Moreover, if Sweet were a white man, the situation would have been completely different, and would not have ended in a court
It tells the readers that Crooks wasn’t accepted as a man, just because he is a different race. In “Should Police Wear Body Cameras,” the text says,”Some witnesses confirmed Officer Darren Wilson’s account that he’d shot Brown in self-defense. Others said Brown didn’t pose a threat and that the shooting amounted to murder. A grand jury
One idea he spoke of was subjectivism. Subjectivism is the idea that right or wrong actions depend on what you think.4 Race is based on what your idea of the universe is. In other words the concept of right or wrong depends on your perspective of the world. So from the perspective of the conductor he must have thought that in the goodness of his heart that one of the black passengers in those seats really did not pay. He thought he was giving fair justice based on the ideals and principles he was taught were true.
In his new position, White began to investigate lynchings in the South. During the investigations Walter would take full advantage of his white appearance to collect responses from politicians and suspected lynchers. Each time he "crossed the color line", (Walter F(rancis) White 1), he put himself into danger. In 1919, Walter White was finally discovered to be black and had to go on the run for a while.
The unfortunate events leading up to Emmett Louis Till’s death and unfair trial were for one reason only- he was black. “The word is some nigra boy from Chicago made ugly remarks and then whistled to Miz Bryant.’ The deputy chuckled. ‘Fool boy forgot where he was, and it’s a fact somebody’s sure to give that boy a talking to.
Where was the law? Law said he cut in on the tractor, and he was the one who started the fight. That‘s law for a nigger” (139). In addition, Beulah recalls when Fix had a hand in the drowning of two children while Mapes had tried to forget such malicious activities ever took place. Beulah says “Now ain‘t that just like white people?
This showed the logical steps he used to show the world what was wrong with segregation and what it did to the people of
Elwood is accused of stealing the car because of the colour of his skin. After the deputy catches him in a stolen car he automatically assumes that he has stolen the car and says that “Only a nigger’d steal that”(43). Even without any proof that Elwood had actually stolen the car, he is accused and later arrested for a crime that he did not commit because of his skin colour. Furthermore, Elwood has been a very kind person and had never done anything wrong before the previous incident. Before the incident, Elwood is even told by a PhD graduate that he is “the type of student they came up with this for”(40) while talking about advanced courses.
(100), here, Atticus knows even if everyone knows Tom is innocent and Tom’s opponent is white trash and ignorant, everyone understand that he will suffer racial discrimination and will be labelled guilty no matter the proof. Racial segregation will be the main factor as to why no one will choose a black man’s side over a white’s. No matter how much evidence there is, the mindset on blacks in Maycomb is nearly impossible to discard. “Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed” (276), it is no surprise when Tom tries to escape the prison and dies doing so, because everyone knew there was no hope for him once a white accuses him.
Elwood, however, suffers an unfortunate turn of events when he takes a ride from a man operating a stolen vehicle and finds himself in a precarious situation when the driver is apprehended by police officers: “The red light of the prowl car spun in the rearview mirror. They were in the country and there were no other cars. Rodney muttered and pulled over.” (Whitehead 42). Elwood has nothing to do with the theft, but as a young Black man, it is unlikely that he will get away from the situation unpunished.
During the time era of segregation, if one had a single drop of “colored” blood in their body, or had nonwhite facial features, that individual was automatically referred to as fully colored. 3. Plessy was also noted as a “Creole of Color” which signified that before his ancestors reached Louisiana, the state that he lived in, his ancestry was traced back to African-American immigrants from the Caribbean, Spanish, and French lands. Homer Plessy, an advocate for equality sat in the white section of a railroad car and identified himself as established himself as a black citizen. When it was discovered that Plessy was black on the railroad car, and was instructed to seat himself in the “Jim Crow” railroad car, he refused.
“On that day, louis, then known as willie reed, saw two white men in a truck driving two black males in the back. His wife said he was standing with an older woman near a well and he heard a male screaming for his life inside the barn, the paper reports” (Carreras). After this incident, Louise then learned about Till’s death and knew that the two men were connected with the crime. Although he feared his safety after knowing this information, Willie felt the urge to tell someone and was hid by a black doctor until the trial began. “I couldn’t have walked away from that,” (Louise) explained.
Throughout the book people talk about how wrong it is for Atticus, one of the main characters, to defend an African American in court. The children in the book are told that their father is a disgrace and that he is ruining other people’s lives. For example, “‘...now he’s turned out a nigger-lover we’ll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb agin. He’s ruinin’ the family, that’s what he’s doin’.’” (Lee 110).
<> Moving on, Tom had to sacrifice his life to protect and provide job security of others due to the tendency to be blamed for the accidents because of his racial profile. In this case, “if the truck [were to] go over, guess who gonna get blamed for, the Indian or the driver?” (Kinsella 200) The chances of the Natives being accused is a very high probability. This proves that the set of extreme measures required to secure your job for the Natives are ridiculously unfair and that there safety is being compromised.
The story represents the culmination of Wright’s passionate desire to observe and reflect upon the racist world around him. Racism is so insidious that it prevents Richard from interacting normally, even with the whites who do treat him with a semblance of respect or with fellow blacks. For Richard, the true problem of racism is not simply that it exists, but that its roots in American culture are so deep it is doubtful whether these roots can be destroyed without destroying the culture itself. “It might have been that my tardiness in learning to sense white people as "white" people came from the fact that many of my relatives were "white"-looking people. My grandmother, who was white as any "white" person, had never looked "white" to me” (Wright 23).
