“They’re all still blown away that this isn’t a big deal to us. It’s in the past. I mean, why would we talk about it on a daily basis? We’re so stigmatized by what everybody else thinks Mississippi is, but it’s like I told them today. I said, ‘I promise you,’ I said, ‘I can take you into the elementary school—like the first grade through sixth grade and we can poll all them damn kids who Emmett Till is,’ and I said, ‘I bet you ninety-five percent of them won’t even know who Emmett Till is.’
