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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Mon Feb 22, 2016, 10:10 AM Feb 2016

Monday Toon Roundup 4-RIP Harper Lee

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Monday Toon Roundup 4-RIP Harper Lee (Original Post) n2doc Feb 2016 OP

Thank you for the cartoons Gothmog Feb 2016 #1

Is To Kill a Mockingbird racist? Human101948 Feb 2016 #2

People that overthink things do their cause no favors n/t n2doc Feb 2016 #3

Plus a bunch ^^^^this TexasProgresive Feb 2016 #6

In the time and place of "To Kill a Mockingbird" was there a chance in Hell TexasProgresive Feb 2016 #7

Is To Kill a Mockingbird racist? AlbertCat Feb 2016 #10

K&R Thank-you! hedgehog Feb 2016 #4

Always kicktoons. . . .n/t annabanana Feb 2016 #5

all (4) toons planetc Feb 2016 #8

Thank You Doc! Dyedinthewoolliberal Feb 2016 #9

Oh man, that made me tear up. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2016 #11

I read that book so many times the covers finally fell off .. polly7 Feb 2016 #12

Thanks again n2doc. n/t A Simple Game Feb 2016 #13

Gothmog

(179,665 posts)

1. Thank you for the cartoons

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Mon Feb 22, 2016, 10:12 AM

Feb 2016

Human101948

(3,457 posts)

2. Is To Kill a Mockingbird racist?

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Mon Feb 22, 2016, 10:22 AM

Feb 2016

Watchman has served as an occasion for many to argue that Mockingbird is the book that is fatally flawed, a novelistic manifestation of the structural racism that continues to permeate our lives like air. The novelist Toni Morrison earlier this year described it as perpetuating a "white savior" narrative, in which whites led the fight for civil rights and blacks were helpless, passive actors. "The popularity and heart-warming poignancy of To Kill a Mockingbird buries the very real activism and resistance of black citizens in Alabama and throughout the South right at the time that Lee wrote her story," wrote Colin Dayan at Al Jazeera America. "Its publication made invisible the very people it claimed to care about."

http://theweek.com/articles/566893/kill-mockingbird-racist

n2doc

(47,953 posts)

3. People that overthink things do their cause no favors n/t

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Mon Feb 22, 2016, 10:45 AM

Feb 2016

TexasProgresive

(12,729 posts)

6. Plus a bunch ^^^^this

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Mon Feb 22, 2016, 11:10 AM

Feb 2016

TexasProgresive

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7. In the time and place of "To Kill a Mockingbird" was there a chance in Hell

Reply to Human101948 (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 22, 2016, 11:15 AM

Feb 2016

that there would be an African American savior re. lawyer to save Tom Robinson? And given such a lawyer what chance would he have to get an acquittal in that racist time and place?

I suppose that no one should do anything if they are not directly affected by evil. Just let it be, what's it to me?