Bowing Out Over Liberal Leader's Crude Words

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NEW YORK (AP) — PepsiCo is bowing to public pressure for the second time in a week and cutting ties with Lil Wayne over the rapper's crude lyrical reference to civil rights martyr Emmett Till.

Lil Wayne, one of the biggest stars in pop music, had a deal to promote the company's Mountain Dew soda.

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It was the Till case, and seeing the picture of the young man's body at his funeral that made me realize how much I hated racism and racists. I was embarrassed for the entire white race, and their acceptance of what happened.

I was 14 years old when it happened, and it has had a strong effect on my entire life.

To me, those who did this should have been given the same treatment. There can be no quarter to those who would do something as bad as they did, to this boy.

And, by the way, according to real records, he did not "whistle" at a white woman, he opened a door for her at a general store, and said, "Good morning Ma'am!"

Down there, at that time, no black was ever allowed to utter one word to a white woman.