a messenger for all of that. it s not what she wants to do. no, she wants her child. she wants her baby back, but she becomes someone that everyone wants to see and meet because of the decisions she makes that the country will bear witness to the savagery that her son endured. did you caution your son how to conduct himself and behave himself while he was down here in mississippi. several times. several times. do tell us how. i will give you a literal description of what i told him, how coming down here he would have to adapt himself to a different way of life. be very careful about how he spoke and to whom he spoke and to always remember to say yes, sir and no, ma am, if ever an incident should arise where there would be any trouble of any kind with white people if it got to the point where he needed to go down on his knees before him, i told him not to hesitate to do so. like if he bumped into somebody on the street. and they might get belligerent
i don t want him seeing himself the way those people are seen down there. those people like me? even you left mississippi, mama. there s so many moments like that that you want to just jump through the screen and tell her to listen to her wisdom to go get her boy. yeah. you know, this happens to ordinary people. this is an ordinary family. you know, there was nothing special about them. they were just a mother and son, you know, and they were thrust into extraordinary circumstances, circumstances that none of us who have children ever want to be in. ever. talk about the first excruciating thing she does for her boy when she gets him back? well, i mean, she when the coffin comes off that train that scene. the sound. that s a mother s anguish. that s a mother s gut wrenching
probably worried a bit less about that. now, i go back to what i said, nicolle, and this is the reason why you held your breath is that our adversaries recognize the value of not only individual, but what the individual has and especially physical documents. and you always worry, and there are lots of ways, technical and human to go after things. i think anyone who suggests that this situation of highly classified documents being out of a secure facility relatively unprotected for a long period of time in a known way doesn t didn t represent a significant security threat just doesn t understand that there actually are people out there who would
and starting to expose what we have to deal with and why we have to deal with racism in this country. the story can t be told without the story of mamie till mobley. keith it made me cry when the rev said that, how do you feel when he says that, that she thought of you like a son? you know, i was very young when mother mobley and i was together. she was my mentor for eight and a half years until she took her last breath, and this, you know, it s a sense of fulfillment. i m battling a lot of emotions. we lost a lot of people along the way, the people i interviewed, that led to the reopening of the case had passed on, so you have that question in your head, are you doing the right thing, are you second guessing why you re here, going through all of the emotions. one thing i know for sure is it
he doesn t have any answers, and getting rid of history books and changing the way history is told, doesn t change, women are here, gay people are here, you re not getting rid of it by getting rid of history, we re putting it on film. that s what this movie does. this movie is the same way i learned about anne frank, you watch the movie, oh, my god, i don t like that. if you can t get it in the history book, get it from the film. if you don t get it from the film, you get it from the oral conversation. but the conversation is not stopping. you re not going to stop the conversation. and you can t deny we have a checkered history. this is america. this is what happened. but if we don t stop it from happening, it s going to continue. and if you stop talking about it, and not pointing it out, it is going to continue. yeah. are we perfect? no. this is never going to be a