Compare And Contrast Emmett Till And George Floyd

How would you feel if you been treated differently from the others because of your skin color? You may think it wont be that bad or you would still get treated the same as everybody else. But that wasnt the case for either Emmett Till or George Floyd or any other dark skined person. Emmett Till was accused by a white lady for whisling at her later on got beaten to death and his body thrown in the river. Now with George Floyd he was put on the ground by a white officer and was suffocated to death. Now they both died differently but one similarity they share is they were both African American.

To begin with, George Floyd and Emmett Till are both African American and both were killed by white people. They were treated unfairly because of there

A way that they both are different besides the fact they are both African American and what happened to them was awful is the way they both died. While George Floyd was put on the ground and suffocated to death. Emmett Till’s death was more awful because he was kidnapped and was beaten to death by the womans husband and other white folks from a community. In the article Emmett Till by Clint Smith it states that, “Emmett Till was then brutally beaten by Roy Bryant and several other members of the white community. He was taken to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shot in the head, tied to a 75-pound metal fan that weighed his body down, and then dropped to the bottom of the water.” In the article George Floyd’s Brother Testifies Transcript by Philonise Floyd it states that, “He was mild mannered; he didn’t fight back. He listened to the officers. He called them ‘sir.’ The men who took his life, who suffocated him for eight minutes and 46 seconds. He still called them ‘sir’ as he begged for his life.” This shows that they both died differently. As a result no matter what way they both died its the fact that what still happened to them was