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You see this cross?

It means a lot

to my congregation.

They call it

the lynching cross.

See, back in 1932, the Klan

lynched a black kid

Who was accused of

attacking a white Amos girl.

There was no trial.

They just hung him

from an oak tree.

Well, the boy's daddy

cut that tree down

And made that cross out of it.

You see, he could deal

with what happened

If he thought his son

died on a cross,

But it's time we get beyond it.

What do you mean,

"get beyond it"?

Well, to my congregation,

That cross is a symbol of

justice in the next life,

But to me, it's still

just a lynching tree,

And I hate that cross.

Miss Trey, what are you doing

on this side of town?

I'm sorry to bother you

on a Saturday, Mary Pell.

This is Matt Harper.

He's a reporter from Nashville.

Mary Pell raised me.

We'd like to speak with you

about Wallace.

Thank you.

Wallace was

a straight "a" student.

He never missed school

or church.

I told him not to be out late,

and he said, "yes, ma'am. "

Then, uh, reverend young

came to the door

And he told me

Wallace had been shot.

They took him to the hospital

but he had already passed.

I wanted to see him,

but they wouldn't let me.

I'm sorry for your loss.

I'm sorry to make you relive it.

I relive it every day.

You can't hurt me, Mr. Harper.

I've already been hurt

the worst there is.

Tell me, Mr. Big city

newspaper reporter,

What do you write about?

Whatever I'm assigned.

Does it pay well?

Not at all.

Then why do it?

To make a difference,

Comfort the afflicted and

afflict the comfortable.

Do they make you

drink the Kool-Aid

Or do they just brainwash you

when you join the ranks?

Father.

Why do you make so many errors?

I wasn't aware you read

the Nashville Times.

You don't have to.

The New York Times,

The Washington Post,

CBS, The Nashville Times.

If it wasn't for Fox News

and Rush Limbaugh,

We'd all be the same.

A liberal bias

does infect the media.

I mean, you said so yourself.

You want to

comfort the afflicted

And afflict the comfortable,

And that would be

people like us.

Mary Pell,

do you feel afflicted?

Father, please.

I've got my aches and pains,

Mr. Hall,

But got has blessed me.

Well, I see you have induced

Mr. Harper

To join you

in this wild goose chase.

I wouldn't call it that.

You're stirring up things

that...

that don't need to be

stirred up.

Now, the boy was probably killed

by his own kind and,

Well, he probably deserved it.

Not based on what we found

at his house.

You went to Mary Pell's?

In Nigra Town?

Please don't use that word.

It's an embarrassment.

No, no,

you are the embarrassment,

And I forbid you to continue.

I will not have my daughter

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