There’s a bitterness that lives close to the surface even now, a feeling of white victimhood that bleeds into nearly every political and social urge. “It’s everybody from up north and shit that keep, you know, I mean, they still think of us as Mississippi Burning,” he said. “And that’s what chaps my ass, you know, hell, I mean, you grew up in the Mississippi Delta, too.” His dad never told him about the history of the barn even though they drove past it thousands of times. Never. Not even once, in passing, after a long day in the cab of a pickup truck. This omertà, even between fathers and
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