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Squires: 'Till' shows why history should be explored for timeless truths, not exploited for political gain
I did not plan on seeing the film "Till" when I first heard a movie was being made about the gruesome murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. I felt no need to subject myself to yet another exercise in “racial trauma porn” dressed up as a history lesson. Some of these films, including "12 Years a Slave" and "Selma," achieved critical acclaim, racking up multiple honors at film festivals and awards shows.
My skepticism was rooted in the belief that the film would be used to advance the “Selma syndrome” that is so prevalent in today’s political culture. I fully expected this movie to be used as an October surprise right before the midterms to make black voters feel like the ghosts of the Jim Crow South will rise again if they allow Republicans to win key races state and congressional races.
But I was wrong. The film focused on a dark moment in American history without overtly pushing a political agenda.
"Till" was about Emmett Till (nicknamed “Bo” by his family) as told through the eyes of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. The film captures their close relationship and the balance she struck as a mom trying to protect her son from a world in which the word “nigger” was used as casually as a person’s first name while allowing him to be the playful child his family knew and loved.
Without giving away too many details, the movie dealt with Emmett Till’s abduction and lynching without gratuitous violence. Much of the film was about his mother’s decision to both pursue justice for her son and allow his brutal death – and the acquittal of the men who killed him – to serve as an important national call to action in the civil rights movement.
The film was a stark reminder of what American social life was like for black Americans 70 years ago and how much progress we have made as a nation since then. Given the political battles over critical race theory and how American history is taught in schools, "Till" confirms and challenges ideas about race that have become entrenched on both sides of the political spectrum.
Race was obviously a major theme throughout the film, but the caste system common in the South went far beyond segregated water fountains. Perhaps one of the most gripping examples of how the shackles of racism handcuffed black Americans in the South was the fact that Emmett's uncle, known as “Preacher,” felt powerless to stop the men who abducted his nephew. When I saw that scene, my first thought was “Where is his gun?”
It wasn’t until later in the film that we learn Preacher kept a long gun by the front door but refused to use it. Mamie Till asked him why he didn’t use it. His answer was gut-wrenching: “If I had shot them, they would have killed all of mine.”
Preacher believed that using his gun to defend his nephew would have put his own wife and children in serious danger, so he let the men take Emmett.
Few things are as demoralizing as the inability to protect your family from physical harm. One of the reasons I’m so passionate about fatherhood is because for many years, the legal system and social custom stripped black men of their natural right to protect their families. The sad irony is now black preachers are often the ones creating theological justifications for the organizations and people who want to kill children.
Black clergymen like William Barber II and Jamal Bryant and gospel singer William Murphy are just as emasculated as Preacher was in the film. That is the only word to describe a man who won’t raise a hand – or his voice – to protect his family.
They are a far cry from the black preachers of the past who fought for civil rights because they believed that all people are created in God’s image. The black church of that era served as a moral compass for a country struggling to reconcile its professed Christian ideals with the mistreatment of fellow image-bearers based on skin color.
Ultimately, "Till" struck the right balance between history and dignity. I hope the gravity of Emmett Till’s murder will discourage self-serving politicians from using his name to draw a comparison between their critics and the lynch mob that kidnapped and killed a teenage boy. History should be explored to learn about the past, not exploited in the present for personal or political gain.Whitlock: Evangelicals must confront the black KKK
Rachel Richardson, the now infamous Duke volleyball player who falsely accused BYU fans of racial taunts, has been analogized to Jussie Smollett.
The analogy falls short. Richardson is more Carolyn Bryant than Smollett.
Of course, we all remember Smollett. In 2019, the "Empire" actor planned, paid for, and executed a racial hoax in the city of Chicago. Enhanced fortune and fame sparked Smollett to accuse white Trump supporters of assault and attempted kidnapping.
In 1955, when Bryant unwittingly set in motion the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, she had no delusions of fame and fortune. Mississippi’s pervasive culture of anti-black racial animus motivated her actions. She accused a young black boy of disrespectful behavior because that was the custom of the time.
Nearly seven decades later, America has adopted a different custom and a different racial animus. The culture rewards and abets anti-white racial animus. Racist political elites, primarily members of the Democratic Party, have once again rigged the system to favor a specific group based on skin color.
They call it equity. It works just the same as the “entitlement” that justified Jim Crow Laws 70 years ago. When Carolyn Bryant was 21, she lived in a world that told her white people were entitled to special treatment that placed them above blacks, Asians, Latinos, and everyone else. Richardson, at age 19, lives in a cocoon of bigotry that tells her black people are owed special treatment above their peers.
