George, Michael, Trayvon (and Emmett, too)

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We know how George Floyd, Michael Brown, and Trayvon Martin earned a place in the pantheon of oppressed black victims. We know because their myths developed in real-time for all to see.

The myth has Trayvon Martin being chased and killed by George Zimmerman. The reality has Zimmerman calling police after noticing Martin casing out apartments, followed by Martin savagely beating Zimmerman, cracking his head on the pavement repeatedly, before a single shot from Zimmerman’s gun cuts short his life.

The myth has Michael Brown raising his hands saying “don’t shoot” before being gunned down by Officer Darren Wilson. The reality has Brown strong-arm a convenience store merchant, obstruct street traffic, refuse to follow Wilson’s orders, try to grab Wilson’s gun, and charge at Wilson before shots from Wilson’s gun ended his life.

The myth has George Floyd’s air passage being obstructed by Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee pressing on the back of Floyd’s neck, causing his death. The reality has Floyd passing a counterfeit bill, being taken into custody, having a fit, and being restrained on the ground. Meanwhile, the lethal dose of drugs that he had previously ingested went to work and stopped his heart, ending his life.

Granted, it is sad that such human potential was lost, but it is difficult to make a case that white oppression caused their deaths. This got me thinking about other black martyrs that the media has hoisted upon us. Right up there with George, Michael, and Trayvon is Emmett Till. In fact, Emmett Till was the archetype that got the ball rolling for the media. The story that the media peddles is that Emmett Till whistled at a white woman and paid for his offense by being lynched by the Klan.

Knowing what you know about the deaths of George, Michael, and Trayvon, I do not think that you would be surprised if I told you that none of that story is true. Firstly, Till did not whistle but reportedly grabbed a woman in a store and propositioned her to have sex with him in an extremely vulgar way. (It’s worth noting that sixty years later, Till’s accuser changed her story, but that could very well have been because of the pressure of the case and white guilt.)

Secondly, the men that murdered Till, although associated with the Klan, were, more importantly, the brother and husband of the woman that Till grabbed and propositioned.

Thirdly, in the South at that time, male relatives of a woman insulted in this fashion would have felt honor-bound to punish the assailant for his transgression. I am not defending Till’s murder, but knowing the circumstances surrounding his death casts a different light on the long-standing impression that Till was lynched by the Klan for purely racial reasons. Let’s also remember that this was a culture that punished horse thievery with hangings, a far cry from the soft-on-crime policies and attitudes of today (historical context matters).

The tradition of masculine honor that played out in the Emmett Till story is not a relic of the past. Even today blacks reenact this vestige of the Southern honor code by slaughtering each other in great numbers for trifling offenses.

Fourthly, Emmett Till’s father had been court-martialed and hanged for raping and murdering a woman while on duty in Italy during WWII. Moreover, many in the small community where Emmett lived were aware of this fact.

With no substance to the claim that George, Michael, Trayvon, and Emmett were victims of white racist oppression, it all points to one long contrivance by the media over the past 70 years to deceive.

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