>>15173861It's not only that, the other part of the controversy the right doesn't want to talk about is that the book promotes the "white savior" narrative about how good le white people are, something that doesn't address some pretty central aspects of systemic racism
<Like many Americans, I read Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” as a high school student. In a curriculum devoid of explicit discussion about the impact of implicit and structural racism on both blacks and whites, the book stood out from the whitewashed reading list as one that directly engaged with the topic of race. It did so, however, in a matter quite conventional: Atticus Finch was the white savior, a good white liberal whose ethics and values compelled him to defend a black man who had been falsely accused of rape – and all this during a time when many whites would just as soon have lynched the accused without trial. Harper Lee won a Pulitzer Prize for tackling racial inequality, no surprise given how America likes its stories about race: centered on innocent white protagonists benevolently exercising power, with black characters relegated to the margins even in stories about their own oppression.
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/07/15/how-should-schools-deal-with-the-new-atticus-finch/now-we-can-finally-say-goodbye-to-the-white-savior-myth-of-atticus>>15173893this but those jobs aren't bad comparing to what 3rd and 4th world people have to deal with
