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“I first saw the famous picture of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy lynched in Mississippi for talking to a white woman. Jet magazine printed the photograph of Emmett in his casket. His face was grotesque, from having been beaten and shot in the head and thrown in the river. Kids in the neighborhood were passing the picture around, talking about how a boy our age got lynched.”

“My parents protected me from a lot of things I could have been insecure about, and, most important, they provided psychological security through the power of their love.”