Here we have a snippet of the most meaningful moment in the To Kill a Mockingbird movie with Atticus Finch facing off the racist lynch mob when Scout not Atticus turns the mob away, the central theme of why the book and movie were such a success, the narrative of racism as seen from the point of view of little girl.
In my reading experience I have found only four examples of the perfect person in literature, Horatio Hornblower, Atticus Finch, Samwise Gamgee and Jesus Christ [as chance would have it Gregory Peck played half of them in the movies].
Harper Lee’s 1957 novel TO SET A WATCHMEN I am told reduces Atticus Finch to standard 1950s Southern racist so I am going to pass this book by as I like the Atticus Finch as I know him now.
With that said, I cannot help put comment on how this discussion went down on Fox News & Friends recently by the tried and true dumbest man on television, Steve Doocy along with some nitwit black guy they must have found under Clarence Thomas’ bed.
“I just don’t get it, why would [Harper Lee] reveal that he’s [Atticus Finch] is not a hero at all, but a racist? Why the revisionist literature?” Fox News Steve Doocy.
“If you don’t get it, you need to go to racial rehab. The idea of taking Atticus Finch, who was an iconic character and doing what I call ‘revisionist literature’ — because this is revisionist fiction, this isn’t even real.” Fox News Kevin Jackson
So many sheep so little time. Gee, how can this book written in 1957 be revisionist of a book written in 1960? And even if you can get past that silly crap, you then have to deal with this nitwit complaining that fiction isn’t even real, revisionist or not. Gosh… I have been dumb-dumbfounded.
Then he goes even further…
“It’s almost that they want to bring it into the forefront and take this guy that’s become and iconic hero of the Civil Rights Movement and make him a racist in the future now, it fits a politically correct narrative of today.” Fox News Kevin Jackson.
Political correctness is confusing enough without now claiming it is politically correct to turn civil rights heroes into racists. And who are THEY? And why would THEY want to make a racist out of the greatest – albeit fictionalized – civil rights voice leading into the civil rights fight of the 1960’s? Who watches this silly crap? Or better yet, who admits to watching this silly crap?