[TheRealThing]

I read the book in HS and watched the movie as an adult. I enjoyed both. Love Gregory Peck.   Peck and Bette Davis are two of my favorite old Hollywood stars.

I also read Lord of the Flies in HS and watched the movie years later. I also enjoyed those as well. That should  dispel any rumors beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am an advocate of  tyrannical self-governance(on deserted islands).   


Here's an interesting take on how TKAM  still resonates today:

"Every movement has its waves that rise and mellow down with time. With discrimination against people of colour in America, the matter is the same. It started with the abolition of slavery, rose again in the 60s with the Civil Rights Movement, and seems to have taken a tsunami-like wave once again, with the wrongful killing by the white police of innocent black citizens. And what these murders are based on is essentially what the novel’s hero Atticus Finch calls “Maycomb’s Disease”, in other words, the negative and demeaning prejudice that society breeds against black people that cost them their lives.

The prejudice reigns and black people like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are killed because of the suspicion of having committed a crime. The fictional Tom Robinson represents the myriad of black people convicted and prosecuted wrongfully in the 1930s, while George Floyd represents the plethora of black people shot down in the name of “self defense” simply because they are black.


Seems like not much has changed. And perhaps, it has worsened. "


https://www.wokemag.in/post/atticus-finc...orge-floyd

 
How about this book?    "Color Communism and Common Sense" 
Your analysis is bogus. The United States is the only nation to have ever fought a civil war or any war for that matter, in pursuit of the abolishment of slavery. Back then it really was a Dem versus Republican thing BTW. But the American people who at the time, did not really question the moral implications of slavery were nonetheless forced to face slavery on those grounds. They made their decision to stop it on moral grounds, and President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. And those not in obeyance on the left in the US Congress, found themselves steamrolled by public opinion.

Deserted islands aside, I find it incredible that a guy like you who supposes himself a reasonable intellect would not admit to the historical record on this matter. That and the fact that you managed to miss the point history made, and frankly though messy, was still one of America's finest moments as it was in this land that a great injustice met it's match, again, on moral grounds. I happened to hear a song being sung the other night on TV, which I assume was about black people here in America still looking for freedom. That in the face of our loss of free speech, the cancel culture, and much more that reportedly those doing the song espouse. So I'll tell you one thing and I know what you'll do with it but, the truth still bears being said. If any man could not find freedom here in this land up until say, the closing days of 2020; then freedom is an unhadible commodity. Because that ship, along with the Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria, and the Mayflower, have already sailed. And the Constitutional Convention of 1776 has already gaveled out.

If the war fought, and the freedoms that once rang across this land did not right the wrongs of your mention, (albeit those wrongs being mischaracterized) then San Fran Nan et-al are certainly not going to pull it off no matter how much money they throw at it. And the waves you mention? Will continue to roll in because now that that genie is out, it's not about to let itself be put back in any bottle at all. No, from here on it's Katie bar the door.

The following was how people characterized 'the waves' of your fascination only a few decades ago.

https://clthb.co/uiMYYjNYfVNykefm8