Emmett Till's cousin Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr....the last surviving witness to the lynching
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- Emmett Till's cousin, Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., the last person alive to see him before he was lynched and murdered, tells the story of what happened on Aug. 28, 1955, and what led up to his brutal slaughter by white supremacists. Join the At the Table conversation with Parker, a south suburban minister, and Christopher Benson, who co-authored the memoirs of Parker and Till's mother Mamie Till Mobley.
Thank you soooooo much for continuing to keep this on the front burner❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
🙏🏿 amen
Glad to see you alive and looking strong brother keep the legacy going ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
They Was Killing Us. Now We Killing Each Other. Not Much Has Changed ❤😢❤
Every race kills its own, some are just more publicized. But that doesn't excuse others, especially law enforcement when it is not justified. We pay law enforcement to protect us, not to act like the very thugs who are brutalizing our communities..
@@dwenterprises656not like we do
God rest the Souls of; Emmett Till and Mamie Till, Alexander Mclay Williams, George Stinney Jr, and the Scotsborough 9. And all those who were lynched and killed.
You will never be forgotten.🤜🏾🤛🏾
" the Scotsborough 9. And all those who were lynched and killed."
The Scottsboro Boys were neither lynched not killed. All of them served brief sentences and were all eventually pardoned.
It was an injustice, no doubt. However, the legal system did work to free them.
@@mark9531 I am all aware of the situation, but for those who were wrongly convicted! I was generalising.
@@KungFu_Dean78 You are absolutely correct. And they WERE wrongly arrested. Even though, eventually they were released.
His mother said he hàd a speeçh problem from polio. He would whisle to not studder, he did not whistle àt bryant
Emmett wolf-whistled at Carolyn Bryant. His cousins were there and witnessed it. A wolf-whistle is different than an ordinary whistle.
I feel very sorry for Emmett Till :(
Thank You for covering this. I am sharing!
Do you also feel sorry for Emmett TIll's father? What happened to him? look it up, this isn't part of the official narrative.
@@johnellis5865his father died in the war
@@johnellis5865His step dad died in the 2000
@johnellis5865 - It doesn't have to be part of the narrative. It's not relative.
I think His Father was lied on just like Emmet. May They Both RIP🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
This is the most important thing that happened because it was so much different that stands out from the rest because of his mother was the first black person to get it on the news on TV and the newspaper and the magazine before anyone else never did it before that got others to do the same thing like rose Parker and doctor martin luther king jr with the power of TV and their was nothing like it before at the times before it to get it out in the open and not keep it from people anymore
I recommend watching the interview from 1991 with Mami Till Mobley. She mentions that Emmett had a stuttering problem and he would struggle to pronounce certain letters. When he was having a hard time speaking/stuttering, she would instruct him to stop, then whistle. This would allow him to "reset". She also believes that he did not say anything fresh to anyone and that his whistle was not towards the white woman in the General Store, but just him resetting his speech.
Also - consider reading the book: Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America (2004).
OMG THIS STATE Was telling how to bury her only child 😢
It's just a shame. The fact that you could be hurt because of a " a reckless eyeball."
And still figured that they shouldn't tell a adult. Wheeler is admitted he knew what Emmett allegedly did was wrong yet didn't say ANYTHING?? Something just don't sound right about none of this. Every interview I watched they all say "we KNEW THE SOUTH AND KNEW IT WOULD BE TROUBLE" "WHEN EMMETT WHISTLED WE ALL WAS SCARED AND RAN FOR THE CAR" . There's no way they forgot all that in 3 days yet remembers 70 yrs later vividly. They all knew Emmett was in trouble and could be killed for less and said nothing. My hat goes off to ms. Ruthie mae Crawford she would the only one who told mose wright to get Emmett on the train. All those boys in the house even the wright boys said nothing and they lived in Mississippi yet said nothing to save that boys life. Yet Maurice (it's said) told j w or Roy Bryant who the exact kid was that "done the talk". If he had enough sense to the them why the hell didn't he tell his dad so they could get Emmett away from danger!? That's my thing. If they all knew what he did would get him killed even "reckless" eyeballing could get him killed why didn't they say ANYTHING. The "we forget, 3 days had gone by and we didn't think nothing of it" how?????? It just don't make no sense. They the was gonna bury Emmett and one cousin said nah we gotta tell mamie this ain't right. A kid said that. It's just unfathomable this whole story ...every interview was just in circles
That hate and division isn't gonna spread itself, right cst.
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Wish he would've testified when it was time instead of now 🤦🏽♂️
Good afternoon Bob. You said; "Wish he would've testified"
He did. But the testimony of adults Mose Wright, Mandy Bradley, Willie Reed, Mamie Till, Add Reed did not do any good. The testimony of all the teenaged cousins wasn't going to do any good.
