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

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?

Yeah.... and mocking birds don't "Sing their hearts out.... for US to enjoy".... in the 1st place!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027630100

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027630104

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027630107

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027630108

It is hard to listen to the mockingbirds in my yard and NOT think of Harper Lee and the book.

I still have it. RIP Harper Lee, and thank you.