The author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” has made its hero a racist in a new book.
Harper Lee, who wrote the modern American classic depicting a white Alabama lawyer 
who defends a poor black man accused of rape in the 1930s, has published a sequel, “Go Set a Watchman.”
In it, she gives a complete face lift to Atticus Finch, “Mockingbird’s” saintly lawyer, by turning him into a racist.
What?!
In the sequel, set in the 1950s but written before “Mockingbird,” Finch says blacks are too “backward” to “share fully in the responsibilities of citizenship” and rails that the NAACP is composed of opportunists and troublemakers, according to The Associated Press.
When news of the sequel hit the public, the public took to social media to express sorrow, disappointment, and even disgust.
This alternate version of Atticus is hard to process http://t.co/z3DHQgrShX
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 10, 2015
Remember yesterday when everything Atticus Finch believed was good and decent? I want to go back there.
— Cole Haddon (@colehaddon) July 11, 2015
I know the feeling. Even the movie version, starring the late Gregory Peck as Finch, was a classic.
For some people, the news was a double whammy.
2 fictional male characters I most admired as a child, Cliff Huxtable + Atticus Finch, are not doing well. Someone check on Charles Ingalls.
— Rebecca Keegan (@ThatRebecca) July 10, 2015
@patrickkevinday :( Me too
— Rebecca Keegan (@ThatRebecca) July 10, 2015
One person even offered an excuse.
@ThatRebecca Atticus is fine. Harper is elderly.
— Atticus (@RacistAtticus) July 11, 2015
Then there are those who were hardest hit by the news.
Boys named after #AtticusFinch are going to be pretty upset pic.twitter.com/35mOyb6zt2 http://t.co/LAOs0GgHRY
— Vocativ (@vocativ) July 11, 2015
The book is scheduled to be released Tuesday.
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