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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

The most damning of “moral relativism” in her original submission which became “To Kill a Mockingbird” (the original Go Set a Watchman)— was that the attorney who was asked to defend the character Tom (who was innocent of the charges)was a Klan supporter. It certainly didn’t fit the liberal meme that a pro-klan white attorney (which in the 20’s was as commonplace as dirt in the South, and many other places (Ohio, Indiana,Kentucky, Illinois) when the second gestation of the klan was at it’s peak of membership (such that FDR’s first nominee for the SCOTUS, was a klan member- and approved by the Senate— one Justice Hugo Black).
Just to keep the record straight— the liberal publisher would have nothing to do with an accurate portrayal of a common honorable figure in the character of Atticus Finch, in business to survive in the Depression.


49 posted on 02/19/2016 8:46:37 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

That sounds morally convoluted to me. One might oppose civil rights for blacks, but recoil at the prospect of an actual individual black man being railroaded for a crime he did not commit. How can that be?


55 posted on 02/19/2016 8:51:55 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Prendre cinq et rendre quatre ce n'est pas donner.)
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