[ckilmer]

Please explain the point you are attempting to make with your reference to “The Heart of Darkness”? Because to me it seems further absurd and illogical and immoral guilt by (racial) association.

Both the heart of darkness and to Kill a Mockingbird manipulate racial stereotypes in absurd ways to make a point. The problem is that -- because they manipulate racial stereotypes in absurd ways -- they are at bottom absurd stories. In law the rule is that bad cases make bad law.

You can make the literary argument that they're very absurdity makes them great works of fiction. Perhaps. That can be debated. But if for an instant you confuse either with reality -- you're in deep kimchee.

[allmendream]

It is absurd to think that a black man might be falsely accused of rape because, statistically, most interracial rapes are black on white?

That is the “logic” you are going with?

A black man being innocent of a rape he was accused of is a manipulation of racial stereotypes in an absurd way?

I suppose if the fictional black man was guilty of the fictional rape it would be less absurd in your world view.

It seems that guilt by racial association is the only “logic” behind what you find absurd. I find your illogical assumptions to be absurd.

So the great absurdity you want to warn people against is that a black man might actually be innocent of a crime he was accused of? Or is it that if a white woman doesn't instantly assume that any black man is a likely rapist of white women, she will be in “deep kimchee”?