Murdered,+forgotten,+nameless,+terrible

[|The murder of Emmet Till]

When I was reading this line, I was immediately reminded of the murder of Emmet Till. The line states of how people were, “murdered, forgotten, nameless, and terrible.” The image I chose to represent this line was a picture of Emmet Till, a young 14 year old boy who was murdered by two white men for whistling at a white woman. When Emmet Till’s lynched body was found, the only way they recognized him was by a ring on his finger. Emmet's mother had an open casket funeral with his body, so that people could see what racism did to her son. When the two men accused for killing Emmet were captured they were relased becuase of an all white jury voted in their favor. “Her eyeholes blank as pools,” shows how people were tortured because of racism. Also, “ Her broken nose is dark as a turf clod” shows that people were not only murdered but tortured as well. This poem is about racism in Ireland, and it shows that Ireland wasn't the only country that had problems with racism.