Further back than Anita Hill Emmett Till

What have these Senate Actors done to mend our American Ways

All these years, where have they been—these  accusers, abusers, alleged abusers, champions of one side or another? 

Where have the shocked and outraged been? 

What did they do to change conditions, ethos, human relations among and between people?

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hese people—all of them on all sides — are very rich, very well off and well connected, well rewarded whether merited or not. 

And though I believed Anita Hill, which was a different case from these alleged occurrences, I can’t help remembering Emmett Till and wondering where the Democrats and Dixicrats and Republicans and Independents were when Emmett Till was falsely accused of sexual improprieties and killed by a mob for speaking to a woman in a store.

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here were the champions of “victims” when Emmett Till was slaughtered? Where were the very rich, very well off, the well connected and well rewarded when this young man’s life was taken by a vicious lie and mob violence?

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here were they when the family of Emmett Till grieved for justice, even belief, without receiving either?

THAT incident is forever burned in my mind.

I make no judgments about today’s and many days’ performers before cameras. Though I have read and listened to news stories surrounding this 2018 case of an accuser and an accused concerning an alleged 30+ year old incident, I know nothing of these people or the situation or the veracity of their claims and denials.

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 do believe this. Centrally at play are partisan political maneuverings and manipulations, battles over power and influence, high-placed people essentially playing with each other at the expense of others; and without regard for real suffering, without regard for underlying conditions in our country and society generally, and in educational institutions in particular.

American History August 28, 1955:

“While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.

“His assailants—the white woman’s husband and her brother—made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river.”

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oday’s actors have done nothing, individually or as a governmental body, since 1955 when this 14-year-old boy was accused and lynched  and his killers acquitted at court.

THIS case remains indelibly in my brain. And critical contributing factors—never addressed in endless Washington pageantry and distraction—continue to cripple American society and taint the character, policies and practices of U.S. relations with world nations and peoples.

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merica’s Mending: a Wider View

Related to and on a broader level of relevance to the question of what these people on camera have done to mend America are some comments made recently by former president of the United Nations Security Council Kishore Mahbubani in an interview with journalist Sophie Shevardnadze. 

Referring to contents from his latest book “Has the West Lost It?” Mahbubani asks of Americans 

“Why don’t you change your policies and do something that is good for the American people in the long run?”

Mahbubani said in that interview: there needs to be “a revolution in the thinking of the American establishment” because, among other things, 

“There is a disconnect between what the American establishment” [clearly on display in today’s U.S. Senate Committee performance (added)] is doing “and what the American people want” [and need!]. And the establishment has not noticed, acknowledged or addressed the disconnect.

“Society,” Mahbubani said, “needs to provide hope for its young people.” Societies “where young people are the most optimistic are the happiest societies on planet Earth. But, today,

“if you are looking for optimism in young people … don’t … go to America because Americans are very troubled about their future….”

What is on in Washington in no way improves neither the image nor substance of the United States; nor does it affect positively the future prospects and well-being of the young.

Today’s news, Yesterday's U.S. History

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American History - Wikipedia

Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

History “While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.

”His assailants—the white woman’s husband and her brother—made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river.” https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till

SophieCo RT  “Every US foreign intervention is a gift to China – ex-president of UNSC” September 17, 2018 https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/438588-global-economy-united-nations/

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