"It ain't right, Atticus"

[ehrnst]

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Man, I can hear Gregory Peck's voice when reading that.

[ananda]

2. Tears.

Sigh

[tridim]

3. Reposted on FB, if you don't mind.

[ehrnst]

4. Not at all - it's already there. (nt)

[BrotherIvan]

5. Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin'

A very fitting book for today

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."

[Hoyt]

6. My cat -- Atticus -- sat sadly with me last night as we watched the despicable verdict.

[bvar22]

7. No, it ain't right.

Incidentally, Atticus Finch was also a responsible gun owner.

[cthulu2016]

8. Terrible analogy

That jury disregarded the law to convict a black man they knew to be innocent.

It is rather sick to use it as an analogy for an acquittal based on zealous application of precisely the same standards that were nullified in the Mockingbird case.

[ehrnst]

9. So my posting this is "rather sick?" Really?

An injustice done to a black man through the courts, on the basis that a black man is more likely to be violent than a white man in a situation, when actually it was a white man that committed the violence.

I'd say there's an analogy there - at least in the statement, "It ain't right."

I disagree that my post is 'rather sick."