{"id":1319,"date":"2023-07-25T19:52:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/emmett-till\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T19:52:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:52:50","slug":"emmett-till","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/emmett-till\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmett Till"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/emmett-till?sd=pf\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Top<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> of the Stack.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Emmett Till is back in the news. This being the case, the inevitable comparisons of Till with Trayvon Martin will start up again. My purpose is to provide you with some background so that you can appreciate just how inane the comparisons are that assimilate the defensible killing of Martin by George Zimmerman to the unspeakably brutal and unjust torture and slaying of Till. Anyone who assimilates the two is not exaggerating, but lying shamelessly.&#0160;&#0160; To understand this one need only know the essentials of each case.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top of the Stack.&#0160; Emmett Till is back in the news. This being the case, the inevitable comparisons of Till with Trayvon Martin will start up again. My purpose is to provide you with some background so that you can appreciate just how inane the comparisons are that assimilate the defensible killing of Martin by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/emmett-till\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emmett Till&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race","category-substack","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}