Wright Thompson
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994 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 6d ago
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And it basically turned...
this sort of wild American frontier essentially into government-backed securities.
It was this huge gold rush.
People were buying this land on maps and they'd never seen any of it.
And so the grid numbers became very important.
So the grid number where Emmett Till was killed is Township 22 North, Range 4 West, measured from the Choctaw Meridian.
And when you start looking at all of the people in and out of that square of land and especially all of the money,
in and out of that square of land, you understand, first of all, that Mississippi
has never really been governed for the benefit of Mississippians.
I mean, it was a colony of Manchester, Liverpool, and London for a very, very long time until the price of cotton collapsed.
And since then, it's essentially been a ward of the United States government.
A lot of the sort of like anti-government stuff that is very much tied into Brown v. Board of Education, it's very much tied into Truman desegregating the army.
There had never been a Confederate flag in an Ole Miss football game
until Truman desegregated the army in 1948.
I mean, that's when it started.
And it feels like a lot of the sort of anti-government stuff is in the knowledge that without the federal government, there wouldn't be a state of Mississippi because the state existed for a commodity that no longer really exists like it did.
I mean, so I grew up there and I didn't realize the degree to which, you know, cotton was oil until 1933 when DuPont invented nylon and Mississippi was Saudi Arabia.
The most irrationally arrogant people in the world are the people in charge of the bottom rung on a commodity chain because they think they have power, but they have none.
If you grew up in the Mississippi Delta, it's like you grew up around a failed experiment and you can't quite figure out what happened here.
The degree to which Emmett Till was murdered for his optimism and for...
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