4B Warm-Up Extended Discussion by Melissa Owens https://padlet.com/maowens1/ozzhsr4k66ermy3e After listening to the song, read the posts on the board and contribute en-us 2021-04-23 00:50:37 UTC 2024-06-10 07:09:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f525.png Police Officer found guilty of murdering George Floyd maowens1 https://padlet.com/maowens1/ozzhsr4k66ermy3e/wish/1449914189 2021-04-23 00:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/maowens1/ozzhsr4k66ermy3e/wish/1449914189 maowens1 https://padlet.com/maowens1/ozzhsr4k66ermy3e/wish/1449914196
  • August 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered for flirting with a white woman 
  • Emmett’s mother had an open-casket funeral 
    • Her hope - to show to the world what happened to her son
  • Thousands viewed Emmett’s body and photographs of his remains were published across the U.S.
  • Roy Bryant and his brother J.W. Milam were acquitted (absolved) both men of all charges
    • ]]>     2021-04-23 00:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/maowens1/ozzhsr4k66ermy3e/wish/1449914196     https://padlet.com/maowens1/ozzhsr4k66ermy3e/wish/1452775145 The color of his skin was black
    there they beat him up
    There were screaming sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds out on the street
    And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain
    Was just for the fun of killin’ him and to watch him slowly die
    But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime
    this trial was a mockery, but nobody seemed to mind
    For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free
    While Emmett’s body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea
    For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low!
    That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan]]>     2021-04-23 17:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/maowens1/ozzhsr4k66ermy3e/wish/1452775145     I like that it brings attention to the matter because lot of stuff like this that happens they try to sweep under the rug and it gives justice for emmit till https://padlet.com/maowens1/ozzhsr4k66ermy3e/wish/1452785647 2021-04-23 17:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/maowens1/ozzhsr4k66ermy3e/wish/1452785647 https://padlet.com/maowens1/ozzhsr4k66ermy3e/wish/1452789538 I feel disgusted that this even happened. I don't know how you can listen to this song and feel good about it. Life hasn't changed much from then.]]> 2021-04-23 17:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/maowens1/ozzhsr4k66ermy3e/wish/1452789538