My piece on their Piece called "Emmett"

VIDEO WARNING: INTENSE CONTENT. For this post I didn't pick a theme, I just want to post a video with a piece that I enjoyed when I saw it and feel as though it should be shared. It is a piece about Emmett Till. I'm sure everyone knows that story and I'm not here trying to teach a history lesson, so if you don't know -- google is your friend. I like this piece because it used different perspectives and voices. The black males are the misunderstood hurting black teens that represent Emmett Till and the white females represent the white women of the 1950s. The line that stuck with me and I found very touching and brought tears to my eyes was  "didn't his mama warn him not to look in the wrong direction, about looking too confident in our direction-- the only thing his eyes should have flirted with was the ground he was going to be buried in." This line touched me so much because it really portrays how people thought then and how crazy and extreme it was. A line I have found to be true is the line "boys like us are always thought of as polution" because of how society is so bent against men like the ones in this video. "They beat his face 'til -- Till -- even God didn't recognize his own child," this line was very clearly felt by the performers and made it even more meaningful than it would if it was written. That is one main thing I like so much about spoken word is the amount of emotion that is able to be expressed through words. I love how they ended the piece with a positive note about fighting for the boys like Emmett Till and themselves. This video is very real and very intense and I absolutely love it and its message and I think it was needed to be shared.