[TriggerWarning: Sexist-Racist-Baiting, cmon...] Selma Burke

[James A. Donald]

On 3/7/2017 5:41 AM, juan wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 05:11:41 +1000
> "James A. Donald" <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:
>
>> And they respond, not by finding better poster girls, not by
>> defending their existing poster girls, but by personal attacks.
>>
>
> 	you also wrote :
>
> 	"Just as you cannot find a plausibly innocent black who was
> 	lynched, "


Emmett Till was not lynched, he was quietly and furtively murdered for 
the same reasons and in the same way as lots of white people are 
furtively and quietly murdered today.  Hitting on someone else's girl, 
or merely being alone in private with someone else's girl remains today 
one of major causes of murder.

If you had one plausibly innocent black victim of lynching, in all of 
the United States, in the entire history of the United States, you would 
not be reduced to the absurdly desperate expedient making the victim of 
an entirely routine murder your poster boy.

A lynching is conducted openly in public by high status people who 
believe themselves, and are believed by others, to be defending the 
community.  Emmett Till, on the other hand, quietly vanished, and his 
hidden corpse was later discovered.

Which still happens today quite a lot for the same reasons regardless of 
race.