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I'm trying to be charitable in my reading of your comment, but your argument seems to imply that the Supreme Court should have delayed the Brown vs. Board of Ed
by haberman 11y ago
I'm trying to be charitable in my reading of your comment, but your argument seems to imply that the Supreme Court should have delayed the Brown vs. Board of Education decision until white southerners had already been convinced to desegregate. Or that the Civil War should rather have been a Civil Conversation, or a Civil Plea.
Also I don't think it's meant as a criticism of the novel at all. It just means the novel is deeper than a simple morality play.
- frogpelt 11y agoPoints taken. On your first point, I don't think the law needs to wait on everyone to change their minds and hearts. But enough lawmakers and voters have to change their minds and hearts for the systemic problems to go away. On the second point, you're probably right. But something about the way he says it seems critical of fictional character behaviors.