Atticus Finch's 'Miss Mayella, Let Me Here'

Atticus Finch is offering his fellow white men on the jury a choice. They can act as white people and enforce their power against black people, or they can act as men and enforce the power of your gender against women. He's saying she wanted itand not only that, when he has tom robinson dropped that little bit about she says that what her papa do to her don't count. That might be a good argument in the moment, but it's not especially noble when vernon jordan is walking through the streets of atlanta with that humiliating stain spreading down his bage suit. When you went on those rounds, was no one interested in hearing the facts of