More on Shelby Foote

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Following up on my previous obit on Shelby Foote, I point you to an excellent appreciation of his life, work, and especially his friendship with Catholic novelist Walker Percy. I especially loved this paragraph:

Despite his aversion to the faith, Foote was a brave and thoughtful man. He loved his native South while standing firm against Jim Crow and the race-baiting populists of the twentieth century. In what had to be the most withering blow a Ku Klux Klansman could ever hear, Foote accused the white supremacist group of “degrading the Confederate flag” by converting it “from a symbol of honor into a banner of shame,” having “covered it with obscenities like a roadhouse men’s room wall.”

I would have loved to hear Foote’s warm, sonorous, Mississippi drawl speak those words.

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