Mudbound - A Conversation on Guilt and Innocence
Ronsel Jackson:
So, what about you? What's the worst thing you ever done?
Jamie McAllan:
Who, me? I'm a saint.
Ronsel Jackson: [scoffs]
I bet. I bet.
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Mudbound - Confronting Racism and Identity in Mississippi
Pappy McAllan:
I don't know what they let you do over there, but you're in Mississippi now, nigger. You use the back door.
Henry McAllan:
Go on, son. Son, we don't want no trouble here. Go on. Go on.
Ronsel Jackson: [[George S. Patton|General Patton; [Adolf Hitler|Hitler]
You know what? You're absolutely right. When we was overseas they didn't make us use the back door. ] put us on the front line. Yes, sir. You know what we did? We kicked the hell out of ] and them Jerries! While y'all at home, safe and sound...
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Mudbound - Unexpected Consequences of Cold Weather Flight
Jamie McAllan:
You tanker boys ever piss in your helmets?
Ronsel Jackson: [coughs]
Plenty of times.
Jamie McAllan:
We had a relief tube up in the cockpit. Sometimes it was easier just to go in our flak helmets. But at 20,000 feet that piss freezes solid in less than a minute. It's that cold up there. Shit. I'm talking 20, 30 below. One time we were on this long haul, I pissed in my helmet, I forgot all about it. We were just over the target. I put the helmet back on. We're doing this bombing run, dodgin enemy flak, and all of a sudden I started feelin something runnin down my face.
Jamie McAllan:
Yeah, I thought I was hit.
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Mudbound - Reflections on War and Identity
Jamie McAllan:
You ever miss it sometimes? Being over there. I don't mean being shot at, but sometimes, I actually miss it.
Ronsel Jackson:
Yeah, me, too. Over there, I was a liberator. People lined up in the streets waiting for us. Throwing flowers and cheering. And here I'm just another nigger pushing a plow.
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Mudbound - Memorable Moments in Ronsel's Life
Ronsel Jackson: [leaving for war]
Daddy borrowed Mr. Robert and nem truck to take me. That's what I remember most. The first things and the last things... they always stick the hardest.
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Mudbound - A Journey of Overcoming and Rediscovery
Ronsel Jackson: [narrating]
Should my story end there? Silenced and defeated? Oppression, fear, deformity. It would take an extraordinary man to beat all that. I would have to wean myself off laudanum and self-pity... and travel with a little card in my shirt pocket that said "mute."And then, finally... I would have to cross the Atlantic yet again. This time not for war. But for love.
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