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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Appearances
It's unbelievable.
And this old woman stands up.
And it was his aunt.
And she's tiny and frail and, you know, beautiful.
Looks like a bird almost.
And she stands up and she says in this really soft voice where everybody has to sort of lean in.
And she said, I wasn't there the night he died, but I was there the morning he was born.
you just realize that like, yes, this is a crime that happened to a race of people.
It is a crime that happened to a country.
There's a reason that people don't know this, but if, you know, whether it's, you know, Fruitvale Station or Trayvon Martin or whatever it is, whenever someone is killed, their phone will ring and it'll be somebody from the Emmett Till family privately just being like, we know something about your future that you don't know yet.
You know, and so they've done a very good job of that.
But
It's also a crime that happened to a family and in many ways is still happening to them.
And so I don't think I fully appreciate that.
It's stupid in hindsight not to.
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.
Man.
That's tough.
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