In continuing additional research into the facts and situations that led up to the kidnapping and brutual murder of 14 year old Emmett Till on August 24, 1955, one cannot help but become enraged, angry, hurt, and filled with pain at how the life of this young black child meant absolutely nothing to southern bigots in the "Good Ole South."

The jury's verdict was no surprise in the acquittal of Milam and Bryant, and pictures of both men and their wives laughing and musing at the irrascible deed that had been done demonstrated the blatant disrespect for the sanctity and importance of the life of another human being, being that the person was a Black child.

Some 44 years later one wonders has the United States solved its history old problem of racism and selective justice. The answer to this question is quite plainly no. The country was founded on the principles of racial separation, violence, and tyranny to support the actions of the wealthy land owning gentry in the South.

By me being in my thirties, I only caught some of the tale end of the events that happened during segregation. I would listen to my grandmother and grandparents discuss how things were in regards to the relationships between Blacks and Whites, and it was utterly astonishing at how they justified the right to control, subjugate, murder at will, and control the actions of another group of people and conjuctively used the Bible to justify their deeds.

There was no justice for a person of color in the South in the 1950's. Justice then was colorblind to the plight of African Americans when there Constitutional rights were abriged. Emmett Till's case is a classic example of Southern Hospitality at its best. Both of his murderers are deceased now and showed no remorse, not even in old age and up until death of their acts. I just wonder how their families feel to have the legacy of being descendents of murderers of a child. It probably doesn't cause them any discomfort.

The injustice displayed toward Emmett Till was the norm in South. This is the reason that the rest of the country has no respect for the deep South and see any action of hate crime and death as a standard operating procedure of "Southern Hospitality." America still has a long way to go to heal race relations, and there are many people who do not want race relations to heal at all. The pictures of Emmett Till's brutalized and battered body causes me great anguish even though this even happened over 44 years ago.

The James Byrd dragging death signified that such horrible dispictable acts could and would occur at any time against a man of color. It should be noted that racial attacks are not just confined to the "Good Ole South." Emmett Till's death showed the world the brutality of the american white male toward black men. This incident helped give blacks the inspiration to move forward in more ways than one to end the system of american apartheid in the United States. His death was not in vain. Even though his killers escaped justice here. They will receive justice, and the families that they left behind have inherited that hate filled legacy and will have that taint and blood upon them until their are no more of their descendants.

When a person sees the pictures of that child's battered body, the first response is rage, and that they should be made to pay, but the utter comfort is that God has already intervened in that situation and what Milam and Bryant have done is put their families under the wrath and curse of the Almighty.

Black parents today need to teach their sons the history of their people and stop buying them expensive items instead of giving them knowledge to be complete men once they become adults. The history of injustice in the South is long rooted and still exists. The country is once again heading toward a period of racial intolerance. Cowards and poorly educated bigots such as Milam and Bryant rare their heads today. Bigots such as Bryant and Milam cannot act alone; they need compadres and an audience to be able to perform and the South gave them the perfect stage in which the verdict was already predetermined irrespective of the actions and violations of the laws of the state and the Constitution.

In my opinion, racists are cowards who have low self esteem and foster hate toward others who are different then they are due to their apparent degree of success. To them courage is the brutalization and destruction of another human being, which is a weakness. The wave of hate crimes are somewhat more sporadic but yet still occur.

The South in the 1950's was not user friendly to Blacks, Hispanics, Jewish people, Native Americans (inaccurate term), and Northerners who were perceived as "Negro Symphatizers." I just thank the Lord that I was not a child or a young man during that period of time. There was no justice for people of the above mentioned groups in the "Good Ole South." Emmett Till's death was not in vain. It opened the eyes of America and the world to the doctrines of slavery, three fifths compromise, separate but equal doctrine, Jim Crow, and the fallacy of making the world free for democracy at this time when people of color were denied their rights under the Constitution and not considered a part of the American Dream or part of the Democratic Representative Republic called the United States of America.

One day God will hold this nation accountable for its history separtism, elitism, racism, and systematic murdering of people deemed to be a threat or outsider. Emmett Till will always be remembered in history and the courage of his Mother is commendable. God's justice is already correcting the history of Southern Injustice. Just look at the proliferation of natural disasters hitting the South and parts of states known for a history of tyranny toward people of color. Somehow I believe that Emmett Till is resting somewhat at peace now in knowing that God will correct this age old problem.

Southern Injustice of the 1950's is passing away like the sands blowing in the wind. Emmett Till opened the door to the correction of injustice with his blood and life. Any person that can be proud of the death of a child, regardless of race, is not a man. To Emmett's Mother, Milam and Bryant suffered in more ways than one before their death, and she can rest assured that God has corrected this Southern Injustice with His perfect justice. I just hope that Milam and Bryant realized that their actions placed a permanent mark upon their families and a permanent mark on them from God.

Rest easy Emmett for Southern Justice is slow and unresponsive, but God's Justice is swift, immediate, and corrective.