OT: Carolyn Bryant, the woman who accused Emmett Till of whistling at her, is dead.
Ding dong, the racist pig is dead
,https://nypost.com/2023/04/27/carolyn-bryant-donham-woman-at-center-of-emmett-till-killing-dies/
Carolyn Bryant, the woman who accused Emmett Till of whistling at her thus provoking her violently racist husband and brother-in-law to torture and kill the 14 year old child, has died.
I hope that she spends all of eternity in the lowest level of Hell.
I highly recommend “The Blood of Emmett Till” by Timothy Tyson. Some interesting information on the case.
you're probably correct that she probably didn't suffer as much as emmitt till.
What ever she suffered it paled in comparison to Emmit and his family. So, not enough.
Not to mention, whatever she may have suffered was richly deserved, though inadequate, and self-inflicted.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:51 PM ^
Nice. The front desk at Hell is busy today.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:52 PM ^
Seems like a good place for this news.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:57 PM ^
As opposed to news about Jerry Springer dying?
Come on, Sal. You know which one is more of a cultural touchstone.
No not opposed. In unison.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:56 PM ^
Her punishment in hell will be to attend all of Jerry Springer’s shows and tapings for eternity
LOL, and watching the NFL draft in its entirety as orientation...Robot Chicken intro style.
A particularly loathsome person, but unfortunately the history of lynchings is filled with people just like her and her relatives.
Justice never served
However,karma has no deadline.
I can't bring myself to celebrate someone's death, just my personal worldview and heart on the matter.
That being said, the Emmett Till story is one of the saddest things I've ever read and it should be taught in schools where it isn't. How someone could do that to another human is heartbreaking and as a father of two, I couldn't imagine being his parent. God bless that entire family and I smile at the thought that those three were reunited after their time here on earth was finished.
I agree with your sentiment about never celebrating someone's death, except that one time:
I'd submit that death is a natural part of the cycle of life. It is also critical to the biological and social evolution and survival of our species. Let the old racists die and be replaced by children raised in a tolerant society.
The whitewashing of history education is a troubling development though-- the young people may never hear the story, or the correct story anyway of Emmett Till. Hard to learn from what one has never heard.
Emmett should be celebrating his 82nd birthday this year.
Good riddance
Congrats to all of those who wished death on this woman.
Found 'em.
Edit: And they removed the part about saying this woman was hounded her whole life for reporting sexual assualt.
Which is true, but not the point
Thanks! We've been waiting for a while
Meh...karma has no deadline.
I'm not picky...also patient.
So that's what, 68 years in which she could have (at the very least) issued a public apology and never did?
Justice was never served, good riddance to her.
Watched the movie, Till, I hope she was in extreme pain when she passed, what a horrible person!
As a white guy was in MS once. Plane hit by lightening leaving Houston to Jackson. Plane was grounded in Jackson and had to stay over at motel near airport. Came down with a bad case of the flu. The African-American staff, primarily the cleaning staff, took great care of me for 3 days. Checked in frequently, brought me soup and drink and were wonderful people.
The timing of this post is amazing.
I just finished reading The Trees by Percival Everett where the killing of Emmett Till is a central part of the (fictional) story. It is easily one of my favorite new books I’ve read it years.
I clicked this thread just to recommend the same book. It was really amazing.
Love this message board sometimes. I'll check this book out! Thank you!
I loved it so much that I'm going to drop my other reading plans and read "I Am Not Sidney Poitier" next. Everett really has a knack for cutting/dark humor and subtle social commentary. The ending of The Trees still has me thinking.
That's on my shortlist too, now. I also picked up a used copy of Erasure but haven't started it yet. I had never heard of Everett until recently. I'm in a reading group that does the Booker Longlist each year.
That's a lot of good reading. I only read 4 from the longlist. I really liked The Colony from that list too.
Yeah, that one was good too. My other favorite from this year was Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Very different from Trees, but really good if you haven't read it.
Looks like my library has it. I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting books.
You won't regret it.
Thanks Quattro!
If one goes to Memphis, I can highly recommend The National Civil Rights Museum which is housed in The Lorraine Hotel and ends up in the preserved room where MLK was assassinated.
It is a very moving site and a cold reminder of our flawed past and sadly our current state of deep seeded bigotry and racism ( and not just in the deep South).
I recommend the American Experience documentary The Murder of Emmett TIll
One of the worst, most shameful examples of pitiful human behavior that I can think of. May Emmett Till rest in peace.
I have vague memories of driving through Mississippi 40 years ago, but two things still stand out: how poor some of the people are and how molded by racism some are.
We drove past houses with barefoot and pantless children. The houses were just shacks.
Then outside a store I came across an elderly black man and his whole demeanor was one of submissiveness. I think he called me, a white teenager from Michigan," sir."
Good. Peeing on her grave is now on my bucket list.
WTF. Go Blue
May she rest in a lake of piss, with a Japanese Giant Hornet inside her mouth.
April 27th, 2023 at 11:26 PM ^
Is there a Michigan connection to this? Great news even bad people die but if no Michigan connection, this being board worthy opens the forum to multiple daily posts about all kinds of stuff
April 27th, 2023 at 11:51 PM ^
Pleasantly surprised to see most of the MGoMAGAs wisely stayed away from this thread
April 28th, 2023 at 11:26 AM ^
I was about 9 or 10 visiting family in Georgia, my mother was born there but raised in Tiffin, OH at an orphanage. I was out playing with some kids my age and we were talking about school. It came about in that conversation that one of them said "you go to school with n-----r's?" It struck me as something I just could not understand, and still don't to this day, some 50 years later.