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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Just after, oh, just wait.
Just after the election, Emmett Till, a young black man from Chicago, allegedly made a pass at a white woman at a rural store.
Two men kidnapped him, beat him, killed him, and threw his body in the Tallahatchie River, even though it was a lot more than two.
The coverage of the trial and acquittal of his accused murderers, who later admitted their guilt in an article in a national magazine, painted a poor picture of Mississippi and its white citizens.
Those are the right answers on the test today.
Yeah, dude.
He would have been – Eighth grade or something?
Eighth grade?
Seventh grade?
By the way, he had just turned 14 and he was at like that real specific age.
Like he liked comic books.
His mother at his birthday party, she and her friends were laughing because they overheard him and his friends playing spin the bottle.
And so he was at that really specific age of young boyhood where –
you maybe might be sort of interested in kissing a girl, but you still like Spider-Man.
That's who he was.
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.
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