'Decades ago, photos of Emmett Till’s murdered body galvanized action for civil rights. Could disturbing images do the same for gun control?'
In the days since the Uvalde shooting, media outlets have shared heartbreaking images of the small victims as they were cherished in life. As Americans, we’re forced to look into their young, innocent eyes and accept our shame that we failed to protect them.
It is understandable that a newspaper would be loath to publish such photographs. Most human beings would be loath to look at them. Earlier that same day, in response to a “dare,” Emmett allegedly committed the “crime” of whistling at a white woman in a local grocery store. Tens of thousands viewed the body as it was, and Jet magazine and the Chicago Defender ran photographs of the brutalized child. The resulting anger and grief stiffened the determination of the civil rights movement.
The families of the Uvalde victims will make their own painful decisions regarding the remains of their children. They owe us nothing—it is we who owe them our shamed apologies for failing to protect their children from the now well-known danger of mass murder.
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