“What did Tom do next, Miss May Ella?”
From “To Kill a Mockingbird”, right? One of my all time favorite classic movies.
Mayella testified that Tom raped her. Why? Because the prohibition against a White woman willingly having sex with a Black man was one of this country’s most sacred mores. The idea that a White woman would sexually pursue a Black man contradicted the white supremacist notion that Blacks were inferior in all ways that mattered. White women were held up as paragons of virtue — Black women were seen as asexual mammies or hypersexual tramps. Black men were portrayed as Toms, Sambos, and Coons — all with the potential to become raping Brutes.http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/question/may07/
Yes of course but liberals who watch the film and imagine that they are Gregory Peck are actually the townspeople who are complicit in the railroading of Tom.
Who will be the Gregory Peck of the GOP? Cain himself?