Lesa Pamplin, Richardson’s godmother, is an unrepentant bigot. Pamplin ignited the Duke-BYU racial controversy when she posted tweets accusing BYU students of taunting Richardson with the N-word throughout the entirety of the volleyball match.
Pamplin is a Democrat politician running for office in Texas. She was not in attendance at the volleyball match. She repeated the story her goddaughter told her. Pamplin’s tweet summoned the racial lynch mob. LeBron James, Stephen A. Smith, Dawn Staley, Ben Crump, and many others joined the manhunt to lynch BYU and its students.
The mob zeroed in on a special-needs kid who briefly interacted with Richardson after the game. With no evidence and no investigation, the mob was satisfied with smearing a special-needs kid and BYU as mistreating Rachel Richardson.
The autistic kid and BYU represent whiteness. We live in a time when it’s appropriate and fashionable to assume the worst of white people. The negative assumptions are taught in school under the pretense of critical race theory.
Modern American culture programs us to hate white people, much the same way the 1950s programmed Carolyn Bryant to hate black people.
You can see the impact of the programming far beyond teenage volleyball players. Virtually every day social media circulates a viral video featuring young black people violently attacking a white person. It’s the predictable and natural boomerang to the George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Eric Garner videos.
Newton’s third law applies. For every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction.
The problem is, as it relates to violent crime videos, the reaction isn’t equal. It’s disproportionate. White police officers and white people do not violently attack black people at the same rate as black people attack white people.
Over the last 70 years, partially in reaction to the murder of Emmett Till, white people have been programmed to reduce their racial animus toward black people.
Democrats won’t tell black people that historical fact. They keep black voters loyal by telling them that nothing has changed since 1955. That’s why Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and other Democrats brag about passing anti-lynching laws in 2022. Lynching black people hasn’t been a thing in this country for sixty years.
Democrats want black people to believe the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers are the new KKK. But there’s no evidence. With the prevalence of cell phones, you’d think we’d have video of the Proud Boys burning a cross or the Oath Keepers beating a black man.
All we have is Joe Biden’s word that white racists are the greatest threat to our democracy. Democrats' supporting evidence is that on January 6, white men wanted to kidnap and hang Mike Pence, who is a white Republican, and a black police officer shot an unarmed white woman.
Doesn’t that sound just like the KKK?
Meanwhile, over the same 70-year period, the leftists in charge of America’s educational system have programmed black people to believe white people are responsible for the success and failure of black people and that white people are inherently anti-black.
Even worse, Democrats have convinced black people that religious faith and biblical morality should be abandoned for political power. When you add in the destruction of the nuclear family, you’ve created a lethal Molotov cocktail of racial destruction.
Racial hatred + secularism + absentee fathers = a black KKK.
That’s what the viral videos depict. Democrats have created a new KKK. I could show you an endless stream of videos that look like this and this and this. I could review Darrell Brooks driving through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Or we could talk about the murder of Ethan Liming in Akron, Ohio. The response will be, “What about the Buffalo mass shooter who targeted black people? What about Dylan Roof, who killed black church congregants?”
Those events are far more rare than what we’re witnessing on a daily basis. The stats are overwhelming. Here’s a link to research on interracial violent crime rates. It’s taken from 2018. There are more than 500,000 instances of black-on-white violent crime and just 60,000 instances of white-on-black violent crime.
We’re ignoring a national epidemic. The left preaches racial hatred, secularism, and the destruction of the patriarchy. No God, no fathers, and racial entitlement produce chaos, anarchy, and violence.
Evangelicals must call out and confront the black KKK the same way our forefathers boldly stood against the white KKK Democrats empowered long ago.
Jason Whitlock compares 'groundless' BYU racial heckling allegations to lies that 'got Emmett Till killed'
BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock on Monday compared the discredited story that a Brigham Young University fan hurled racial slurs at a black Duke volleyball player to the false allegations made against Emmett Till, a black boy who was brutally murdered in 1955 in Mississippi after a white woman claimed he had harassed her.
In an appearance on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Whitlock lambasted the mainstream media coverage of an alleged racial incident at an Aug. 26 volleyball match. A non-student fan was banned by BYU officials after the family of Rachel Richardson, a Duke volleyball player, claimed she had been called the N-word multiple times during the game.
On Sept. 9, BYU said it had completed an investigation into the alleged incident and concluded there was no evidence that anything inappropriate was shouted. The school lifted the ban on the fan who was falsely accused of hurling racial slurs.
"This story never made sense. From day one, it was obvious this young woman's godmother, with her own racist past over social media, concocted, exaggerated this," Whitlock told Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
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He accused biased news reporters of seizing on "fake racial incidents" to cover for the "anti-black racism" of the Democratic Party. Whitlock accused Democrats of telling faith-based black voters they must "hop on board with every satanic movement" when it comes to abortion and transgender issues.
