Race still matters, enormously. The historical marker of the exact location where Emmett Till’s body was found kept getting shot up and down, replaced, and shot up and down again. It puts one in the mind of Jeremiah 12:9: “Is my heritage to me like a hyena’s lair? Are the birds of prey against her all around?” When it comes to landmarks, the one for Glendora Gin is still intact, even after the cotton gin once was partly dissembled to punish Till. Till’s murderers took a seventy-pound metal fan from Glendora and tied it to his body so he would be anchored to the bottom of the Tallahatchie
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