Mississippi Burning
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:08:00
- That's the word?
- Yeah.

:08:02
That pretty color’s the bait. Insects just
home in there and wham, they're dead...

:08:06
...even before they got their shoes off.
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You...
:08:12
Maybe I should've picked something else.
:08:15
Maybe.
:08:15
I'm gonna tell you a story.
:08:18
A young kid named Homer Wilkes
lives about 30 miles north of here.

:08:24
He'd just taken his girlfriend home
and was walkin' back along the road...

:08:29
...when a car pulled up.
:08:31
Three white boys took him for a ride.
:08:38
Now...
:08:40
...he hadn't done anything...
:08:45
...except...
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...be a Negro.
:08:52
And they took him to a shack.
:08:55
A shack like... like this one.
:08:59
And they took out a razor blade...
:09:02
...a regular old razor blade, like this one...
:09:07
...and they pulled down his pants...
:09:13
...and they spread his legs...
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...and they sliced off his scrotum.
:09:23
Put it in a coffee cup.
:09:28
May the peace and the joy
in the Holy Ghost abide with all of you...

:09:30
And do you know how much you bleed
when somebody cuts off your balls?

:09:32
...for now and for ever. Amen.
:09:35
Huh?!
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When they found Homer, he looked like
he'd been dipped in blood up to his waist.

:09:45
He was barely alive when
they got him to the hospital.

:09:49
He can hardly walk now.

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