Letter to the Editor

Editor,

This past Sunday, I had the horror to find two children waiting in front of my local church. You see, I am a black woman. My people aren't allowed in your white churches, we aren't allowed to live near you or sit with you, my people are not allowed to do anything with the white folk of Maycomb. D'ya see the problem here Mr. Editor sir? The little Finch offspring are allowed to come to my church, and I'm expected to not make a fuss out of it. But you see, I cannot just sit 'round and not make a fuss out of it.

I would just like to say, that if I were to go into your church, I would be cuffed and kicked off of the property. But those young'uns just waltzed onto my church grounds like they own the place! It's not right is what I'm saying. This whole town is full of you folks. Y'all think that you own these skies and that God placed you on this Earth for the good of everybody. Well I'd love to break it to you, but you ain't God's gift from Heaven. We are all the same kind of folk here in Maycomb and I'm waiting for the day that Hell comes up from below and tarnishes our "sweet" little town because of the amount of sinnin' we do up here. It ain't right, no it ain't. How much the blacks hate the whites and the whites hate the blacks. It's just down right sickening. But that's the way our Maycomb society works right? We blacks allow you whites to do what you want in our part of town, and you whites continue to not like us. I hope that one day, we won't live in such a racist world. Last I checked, the folk up in North Alabama aren't as discriminating as the folk down here in our "cozy little town." However, I do not think that I will live to see the day that my children and my children's children, will be able to walk the streets of their home town, and not be glared at by white folk.

-Lulu