"Obama was disrespecting Palin", Ad
McCain is really crossing the line with his latest racially charged ad,
IMO and hears why, When I heard it, it instantly brought to mind what happen to Emmett Till
Emmett Till, was young black man, visiting relatives down south. Emmett didn't understand the racial divide between whites and blacks because he was from the North. Trying to show his cousins that he wasn't afraid of whites. He looked at a white woman and said "bye baby".
Later on in the week, two white men, came to Emmett's Uncle's home and took Emmett from his family.
He was never seen alive again.
The white men were tried and found innocent of any wrong doing. Shortly after the trial had ended the two white men proudly told the world on camera how and why they killed Emmit Teal. They were paid $4,000.00 for their story.
They said, "Bryant admitted to journalist William Bradford Huie that he and his brother had killed Till. Milam claimed that initially their intention was to scare Till into line by pistol-whipping him and threatening to throw him off a cliff. Milam explained that contrary to expectations, regardless of what they did to Till, he never showed any fear, never seemed to believe they would really kill him, and maintained a defiant attitude towards them concerning his actions. Thus the brothers said they felt they were left with no choice but to fully make an example of Till, and they killed him."
Emmett Till was killed for being disrespectful to a white woman. McCain's ad is playing on that same racial hatred. Sadly as late as 2007 the evidence of that racial hate was shone to be alive and well, "In 2006 a Mississippi historical marker marking the place of Till's death was defaced, and in August 2007 it went missing."
It sickens me and scares me half to death that no one in the media is calling McCain out on this AD
Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
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