Kaitlan Collins Instagram – ESPN’S Wright Thompson has written a powerful and painful new book on the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till — and how the rhetoric of the 1955 governor’s race served as the backdrop for his brutal lynching:
“The rhetoric of the 1955 Mississippi governor’s race would be familiar to anybody who was watching your show tonight…One of the many untold things about this story is that it is so closely related to political rhetoric and to metaphorical violent rhetoric…It’s like you end up with small people who will do anything for a vote and don’t realize there are angry, desperate people listening to them and you just see it happening over and over and over.”
It’s out today, and I can’t recommend it enough. | Posted on 24/Sep/2024 20:13:43