"If you understand the history of black people, there's nothing more racist than that," Whitlock said. "They don't want to talk about that. They want to talk about these make-believe scenarios that never made an ounce of sense."
He continued: "This game was televised. This volleyball match was televised, no one made a sound. No one looked in the stands. No one acted as if anybody was being heckled [with] racial slurs. This was a game of telephone between this 19-year-old girl and her godmother, and the media just ran with it."
Whitlock concluded by comparing the controversy to the lynching of Emmett Till. Till was a 14-year-old black boy who, in 1955, was brutally murdered by two white men after Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, said Till had groped her, made crude remarks, and wolf-whistled at her. Till's murderers, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were found not guilty of the crime by an all-white jury but confessed to the crime a year later in 1956. They were not retried. Decades later, Bryant admitted the accusations were false.
"This to me, Tucker, is no different than the Carolyn Bryant woman in 1955 in Mississippi," he said. "This type of accusation, groundless accusation, is what got Emmett Till killed. And at BYU, they originally accused a special needs young man of doing this without any evidence, based off this woman's word ... her godmother, who wasn't there, and her father, who wasn't there. They gathered up a lynch mob and blamed it on this 19-year-old kid.
"These guys don't want to end racism. They want to cover up their own racism and then impose racism on people they don't like."
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Whitlock: Bigoted LeBron James promises DNC –Dead Negroes Confederacy – to remain silent on Emmett Till 2.0 murder
Five years ago, LeBron James claimed a vandal spray-painted the N-word on the gate of his Brentwood, California, mansion.
At the time of the alleged incident, James and his family primarily resided in Cleveland, and James was in Oakland participating in the NBA Finals. James’ employees removed and painted over the racist graffiti before police arrived and could investigate.
Nevertheless, when discussing the “crime” from the NBA’s highest platform, James analogized what he and his family experienced to the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955 for whistling at a white woman.
“It just goes to show that racism will always be a part of the world, a part of America,” James said at the 2017 NBA Finals. “And hate in America, especially for African-Americans, is living every day. And even though that it’s concealed most of the time, even though people hide their faces and will say things about you, and when they see you they smile in your face. It’s alive every single day.
“I think back to Emmett Till’s mom, actually. It’s kind of one of the first things I thought of. The reason that she had an open casket is because she wanted to show the world what her son went through as far as a hate crime and being black in America. No matter how much money you have, no matter how famous you are, no matter how many people admire you, being black in America is tough.”
Spray-painted graffiti that LeBron James and his family never personally saw made LeBron think of the pain Mamie Till felt over the murder of her teenage son.
James, in my opinion, was lying. The hate he whined about was a hoax intended to garner sympathy and elevate his brand as a social justice warrior. I believed that in 2017, and I believe it even more today, analyzing his reaction to the murder of Ethan Liming in the parking lot of James’ celebrated, Akron, Ohio, I Promise School.
Liming and his family have far more in common with Emmett and Mamie Till than LeBron James ever will.
Two weeks ago today, three men beat Liming, a 17-year-old honor-roll student, to death near an outdoor basketball court at I Promise School. Liming is white. His accused assailants are black.
Liming and three friends were joyriding in his car and shooting a water paintball gun. They stopped at I Promise School. Two of Liming’s friends – two black teenagers – got out of the car with the water gun and approached four men playing basketball. According to initial reports, Liming’s friends fired the water gun at the men. Three of the men chased Liming’s friends back to Liming’s car. Liming, a 6-foot-1 football and baseball player, stepped out of the car and tried to calm the situation. He was attacked. The three men beat him brutally. According to witness statements and the police report, the assailants punched and kicked Liming after he was knocked unconscious on the ground.
The assailants then allegedly prevented Liming’s friends from rushing him to a hospital. The assailants snatched one of the teenager’s cellphones as they tried to call for help, took Liming’s car keys, and moved his car to the opposite side of the parking lot. Liming’s third friend ran away from the scene and called police. When police arrived, Liming was dead. Approximately a week later, law enforcement arrested the three assailants. They’ve been charged with murder and sit in jail on $1 million bonds.
A quick recap: Two black kids shot a water paintball gun at four black men, sparking a confrontation outside a white kid’s car. The white kid attempted to calm the situation. Three black men beat him to death in the parking lot of the school fronted by a high-profile racial justice warrior, the Muhammad Ali of the 21st century.
Here’s what LeBron James has had to say about the incident:
“Our condolences goes out to the family who lost a loved one!! My the heavens above watch over you during this tragedy! Pray for our community!”
