Emmet Til: Early Inequality

This was a sad story. Fourteen-year-old African American Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Mississippi, on August 24, 1955, when he was accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who was a cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, Bryant's husband and his half-brother kidnapped Till, tortured, castrated and murdered him, then drowned him in the bayou. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. Till's murder and open casket funeral incited the emerging Civil Rights Movement. 

The sad truth is social inequality goes way further than just jobs it applies to justice. It was known that these men did wrong and they still were found not guilty. Black lives didn’t matter to white folks then nor does it matter now. Then to find out several years later that she lied. Noone can give Emmett Till his life back and the individuals involved are now deceased and were never punished.

If the question we want to figure out is can we have social inequality? I would answer that no cause you can’t have equality if color causes inequality.