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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 798 - For 68 straight years America failed the family of Emmett Till

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

On some days I hate this place that we almost jokingly call "The United" States of America. United in what? Its determination to not make right its wrongs? From 1955 until 2023 this nation had endless chances to try to provide a semblance of justice and accountability to the family of Emmett Till, but for 68 straight years, every DA, every prosecutor, every Attorney General, every staff of the DOJ, and every presidential administration that had a chance to do right by this family, REFUSED TO DO SO. My best guess is that in the years ahead, now that no single living human being that participated in the lynching of Emmett Till is around to be held accountable, the government will eventually tell us what it should have done and offer an empty apology. The whole ordeal is about the most American thing I think we will ever know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yesterday we learned that the woman who falsely accused all the way back in 1955,

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falsely accused a teenage boy named Emmett Till of whistling at her,

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which she later recanted and said never happened.

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She died at the age of 88, and many of us were frustrated, I think, as the right word.

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About her death, because she was the last known involved person in the brutal lynching and murder of Emmett Till

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that could have been held accountable in this country, doing as only this country could do,

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refused to ever hold that white woman accountable.

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