Derryck Green: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Once required reading for high school students, To Kill a Mockingbird now comes with trigger warnings. The book, which confronts and calls out the evils of racism, is considered by some to be too offensive for our modern-day woke sensibilities. Why? Set in 1930s Alabama, a young girl watches her attorney father defend a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Michael Knowles is joined by Derryck Green to discuss the powerful themes of this timeless American classic and why it should continue to be read (not banned).

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Book Club. This month we are reading a book that needs no introduction.
0:15.0	It is a book that is one of the most widely read novels in the world.
0:20.0	It is a book that according to one British survey ranks above the Bible on the list of books
0:26.7	that you must read before you die. I think that's a little bit much. But it's a very good book anyway.
0:30.5	To kill a mockingbird by Harperley, my guest is Derek Green, the conservative writer.
0:36.8	Derek, thank you for being here.
0:38.8	Thank you for having me.
0:39.9	This book, everyone's read it, but for the three people out there who haven't read it, how
0:46.1	would you summarize it in 60 seconds?
0:49.1	I would say that Adicus Finch had two children.
0:52.4	He's a lawyer. He's a lawyer.
0:54.0	In Alabama.
0:55.0	In Alabama,
0:56.0	1930s.
0:57.0	And he's trying to instill morality in his children because he's a widower.
1:02.0	His wife is not there. And he has a widower. His wife is not there and he has a black maid and she is in essence
1:06.8	the mom and she's trying to instill morality in Jim and Scout as well and so what she's trying to do is not only instruct them in the Christian
1:17.0	church, but also the morality that goes around in Macomb County. And then when you get to the second part
1:24.6	is when Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson.
1:28.9	He's a black guy.
1:29.7	A black guy.
1:32.2	For charges that, for things that he did not do.
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