up, to interrogate the present to see what of the past remains. Because our present day potential for violence is alive and undiminished. - Wright Thompson

the game always the same no matter how much the men who love it change, a simplicity that waits day after day, beautiful and addictive.

Less than a decade had passed since the murder, but a world had died. All that violence to protect a way of life, and in the end, it just crumbled to dust.

This all makes me think a lot about what it means to be from the Mississippi Delta; to be from the South, For me and other White people of a certain social class, it means that I carry a legacy of a roguish and faded gentility, a love for whiskey, and fast cars on riding road,s and a knowledge of roadside blues clubs that offered guitars and tall boys of beer.