.thereidout Blog: How can an institution that’s been sitting on an anti-lynching measure claim to honor one of the most recognizable lynching victims in history?
On one hand, it’s obviously good for the United States to acknowledge its horrifying legacy of racist torturewhich includes Till's slaying. It’s also good for the country to acknowledge Till-Mobley — not just because she held an open-casket funeral for her son to demonstrate the horror of racist violence, but because of her lifelong commitment to civil rights activism.
But it seems a hollow gesture for the two to receive medals from an institution that’s been unable to pass an anti-lynching law. I’m wary of performative gestures of anti-racism being used when substantive options are available. So how do we countenance this award knowing Till was savagely murdered by a crime Congress hasn't formally outlawed because of conservative opposition? What honor could an institution so depraved possibly bestow upon the Till family?A 2018 anti-lynching bill introduced by two Democrats — Booker and then-Sen. Kamala Harris, of California — as well as Republican Sen. Tim Scott, of South Carolina, passed unanimously in the Senate but stalled in the Republican-led House.
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Senate passes bill to honor Emmett Till and his motherThe Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who insisted on an open casket funeral to demonstrate the brutality of his killing. The killing galvanized the civil rights movement after Till’s mother insisted on an open casket and Jet magazine published photos of his brutalized body. Cory Booker, D-N.J. and Richard Burr, R-N.C., introduced the bill to honor Till and his mother with the highest civilian honor that Congress awards.
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Senate passes bill to award Emmett Till, his mother Congressional Gold MedalThe Senate passed a bill to posthumously award Emmett Till and his mother with the Congressional Gold Medal.
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Murdered Chicago teen Emmett Till, mother to be awarded Congressional Gold MedalEmmett Till, a Chicago teen whose brutal murder galvanized the civil rights movement after his tortured body was displayed in an open casket, will posthumously receive the Congressional Gold Medal.
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