So yesterday, I got the chance to trip to Money, Mississippi. To visit the store where Emmett Till made a remark to a white woman. When we first arrive and got off the bus to see the rundown store. I tried to imagine myself as how it was back during that time. Just to get a feel for everything. Then we saw a landmark on the site that had pictures and comments on the whole event. There was this one comment that upset that one of the juries made after only 27 minutes of deliberating a non-guilty vote. He said "we would have taken less time if we didn't stop for a drink." I was very upset because it was like the juries already knew what they were going to vote even before they heard the case. The lack of care and sympathy for what had occurred.
Kentiara Moore
City College
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