"Decolonisation" undergoing in Scotland
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Fine. Fuck this book. Fuck Boo Radley. Fuck the girl and the lawyer dad and the black dude. I had to read this damn book and watch the movie every. single. fucking. year. from 7th to 12th grade when we did our yearly readings about "prejudice" in English class. Oh we also seemed to watch Roots yearly. Fuck Kunta Kinte while we're at it. Oh btw this was the Florida public school system. The very same system that today somehow people are screaming we DON'T teach enough racism.
Pretty much this. This book originally was taught in school to make Whites feel guilty about how some of their parents and grandparents treated Blacks. Notions of "rule of law" and "innocent until proven guilty" and "everyone has a right to their defense" were secondary by a wide margin.