Another Interweb Segue

2 years ago, I wrote about the beauty of random interweb segue’s. How you embark on tiny passive adventures online everyday and stumble upon bits of information you never intended on finding. Then sometime later, you find yourself discussing these random findings in passing. The finds are often remembered, even by accident, but the journeys themselves are often forgotten.

This morning. I received an email about Google’s updated image search engine, at which point I searched for money. Upon playing with the filters for color, I noticed there was a link for maps where I discovered the city, Money, Mississippi. At this point I had thought to tweet about how cool it would be to say “Yeah, I’m from Money, Mississippi.” (imagine a Forest Gump accent, with late 80′s Ice T attitude). But then I read the Wiki. Turns out Money, Mississippi is were 14 year old Emmett Till was lynched in 1955. A mere 55 years ago. An unfortunately timed reminder and ending to today’s segue, as race relations weigh heavily on my mind already.

Where I was originally just going to tweet “An otherwise cool town name shat on by a brutal racist history. ‘Money, Mississippi’ http://bit.ly/9545n3 #RandomFact”, instead I wrote this post.

The tweet doesn’t do the journey justice.