Censorship
(Open Casket by Dana Schutz) The controversial topic of censorship has been around with people always having the argument of a piece of art, film, musical piece, and other forms of media. Mainly censorship is wanted for media being too sexual, crude, or violent, but rarely have I seen art wanting to be taken down due to the claims of racial injustice. Dana Schutz is a white American painter who painted the photo above depicting the open casket of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy in 1955 who was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississipi. Emmett was kidnapped by the woman's husband and his half-brother and mutilated, such as gouging his eyes out, beating him, gunshot to the head, and other body mutilation. Emmett's body was found three days later in the Tallahatchie River where his body was tied to a cotton gin by barbed wire. The biggest controversy was when the killers were tried, they were found innocent even though all the jury was white which could be how they