Emmett Till and Tom Robinson
Story of Emmett Till and Tom Robinson is very smiler to each other. Emmett Til was visit town call Money near Telahachi river (not sure about spelling) in September, 1955 to see his brother. Emmett Till was fourteen years old black boy. When Emmett Till went to store to buy candy, some boy said Emmett Till said bad things to white woman. After someone heard that, they went to Emmett Till and drug him to river and beat him up and shoot him in his head. Emmett Till's face battered when he died. Emmett Till's family and friends were very sad and angry so they wanted people to punish someone who killed Emmett Till. Court room was also segregated. After 5 days of Trial, jury decided men who killed Emmett Till were not guilty. They were not guilty because jury thought even though they killed one black boy, that black boy said bad things about white woman. After Emmett Till case, people said "We're not gonna die like this. Instead, we're gonna live and transform the South so people won't have to die like this." but I heard still some racism is in south of U.S. In to kill a mockingbird, Tom Robinson's trial is almost same as Emmett Till's trial. Only difference is reason for trial and are they alive or not in trial day. Jury in to kill a mockingbird say Tom Robinson is guilty even though everyone knows he is not guilty. Jury didn’t care about who they were, they only care about what skin color they have. Every thing was saying Tom Robinson was not guilty. Tom Robinson can’t use his left hand, which prove that he didn’t hurt Mayella because she only got hurt right side of her body. During juries are deciding, Sykes say he never seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man. There is one very similer story that happened recently. I saw article that saying black person threw acid on white woman’s face, but police found out that white woman threw acid on her own face and she lie that black person threw acid on her face. I think this story is very similar to story of Tom Robinson. I hope this problem gets better as time goes and I also hope word “racism” to exist only in history in future.
Ju, you always get a good pic for the blog post. The only thing i feel is wrong is sometimes the sentences do not make a lot of scents but over all it is good.
ReplyDeleteThis was a good blog. Like all the information you gave about Emmett Till and his story. Also liked how you gave relation to Tom Robinson from the book. Saw that you didn’t have information about social justice in today’s world but its still a good blog. Good Job !!
ReplyDeleteI like pictures that shows what this is related to. It has many information and detail. But it could be better if you not used one paragraph form.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great post, just so you know (i'm sure this was a typo) Emmet was killed in 1955 not 1995. i like how you compared the two juries and how they both didn't listen to any of the facts but only looked at the color of the skin of the person on trial. i think that this kind of racism is terrible and i hope also that the word racism does not exist in the future.
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ReplyDeleteIll start off by saying I loved the picture you put forth in your blog. That picture you put on your blog set the tone and in some ways foreshadowed what you had to talk about in your blog. Plus, towards the end I liked the way you gave your opinion about racism and it future not just in America but everywhere.