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Examples Of Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

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When Calpurnia brings Jem and Scout to her church, she is met with resistance by Lula, who Scout describes as a “tall Negro woman” (135). Lula argues that the white people have their church, and the black people have their own, so Calpurnia has no business bringing white children to a black church. While Lula was alone in her beliefs – all of the other patrons welcomed the Finch children – it rose a few questions for me. When I first read To Kill a Mockingbird at sixteen years old, I has assumed that Lula was being racist. However, now reading the novel again, I am not as sure. Last semester, I took a Multicultural Education class where I were posed with the question: Can black people be racist? I learned that it depends on the definition
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