His heartfelt, grammatically challenged tweet included heart and crown emojis. There was no mention of Emmett or Mamie Till. No mention of racial hatred.
Five black kids got in a fight, and the white kid who initially acted as peacemaker got killed. What would LeBron tweet if a black child was brutally beaten by three white men at I Promise School?
He would analogize it to Emmett Till and compare 2022 America to 1955 America. What happened to Ethan Liming is similar to what happened to Till. Till was allegedly trying to amuse his friends when he whistled at Carolyn Bryant, a white shopkeeper. Days later, when told of the incident, Bryant’s husband turned a would-be harmless joke into a murder that rocked America.
The water-gun horseplay of Liming’s black friends sparked his murder. Deshawn Stafford, 20, Tyler Stafford, 19, and Donovan Jones, 21 – the accused assailants – turned a harmless prank into a murder that LeBron James and his media sychophants want to ignore.
LeBron wore a hoodie to protest the death of Trayvon Martin, a teenage boy in Sanford, Florida. LeBron ranted that black people are hunted every day after two white men shot Ahmaud Arbery. LeBron put a target on the back of a white Ohio police officer after he shot a teenage black girl who was attempting to stab a black woman.
LeBron has smoke for everyone white he believes wrongly takes a life. He has nothing substantive to say when black people take lives. LeBron James is a stereotypical bigot. Racial bigotry, of any stripe, is rooted in lust for power. The KKK terrorized black and white people who failed to support the racist policies of the Democratic Party. That’s not an opinion. It’s a historical fact.
LeBron is a political soldier for the Democratic Party. His bigotry is rooted in lust for political power. Democrats have painted their political opponents as bigots. It’s LeBron’s job to promote that narrative. He pounces on every high-profile opportunity, and he’s not above going the Jussie Smollett route and creating faux hate crime.
He analogized himself to Mamie Till at the behest of his political puppet masters. He will never address the family dysfunction and chaos that leads far too many black boys and men to settle conflict with deadly violence. The DNC – the Dead Negroes Confederacy – loves dead negroes. The DNC forbids its constituents to publicly discuss the pervasive violence that plagues black communities.
That issue is to be ignored until it magically disappears due to indifference.
LeBron is indifferent to the violence that killed Ethan Liming. LeBron, like many leftists, expects black men to randomly kill.
Virginia Lt. Gov. says rival Dem 'treated me like George Floyd' by calling for his resignation after assault claims
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) has accused his primary rival in the race for governor of treating him "like George Floyd," for joining calls for Fairfax to resign after allegations of sexual assault surfaced against him.
What are the details?
During a gubernatorial debate Tuesday night, Fairfax and the other candidates on the stage took aim at Democrat Terry McAuliffe — who was governor of the Commonwealth from 2014 to 2018 — in an attempt to "diminish his support from Black voters," The New York Times reported.
But Fairfax made the most waves with his attack, in the comparisons he made recalling that McAuliffe publicly called for him to step down in 2019 after two separate women came forward accusing the lieutenant governor of sexual assault.
"Everyone here on this stage called for my immediate resignation, including Terry McAuliffe three minutes after a press release came out," Fairfax said Tuesday night.
"He treated me like George Floyd, he treated me like Emmett Till, no due process, immediately assumed my guilt," he asserted.
George Floyd died in police custody in late May after then-Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was seen on video kneeling on Floyd's neck. Chauvin is currently on trial for murder and manslaughter charges in connection with Floyd's death.
The Hill noted that Emmett Till was a black 14-year-old "who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after he was accused of offending a white woman."
McAuliffe did not respond to the attack on the stage, and his campaign has not yet responded to requests for comment from multiple outlets.
How are people reacting?
Folks on Twitter largely reacted to the Times' report on Fairfax's remarks by pointing out that the lieutenant governor is still alive to make them.
"If you're alive to make this comparison, then there is no comparison...ridiculous assertion," one person wrote.
Another replied, "I'm sorry but both Emmett Till and George Floyd are DEAD, and neither of them sexually assaulted anyone. That is uncalled for!"
Someone else, however, said this is not the first time such a comparison has been made, tweeting, "Clarence Thomas wrote the playbook on this kind of attack when he called the Anita Hill hearing a 'high tech lynching.'"
Anything else?
Also participating in the hourlong, debate at Virginia State University were former Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy, Del. Lee Carter, and state Sen. Jennifer McClellan. Virginia's gubernatorial primary election is set for June 8, with early voting starting on April 23.
The Washington Examiner noted that "Virginia is the only state restricting governors to a single term at a time," meaning current Gov. Ralph Northam (D) cannot run for re-election to a consecutive term.
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