This documentary about Emmett Till was extremely hard for me to watch. I understand the importance of seeing such documentaries, but I have a hard to watching and hearing about things that have happened in the past that just make me want to throw up. No matter how many times I hear about these cruel acts of hatred against fellow humans, I am still beyond shocked to realize that we can do this type of thing to others. I am not just talking about what White people did (and still do) to Black people, but what everyone does to every other race there is. It is unbelievable how people can stand around watching something horrendous happen!!!
I stand by what I said in class about how if Emmett's mother were still alive when the courts decided to not indict anyone on her son's murder, that would have killed her. It would be like living through the nightmare all over again and then losing her son once again. I know that if it was myself in this situation (being her), it would have killed me. Again, I do not want to sound morbid, but I AM glad that she was not there to see the outcome (again!) that still does not close the case of her son's murder.
I wanted to say that I wish someone had just killed those two men... but what would that have accomplished? Death would be too easy of a punishment for them... and then the people/person who murdered them would just be sentenced to prison or worse death. Yet again, I do not want to sound morbid, but I really wanted those men to suffer for what they did... not only doing it but then getting away with it and then bragging about it and getting paid to finally tell the truth and not have anything happen to them!!!! That truly.... pisses me off!!!!!
grrrr!!