Wright Thompson
speaker
994 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 17 Sep
Wright Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was incredibly intentional.
It was driven by the press offices of Jim Eastland and John Stennis.
I mean, this was an unbelievably sophisticated operation.
And so, you know, when you talk about...
how come the dentist who I really like, how come he doesn't know?
It's because every single authority figure in his life from the time he was born, every coach, every preacher, every scout master, every aunt, every uncle, every person he went hunting with, everybody in his life
told him that this had nothing to do with him.
One of the reasons, obviously, that people are so against the teaching of any sort of black history in Mississippi at a certain like political persuasion is because Mississippi has been doing critical race theory for a very long time.
It's white.
Yeah, white.
Let me read you something real quick.
I could find this very quickly on my phone.
So the textbook that's being taught at my old high school, this is the only mention of Emmett Till in the entire book.
Current day?
Current day.
This is what's being taught.
In 1955, J.P.
Coleman, the attorney general from Choctaw County, was elected governor in Mississippi's first general election after the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Coleman promised to keep the schools segregated.
He proved to be a moderating force during a very difficult time.
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