Why is “To Kill a Mockingbird” Being Attacked?

This is an intriguing article by Jesse Kornbluth on the Huffington Post…Here is an excerpt with the link to the full article at the bottom:

I never thought I’d see the day when the lawyer who argued Brown v. Topeka Board of Education before the Supreme Court and went on to be the first African-American to sit on that Court would have his career reduced to that most dreaded of all contemporary labels: “activist.”

I never thought I’d see the day when you can legally carry concealed weapons into airports and bars and — my sweet Lord! — churches.

I never thought I’d see the day when allegedly smart adults would tell me that America’s poor were so powerful that, given the chance to own real estate, they bought so many houses they couldn’t afford that they tanked the economy of almost every country in the world.

But then I never thought I’d see the day when “To Kill A Mockingbird” — a novel that has inspired readers for half a century — would be derided as a book about “the limitations of liberalism” (by Malcolm Gladwell, no less, in The New Yorker, of all places) and “a sugar-coated myth of Alabama’s past” with a hero who’s “a repository of cracker-barrel epigrams” (by Allen Barra, in the Wall Street Journal)

But as we approach July 11th — the 50th anniversary of the publication of “To Kill a Mockingbird” (to buy the paperback from Amazon, click here; shamefully, there is no Kindle edition) — it’s probably not surprising that we’re seeing one of America’s best-loved books criticized for its “politics.”

via Jesse Kornbluth: ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Anniversary: On Its 50th Birthday, Why Is ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Being Attacked? (VIDEO).