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12 vicious, evil MEN kidnapped, tortured, and murdered an innocent 14 year old Emmett Till.
12 evil jurors let these 12 evil men go free.
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Folks have FORGIVEN and FORGOTTEN the twelve evil murders. But they want to take pot shots at innocent people who had no power to effect the outcome.
I know Rev wheeler parker has dealt with survivors remorse but I really wish he had told a adult what was happening. He was 16 yrs old and the only one from Chicago that knew how crazy and sick those white racist were. That was a life or death situation. Mr. Parker should have put fear aside and some more to speak up so Emmett could leave Mississippi before trouble got too bad. He knew goofing around could cause a issue so him not saying "we have to tell a adult, Emmett is in serious trouble" cost Emmett his life. They had 3/4 days to say something...I know Emmett didn't just forget about it and wheeler being the older cousin should have taking it more seriously
Good evening Mone. " I really wish he had told a adult"
How about the remorse of evil men.
There are dozen scenarios, which, had they been handled differently, this tragedy could have been prevented.
But, you can't blame innocent 16 year old teens for the wicked deeds of 12 evil drunken men.
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It would have only taken ONE of these evil men to have said, at any time;
"Wait. This is wrong. Let's stop what we are doing and take this boy back to his family. And the let's go home."
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Secondly, word got back to adults. And adults decided;
"Let the boy finish out his stay"
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Hindsight is 20/20
It is easy to look back and say; "What if..."
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ALL of these variables were out of the control of some 12-16 year old teenagers from the Delta of Mississippi.
Good morning Mone.
People shoot at Wheeler Parker simply because he is the last man standing.
There were 11 people at that store that evening August 24 1955. Most of them were cousins of Emmett's and were staying at the Wright house.
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All but one of those cousins was older than Parker.
It would have been just as much their responsibility to have told Mose Wright about the incident at the store.
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Ruthie Mae Crawford, 18, Roosevelt Crawford, 17, John Crawford, 22, Robert Wright, 16, Simeon Wright, 12, Wheeler Parker, 16, Albert Johnson, Jr., Curtis Jones, 18, Elliott Thelton “Pete” Parker, 17, Maurice Wright, 18.
@@mark9531 Ruthie mae Crawford DID IN FACT tell mose wright and warned him to get Emmett on the train. "He didn't do it " those were her exact words. Maurice was the oldest cousin and kept saying there would be trouble and they should tell papa...and story goes he was the one who to Roy Bryant or jw Milam who the exact boy was that done "the talk". They waited 3 days to find Emmett and in those 3 days emmett could have been saved if one of the kids in the house spoke up. Now if someone points a gun at you, you will never forget it. It happened to me at 9 , I'm 34 and I never forgot it. How could they forget what happened at the store in 3 days yet remember vividly what happened almost 70 yrs later? Emmett nor those kids ever had a gun pointed at them. Anybody especially a kid would be afraid. I'm not faulting them but it was their responsibility being older and KNOWING how crazy those white men were and knew that if they got outta line those kids and their family would be in serious trouble. It's so many loop holes to the story and I believe more happened then what they're saying in these interviews. One of the Crawford boys bought them wine too Roosevelt did and drove them to money, the store. The other Crawford boy said "he thought they'd torture Emmett alil bit then send him back to his grandfather" why would you have said that and KNOWN that, that could happen and not say anything to an adult??? Why did wheeler say "I didn't feel any remorse or sorrow, becuz I didn't believe it was Emmett in the casket, same at the funeral I didn't feel anything becuz in my mind that wasn't Emmett". That's was cold and very disconnecting making me believe he was probably one of the boys that went in the store sassing too. I just feel more happened and more could have been done to save Emmett.
@@Mone333Williams Twelve, savagely evil *MEN,* 6 white men and 6 black men, kidnapped and tortured an innocent 14 year old Emmett Till. They killed him and threw his lifeless body into the Black Bayou, tethered to to a 75 pound fan.
But people do not want to study, all 12 of these me, and analyze what would make them do something so horrendous. Most people could not name 3 of these *MEN*
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It is not productive to analyze what innocent people *could* have done to *prevent* evil men from doing their treacherous deeds.
When people have *FORGIVEN and FORGOTTEN* the very *MEN* who had to wash the real blood of an innocent child off their hands on the Lords Day August 29,1955
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Roy Bryant, John William Milam, Levi “Too tight” Collins, Melvin Louis Campbell, Otha “Osa” Johnson, Jr., Elmer Otis Kimbrell, Leslie Fields Milam, Joe Willie Hubbard, Henry Lee Loggins, Johnny B. Washington, Hubert Clark, Oudie B. Brown.
