“...I was disappointed to see Theresa May, our unelected Prime Minister refuse to condemn this policy...”

the next person from the midwest who tries to bring up 9/11 to justify this to me is getting hit with a ClueX4.

I think you’ve hit upon an important response to this idea of “what makes a man?”. There are trans folks who reveal some level of internalized sexism by responding to cis folks’ challenge to their gender by saying, “I’m a woman because I like high heels” or “cooking” or other very loaded things. However, I would argue…

No context? It’s part of a whole fucking book about the Till case. The irony is that it’s you who are lifting this quote out of context (from a secondhand article) to get in some easy, and frankly lazy, judgement about a scholar and about a woman who was part of one of the most notorious crimes in 20th century…

Her lie didn’t get Emmett Till murdered though. Two racists killed him because they wanted to kill him (supposedly he whistled at her, but I suspect he was just in the same space and that was reason enough for them). She concocted her lie about the assault to get her husband off the murder charges.

My apologies for putting this here, but Raineyb1013 decided the Dismiss button was the appropriate way to handle being confronted with reasoned rebuttals. If you’ll allow this to stay... all it is is one of my responses, calling them out for their quick judgment.

i guess what i mean is, what else can this professor be expected to say? why should he say anything except what he wants to say, even if it isn’t pleasant -after all, we still have the capacity to judge the woman and even this professor, or whomever we like. it ultimately doesn’t matter what he says.

would you rather he made something up, instead? of course her life was ruined -a ruined life is as much punishment as we can expect for her grave sin.

That’s one sentence pulled out of an entire book. You have no idea about whether Tyson presents that sentence “with no context about what she did” unless you’ve read the book. You obviously haven’t, and you’re obviously ignorant about who Tyson is and what he’s written.

It depends on whether she said it or whether it is Tyson’s paraphrasing. Either way, it’s clear that SHE thought it ruined her life. That’s a damning thing to say and an extremely important part of the historical record surrounding this case. Not saying she’s not a lying sack of shit, but she’s a lying sack of shit…

WTF, can you even read? Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman, will get no money from this book. Jesu, get a grip man.

This professor is an historian of the civil rights movement, activist of social causes, fircely anti-trump, and has been arrested a few times while protesting against racial injustice. He simply is communicating a fact, I bet he too thinks “fuck this horrid woman” but he can’t put it in the book because that wouldn’t…

My god, Tim Tyson is a tireless activist here in NC for Black Lives Matter, for Moral Mondays with Reverend William Barber. He’s on the front lines literally every week. He’s been arrested numerous times while protesting voter suppression and gerrymandering. He’s a fine historian and a man of unwavering principle.

No, your point is over.

You’re still quoting a paraphrase. Yes, those are his words, but it’s a selected part of a larger statement. The author of the vanity fair article took that quote from somewhere. A direct interview? Probably not, as the article doesn’t claim to be an interview with Tyson. A quote from someone else’s interview? A quote…

He has the duty to tell the story. The whole story as told by her... Leaving details out, especially ones as critical as these are is to not tell the entire story. I can’t believe you would condemn someone for fully reporting. Who are you, the President?

blame the author of the article here for the paraphrases. Unless you’ve read an advance copy of the book, that is.

I think your anger is going in the wrong direction. The researcher has the responsibility to present his research unvarnished by personal opinions. This is the attitude he gathered in his research, not his personal opinion. This guy has spent his life researching, writing about, and educating people about white…

I get that, but I honestly read it more as, “this case went a long way toward ruining her life, the only form of justice she’s faced in this life.” But, I’m an optimist. :-)

As my granny used to say: “I am light bright and almost white” and have been assumed to be everything from Latino to some kind of Asian over my lifetime but my mom is black and my dad is white. I was raised in one of the worst hoods in the entire country around the black side of my family predominately and around…