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PANTS ON FIRE: ABC Ties Emmett Till Lynching to DeSantis, FL Education

Curtis Houck
July 25th, 2023 11:32 AM

ABC chief White House correspondent and Biden apple polisher Mary Bruce leveled an scurrilous insinuation and lie during Tuesday’s Good Morning America as, not only did she mention Governor Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) Florida Board of Education in the same breath as the horrific lynching of Emmett Till, but she suggested President Biden declaring three Till sites a national monument would…

 
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CNN: 'Emmett Till Moment' Needed on Kids Killed By 'Automatic Weapons'

Alex Christy
June 2nd, 2022 3:51 PM

On Thursday’s CNN Newsroom, host Ana Cabrera and pediatric trauma surgeon Dr. Chethan Sathya claimed the country needs “an Emmett Till moment” in order to do something about “these automatic weapons.”

 
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'I Can't Breathe:' 1950s HBO Horror Drama Conjures Eric Garner, Floyd

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Lindsay Kornick
October 4th, 2020 11:58 PM

The craziness of Lovecraft Country is nothing compared to the insanity of the past week, but the HBO series is unfortunately back making waves anyway. More specifically, it’s back to making obvious yet ridiculous parallels between 1955 and today. The latest example comes courtesy of an apparent comparison of George Floyd to Emmett Till and an "I can't breathe" reference.

 

Oprah Winfrey: 'Trayvon Martin Parallel to Emmett Till...In My Mind, S

Noel Sheppard
August 5th, 2013 12:04 PM
Oprah Winfrey on Monday said the killings of Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till are the "same thing." This transpired during an interview with The Grio that aired on NBC's Today show (video follows with transcript and commentary):
 

MSNBC's Hayes Goes Soft on Jesse Jackson's 'Known Murderer' Label of Z

Brad Wilmouth
July 17th, 2013 7:10 PM
On Tuesday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes gave the Reverend Jesse Jackson a softball interview in which the civil rights activist accused George Zimmerman of being "a known murderer" and invoked murder victims like Emmett Till and Medgar Evers from the civil rights movement. Unlike Friday's show, when he corrected a guest who claimed that Zimmerman "murdered Trayvon Martin," Hayes…
 

Piers Morgan Compares Newtown Photos to Open Casket of Emmett Till; Im

Matt Hadro
June 5th, 2013 6:31 PM
CNN's Piers Morgan continues to find every way he can to boost his gun control agenda. On Tuesday night's Piers Morgan Live, he compared the Newtown shooting photos to the open casket of Emmett Till in the 1950's and implied that America would need to see the gruesomeness of the shooting in order to change its mind on guns. Till was a black teenager who was brutally murdered in Mississippi…