Matt Davies for February 04, 2015

You expect me to know who this is?

I don’t read dem liberal hippy books.

I sincerely hope that Jeff Cartwright and Wacky Jacky are just joking. Scout is the little girl protagonist of the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. When I was in Junior High (not saying when: don’t ask!), it was required reading, along with “Raisin In The Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry.

Another book by Harper Lee has been discovered and will be published. It is being touted as a “sequel” to To Kill a Mockingbird. It was her first book, Scout was the protagonist as an adult, and she was advised to pull out the flashback sequences and make that the center of the book, which led to her well-known book (and play, and movie…). Hence the comparison.

Grisham’s first novel was also published after he became successful, with better books, and it was TERRiBLE! Wonder how this will turn out next summer.

“Basically, how little has changed.” Yep, no Black Caucus in congress, no two term Black Pres, no Black Attorney General with a Black female replacement in line, no famous Black people in prime time Ads used for their name recognition, no major movies based on Black characters. You’re right; nothing has changed.

Truman Capote was a childhood mate of Harper Lee and claimed he was the model for Dill’s character. He didn’t so much became the clown, did he? He was harsher with his criticism of society…perhaps Dill did get to become the clown laughing at folks.Will Dill be in the new book? We shall see if he became a clown of sorts. I’m curious to see if Dill became a…writer. :-|

Many of the laws I’ve heard of are inherently discriminatory. Requiring birth certificates (which many poorer people would have trouble getting) in place of accepting already established residence, drivers licenses and the like. Charging fees and having office hours that would discourage poorer people. I even heard the Tx law would accept hunting licenses but not university ids. Basically the objection is that stopping voter fraud (the only major voting frauds in recent memory being committed in FL in 2000 and OH in 2004) is the fig leaf over targeted voter suppression drives.