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The new Emmet Till memorial weighs 500 pounds, is over an inch thick and is completely bulletproof. (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/us/emmett-til-bulletproof-sign.html )
In July, we found a photo of young men posing with guns in front of the old bullet-ridden memorial.
Heres how we found out exactly who they were.
12:10 PM - Oct 21, 2019
Aristus
(66,449 posts)Hope they go up on charges very soon.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)RainCaster
(10,913 posts)Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)I've a variant of that damned Farmers Only dot com jingle stuck in my head again.
"You don't have to be lonely, at Dumbass Incel dot com!"
Now we wait for it to become reality...
RainCaster
(10,913 posts)Better than the lopsided NFL game tonight
LiberalFighter
(51,059 posts)I wonder how bullet proof they are?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)These young fellows weren't even a gleam in Daddy's eye when that happened. You have to wonder what kind of upbringing they had, the environment in which they lived, and moved, and had their being, to go so far out of the way to find the memorial and pose for their deplorable photo. I knew guys in college who wouldn't have gone to that much trouble to get laid.
LiberalFighter
(51,059 posts)I would not have any sympathy if a semi ran them over.
liberaltrucker
(9,130 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,409 posts)Skid marks prove you tried; waiting for the first thump means it's only your word to go by.
(just snark, of course)
bitterross
(4,066 posts)There will be no shortage of young racists like these boys who will take it as a challenge to deface and damage the "bullet-proof" monument. I will not be surprised when the story is posted about this latest one being dragged down or pushed down by another set of young men who still think they are better than other people due to the pigment levels in their skin.
I would like to think I'm wrong about this but I grew up in the South. I know these people.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)ProPublica has really been on fire. I hope people donate.