Cyrus Langhorne
Hustle Gang‘s T.I. is disgusted. The Atlanta rapper has reacted to reports about bullet holes covering an Emmett Till memorial sign.
Tip went to Instagram Monday (October 24) and let his opinion out.
This past weekend, reports surfaced about the sign getting vandalised.
The marker is in rural Tallahatchie County, two hours north of Jackson, Mississippi. CNN affiliate WJTV reported this week that the sign has more than 40 bullet holes in it. The Emmett Till Interpretive Center hopes to raise money to replace the sign that has more than 40 bullet holes. The 14-year-old black teen was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The memorial marks the site where his body was discovered in the Tallahatchie River. (CNN)
In the past, other Emmett Till-inspired landmarks have been targeted with hate.
After Emmett Till Memorial Highway was dedicated along a 32-mile stretch of U.S. 49 East in 2006, vandals painted “KKK” on the Emmett Till highway sign. After the Mississippi historical marker recognizing the Ku Klux Klan’s 1964 killings of three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, was unveiled in 2009, it became a repeated target, too. (USA Today)
Such a shame that blatant racism still exists
It’s sad that ppl still have hate in they heart like they ancestors was in slavery our ppl was taking away from Africa and you are mad for what? They took the land from the Indians and placed them on Private Reserve lol what a joke. Should none of you with hate in your heart should be mad.
That shows how much they are scared of the 13% of the country.