[freepertoo]

This parent is missing the whole point of To Kill A Mockingbird if she thinks it’s racist. I would guarantee she hasn’t read the book. Same with Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which is roundly denounced. Uncle Tom was NOT subservient, he was godly and he sacrifices his life at the end to save others. Never once did he bow and scrape — he was presented as courageous in the extreme. And as for TKAMB...one of the greatest civil rights books ever written. Such ignorance!

[pax_et_bonum]

Many people live on the left side of the hill.

:-)

[squarebarb]

I respectfully disagree. TKAMB is a badly-written book. It makes cardboard villains of white hills people (redneck white trash) and a splendid hero of the white lawyer from the town’s upper class, and all black people are kind and amiable victims. The prose is awful. The reason it is a perennial best seller is because it is required reading in college and high school classes.

So that’s my rant for the day. I am only allowed one a day and I decided to blow it on To Kill A Mockingbird.

[JimRed]

Also the reference to nigger Jim in Huckleberry Finn. He was a hero, risking freedom and physical harm to help Huck. But they see the trigger word, stop reading and start hollering.

[NorthMountain]

These cretins also love to hate Huckleberry Finn ... ironic, because Nigger Jim is the only really decent adult character in the whole book.

[COBOL2Java]

This parent is missing the whole point of To Kill A Mockingbird if she thinks it’s racist. I would guarantee she hasn’t read the book.

Of course she didn't. No need - I'll be she just did an online search for the "offending" words.