Blacks Continue to Die on the Alter of White Womanhood | Black Agenda Report

Blacks Continue to Die on the Alter of White Womanhood

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford

25 Feb 2020

🖨️ Print Article

Although Emmet Till and Trayvon Martin were killed 57 years apart, both of the Black teenagers died for the same reasons, said Angela Onwuachi-Willig, a dean and professor at Boston University School of Law. Emmet Till was murdered by two white racists for alledgedly whistling at a white woman, in 1955. Onwuachi-Willig says George Zimmerman was portrayed as protecting a mostly white neighborhood from predation and molestation by young Blacks like Trayvon Martin, in 2012. She wrote a paper on the subject, titled “From Emmet Till to Trayvon Martin: The Persistence of White Womanhood and the Preservation of White Manhood.”

white supremacy

More Stories

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Stephen Gowans’ “Washington’s Long War on Syria”
25 Sep 2019
Three hostile foreign powers—Israel, Turkey and the United States—occupy parts of Syria in defiance of international law.
Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers and K.J.Noh
Why the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 Must Be Opposed
25 Sep 2019
An Open Letter to Congress not to make common cause with US hawks, Neocons, White Supremacists, and Hong Kong nativists and colonialists.
Garikai Chengu
Gaddafi vs the West: Two Revolutions on the Wrong Side of History
25 Sep 2019
Gaddafi's revolution created one of the 21st century's most profoundly successful experiments in economic democracy.
Brandon Do
Ho Chi Minh Through the Eyes of Martin Luther King Jr.
25 Sep 2019
They linked the destinies of Black America and Vietnam with one another and with the anti colonial struggles of Africa and Asia.
BAR staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
25 Sep 2019
Every year presents new challenges to those struggling for human liberation.