Author: Gandalf Grey
Date: Nov 3, 2006 10:31
..., as I could see on my own back porch that day, watching Jim and my father. It was like a scene from To Kill a Mockingbird; and indeed, "Mister Edsel" had come to play the role of Atticus Finch in the town: an advocate and mediator for people like Jim - a black man from the country, deprived of education, shunted into stoop labor, living in the margins, forever under arbitrary threat from an ...
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