Posted on 07/28/2015 6:46:26 PM PDT by SJackson
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I had a professor at Troy who I think was kin to Harper Lee. I know he was from Monroeville.
I have also read rumors that Harper Lee actually wrote or co-wrote “In Cold Blood”. On the other hand that Truman Capote wrote, “To Kill A Mockingbird”.
Atticus Finch was a fictional character, who had fictional morals, and did fictional things in a fictional town in a book of fiction.
If I read an unpublished work of Ayn Rand that said that John Galt was a secret socialist, do you think I would go into paroxysms of angst over it?
I think not.
Its been funny to see some of the liberal angst about Atticus not being liberal in this newest book.
I can easily see a lawyer such as Atticus having defended Tom Robinson due to his wanting to see justice done, while at the same time, feeling that Negroes, as they were then called, should be second class citizens.
All you have to realize is that Harper Lee was a liberal then, and a liberal now, and is at pains to demonstrate that she has kept up with the crowd. Most liberals are not so visibly tied to the millstone of their past expressions.
There is a lot more to the complete story of white Jewish Americans in the Civil Rights movements. Honest Jews are often written out of the leftist histories of the CRM, such as in the Scottsboro Brothers trial, and other legal issues.
Many communists used their Jewish ethnic heritage as a cover for their Party operations of infiltration the CRM, putting their own people, both white and black, in as heads of CPUSA front organizations, and of getting “face time” in the news media (who usually didn’t know the backgrounds of those individuals they were reporting on).
The Schwerners, whose son was murdered by the Klan, had a direct connection to several Communist Party USA fronts, including NECLC, a front that had direct ties to the KGB.
Both Schwerner and Goodman belongs to leftist civil rights groups that the CPUSA tried to take over. Whether the kids were communists or not, I don’t know. I think they had good hearts but were guided by evil people.
Rabbi Heschel was a good man but a little naïve on some issues. However, his presence with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on various marches was a genuine show of support for black civil rights.
The whole story has not yet been told but the Left definitely has flooded the book market with their versions of history, while covering up Communist infiltration and subversion of the Civil Rights Movement, esp. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Prof. David Garrow’s works on MLK (and the FBI) are informative but far from complete. He left out key people and organizations but I don’t know whether it was design, ignorance, or incompetence.
I would love to see his works expanded to fill in these major gaps. Then you would have something much more serious to read.
I refuse to read this article
Uh, aren't most Jews white?
Of course Atticus Finch was not PC; he attacked a rape survivor’s credibility and insisted that no rape had occurred. (A shameful abuse of the justice system, no doubt...)
Moreover, such an injustice could not be repeated today, because society would rush to the defense of anyone falsely accused of rape because of their race. (Just look at the Duke case, for example.)
And, the modern unbiased media would tear apart any false accusation of rape in two minutes flat... (/s)
When Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe (so the story goes), he referred to her as the woman who started this war. That her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was fiction made no difference.
Negroes, Jews and “civil rights”, who can forget the early work of Lev Bronstein (Leon Trotsky). Fresh from the Bolshevik revolution Leon was writing to Claude McKay, who just returned from the Kremlin. The goal: use the negro as a weapon to overthrow America.
“Negroes, the very vanguard of the proletarian revolution”
“The American Negros, for centuries the most oppressed section of American society and the most discriminated against, are potentially the most revolutionary element of the population. They are designated by their whole historical past to be, under adequate leadership, the very vanguard of the
proletarian revolution.
The SWP therefore, while recognizing the limitations and pitfalls of a mass organization without clearly
defined political program, and while retaining its full liberty of action and criticism , welcomes and supports any attempt by Negroes themselves to organize for militant action against our common oppressors, instructs its Negro members to work actively towards the formation of such an organization, and recommends to the party members to follow closely all such manifestations of Negro militancy.”
Source: Marxist org
If you read the rest of the article, the author's point in that, in the 1950s and 60s, Jews were seen by white Protestants as "minorities," not "whites," and were supporting the civil rights movement as a pragmatic way to protect their own rights. There is something to what she is saying, but I think she overstates it.
Harper Lee did extensive research for her friend Truman Capote. He did not credit her. In a recent PBS special, “Hey, Boo,” nobody associated with Harper Lee believed Truman Capote wrote any part of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Dig up Gregory Peck”s grave for goodness sake.\s
Sammy Davis was exactly why I said “most”.
Libs don’t play in reality’s ballpark. For two weeks I’ve been astonished at their stupidity over “Atticus Finch.”
(Is this author trying to say that Jews aren’t white?)
I also don’t agree with the author’s premise that Jewish presence in the civil rights history is an unknown story. Living in NYC, I’ve heard it for decades - oy, have I heard it - you’d think NY Jews were the only ones involved.
Lee DID help with "In Cold Blood" but as a researcher. She traveled with Capote to Holcomb Kansas and helped conduct interviews with the townsfolk who knew the principle characters in the story.
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