Clearing the record …

… Flannery O’Connor Was Not a Racist - The Catholic Thing. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… this is the woman who wrote a story poignantly revealing the suffering of black people in the South. This is the woman whose spiritual director was a Jesuit priest, James McCown, who was known as a strong proponent of integration. And this is also the woman who said, after an upsetting experience involving a bus driver’s cruel remark toward black passengers, “I became an integrationist.”