Wright Thompson

And the textbook says he was a young black man.

Whistled.

And yeah.

And like, it's just, that's infuriating to me because we hadn't even really started to teach the real history of Mississippi.

And so the fact that there's a backlash against the idea that something that isn't happening might one day happen is amazing.

It's insane and it's embarrassing because it is rooted in like such insecurity that I don't think we as Mississippians should feel.

It's just weak sauce.

It just makes us look awful.

Dude, I love it.

And so like, you know, all of it.

I tell my daughter, she wants a funny story at bedtime.

And so I tell her stories about Bentonia, where my dad grew up, and Shelby, where my mom grew up, just about funny stories from their childhood out in the country.

And like my daughter just looks at me like these are fairy tales.

And I'm like, every one of these things is true, man.

So the barn was owned by a guy named Leslie Milam, who was J.W.

Milam and Roy Bryant's brother.

Who are the killers?

Yeah.

I was stunned to find out that –

Roy Bryant and this is how inbred this is.