Dear White People: We Are All Atticus Finch - http://huff.to/1M1OMn6
" James Baldwin told us this 50 years ago, at the height of the civil rights movement -- and just two years after To Kill a Mockingbird made its celebrated debut. "This is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen," he wrote. "That they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it.
"It is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime."
It is the innocence which constitutes the crime."
" James Baldwin told us this 50 years ago, at the height of the civil rights movement -- and just two years after To Kill a Mockingbird made its celebrated debut. "This is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen," he wrote. "That they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it.
"It is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime."
It is the innocence which constitutes the crime."
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