They can’t scare me, if I scare them first

newyorker:

Emmett Till in Sanford

With this breadth and level of public attention and outrage, it is becoming possible to imagine the death of Trayvon Martin taking its place alongside, say, the death of Emmett Till as a terrible marker of the ongoing peril of being young, black, and male in this country.

In today’s Daily Comment, William Finnegan on the killing of Trayvon Martin: http://nyr.kr/GJ7HnC

newyorker:

Emmett Till in Sanford

With this breadth and level of public attention and outrage, it is becoming possible to imagine the death of Trayvon Martin taking its place alongside, say, the death of Emmett Till as a terrible marker of the ongoing peril of being young, black, and male in this country.

In today’s Daily Comment, William Finnegan on the killing of Trayvon Martin: http://nyr.kr/GJ7HnC

indiernb:

Can’t resist…