Maybe it's Racist
"...BUT I THINK WE HERE in God's land are experiencing an onset of white-niggerism the likes of which has not been seen before."
After missing a beat Radley asks, “Come again?” He does this intentionally to distance himself in the eyes of viewers, but is casual enough to avoid alienating the senator.
"Mike, let me put it to ya another way. My mama told me like this: ‘Ya mix the whites and the coloreds and ya end up ruining the whole batch.'” He's in the limelight now, that's what he's thinking, the senator. He won't back down on his convictions. Not with the eyes of his constituents on him. “People, our people, the American people—and when I go and say that, I mean God's people Mike—are getting concerned, there's growing concern among them, them all, because you see it
