royal17h ago

I've been listening to Wright Thompson's book The Barn. It's very hard to listen to, and an excellent book.

One thing led to another, and I found this snippet from the writer in an Atlantic article. As a southerner, I cannot tell you how biting and insightful this is.

Source: https://archive.is/91QGh#selection-813.0-824.0

#mississippi #theSouth #wrightThompson #emmettTill

Show threadKonstantin Mar 4
1955 wurde der 14-jährige Emmett Till in Mississippi gelyncht, weil er einer weißen Frau angeblich nachgepfiffen hatte. Seine Mörder wurden freigesprochen. Seine Mutter zeigte seinen Körper in einem offenen Sarg – die Welt sah das Grauen. #EmmettTill #Bürgerrechte 2/
z_4narchistFeb 6
yes. the way language is used matters, especially when its being used as a weapon...

...when emmett till was murdered, they said "a black man was lynched"....but #emmetttill was a 14 year old boy. a child...who was brutally murdered and mutilated...for doing kid shit.

...the tyrants use words craftily to infantilize us as adults to manufacture an image of us as under or undeveloped that excuses our neglect, abuse, and enslavement by their hands....and then adultify our children to enforce an image that removes even the concept of our innocence or needs for protection that "allows" for them all manner of dehumanizing, cruel, and murderous acts against us...no matter our gender, age, or lack of wrongdoings...
The USA PotatoJan 8

Mamie Till-Mobley Refused to Let Her Son, Emmett Till, Be Forgotten

A new anthology marking the 70th anniversary of Emmett Till’s murder aims to stir action against white supremacy.

https://murica.website/2026/01/mamie-till-mobley-refused-to-let-her-son-emmett-till-be-forgotten/

Mamie Till-Mobley Refused to Let Her Son, Emmett Till, Be Forgotten – The USA Potato

George GarnerDec 8
The Emmett Till Interpretive Center purchased the Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till was murdered in 1955, thanks to a $1.5 million donation from Shonda Rhimes. The barn will be preserved as a sacred site and transformed into a public memorial by 2030. #EmmettTill #CivilRights #MississippiHistory https://mississippitoday.org/2025/11/24/barn-emmett-till-sacred-site/
Andi ChorleyOct 2, 2025

Freedom Highway is a 1965 album by The Staple Singers. The title song was written for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights and reflects not only on the actions of the activists but what suffering they had endured to get there, even referencing the murder of Emmett Till at Tallahatchie River. The lyrics begin “March up freedom's highway / March, each and every day.” and continue “Made up my mind / And I won't turn around." Mavis Staples reprised the song in 2008 on Live: Hope at the Hideout, which was released on November 4, 2008, the same day that Barack Obama won the presidential election.

Staples, joined by Jeff Tweedy, performed "Freedom Highway" on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert at Chicago's Auditorium Theater on August 22, 2024, on the occasion of the closing night of the Democratic National Convention. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZaCrcBaQI4&list=RDXZaCrcBaQI4&start_radio=1

#staplesingers #civilrightstruggle #emmetttill #selmatomontgomery #freedommarch #marvisstaples #gospel #soul #music

Wittgenstein's MonsterSep 23, 2025

📅 September 23, 1955
An all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted Roy Bryant & J.W. Milam for the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

Decades later, we remember Ahmaud Arbery, murdered while jogging in Georgia.

#Murder #EmmettTill #AhmaudArbery #ThisDayInHistory #BlackLivesMatter #SayHisName #Poetry #NeverForget #AbolishWhiteSupremacy

The Heart of the TARDISSep 15, 2025
Remember Emmett Till's monument #hulkhogan #emmetttill #politics #monument #grave
Steve Dustcircle 🌹Aug 29, 2025

Could #EmmettTill’s Coffin Be Erased From the #Smithsonian?

Seventy years after Till’s murder, the #antiwoke war on the #NMAAHC raises an unthinkable question

https://wordinblack.com/2025/08/emmett-till-coffin-erased-from-smithsonian/

#racist #racism #BLM #Blackhistory #POTUS

Could Emmett Till’s Coffin Be Erased From the Smithsonian?

Seventy years after Till's murder, the anti-woke war on the NMAAHC raises an unthinkable question.

Word In Black
John AutryAug 28, 2025
On this day in 1955, fourteen year old Emmett Till was abducted and lynched by Roy Bryant & J. W. Milam for offending Carolyn Bryant, a white woman. Till's mutilated body was discovered 3 days later in the Tallahatchie River. In September of '55 an all white jury found Bryant & Milam not guilty of Till's murder.
#EmmettTill