Comments on: Emmett Till, Yes MLK Jr. Memorial…

By: Ramses

Ramses — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 06:23:43 +0000

Why do you black people focus on pain all the time….damn….you’ll are some depressing ass people for real…talk about some accomplishments like Hannibal defeating the Roman armies, or the Moors civilizing what’s known as Europe, or the scientific exploits of Kemet (Egypt) or Reginald Lewis the brother who became a billionaire with Beatrice Foods. It’s always pain. Damn. My professor told me in 2006 when you talk about black people you are dealing with a sick people. She wasn’t lying. All they talk about traumatic events like they went through it. None of you’ll were in these situations so why do you keep talking about it? And don’t say we need to remember. No we don’t we need to forget the pain and celebrate the accomplishments for once. All we know is taking ass whippings. Celebrate Ben Carson or Benjamin Banneker (who devised Washington using Moorish Science). This is why you can’t move forward.

By: anna

anna — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:41:32 +0000

this was sooooo very very sad and i honsetly dont think that this is all what happend i think that people are picking around and around the true story and eventually that so sad

By: Sheldon Kaye

Sheldon Kaye — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:39:26 +0000

Finally Emmett Till’s glass-dome coffin — through which many thousands viewed his mangeled and beaten body when is mother sent it on tour throughout the country — is going to be properly preserved at the Smithsonian.

Emmett was buried at Burr Oak Cemetery — the old Negro burial ground in Alsip, outside Chicago. That’s where in 2009 they uncovered a massive grave desecration scandal. Graves were dug up, double-stacked and destroyed. The destruction was allegedly part of an elaborate scheme to resell the plots by a cemetery manager and three workers. During the investigation they discovered Emmett Till’s coffin, rusted and rotting, in a back shed. Ethic Soup has some good posts on this, including:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/07/where-is-emmett-tills-coffin-where-are-the-babyland-graves-.html

and

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/08/emmett-till-can-finally-rest-in-peace-coffin-saved-forever-in-smithsonian.html