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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If I read an unpublished work of Ayn Rand that said that John Galt was a secret socialist, do you think I would go into paroxysms of angst over it?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)
Dig up Gregory Peck”s grave for goodness sake.\s
To me, Atticus Finch, in Mockingbird, has always come across as conservative and not liberal. He treats folks with decency and respect. He has a right view of the rule of law. Even his view of public education is spot on. Read the excerpt from his closing argument below and ask yourself if anything like this could ever come out of the mouth of a liberal:
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious—because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe—some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cake than others—some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of men.
“But there is one way in this country which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man equal of an Einstein, and an ignorant man equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honourable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human constitution, but in this country our courts are the great levellers, and in our courts all men are created equal.