I could not believe what my daughter had told me today. I know she has no real knowledge of this topic, and that’s she has to see it and live through is all the time, but now that I see its in her school, I find that’s its getting to be a little too much. My kids do know that I took the case of Tom Robinson, and apparently the parents of the kids in their school know as well, and those kids must over hear them talking about it. Scout had gotten in a fight today with a boy named Cecil Jacobs. Apparently he had announcing to the rest of the school yard that I “defend N-words”. So when she got home, she had said “do you defend N-words, Atticus?” This made me quite angry, not at Scout but how topics like this are just thrown around an elementary school. I had told her of course I do, but not to say that word anymore. She had questioned many things I told her, only because she’s too young to understand. She had also asked me if I “shouldn’t be defending him, then why am I?” She doesn’t realize that there are many reasons why I’m doing this. I had told her that if I didn’t I couldn’t hold my head up in town, I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again” I think she got the point of what I was saying, but she still might not understand it fully for a while. It hurt me to hear about the things being said, but I knew it was part of what I had to do.
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| Me talking to my daughter |
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