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    A sign marking the spot where Emmett Till’s mangled body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River has been riddled with bullets — while a similar sign marking the home of his killer is adorned with flowers.

    The 14-year-old Till was kidnapped, brutally beaten and shot execution-style by J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant on Aug. 28, 1955, after the teenager whistled at Bryant’s wife to impress his cousins and some other boys.

    Related story: 60 years ago today, Emmett Till whistled at a white woman — and he was executed for it four days later

    The men were acquitted after a brief trial, and Milam later said they were more worried about getting caught for stealing an industrial fan blade they used to weigh down Till’s body than they were about killing the black child.

    “I didn’t intend to kill the n****r when we went and got him – just whip him and chase him back up yonder,” Milam told Look magazine in 1957. “But what the hell! He showed me the white gal’s picture! Bragged o’ what he’d done to her! I counted pictures o’ three white gals in his pocketbook before I burned it. What else could I do? No use lettin’ him get no bigger!”

    Local authorities tried to quickly bury his body, but Emmett’s mother, Mamie Bradley, requested her son’s remains be sent home to Chicago — where she held an open-casket funeral to show the world what had happened to her son — and the black weekly Jet magazine published a photo of the boy’s mutilated remains.

    The Emmett Till Memorial Commission put up eight signs in 2007 commemorating the boy’s death to help encourage tourism and raise money for a museum dedicated to his memory and for courthouse renovations in Sumner, reported Slate.

    A Facebook user, Kevin Wilson Jr., recently visited the memorial marking the spot where Till’s body was recovered — and he found the metal sign had been shot dozens of times.
    The signs have been vandalized, stolen and shot repeatedly since they went up nearly a decade ago.

    One on U.S. 49 was stolen in 2007, and another in Tallahatchie County was damaged the following year — when the original sign marking the site where Till’s body was found was torn down by vandals.

    Local authorities promised at the time to preserve the markers, saying they wanted to send a defiant message to the vandals.

    But the replacement sign was riddled with bullet holes by 2013, and the same sign remains at the site where Till’s body was located has endured even more gunshots from a variety of angles.

    So somebody shot up the marker where Emmett Till's body was found. 30 bulletholes: pic.twitter.com/4dz5uekUlz

    — Christopher Hooks (@cd_hooks) December 28, 2013

    The Emmett Till Interpretive Center opened and the courthouse was renovated last year with the help of the Emmett Till Memorial Commission.

    Milam, who died from spine cancer at 61 in 1980, became a pariah and suffered financial ruin after confessing to the murder following his acquittal.

    But a sign marking Milam’s home at the time of Till’s execution has not suffered the same abuse as the memorial to the slain boy.

    Locals have even planted flowers around the sign marking where Milam, who later lost his friends and became an itinerant farmer, lived when he kidnapped the child and committed one of the most brutal and notorious crimes in U.S. history.

    A sign marking the spot where Emmett Till's mangled body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River has been riddled with bullets -- while a similar sign marking the home of his killer is adorned with flowers.The 14-year-old Till was kidnapped, brutally beaten and shot execution-style by J.W. Mila...



    The sign marking the site where Emmett Till’s body was found is now riddled with bullet holes. The marker is in rural Tallahatchie County, two hours north of Jackson, Mississippi.



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    Oh I'm sure it was those right wing racist trump supporters. Because the left never does shit like this and falsely claim it was their enemies.

    Except for black dudes burning down black churches

    And for lesbians vandalizing their own houses with anti gay slogans

    And for gay dudes beating themselves up to claim homophobia.

    Etc. etc. ad infinitum.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by sc281 View Post
      Oh I'm sure it was those right wing racist trump supporters. Because the left never does shit like this and falsely claim it was their enemies.

      Except for black dudes burning down black churches

      And for lesbians vandalizing their own houses with anti gay slogans

      And for gay dudes beating themselves up to claim homophobia.

      Etc. etc. ad infinitum.
      Don't forget about the gay preacher that claimed the grocery store put slurs on his birthday cake.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by SS Junk View Post
        The 14-year-old Till was kidnapped, brutally beaten and shot execution-style by J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant on Aug. 28, 1955, after the teenager whistled at Bryant’s wife to impress his cousins and some other boys.
        so apparently that was a mistake..

        But yeah I'm sure it was all dems that did this. In their desperation. We've really got to crush the democratic party, one way or another. That establishment must come to an end. Then, we've got to end campaign contributions, on pain of a swift death for the briber, and the bribee. Shift their focus from what money they'll get, back to how best to serve their constituents.
        Last edited by Gasser64; 10-24-2016, 10:50 AM.
        WH

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        • #5
          Originally posted by SBFORDTECH View Post
          Don't forget about the gay preacher that claimed the grocery store put slurs on his birthday cake.
          There are so many, it's difficult to remember them all.

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          • #6
            Means nothing, years ago I recall seeing a sign peppered with buckshot along I-30 outside of Arkadelphia indicating the next exit led to the boyhood home of Bill Clinton.

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            • #7
              Red Lives Matter

              When the government pays, the government controls.

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              • #8
                Every damn sign outside if city limits was peppered when I was growing up.

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