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Examples Of Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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What can we do about this injustice happening in our courtrooms?
What can we do to fix our problems in our justice system? Everywhere, anywhere people experience injustice, on the streets, in school, in businesses, and in our time we shouldn't be doing this, especially not in our courtrooms where we need the most justice possible. Tom Robinson's story in To Kill A Mockingbird and other texts reveal that the justice system loses credibility when those in power are biased or prejudiced against certain people.
In To Kill A Mockingbird where racial injustice is shown in the courtroom because an African American man is found guilty for something he never did or would do, but he is still found guilty because he's African American in a society that is prejudiced. In the story Tom Robinson is on trial for allegedly raping Mayella Ewell. 'Tom has all the correct and more convincing evidence like certainty of when things happened and that he's crippled in his left arm, on the other hand Mayella doesn't seem to be recalling the right dates and how things happened but the whole jury believes her because she's a white women and Tom is african american, …show more content…

For example,; Judges making 13 year old teens certified as an adult, how people get treated differently because of their race, how the sentences are more likely if you' reyour an African American then it is if you were a white man. He writes and sends a motion when he's really tired about 0011 1 how the judge should try and see his client as an 78 year old white man executive other than a 13 year old African American boy, since he can certify him as an adult. When he gets to the courtroom an argument with everyone gets started and the sheriff gets mad an African American janitor comes in to tell Bryan to keep trying and to push through it. Our courtrooms shouldn't have judges view others as things they

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