Wright Thompson

It's just the truth.

I don't understand this idea.

especially Southern modern urge to not want to tell these stories because like, if I'm just gonna be real blunt, I mean, like my family was farming not far from there in 1955.

I still own that land.

So I don't really understand how hearing this history has hurt me in any way.

My children are going to own that land.

I don't understand the reticence of saying this is what happened here.

It is just a weird line to draw in the sand.

I'm not being persecuted.

My life is in no way negatively affected by standing up and saying this is the truth of what happened here.

You know, a child was tortured to death.

Why can't we all confront it?

I don't understand.

the cultural insecurity that leads... And maybe this is just being a landowner in Mississippi.

You know what I mean?

Maybe I'm disconnected from other people's insecurity.

I don't think so.

But I don't understand why anyone would feel so insecure that they wouldn't want this history taught and wouldn't trumpet it.

Because by the way, shit isn't great, but you read the history of 1955, it's a lot better.

You know, like I actually find great comfort in reading about how horrible it was.