Your reply had nothing to do with the point I was making.Peter Kropotkin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:33 pmK: the Emmit Till case was not shocking at the time and wasn't forseeds wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:13 pmNo, Kropotkin, the most "shocking" thing of that trial is that OJ was acquitted.Peter Kropotkin wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:09 am
...the brutal murder of those two, was perhaps the most shocking event in the 1990's...
Is Kropotkin caught in some kind of "white-out" storm that has blinded him to history? Or, is he simply the victim of a severe case of tunnel vision?Peter Kropotkin wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:09 am what is justice? the OJ case brought us to a new understanding of what
is justice, that continues to this day... that wealthy, famous people can
get away with murder, actual murder...
Kropotkin
Have you never heard of Emmit Till?
For it is clear that one doesn't need to be "wealthy" nor "famous" to get away with a brutal murder...
And here are his murderers after being found not guilty by a jury of their (all-white, all-male) Mississippi (good-ol'-boy) peers...
They even admitted to doing it later on, yet still no justice.
All because the 14-year-old child - Emmit Till - whistled at the white woman in the right-hand side of the above photo.
I can't help but imagine that the brazen injustice of the Emmit Till case (along with innumerable other cases like it) contributed to the reason why some black folks were glad OJ was found not guilty of killing some white folks.
All of which has helped fuel the growth of the necrotizing karma that is eating-away at the soul of America.
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a long time after... it became shocking decades after the fact...
it was typical of the violence that whites engaged with....
it wasn't a new thing, and it didn't end there... his death was in
1955 and the white violence against the blacks continued into
the 1960's... it was seen as just more of the same...
this according to my mom, who was married to my father, who
owned a newspaper at the time...
I was born in 1959, I didn't hear about Emmit Till well into the
1980's... did his death help contribute the civil rights movement
of the 1960's, yes, yes, it did... but it certainly wasn't front and center
of the civil rights movement during the 60's...
the very fact there was no ''justice'' tells us the mindset of those
years... we are offended today about Emmit Till, but that
wasn't until years after the fact...
Kropotkin
You initially implied that if one is "wealthy and famous," one can get away with murder ("actual murder"), to which I simply supplied a clear example where murder can be gotten away with by non-wealthy and non-famous people.
In fact, our poor and obscure (non-famous) soldiers do it all the time, as they murder thousands of innocent people on our behalf.
You, of course, are probably not "shocked" by that because you probably don't recognize it as being "murder" (but it most certainly is murder).
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