[Magdalen] (Katie Sherrod) A racist Atticus Finch is us, white people. All of us.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Excellent article, Lynn--thanks for posting it! Dealing with the whole notion of white privilege--indeed, getting people to recognise that it even exits--is the hardest part of any real dialogue about race. And yet, it is absolutely imperative that we own it and deal with it. And only white people can do that.

On July 15, 2015, at 7:26 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

an essay written by Katie Sherrod, a Fort Worth, TX Episcopalian, active in 
the national church, writer and former columnist for the Ft. Worth 
Telegraph.

http://wildernessgarden.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-racist-atticus-finch-is-us-white.html

thought provoking read...

I only last year read TKAMB for the first time. In reading about the 
contents of the 'new book'... and reading in the papers about people who 
think that publishing it was a manipulative move on a woman no longer 
possessing her faculties and without protection since her older sister who 
was a lawyer died a few years ago... I've pondered about the 'father 
character' being, or seeming to be two different characters in the two 
books.  Katie's essay reminds me that my view will always be a bit off.
Lynn