Atticus did not believe the black man was the equal of the white. That was the big surprise in the second book. He still believed everyone had the right to a defense. Book two was nowhere near as good.
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“We simply didn’t have enough votes.”
Not your fault. Your fight is not in vain.
The story of America is the story of bringing wealth to the middle class.
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Who controls the Georgia Supreme Court? A gang of right-wingers, I’ll bet. They’ll be fine with setting up one-party rule in the state.
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This is another example of why voting is important. We allowed this festering at the state level and now, with Sinema and Manchin blocking, State Republicans are closer to making Newt Gingrich’s idea of perpetual Republican rule a reality than Congressional Republicans thought possible.
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- Georgia
- Arizona
These are states we won. Government should not retaliate.
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States are restricting voting as if they never read the 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th amendments to the Constitution. And it pisses me off!!
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…she and her Democratic colleagues watched as state Republicans raced to concoct restrictive voting legislation in response to the critical wins of President Joe Biden and Sens. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in the state.
And what will the GQP in Georgia and the other Authoritarian states do if it does not work? I have seen the organizational skills of Stacy Abrams in 2020. With a DOJ that does not serve as the Presidents personnel law firm and a beefed up voting rights division the voter suppression schemes of the racist right may not be enough.
Will Georgia pass a new law that criminalizes Voting While Black? Will Johnny the Robber Baron and strip search Sam uphold the new law in a legal opinion so twisted you could bake it into a pretzel?
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“The story of America is the story of Blacks in America and it’s not a good story”
James Baldwin
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Yeah…I was thinking “Cold comfort, indeed.” 
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Me too. Angry and pissed off too often. Sigh
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Don’t go there Susanintheeoc. Not a good look. Everything on the front burners these days. Voting rights legislation presently up against both (concrete and human) infrastructure bills. All equally important and all will be addressed successfully (someone told me).
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“There will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration,” candidate Joe Biden told NPR in August 2020. Referring to the private property that former President Donald Trump’s Justice Department was trying to seize for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, Biden said, “End, end, end, stop, done, over. Not gonna do it. Withdraw the lawsuits. We’re out.”
Those lawsuits, it turns out, were not withdrawn. In April, a federal judge ruled that a Texas family will have to surrender land for the border wall.
“We are utterly devastated,” says Baudilia Cavazos, whose family owns land in Hidalgo County, Texas. “We thought President Joe Biden would protect us. Now we’ve lost our land. We don’t even know what comes next.”
The Cavazos clan has fended off similar attempts at confiscation for years. When Trump took office, he sought to claim about seven acres and divide the family’s land—which they rent to various tenants—in two, rendering a huge chunk of the property nearly inaccessible to prospective customers.
“I retired five years ago—I taught for 40 years,” Eloisa Cavazos told Reason in 2018. “This is my income that I use for my retirement.” She may have to find a new source of income.
Had the president wanted to, his administration could have stopped the ruling. On his first day in office, Biden issued a proclamation pausing border wall construction for 60 days to determine whether any land needed to be confiscated. Those 60 days came and went without a decision.
The seizure marks another promise broken by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, both of whom cast themselves as foils to Trump’s merciless immigration policies. Their administration is also defending Immigration and Customs Enforcement after the agency set up a fake college, charged immigrant students thousands of dollars, and then deported them without refunds.
ICE and DHS created a fake university, arrested students who came there, deported them back to their home countries (mostly of them were from India) and did not refund them thousands of dollar in fees they collected. The Biden admin closed the fake university, but the students did not get any refunds.
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I have a degree in English, have read this book three times and seen the movie twice. It wasn’t until just now, when you posted the video in context of this conversation, that I finally understood the symbolism of this scene. Bad on me for being so dense. Good on you for showing me the light.
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They should still be forced to go on the record as being that corrupt.
LOL don’t feel bad. That symbolism was mentioned in one of the comments on this and until I read it I’d never thought about it either. It’s a tidy bit of metaphor, with the peace officer unable to handle the problem and handing it off to the officer of the court, but as I recall the broader context from the book is that Atticus was older than most of their peers’ parents, didn’t seem to have the kind of physical prowess children are impressed by, and Scout and Jeb found him something of a disappointment in that regard. Discovering that he was once considered the best shot in the county and that he is still not only highly skillful but self-possessed in the face of danger makes them regard him in a new light. Actually I’d say this might be more foreshadowing than symbolism. So if missing what symbolism there may be here is sin, I deem it a small, forgivable one. 
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She was masterful in layering subtext within simple language. I got the hand-off part and the kids newfound regard for their father. I completely missed the metaphor of racism as a rabid dog that only the courts had the power to put down. I need to step back from literary criticism and go back to bustin’ up chiffarobes.
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Hmmm. I missed all that. “Don’t go near that dog. He’s just as dangerous dead!” clicked a light on for me.
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As long as we’re confessing in this group session here I’ll confess I only just now realized that Boo stabbing his father, reliably described as a very mean man, foreshadows what happens to Bob Ewell. Also that Boo himself is the ultimate symbol of the misunderstood and feared Different Other, for whom compassion, understanding, and respect may be hard for some and impossible for others to achieve.
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