Examples Of Racial Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird

As America grows and becomes a world power, its treatment of minorities seems to grow older and older, because of this America will never achieve true social and racial equality. To Kill a Mockingbird gives an excellent example of how America will never change by demonstrating the racial injustice towards Tom Robinson. It also puts into perspective how society views people in the lower class even when all of America is struggling financially in the Great Depression with the mistreatment of the Cunninghams. As most of America watched from home, or watched from their balconies, America saw an uproar from the deaths of many African Americans who died due to police brutality. In 2020 around ten, undocumented, and unreleased deaths of African Americans

No one held Bob Ewell to a higher standard because deep down they knew Tom did not do anything. They still knew Tom was a respectable man, but they weren't there during his trial when he really needed someone to stand up for him. When Jem learned about Tom’s death, he did not want to talk about it. It was hard for Jem to digest his confusing feelings because he too could not understand how an entire town can hate a man then not even speak of his death after he died. As Atticus Finch goes to comfort Jem he states, “There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s. The white man always wins. They’re ugly, but that's the facts of life” (Lee 220). As the trial goes on, the book talks about a family, the Cunninghams, they are a family who have been hit the hardest from the Great depression. They rarely have meals, and the town knows this and yet the town still looks at them like they are the scums of the earth. This book proves how cruel society can be when society has been trained to be cruel to those who are the lowest of

It's not far fetched, but we live in a fallen world and African Americans get the brunt of our fallen world. As individuals, how African Americans get treated is up to that person, but as a whole it will always be a struggle. As Christians we are to love everyone as we would want to be loved ourselves. If someone can call themselves a Christian but can get not over racism that should have died years ago, then they are living a lie. It is that simple, it should not even be a discussion because it's not a “we” and “them,” this is a fallen world and none of us are above another in God's eyes, it should be an “us.” The struggles Tom Robinson faced in To Kill a Mockingbird called out society's flaws in such an astonishing way people wanted to ban the book. The town's reaction to his death perfectly embodies how most of the world feels deep down knowing that these people are people, and do not deserve the hate they get. George Floyds death showed most of the world how we should all be acting over these injustices. They should not even be happening, but yet an uproar of protests has to happen to shed any light on these problems we still face today. As Christans who also live in this fallen world, we need to stand up for the minorities who are suffering from racial and social