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Post by iratherlikeme on Jan 20, 2003 20:02:37 GMT -5
I knew James Chaney's picture, but I couldn't remember the names of the other two. There was a movie called Murder in Mississippi about that. Blair Underwood portrayed Chaney. I also knew the four girls, but not by name. Spike Lee had that documentary, 4 Little Girls.
I'll have to look into those others, 'cause you're right. I didn't know them.
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Post by sukkafu on Jan 21, 2003 2:37:07 GMT -5
have any of our georgia folks like diva, angel niece, or any body else in georgia or out of georgia visited the mlk museum and wish to share their experience? has anybody been to the church he and daddy king preached?
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Post by kim on Jan 21, 2003 9:40:50 GMT -5
Sukkafu I visited the King center in 1993 it was very informative.
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Post by sukkafu on Jan 21, 2003 14:03:07 GMT -5
did you leave with an even deeper conviction of the man and his accomplishments and work?
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Post by kim on Jan 21, 2003 16:03:32 GMT -5
I left learning a lot more about him as a person.
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Post by earthangel on Jan 21, 2003 17:42:35 GMT -5
I knew the four black girls from Birmingham! Its such a sad story. Sukka, we have pictures from when we went to MLK's memorial in ATL but I was like 4. However, we do plan on going again soon.
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Post by sukkafu on Jan 22, 2003 2:56:56 GMT -5
 . i am glad to know you have been keenly aware of the surroundings, even at such a tender age. life is never too precious, and human beings need to be treated like the treasures we are. IVORY-elise was so impressed with your photos and bio's on each one that she had me forward it to her so she could share it with others and we showed it to the kids.
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Post by sukkafu on Jan 22, 2003 3:00:44 GMT -5
there was a program on PBS that we missed and wanted to see- it was about a 14 yr old chicago black teen in 1955 who whistled at a white woman in a store down in mississippi i think and the next day 2 men beat him and shot him to death. my kids were really upset at reading that in the PBS guide we get each month.
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Post by kalisa2 on Jan 22, 2003 3:07:56 GMT -5
Emmitt Till
Back in August of 1955, in Mississippi, 14 year-old Emmitt Till was beaten, shot and dumped in a river by Mississippi racists. After his body was brought back to Chicago for burial, his mother insisted there be an open casket so the whole country could see the brutality of racism. Many say that was the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.
"Rosa Parks said it best when asked, 'Miss Parks, why didn't you go the back of the bus?' She said, 'I thought about Emmitt Till and I just couldn't go back,'"
His mother recently passed.
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Post by sukkafu on Jan 22, 2003 3:54:15 GMT -5
that's it. thank you kalisa for assisting on that. i was so disappointed-elise and i wanted to see the program. hate is such an incredible emotion that drives people to do unspeakable things. |
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Post by iratherlikeme on Jan 22, 2003 10:44:59 GMT -5
I once read a work of fiction, when I was 12, kind of based on Emmitt Till called Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. I had no idea about Emmitt Till then, and what happened to the boy in the book was a sad, unsettling thing but easy to brush off because I thought of it as just fiction.
The thought that something like that could happen was enough to make me sad then, but finding out that it did happen had me p.o'd for a long time.
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Post by Ivory Fair on Jan 22, 2003 10:46:12 GMT -5
And when you consider that hate is caused by fear and misunderstanding it's even more sad.
Sukka, keep an eye on your PBS listings. They often show those things again.
Did anyone see the show Oprah did yesterday on the James Byrd dragging death?
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Post by iratherlikeme on Jan 22, 2003 10:48:35 GMT -5
I missed Harpo yesterday. I was asleep. Has she stopped with the Dr. Phil mess since he's gotten his own show?
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Post by Ivory Fair on Jan 22, 2003 11:04:43 GMT -5
I'm not sure, I don't usually get to watch it myself. What Oprah's show was talking about yesterday was about these two friends who are film-makers, one black, one white who went to Jasper during the trial of the guys who killed James Byrd. The pair split up to get the differing view points, again, one black, one white of the town during the trial. Looks like the show begins airing tonight, but you'll have to check your local listings to see what time. www.pbs.org/pov/pov2002/twotownsofjasper/ |
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Post by Aba21 on Jan 22, 2003 11:46:36 GMT -5
That ought to be really interesting if the towns folk didn't know of the collaboration while they were there. What a horrific story. As a black man I am at the end of my rope in watching these kinds of stories. They strike a nerve like you wouldn't believe. When I was at the Univ. of Georgia, I was invited to a party at this guys farm one night and not being from there and the roads being dark turned up a road that was lit by fire thinking that was the party and to my horror drove almost smack into a KKK rally. You never saw anybody drive backwards as well and as fast as I did that night. Can you imagine seeing that for real? I compare it to seeing Godzilla or Rodan or something!  |
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