These two situation aren't the same!
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It won't be released until her death. Only her and Till know what happened that day, and we aren't going to hear Till's side. I suspect the apple didn't fall far from the tree with him. Either way, her memoir will be the most clarity we'll ever get on the situation.
I kinda think you and u/TentElephant are both missing the point. It doesn't even really matter what people think Till did. What matters is what his killer, JW Milan thought Till did.
Milan thought it was wolf-whistling. At least some kind of sexual harassment between Till, and a family member. Milan decided he would go to wherever Till was at, kidnap him, tie him up, and drive him around the woods to 'scare him'. According to Milan, Till didn't seem to be scared by this and spent most of the time talking shit to his kidnappers. So they drove him to a cliff to scare him further. Till kept talking shit. So Milan and an accomplice beat the holy hell out of him with wood and razor wire. Again, all still according to Milan, Till kept saying he wasn't intimidated by them, and even added that he had slept with white women before. So Milan pistol whipped the shit out of his skull. Milan decided that he would ask Till one more time if he had "been with a white woman before". Till said yes. Milan shot him in the face, and dumped his body off a cliff into a river. IIRC.
Again, importantly, this is according to Milan: the man that admitted to killing him.
The primary reason that Milan decided to kill Till, according to Milan, is because Till wouldn't say that he hadn't slept with a white woman before, and because Till was "filled with hate".
Since that is the reason why Till was murdered, it simply doesn't matter what Till had actually done. If it wasn't harassment, then Milan simply didn't know... and he killed him anyway for what amounted to a completely unrelated reason. Whatever the encounter was between Till and the woman really had no significant bearing on why Milan killed him.
Milan killed Till, by his own admission, because Till wasn't scared or intimidated by him.
No one is defending the actions of Milan. The point is, modern perception is that he was the original good boy who dindu nuffin.
No, that'd be Nat Turner.
"He was a hero fighting to end slavery : ("
"HE WAS, BY HIS OWN ADMISSION, A RACIAL TERRORIST HELL-BENT ON COMMITTING AN ETHNIC CLEANSING!"
That kinda propaganda has always existed, it's just not super relevant to the problem of the case.
Pushing back on propaganda is the only thing relevant at this point. There is no case anymore.
But yes, Nat Turner was also a piece of shit.