President Biden is expected to mark a proclamation Tuesday creating what will be a national memorial in honor of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black teenager from Chicago who kidnapped, tortured and ultimately murdered in Mississippi in 1955, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
He even visited his circle of relatives in Mississippi when he accused through a white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, of whistling at him and making sexual advances.
His bulleted, brutalized frame pierced a cotton gin fan and threw it into the Tallahatchie River.
Two white men, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, Bryant’s half-brother, were charged with murder and later acquitted by an all-white jury.
In a paid interview a few months later, they confessed to the horrific crime.
The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will encompass 3 sites in Illinois and Mississippi, a White House official who wished to remain anonymous told The Associated Press.
On Tuesday, Emmett Till would have had his birthday.
When his young body was recovered from the Tallahatchie, his mother, Mamie, insisted that a coffin be opened so the world could see what had happened to her son, a provocative and heartbreaking gesture that many helped galvanize the civil rights movement.
According to the AP, the soon-to-be-announced memorial “will be central to the story of Till’s life and death. “
In February, Biden hosted a screening of the film “Till,” which chronicles Emmett’s short film and his tragic and violent death.
He is the boy’s sickening homicide to the brutal death of 29-year-old Tire Nichols at the hands of five black Memphis police officers.
Biden’s speech, delivered during Black History Month, was perceived by many as a hypocritical attempt to flatter black voters.
– BizPac Review (@BIZPACReview) February 19, 2023
“You know, before 14-year-old Emmett Till stopped at his circle of relatives in Mississippi, Ms. Till, an instructor who knew the story, reminded him, ‘Be very careful with the way you speak. Say ‘yes, sir’, ‘no, ma’am’. Don’t hesitate to humble yourself if you have to kneel,” Biden began, recalling a scene from the film.
“This verbal exchange does not belong to the distant past,” the president said. “The same speech today. So many black and brown families: parents want to have this similar verbal exchange with their children, worry about whether they’re going to come home after walking down the street or playing in the park or just driving their car, as we saw Tire Nichols last month, and he’s the victim of too many acts of hate and violence unleashed against people known and unknown.
He went on to say that he “became interested in the civil rights motion as a public defender, as my colleagues know, when I was a kid coming out of law school. And I think it’s possible that we’ll defeat hate, us, because we passed the Civil Rights Act and a lot of other things. “
Critics have denied Biden’s repeated claim that he is actively involved in the movement.
The RNC even provided, in September 2022, a video clip of Biden in 1987 that obviously said, “I’m not an activist. “
Meanwhile, Biden has been accused of making a multitude of blatantly racist comments over the years, and has praised a former KKK member, Sen. Robert Byrd.
But Biden is the only one who invokes the call of the Tills when it is politically expedient.
In May, after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga. ) recalled how she harassed a black Democratic lawmaker who governed her, California Gov. Gavin Newsom accused her of “blatant racism,” saying, “This is the kind of harmful rhetoric that led to Emmett Till’s death. “
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And the monument announcement will stick to a racist claim by Vice President Kamala Harris that “in the state of Florida, schoolchildren would be informed that slaves benefited from slavery. “
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