if he is not alive, then that s not justice. accountability is what we are looking for here. one of the interesting legacies of the work you have done and of emmit till is that in the last couple of years we have seen instances of lynching and americans are now able to call it what it is. we have a memorial to lynching. but the fact that americans are able to see that the extrajudicial killing of anyone without a right to trial or explain themselves or defend themselves is lynching. it s still going on. yes, it is. that s unfortunate. the united states has not passed any anti-lynching law, particularly at a federal level. it s not a federal law to lynch anyone in this country. the emmit till anti-lynching act is something that congressman bobby rush is pushing along with other congressional representatives and senators. this should actually pass in this country. we are hoping that that is a law that can move forward so that
a white woman. that has been acultural touch didn t point for americans. listen to what the recent college graduate timothy young, who i met in jackson, mississippi, told me about how what happened in emmit till informed his life. i remember being 8 going into a mall. my mom took me in victoria s secret. i was bored. i ended up whistling to keep myself from falling asleep. all of a sudden my mom grabbed me frantic. i need you to never do that again. she was like, have you heard of emmit till. i don t know who that is. i m 8. she showed me who emmit till was. whistling was fun. i whistle now. i catch myself noticing i m in a public space and i stop. it s like
lynching is outlawed at a federal level. but also, i will tell you with the emmit till victim recovery program that we have in minnesota, we are hoping families can have some sort of way to move forward in their lives. then also, the bill that emmit till s name is under, which allows for the investigation of cases like his, civil rights unsolved cases, should go forward as well. we wish that the federal government would aggressively pursue these cases. and we hope that they have not given up on emmit s as well, even though we heard that. i appreciate them coming back in 2018. i appreciate the federal government and the fbi doing their work. we hope that they know that we re not giving up in this case. we are going to be pushing forward in emmit s name and in his mother s name who fought for 47 years for accountability and