Donald Trump Mocks Black Americans by Evoking Emmett Till

Jonathan Ernst/ReutersEvery black person, whether they were born in the 1930s like my grandmother, the 1940s like my parents, the 1960s like me, or the 1990s like my eldest niece knows the story of Emmett Till. Emmett was 14 years old when, in 1955, he was kidnapped, beaten mercilessly, disfigured, lynched, and drown in the Tallahatchie River river in Mississippi after allegedly “wolf”-whistling at a young white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham. In 2008, more than 50 years later, sh