The ghost of Emmett Till’s mutilated body floats beneath every interracial kiss in America—a 14-year-old lynched for a whistle, his mother’s choice to display his corpse an act of guerilla truth-telling in a nation that still confuses Black flesh with public property. To discuss interracial dating without invoking the Willie Lynch Letter’s “make them hate themselves” doctrine or Dr. Frances Cress Welsing’s Isis Papers analysis of melanin as threat is to spit on Mamie Till’s open casket.