MSNBC uses the 50th anniversary of March on washington to confirm we are just as racist as back then
It is pretty alarming that the race hustling movement has actually been able to brain wash Emmit Till's own family members into believing we are just as bad as we were the day that people tortured emmitt till, admitted to it and got off.
One of these bone heads even went so far as to say we are still confronted by the same kind of emmitt till tragedies and injustices on a daily basis, id love for them to name a single one.
What world are these people living in?
Emmett Till Family Questions Improvement in Race Relations: âWho are They Asking? The Bigots?â
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In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and murdered by white Mississippi men for the imagined crime of âflirting with a white woman.â His killers were acquitted but later bragged about their involvement in that crime. Nearly 60 years later, parallels are being drawn between that crime and the killing of Trayvon Martin. Friday on MSNBC, the surviving members of Tillâs family lashed out at the notion that race relations had measurably improved in the 50 years that had passed since the civil rights movementâs march on Washington, D.C.
MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin read from the results of a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll which recently asked Americans for their thoughts on how much race relations had improved in the United States. In that poll 54 percent of adults agreed that more people in America are âjudged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.â That included 59 percent of whites and 54 percent of Hispanics. However, only 19 percent of African-Americans agreed with this statement.
Tillâs cousin, Ollie Gordon, explained this by observing that African-Americans experience racism more than other groups. âYou are still looked at and viewed and judged by the color of your skin in the black community,â Gordon said. âAs when you go into apply for a job, when you go into stores, youâre still kind of looked at suspiciously.â
âThey kind of still follow you around in the stores as to think that maybe youâre going to take something that you possibly donât have the money to pay for it,â she continued.
âI still encountered racism even in restaurants,â Gordon continued. âYou go and you may get served last or you may not get served at all. We kind of experienced that just yesterday here in Washington.â
âWeâre still confronted with mass incarcerations,â Airickca Gordon-Taylor, another cousin of Tillâs, agreed. âWeâre still confronted with many hate crimes very similar to what Emmett Till suffered.â
She said that, while perhaps less overt, instances of racial violence and racial injustice â like the acquittal of Martinâs killer â are just as problematic were violent incidents 50 years ago.
âAcross the country, when youâre still confronted with the same type of injustices and the same type of tragedies, itâs hard to say we have moved anywhere from 50 years ago,â Gordon-Taylor concluded.
Simeon Wright, another cousin of Tillâs, expressed his frustration over the pollâs results, saying that they never asked him for his opinion. âWho are they asking? The bigots?â Wright said.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/emmtt-ti...ace-relations-who-are-they-asking-the-bigots/
It is pretty alarming that the race hustling movement has actually been able to brain wash Emmit Till's own family members into believing we are just as bad as we were the day that people tortured emmitt till, admitted to it and got off.
One of these bone heads even went so far as to say we are still confronted by the same kind of emmitt till tragedies and injustices on a daily basis, id love for them to name a single one.
What world are these people living in?
Emmett Till Family Questions Improvement in Race Relations: âWho are They Asking? The Bigots?â
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In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and murdered by white Mississippi men for the imagined crime of âflirting with a white woman.â His killers were acquitted but later bragged about their involvement in that crime. Nearly 60 years later, parallels are being drawn between that crime and the killing of Trayvon Martin. Friday on MSNBC, the surviving members of Tillâs family lashed out at the notion that race relations had measurably improved in the 50 years that had passed since the civil rights movementâs march on Washington, D.C.
MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin read from the results of a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll which recently asked Americans for their thoughts on how much race relations had improved in the United States. In that poll 54 percent of adults agreed that more people in America are âjudged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.â That included 59 percent of whites and 54 percent of Hispanics. However, only 19 percent of African-Americans agreed with this statement.
Tillâs cousin, Ollie Gordon, explained this by observing that African-Americans experience racism more than other groups. âYou are still looked at and viewed and judged by the color of your skin in the black community,â Gordon said. âAs when you go into apply for a job, when you go into stores, youâre still kind of looked at suspiciously.â
âThey kind of still follow you around in the stores as to think that maybe youâre going to take something that you possibly donât have the money to pay for it,â she continued.
âI still encountered racism even in restaurants,â Gordon continued. âYou go and you may get served last or you may not get served at all. We kind of experienced that just yesterday here in Washington.â
âWeâre still confronted with mass incarcerations,â Airickca Gordon-Taylor, another cousin of Tillâs, agreed. âWeâre still confronted with many hate crimes very similar to what Emmett Till suffered.â
She said that, while perhaps less overt, instances of racial violence and racial injustice â like the acquittal of Martinâs killer â are just as problematic were violent incidents 50 years ago.
âAcross the country, when youâre still confronted with the same type of injustices and the same type of tragedies, itâs hard to say we have moved anywhere from 50 years ago,â Gordon-Taylor concluded.
Simeon Wright, another cousin of Tillâs, expressed his frustration over the pollâs results, saying that they never asked him for his opinion. âWho are they asking? The bigots?â Wright said.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/emmtt-ti...ace-relations-who-are-they-asking-the-bigots/