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It changed slowly after the Civil Rights Movement. Many peop,e alive remember or lived through Jim Crowe, church bombings, police violence and bloody assaults or had family members beaten and murdered by white racists given a free pass by local law enforcement. How is that “playing the victim”? Do you say that to Holocaust survivors?But it did change
So my point still stands
Libs love playing the victim
And especially so for black libs
Do whites owe you a finger?It changed slowly after the Civil Rights Movement. Many peop,e alive remember or lived through Jim Crowe, church bombings, police violence and bloody assaults or had family members beaten and murdered by white racists given a free pass by local law enforcement. How is that “playing the victim”? Do you say that to Holocaust survivors?
In a culture where people have learned to accept things like racism, classism, anti-Semitism, and gynecide, it takes an event, maybe a book, movie, or personal experience to change the way people think.Sad but true.
Thank you. That is much much worse then treatment of Jews in USSR. We were almost equal, but there were limits on admission of Jews to universities. Overt anti-Semitism was rare.In a culture where people have learned to accept things like racism, classism, anti-Semitism, and gynecide, it takes an event, maybe a book, movie, or personal experience to change the way people think.
That event for me came when I was about 8 or 9 years old living in Mississippi in the late 40s. It was a late Saturday afternoon in summer. I was coming home on the bus after going to a double feature with some friends. I was sitting at the very front of the bus and it stopped to pick up an older black man wearing a suit. He paid the driver and sat down right across from me. The driver turned and said boy get to the back of the bus or something like that. The old black man just sat there. The driver told him again and the old man just sat there. The driver grabs the old guy and literally throws him off the bus. I look around and he's laying in the street on his back not moving. The driver turned around and said something about damn N**** not knowing his place. I dismissed it at the time but in years to come I thought about that event a lot and how wrong it was. Never said anything about it to my parents or friends but it changed the way I thought about the treatment of black people. Before then I don't think I ever thought about how black people were being treated. They were just there to pickup garbage, clean the floor, sweep the streets, clean the houses, and do all kinds jobs that white people didn't do.
somebody took me to see this when I was a kid....to be honest it scared the hell out of me....there were a lot of creepy scenes with the kids outside playing in the dark....it scared me almost as bad as the Ghost and Mr Chicken....the sixties were kinda cool with all the changes going on even in backwater tennesseeThank you. That is much much worse then treatment of Jews in USSR. We were almost equal, but there were limits on admission of Jews to universities. Overt anti-Semitism was rare.
Yes, I think a lot depends on how old we are, who we were then and how we first saw the film. I’m 73 and first saw it when I was very young, when the struggle for basic Civil Rights was still very real. I can appreciate those of you older guys who were born in the South … and had perhaps even a deeper experience watching it.somebody took me to see this when I was a kid....to be honest it scared the hell out of me....there were a lot of creepy scenes with the kids outside playing in the dark....it scared me almost as bad as the Ghost and Mr Chicken....the sixties were kinda cool with all the changes going on even in backwater tennessee
When I was a kid in Mississippi in the 40s and Louisiana in the early 50's, my parents never said anything about race and it was never talked about in school. It was as if it did not exist. Black people were there to do domestic work and work in fields and other jobs that white people didn't do.Sad but true.
It would have been a very different book.It is just a book. Fiction.
Harper Lee could have written a rich story of the two kids and their loving father living a small Southern town during the Depression without the filthy ass White Guilt woke bullshit.
Yes, it was well doneA mixture of class and race. There was a really good series called I’ll Fly Away in the early 90’s that dealt with race, class and the Civil Rights movement “I’llFly Away”.
Although the book is fiction, Harper Lee's father was a lawyer and she based much of here book on actual events in her childhood. The trial of Robinson was base on two similar trials and she says was not exaggeration. The juries were all white of course and the outcome was decided before any witnesses were called. In the South in first half of the 20th century, just the accusation that a black man had any personal contact with a white woman was enough for a tar and feathering or lynching.It is just a book. Fiction.
Harper Lee could have written a rich story of the two kids and their loving father living a small Southern town during the Depression without the filthy ass White Guilt woke bullshit.
Now, you are older, you might want to watch it again and note that the movie is being narrated by Scout so you are hearing the story from the child which makes the story funny, sad, a bit terrifying and by the end happy and hopeful.somebody took me to see this when I was a kid....to be honest it scared the hell out of me....there were a lot of creepy scenes with the kids outside playing in the dark....it scared me almost as bad as the Ghost and Mr Chicken....the sixties were kinda cool with all the changes going on even in backwater tennessee
Don’t get your point.Do whites owe you a finger?
Thats how the mob collects a debt
We got married in Key West.Love the keys in winter.
Then her comment about baptist is funny as well. And then Boo Bradly that everyone was afraid of turned out to be the good guy.You are confused. It sure as hell was that filthy ass White Guilt. You can deny it all you want but it was.Although the book is fiction, Harper Lee's father was a lawyer and she based much of here book on actual events in her childhood. The trial of Robinson was base on two similar trials and she says was not exaggeration. The juries were all white of course and the outcome was decided before any witnesses were called. In the South in first half of the 20th century, just the accusation that a black man had any personal contact with a white woman was enough for a tar and feathering or lynching.
Harper Lee book is not in the least bit about white guilt. This is a 21th century concoction. As explained in the book the mockingbird does no harm but sing their hearts out for us and it is sin to kill a mockingbird because it is innocence. To kill a mockingbird in the story means to destroy innocence. Throughout the book, a number of characters (Jem, Tom Robinson, Dill, Boo Radley, Mr. Raymond) can be identified as mockingbirds; that is innocents who have been injured or destroyed through contact with evil. This connection between the novel’s title and its main theme is made explicit several times in the novel such as after Tom Robinson is shot, Mr. Underwood compares his death to “the senseless slaughter of songbirds,” and at the end of the book Scout thinks that hurting Boo Radley would be like “shooting’ a mockingbird. It is no accident that Harper Lee made Jem and Scout’s last name Finch indicating that they are particularly vulnerable in a world that often treats the fragile innocence of childhood harshly.
You want blood from whites living today for something they did not do and are not doingDon’t get your point.
