I highly recommend, “The Untold Story of Emmet Till “after watching this documentary over the weekend. For those unfamiliar with the story, he was a 14-year-old boy brutally murdered after an encounter with a white woman in 1955.This dark time in our collective history is one we distance ourselves from, yet its causal factors echo still. After a farce of a trial, the perpetrators found not guilty, they sell the “confession” to life magazine for $5,000.After a lifetime of justice denied to Emmett and his mother, Mamie Till, the justice department re-opened the case in 2004. This film had much to do with the renewed interest. Mamie Till passed away in 2003.

The mind set that allowed these events to occur is still in operation today. A person, who I am unfortunate to have a passing acquaintance with, is currently vacationing with the state. He ,like these men, feels that he can use violence to force “respect” from those he erroneously thinks owe him. Chilling to me that what must be earned is still thought by some to be attainable by brute force.

A caveat ,the images shown of Emmett are graphic ,extremely disturbing. The crime,