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<font color="#ffffff">When Emmett was killed, for the first</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">30 years, there was a real problem.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">I was not interviewed.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">We didn't talk about it and we</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">didn't want to talk about it.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">You know why?</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Among the Blacks, it's that</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">"why didn't you do something?"</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">"My, my people would've did this, my people..."</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">And the whites was saying</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">he got what he deserved.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Because the media had told my story, told</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">the Till story with so many different slants.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">I went to Tuscaloosa, a college in Stillman</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">in Alabama, and they had five PhDs talk</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">about Emmett Till, and they did a great job.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">But when I got up, I said, "I don't think I</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">know Emmett Till," I said, "I don't even think</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">I was there that day, listening to you guys."</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">But Mark Twain said an eyewitness</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">will destroy the story.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">So that's kind of where we are and we</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">have to keep telling the story to keep</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">telling it, and that's my life goal.</font>