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mmmirele10/21/2019 8:56:30 am PDT

re: #204 Belafon

Here’s the story, and the quote:

“The people in Tallahatchie County are to a great degree tired of Emmett Till,” says former county prosecutor John Whitten.

He lives in Sumner, Miss., where the two men who killed Till were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury, only to confess to the killing when they sold their story to Look Magazine months later. Whitten’s father was one of the defense lawyers.

John Whitten was 7 at the time and still sticks with the version of the story he learned back then.

“Fella who came down here and got in trouble — overstepped his bounds to a degree some folks thought,” says Whitten. “And they cured him of his problems.”

kcrw.com

I’m sorry, but I’d like to smack the everloving shit out of this privileged white man who never had to worry a day of his life that he would be lynched or murdered because of his skin color. I hope he rots in hell.

ETA: But I’ll stand in line behind the locals, who no doubt have much more reason to smack John Whitten than I do.