Social Failure: Hate Emerges, No Race Required
I’m still in the throws — along with Scout — of discovering that Atticus Finch may not be the man I have distinguished with honor since my youth. His participation in a Citizen’s Council caught me as much off-guard as the current overwhelming emergence of public pressure within the Democratic Party to rename its Jefferson Jackson fundraising dinners, and the cry of students at The University of Texas at Austin for the removal of statues on the flagship campus affiliated with Confederacy.
The reality of man’s failure to love one another is engrained in life’s history, and the clamor to erase it maps out an endless road.