The Latest Emmett Till Narrative
Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords (D- AZ) has condemned the “gun violence and injustice” surrounding the shooting of a 16-year-old sub-Saharan boy in Kansas City on April 13, 2023. Giffords was shot in the head by a mentally ill man in early 2011 and is now a gun control advocate. FOX News blamed American Renaissance for the shooting — a deliberate act of misinformation used against white advocates by mainstream conservatives.
The sub-Saharan in this “gun violence and injustice” morality play, Ralph Yarl, was shot for “ringing the wrong doorbell” by an 84-four-year-old white man named Andrew Lester. The mainstream media, liberal politicians such as Giffords, and sub-Saharan racial activist groups have turned the situation into an Emmett Till narrative, which is a type of media-fueled story that is filled with omissions of facts and half-truths dealing with a young sub-Saharan who is killed or injured by “mean” white(s).
We first saw this type of morality play in 1955.
That is when Emmett Till, a young sub-Saharan, was killed in Mississippi by “mean” whites. Photos of Till invariably depict a cherubic child, rather than the more dangerous young man that he was. Till’s death led to an uproar in the media and influenced the 1956 presidential election, pushing “civil rights” to the forefront of the national conversation. Hyping Till’s death proved an effective way for the Leftist establishment to advance the policies that they favored in the mid-1950s, and such Emmett Till-style morality plays continue to be utilized today.
An Emmett Till narrative has three basic aims:
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Furthering some agenda of the Leftist establishment.
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Scaring sub-Saharans into voting for the Democratic Party in the next election.
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Distracting the public from an ongoing disaster that they don’t want widely noticed.
It involves only telling part of the truth about an altercation between a white(s) and a sub-Saharan(s). Emmett Till, for example, was said to have “wolf whistled” at a white woman in Mississippi back in 1955. What he really did was seize a white woman and try to rape her.[1]