Gabby Otchere-Darko, a leading member of the NPP, jumped on the 80th anniversary of Emmett Till, a young black child murdered in a hate crime, to call attention to the consequences of hate.
He shared a picture of the murdered black teen with a caption that reads, “Emmett Till was only 14 when he was kidnapped and brutally murdered 66 years ago. His crime was being black. His killers were a group of white people brought up to HATE black people. He would have been 80 today. Just remember, hate can kill. Enjoy your Sunday.”
According to Gabby, LGBT activities are already illegal in the country. And the passing of such a Bill is likely to get Ghana blacklisted for promoting hate. He also explained the hypocrisy that lurks behind such a contentious Bill.
“The irony is that we are using a colonial legacy, based on UK’s Offences Against the Person Act 1861, which proscribed something called “unnatural carnal knowledge” as the roots of our moral fibre to enact a law which we say it is to protect us from a foreign threat to our norms!”
Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of violating the unwritten code of behaviour for a black male interacting with a white female. According to reports, Emmett was visiting relatives in the area when he flirted with a white woman, 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant. Days later, he was kidnapped, tortured, shot in the head and finally thrown into a river by the woman’s husband and brother. Three days after his disappearance, his body was found in the river weighed down with barbed wire tied to a large metal fan.
By Grace Somuah-Annan|3news.com|Ghana
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