Nauseating. You think MSNBC would have brought them on if they were going to say race relations have improved?
Via Mediaite:
In 1955, 14-year-old Emmitt Till was tortured and murdered by white Mississippi men for the imagined crime of “flirting with a white woman.” His killers were acquitted but later bragged about their involvement in that crime. Nearly 60 years later, parallels are being drawn between that crime and the killing of Trayvon Martin. Friday On MSNBC, the surviving members of Till’s family lashed out at the notion that race relations had measurably improved in the 50 years that had passed since the civil rights movement’s march on Washington, D.C. […]
Till’s cousin, Ollie Gordon, explained this by observing that African-Americans experience racism more than other groups. “You are still looked at and viewed and judged by the color of your skin in the black community,” Gordon said. “As when you go into apply for a job, when you go into stores, you’re still kind of looked at suspiciously.”
“They kind of still follow you around in the stores as to think that maybe you’re going to take something that you possibly don’t have the money to pay for it,” she continued.
“I still encountered racism even in restaurants,” Gordon continued. “You go and you may get served last or you may not get served at all. We kind of experienced that just yesterday here in Washington.”