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Frat Suspends White MAGA Bros For Racist Photo Op In Front Of Shot Up Emmett Till Sign

Emmett Till Legacy: 60 year Anniversary Commemoration

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A trio of white students from the University of Mississippi has been suspended by their fraternity after a photo of them standing in front of an Emmett Till sign struck by bullets armed with guns. The Kappa Alpha fraternity caught wind of the MAGA photo op and the students could face possible civil rights violation charges to boot.

ProPublica reports:

One of the students posted a photo to his private Instagram account in March showing the trio in front of a roadside plaque commemorating the site where Till’s body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River. The 14-year-old black youth was tortured and murdered in August 1955. An all-white, all-male jury acquitted two white men accused of the slaying.

The photo, which was obtained by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica, shows an Ole Miss student named Ben LeClere holding a shotgun while standing in front of the bullet-pocked sign. His Kappa Alpha fraternity brother, John Lowe, squats below the sign. A third fraternity member stands on the other side with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. The photo appears to have been taken at night, the scene illuminated by lights from a vehicle.

LeClere posted the picture on Lowe’s birthday on March 1 with the message “one of Memphis’s finest and the worst influence I’ve ever met.”

Neither LeClere nor Lowe responded to repeated attempts to contact them.

The outlet adds that it wasn’t known if the students shot the sign, which has been vandalized several times in the past despite the best efforts of the Emmett Till Memorial Commission to protect the historical marker. The Justice Department is now investigating the matter in order to determine whether or not to charge the men, including a fourth unnamed person who snapped the photo.

Emmett Till would have been 78 on July 25.

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J. Cole Drops Instant-Classic MIDDLE CHILD Video, Soulja Boy’s Blac Chyna Tattoo Revealed, Ole Miss Players Protest National Anthem?

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Moving Monday. It’s all about keeping it moving SOHH why not get things going with J. Cole dropping an epic-looking “Middle Child” music video? Speaking of hip-hop, how about Soulja Boy possibly getting Blac Chyna‘s name tatted on him? On a more serious note, are we 100 percent here for an Ole Miss school’s players protesting a confederate flag rally by kneeling during the national anthem? All this coming up in SOHH Whatcha Think.

1. Must-See

J. Cole is really on his music grind and isn’t wasting time getting tunes and visuals to the fans. His new “Middle Child” is solid and already racking up tons of views. YouTube has the premiere:

Are you impressed? Do you need more J. Cole? Is this his year? #SOHHWhatchaThink?

2. Chyna Doll

Did Soulja Boy really get Blac Chyna’s name tatted onto his body? Looks like something went down – notably because SB tossed up a since-deleted post hinting at a BC ink job. Check it out below:

Do you think this is real? Think they were ever serious? Should SB and BC try to date each other again? #SOHHWhatchaThink?

3. Fight For Your Right

There is some serious tension going on right now in Mississippi and it’s all because of the actions of eight men’s basketball players kneeling during the national anthem before a Saturday game. The motivation? Turns out it was a response to a pro-Confederate rally going on around the campus. The NY Times has the scoop:

Minutes before tipoff, the teams formed lines for the anthem. As “The Star-Spangled Banner” began, six players from the Rebels took a knee and bowed. Toward the end of the anthem, two teammates joined them. With the gesture, the Mississippi players joined an array of athletes who have protested racial injustice by taking a knee during the anthem, following an example set in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick, a former N.F.L. quarterback. The pro-Confederate demonstration was led by out-of-state protesters a few hundred feet from the arena. (NY Times)

Do you agree? Is this the best peaceful protest action? Will this carry over to the NBA? #SOHHWhatchaThink?

That wraps it up for today. This is SOHH On The Spot giving you the scoop from your fave gossip sites.

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