AbateHate.com — The Emmett Till Antilynching Act was stalled last year when U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) single-handedly derailed the legislation. “This bill would cheapen the meaning of lynching by defining it so broadly as to include a minor bruise or abrasion,” he objected. [Frustration and Fury as Rand Paul Holds Up Anti-Lynching Bill in Senate, By Nicholas Fandos, nytimes.com, June 5, 2020]
Leftists bristled at Paul's audacity and the legislation remains in the hopper awaiting passage.
Civil rights activist Jill Collen Jefferson added her voice to those pressing for passage of the Emmett Till bill. Eight men were cited as having been lynched within two decades; from June, 2000 to May 2020. The argument is made that White-on-Black murders are not a thing of America's racist past, but continue to this very day. [Washington Post harrowingly reports: ‘Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’, by Biba Adams, thegrio via news.yahoo.com, August 9, 2021]
Ignored are the Black-on-White murders.
While eight presumed White-on-Black murders over a span of two decades is shocking, we have identified about one Black-on-White murder every day for the past year.
And those are the few we know about. Many Black-on-White "lynchings" go unreported or the race of the suspect is hidden. It called, 'lying by omission.'
Missing from this month's list of Black-on-White murders is the death of 20-year-old Blake Richard Swanson. Swanson and his girlfriend were sitting in a car awaiting friends when the two were accosted by would be robbers. Swanson's girlfriend was startled when an individual reportedly pointed a gun at her face and demanded she surrender, "...everything you got."
Swanson, meanwhile, was fatally shot.
Clearly, the media could have reported a descriptive profile of the suspects including race and gender. But race is off the table. Again. It's lying by omission. The incident occurred in St. Paul, Minnesota. [Police: Bethel man, 20, fatally shot during robbery at a St. Paul park, Mara H. Gottfried, Pioneer Press via news.yahoo.com, August 30, 2021]
So who was Emmett Till?
Till was a 14-year-old who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955. His father, Louis Till, was "lynched" by the U.S. Army after being court-martialed for raping two Italian women and murdering a third. The elder Till was serving in Italy during World War Two. He had earlier been given an ultimatum by a judge: Go to prison or enlist in the army. He had been accused of choking his wife unconscious. [Louis Till, Wikipedia]
Emmett Till's mother sent the troubled teen to live with an elderly relative in Mississippi. The boy was too much for his mom to handle. While skipping church, Till allegedly molested a white shop owner to amuse his friends. According to Rand Paul, that act of molestation would, itself, constitute lynching.
Till was later found brutally beaten to death. The woman's husband was arrested, tried, and found innocent by "an all white jury." There is no clear evidence that Till was lynched by hanging. The woman later recanted her story, meaning that the motive for Till's murder is anyone's guess, considering his delinquent behavior likely provoked a slew of victims bent on retaliation. [Emmett Till, Wikipedia]
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