men didn’t get what i wished they got…. Oh, and as for “Mrs. Bryant” …. She isn’t dead yet. She lives here in Cleveland,Mississippi, and is seen at the sizzlin every Saturday night… I just wanna question her and ask her why the hell could she do such a thing to a 14 year old innocent, African American male. But don’t worry, God will handle her… in due time ….. in DUE TIME!!!!!!!