Ep. 631 - Arrest Carolyn Bryant Donham IMMEDIATELY for the murder of Emmett Till - then figure the rest out later.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
After 67 years, an unexecuted arrest warrant for the woman that helped get Emmett Till lynched has been found. And I have SO many questions.
This much I am clear on. Arrest this woman, RIGHT NOW.
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| 0:00.0 | Yesterday, we learned that deep down in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse was an arrest warrant |
| 0:11.6 | for Carolyn Bryant Dunham that was never executed. That name is not familiar to you, that is the woman |
| 0:19.7 | that wrongly accused a teenage boy in essence of sexual harassment. His name is Emmett too. |
| 0:30.1 | She said that Emmett not only whistled at her but said some things. She has later said that she made |
| 0:36.8 | all of that up. Of course, those were the words that literally got Emmett killed. And now we know for sure |
| 0:46.8 | that there was actually an arrest warrant issued for her that was never executed. Why it's just now |
| 0:55.5 | being found makes my blood boil. This was 67 years ago. That's what we're talking about right now. |
| 1:04.7 | And if anything, what it tells me is all the people that claim that they have investigated this case |
| 1:13.2 | and have tried to look at this case from many different ways, I am questioning how serious any of them, |
| 1:21.1 | including the Biden administration, ever were. Let me unpack and explain it. This is important. |
| 1:26.7 | This is Sean King and you are listening to the breakdown. I've said this many times but the |
| 1:50.0 | United States is a very frustrating, exhausting place. And so many times in life and on this podcast |
| 2:01.5 | on social media, you'll hear me say my blood is boiling. And today is one of those days |
| 2:09.0 | because one of the ugliest, most egregious actions to ever happen in modern American history. |
| 2:17.6 | And we're talking about a country that has a lot of ugliness on its name was the brutal, |
| 2:27.5 | disgusting lynching of a teenage boy named Emmett Till. Kind sweet soul, who would still be alive |
| 2:37.6 | today, who would probably be a grandfather in Chicago, a great grandfather in Chicago, |
| 2:43.8 | who's peers, who's family is still alive, still fighting for justice in spite of the fact |
| 2:52.0 | that this boy was lynched 67 years ago. And he was lynched deep in the heart of Mississippi, |
| 3:01.2 | there on summer vacation as black families throughout the country would often do they would return |
| 3:08.0 | south during the summer and spend time with their country cousins. And it's just a black tradition. |
| 3:17.1 | When you had moved up to New York or Chicago or even Ohio or other places, |
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