QUENTIN TARANTINO IS BACK, AND HE WANTS YOU TO THINK FOR YOURSELF

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Here’s a true story about a St. Louis murder that changed America. In 1837, a black freeman named Francis McIntosh stepped off a Mississippi riverboat and blundered into two white cops chasing a drunk sailor who’d called them names. They ordered McIntosh to stop the perp; when he refused, they arrested him for breaching the peace. En route to the judge, McIntosh asked how long he’d be in jail for literally doing nothing. Five years. So then McIntosh did do something: He stabbed both officers, killing one.Within hours, a white mob burned McIntosh alive. The state investigated the McIntosh lynching, but the grand jury declined to indict anyoneNearby, young newspaper publisher Elijah Lovejoy was horrified. A moral man, Lovejoy decried McIntosh’s false arrest and furious punishment as “awful murder and savage barbarity.” The locals chased Lovejoy across the Mississippi River. But Lovejoy kept speaking out.

“As long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write and to publish whatever I please on any subject,” Lovejoy wrote.

Then the mob came for him. They torched Lovejoy’s printing presses and shot him five times. He was buried on his 35th birthday.

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