Trayvon's murder was a modern-day lynching.

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18. The parallels between Martin and

Emmett Till are beyond eerie, right down to the fact that Emmett Till's body was also kept unidentified at the morgue for three days, like Martin's (although in his case, I believe it was one day), with little effort being made in either case to identify him, even though it was obvious how young they both were. And Martin, like Till, was also visiting family, as he was at his father's fiance's house; Till was a northerner visiting family in Mississippi and was unfamiliar with the Jim Crow laws and racial dynamics of the state. Truly sickening to believe that such could happen again, more than fifty years later.