Wright Thompson
speaker
994 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5d ago
Wright Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so his whole thing was raising money for liberal Democrats in the Deep South.
And that was the thing he could do.
I was the only person in my class...
who didn't vote for Ronald Reagan in the mock elections we had.
And I used to ask him, I was like, why don't we ever vote for anybody who wins?
I was like, where did you get your politics?
And he was like, I just hate bullies.
I grew up around this stuff in Mississippi.
Well, I mean, it's called a riot in the way that all racial violence in the South is now referred to as a riot.
It's just a code for strong people were killing defenseless people and we need a new word for it.
But basically what happened is the governor of Mississippi had cut a deal to allow James Meredith to enroll.
He cut a deal with John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.
And then he goes down to the Ole Miss football game
that weekend in Jackson, and he got such cheers from the crowd when he talked about, I love Mississippi, I love her customs.
He was talking about segregation.
And he got so sort of drunk on the power.
So the governor called the Kennedys and said the deal was off.
They sent in U.S.
marshals.
There were students and non-students who attacked the marshals.
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