Thursday, July 17, 2025

Book Review - To Kill a Mockingbird

Earlier in the month, I finished this classic, which I also read a long time ago in High School.  It's an amazing story published in 1960 about racial inequality. I find it amazing that the author Harper Lee had the courage to write this, and she is from Alabama. She won a Pulitzer Prize for this in 1961. It does warm my heart to know there were people who did not feel that black people should be demonized and treated inhumanely.

 I am glad I was not raised in this part of the country or during this time. Reminds me of a comment made by one of my Air Force buddies sometime during 1979-1982 while I was stationed in Ellsworth AFB, SD. He told me that He and I could not walk down a street in his hometown in Mississippi without me getting beaten up and him being lynched. He was black, and I was white as snow.

Do I believe we still have Racism in the US?  Yes, I have seen it. I'm not sure we'll ever be able to completely eliminate it.

I am glad the Jim Crow laws are no longer in effect, so people of all colors can at least make something of their lives.  We should judge people on their character, rather than their appearance or spiritual beliefs.