@@Mone333Williams Good afternoon Mone. This is a one minute video of Wheeler Parker which I think is eye-opening and instructive.
czcams.com/users/shortsnBQKEjILlNI
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The reason that Blacks do not recount the tragedies of their past is because it opens themselves up to the exact *judgement* of other Blacks. Which you are casting here;
*"Why didn't you do something?" "Why didn't you do this? Why didn't you do that"*
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The second thing he brings out, you are alluding to. And you read in the comments below:
People have rewritten the *STORY* People don't want the *truth,* they want a good *story* And Hollywood movies and Social Media are happy to invent that *story*
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I began a deep study of the Emmett Till lynching in 1971, reading articles, newspapers, books, FBI Files, Trial transcript, and a Masters Thesis by Steven Whitaker from 1963.
What I see on Social Media and in Hollywood movies, today, bears no resemblance, whatsoever, to what I have studied for 50 years.
There is one eye witness left to tell the truth, Parker Wheeler. Folks discount his witness. And, with relish, feast off the lies of Social Media and Hollywood.
The correct name is Robert's Temple Church of God in Christ not Church of Christ: TO know history is to know OUR history
Good morning Dr. Sanders. You said; "TO know history is to know OUR history"
First, you don't listen. She said it correctly @ 1:45. But incorrectly later. Whereas, neither Wheeler Parker nor Christopher Benson never mention the denomination once.
Listen to her introduction. She was at the White House, twice, with Wheeler Parker. And covered *YOUR* history.
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Your first sentence is a gentle correction for everyone to read. Your second sentence is a personal rebuke of Lynn Sweet. A rebuke born of a lack of knowledge of the vast contribution Lynn Sweet has made in covering the plight of Blacks whose ties are to the Jim Crow era deep south.
And a rebuke based upon angry Black women's relentless all-out war on white women. And a rebuke based upon the insensitivity of Lynn Sweets advanced age, 73, and a simple slip of the tongue
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Based upon Lynn Sweet's coverage of the National Monument status of Robert's Temple Church of God in Christ, Lynn Sweet has *written* Robert's Temple Church of God in Christ dozens of times in her articles. She *knows* your denomination.
But let's make this clear. This was not a Black man interviewing two Black men about a Black lynching. Like *thousands* of other interviews, this is a white person interviewing Black people about Emmett Till. You can count on one hand the number of Blacks chronicling the death of an innocent 14 year old.
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If it weren't for white journalist, the story of Emmett Till would have been forgotten on September 6 1955.
The movie didn't betray Emmett as having a speech impediment (studer).
There were some things in the movie that didn't line up with information provided by family members and those that were at the store.
@@tbwms3243 Good evening tb. I haven't seen you around for a while.
You are correct about the movie.
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There are two things you cannot depend upon from a Hollywood movie;
History and religion.
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Hollywood is not in the business of teaching history, or leading anyone into faith.
Hollywood is only interested in making money. And they are not above playing loose with the facts to do it.
@@tbwms3243 Good afternoon TB. It is good to know that you are still around. I haven't seen you lately.
I hope all is well with you.
@mark9531 - I'm doing fine. I don't read/respond to these stories like I used to. But sometimes I get in the mood. 🙂 Hope you're doing fine as well.
@@tbwms3243 Comments on most all of the videos about Emmett Till drastically cooled off after the death of Carolyn Bryant.
But I am glad you are still around.
Isn't this guy the same one who sent condolences to Carolyn Bryant's family after she passed?
Didn't he also say Emmitt Whistled at that woman when he didn't?
That's right. It's called Stockholm Syndrome. The black afro-American's mind is really fucked up and rotten from the programming administered by the white devils and demons in human form.
Good evening Brett. You said; "he also say Emmitt Whistled at that woman when he didn't"
I would never judge a grieving mother who is trying to protect the honor of her son.
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In the dozens and dozens of interviews Mamie Till Mobley gave, *once and only once* she gave Emmett's stutter as the explanation of his whistle.
But the fact remains, Mamie Till Mobley was not at Bryant Store in Money Mississippi on August 24, 1955
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But 11 people were. And all these 11, who were there, testified that Emmett wolf-whistled at Carolyn Bryant.
Here are the 11:
Ruthie Mae Crawford, 18, Roosevelt Crawford, 17, John Crawford, 22, Robert Wright, 16, Simeon Wright, 12, Wheeler Parker, 16, Albert Johnson, Jr., Curtis Jones, 18, Elliott Thelton “Pete” Parker, 17, Carolyn Bryant, 21, Maurice Wright, 18.
There is a question as to whether Curtis Jones was there.
Their were 2 white women in that store.............. Carolyn Bryant and Mrs Milan................ one of White mens wife who murdered Emitt.... J.W.Milan
Roy Bryant and J.W. Milan.................. call the white men names