“When Carolyn herself [later] lost one of her sons, she thought about the grief that Mamie must have felt and grieved all the more.” Let me guess, her son was being falsely accused of harassing a pure white woman and subsequently tortured and murdered? If not, your grief is NOTHING compared to Mamie’s grief and the…

Yeah, I’m all “the case ruined her life? Oh, the poor thing. Good thing she wasn’t lynched and mutilated. Because then, you know, we couldn’t hear how this affected her so deeply that she didn’t say anything for 60 more years.”