happened to have on a ring with his in chicago, emit till s grief-stricken mother waited at the railroad station for the casket container handgun son s body to arrive. she is confronted with a sealed wooden casket nailed shut by the sheriff. it was her that demanded that that box be opened so that she could see her child. she kind of staggers in and sees this body and she can t believe her beautiful child is this lump of flesh that is lying in the casket. then she said to herself, the country is going to have to confront this. i m not going to suffer in this b by myself. if this is what you are going to do to black boys, you re going to look at it. joining me now, joy reid host of a.m. joy. and if you go to the smithsonian african-american museum, there