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Symptomatic?
March 21, 2007    File under: America

I'm deeply disturbed by this report that an LA charter school canceled a scheduled program on the lynching of Emmett Till and fired the teachers who were involved in planning it.

The point of this history is that it is difficult. Is that it scars. Kills.

Maybe it's not for kindergarteners, but to pull the program and fire the teacher suggests that the school believes this isn't for anyone.

I say it's for all Americans.

This is why Mamie Till insisted on an open casket. So we would all see. So we wouldn't be blinded by distraction, by absence. So we wouldn't fail to fight.

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Postscript: There's a petition now supporting the teachers' reinstatement, if you are interested, too.

Posted by Jake Adam York at March 21, 2007 11:28 AM