Michael Bennett Speaks Out About Trauma of Growing Up Black in America & His "Emmett Till Moment"
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#3T0GY)
When Michael Bennett was 12 years old, James Byrd was lynched in Jasper, Texas. The African-American man was brutally murdered by white supremacists who chained him to the back of their truck by his ankles and dragged him for more than three miles along the road. By the time the men untied his body from the back of the truck, Byrd's head and right arm had been severed. Michael Bennett calls this killing his "Emmett Till moment." We speak with the NFL player and activist about his childhood and the influence of his mother.