Seeing white and black people together at this Pentecostal gathering had a monumental effect on photographer Doy Gorton
Growing up in Mississippi, Mr Gorton reacted to legalised white supremacy by joining the civil rights movement. But while abhorring the institutional racism that shaped every aspect of Southern life, he retained compassion and patience for the blue-collar whites who had been left behind by the likes of mechanisation and foreign trade since the end of World War II.
Mr Gorton recalls how tense the region, and the country, was at the time, with talk of an imminent race war, how everything was going to blow up, with thousands killed. That a huge conflagration was avoided, he puts down, in large part, to local, ordinary whites who helped keep the peace. "When it comes to who has been honoured for the civil rights movement, there are very few white people mentioned," Mr Gorton says.
"There's the danger of presenting a white saviour figure," says Mr Ownby, adding how Finch, while fictional, is probably the best-known representation of white resistance to racism.
You mean, as many as 28 of them? Like we now 'know' that 'most of France were resistance fighters' during WWII. That must be that sort of fact.
Don’t tell DavidLammy
Martin Luther King Jr.
Historical Records are EXTREMELY MISLEADING. HISTORY is Comprised 'MOSTLY' of Exaggerations, Biases, Agendas - Both Good and Bad, and Even Outright Lies. The VAST MAJORITY of ALL People, Everywhere, have ALWAYS been Great and they will ALWAYS be Great.
Interesting read. Call my cynical, but I'm sure someone in the Guardian will pick this up soon and write a lengthy article about how the media likes to trumpet 'white saviours' and erase 'people of colour' (which ones? Expiry date looming on that term) from history and existence
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