Parallels between the Lynching of Tracy Latimer and the Lynching of Emmett Till

I had been advised from one of your cadre to reread the Lynching of Emmett Till in response to my earlier emails on Tracy Latimer (where I called Tracy's killing a lynching). I have read it for the third time. I have already seen the Documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till by Keith Beauchamp. I have also seen Malcolm X by Spike Lee.

After having reading the above books and articles and watching the above movies I fully stand by accusing of Robert Latimer of lynching. I in fact noticed several parrellels between the two. First of all, Tracy Latimer had cerebral palsy and was mentally challenged, both of which make her an oppressed person. Emmett Till was oppressed for being black. Second, Robert Latimer admitted to having planned Tracy's murder in advance yet only got convicted with second degree murder not first degree murder. I believe Emmett Till's killer's admitted to killing him but got acquitted. Although Latimer was not acquitted there have been plenty of cases similar to the Latimer case (where a caregiver kills a disabled person in their care) where the killers get acquitted, are not charged or get a light sentence like manslaughter. Third, Robert Latimer, like Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam had a great deal of public sympathy as well as sympathy from the Bourgeois Press. And finally, although not in the Latimer case, there have been similar cases of disabled people being murdered by their caregivers that have involved beating to death, stabbing to death and ways similar to the lynching of Emmett Till. Robert Latimer, however, gassed his daughter to death which how the Nazis like to do it. I should probably point out that the killing of Tracy wasn't as ritualized as the most ritualized lynchings.

One of your cadre, rather had argued in the defense of Robert Latimer saying "their is a big long history of rural types being blamed for their own oppression". I should probably point out that Mississippi during the lynching of Emmett Till was quite rural. Judging by the above cadre's argument, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam are just "rural types being blamed for their own oppression".

Comradely,

M.G.