Matt McKeon
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Emmett Till, as I'm sure, everyone knows, was a fourteen year old boy who was lynched in a particularly brutal way in the 1950s. This atrocity was a spark of the Civil Rights Movement. There has been a plaque here where his body was recovered for several years.
Although many people are vehement about the real or imagined threats to Confederate statues, little has been said about the racists who have been making the pilgrimage to Till's plaque to shoot holes in it for years. Its been replaced repeatedly. Recently a quartet of fraternity brothers from ole Miss posed proudly next to the bullet pocked monument still clutching their guns. Now a new monument, advertised as bulletproof has been unveiled, since people aren't getting any smarter.
Although many people are vehement about the real or imagined threats to Confederate statues, little has been said about the racists who have been making the pilgrimage to Till's plaque to shoot holes in it for years. Its been replaced repeatedly. Recently a quartet of fraternity brothers from ole Miss posed proudly next to the bullet pocked monument still clutching their guns. Now a new monument, advertised as bulletproof has been unveiled, since people aren't getting any smarter.