Being Southern means carrying a responsibility to shake off the comforting blanket of myth and see ourselves clearly. - Wright Thompson

He doesn’t inspire selfies as much as handshakes.

people in urban America aren’t Shakespearean characters with free will but actors in a Greek tragedy,

Being Southern means carrying a responsibility to shake off the comforting blanket of myth and see ourselves clearly. I was bringing a child into this world, and into our long history of trying to do the right think while benefiting mightily from the wrong thing, and I wanted her to see it clearly without the nostalgia that so often softens my anger and desire to tear it down and build a new world in its place.