[Kartographer]

Proof once again that sometimes fact takes on fiction.

[Atticus says] "The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption – the evil assumption – that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber."
From the novel 'To Kill a Mocking Bird', by Harper Lee

[miss marmelstein]

Thanks for that post! Quite beautiful. No conservative black man - with truly black skin and a history that comes out of American slavery and sharecropping - is ever safe from calumny.