REMEMBERING NON-REVISED HISTORY: AUGUST 28, 2013

George Washington

First President of the United States (1789-1797)

Father of the United States of America,
President of the Constitutional Convention
General of the Revolutionary Army

Are Americans To Be Freemen Or Slaves?

Resolve To Conquer Or Die

Address to the Continental Army before The Battle of Long Island, Aug. 27, 1776’

Biography

George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, serving as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He also presided over the convention that drafted the Constitution, which replaced the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution established the position of President of the United States, which Washington was the first to hold. » Full Bio

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This Day In History 58 Years Ago
Murder - August 28, 1955

The Death Of Emmett Till

While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for 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. » Full Article

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Truth Lives Here

“Oprah’s Despicable Distortion Of History”

(The attempts to stir up racial tensions in America continues long after the acquittal)

Oprah: “Let me just tell you, in my mind, same thing.”

The True Story Of Emmett Till

Warning: Clips below contains a graphic image of Emmett Till’s body after he was murdered.

Oprah Miscasts History

Tuesday on The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn turned his attention on the shocking comments Oprah made regarding the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case. She compared that trial to that of the murder of Emmett Till. It was a quick comment, but does that mean the most influential celebrity should be excused for comparing two things that couldn’t in truth be more different? Glenn corrects Oprah in a powerful TV monologue. » Full Article With Comments

Bob Dylan Tribute: The Death Of Emmett Till

(aka “The Ballad of Emmett Till”)

This Factual Ballad (And Glenn’s Monologue) Will Expose Oprah’s Remarks For What They Are

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Lyrics

'Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago

When a young boy from Chicago town

Stepped through a Southern door

This boy's dreadful tragedy

I can still remember well

The color of his skin was black

And his name was Emmett Till

Some men, they dragged him to a barn

And there they beat him up

They said they had a reason

But I can't remember what

They tortured him and did some things

Too evil to repeat

There were screaming sounds inside the barn

There was laughing sounds out on the street

Then they rolled his body down a gulf

Amidst a bloody red rain

And they threw him in the waters wide

To cease his screaming pain

The reason that they killed him there

And I'm sure, it ain't no lie

Was just for the fun of killin' him

And to watch him slowly die

And then to stop the United States

Of yelling for a trial

Two brothers, they confessed

That they had killed poor Emmett Till

But on the jury there were men

Who helped the brothers commit this awful crime

And so this trial was a mockery

But nobody there seemed to mind

I saw the morning papers

But I could not bear to see

To see smiling brothers

Walkin' down the courthouse stairs

For the jury found them innocent

And the brothers, they went free

While Emmett's body floats the foam

Of a Jim Crow southern sea

If you can't speak out against this kind of thing

A crime that's so unjust

Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt

Your mind is filled with dust

Your arms and legs

They must be in shackles and chains

And your blood, it must refuse to flow

For you let this human race

Fall down so God-awful low

This song is just a reminder

To remind your fellow man

That this kind of thing still lives today

In that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan

But if all of us folks that thinks alike

If we gave all we could give

We could make this great land of ours

A greater place to live

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

REMEMBERING NON-REVISED HISTORY: AUGUST 28, 2013