EMMETT AND MAMIE TILL TO RECEIVE PRES. BIDEN's RECOGNITION

 We only hear one side in the case of Emmett Till.  His murder was horrible, but we get only a glossed over picture of what preceded it.  When Newser recently had a short story on the matter, with room for comments, I made a comment.  Here it is:

a day ago

"The young, chunky Till enters the store with a young white woman clerk. Till from Chicago is going to impress his hick relatives on how to do things. Till puts his are round her waist and grabs her arm and makes some lude remarks. She gets away from him, and goes looking for her weapon.
In most civilized societies when a male makes a play for a married woman, he is inviting trouble. If Mamie Till had taught her son some manners, there would have been no trouble. Till got more trouble than he deserved and a brutal death, but had he been polite, he might still be alive."

Normally, the major media is determined to present the case of the woman, usually making the male the villain.  This case is the major exception.  I was not there.  The woman was a store clerk in the small store owned by her husband.  She often had black customers without any trouble.  Till's friends, who were either insed the store with him, or just outside the door, were looking on.  Till was showing them what a big man he was; what he could do and get away with.  Indirectly, he was telling his Mississippi relatives and friends, you can do this too when I"m back up North.  This would be not a single, but only the first of many assaults on that white woman.  She and her husband and brother-in-law decided to nip this in the bud.  She rode with them to make sure they apprehended the guilty Till and not his innocent friends.  Unfortunately, their brutal, murderous punishment went far beyond the transgression of the teen.---Hugh Murray

BARBIE AND OPPENHEIMER

 The new Barbie film has been banned in Vietnam.  Why?  Because it includes a map in which the South China Sea is shown as belonging to the People's Republic of China, Communist China.  Vietnam disputes the power grab by its northern neighbor and has its own claim to part of that sea.  Other nations in the area also dispute the Chinese claim, including the Philippines.  Why does an American film include a map of an area using the disputed claim of Communist China as the real map?  Moreover, the Chinese claim was rejected by an international court, AND the US also rejects the Chinese claim.  This is why the US sends ships into the area without getting clearance from China.  And our air missions too above the South China Sea.  There have been some close calls as the Chinese try to prevent our missions there.  The Chinese have sunk many Vietnamese and Philippino shipping boats.

  Again, why does an American film show a map approved by Beijing and rejected by Washington?  One suspects that Hollywood was more interested in selling tickets in China, and this was one way.  Showing another map might have prevented Barbie from entering China.

Meanwhile, Barbie is banned in Vietnam.  I heard a rumor, she is not happy about this, and is now talking to Oppenheimer about building a bomb to destroy that country.  My next question, why is Barbie not banned in the US?