Wright Thompson
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There is a storage unit somewhere in Chicago right now that his family keeps paying the monthly bill on.
And it was Mamie Till's storage unit.
And in it is Emmett Till's toy train.
That's tough.
Yeah, it's really something.
And like, if you want to know whether you're a monster, ask yourself the question, am I comfortable with that story being told in my children's classroom?
And if the answer is no, then you need to go to church, man.
Well, that's just the only relief is that, like, if these folks do what they were doing, this is really dangerous.
Like, this is so absurd that, like, this isn't going to stick.
You know, I mean, the history book I just read you, that's dangerous.
Because it's written in a measured way, even though the idea isn't measured.
I mean, the political violence is scary.
And everybody, everybody in one of those offices should sort of tone it down.
Every politician knows how to run a populist campaign.
They just have all chosen not to for a very long time.
What you don't want to end up is an America where you have
80% of us just trying to raise our kids.