Following Just Mercy Summary

Throughout all time, the Negro always faced injustice laws everyday by prejudice. They are considered to belong to the lower class who are poor, and uneducated. Otherwise, the death of African Americans also depends on the Whites decision. Most importantly, Emmet Till’s case is one of the racial discrimination stories in America history that create the wave of indignation among African American community. As reported by the Washington post, Emmet Till Louis was 14-year-old Negro boy who was lynched in Mississippi after flirting and wolf whistle with a white woman who is candy shop owner’s wife. After that incident, her husband, and his brother went to Till’s house, and kidnap the boy. They not only beat but also took his eyes out before shooting him in the head, and eventually they dumped his body in

The murders were acquitted of the charge. Everybody knows if we kill someone, we will face with the death penalty; nevertheless, the killers were declared mistrials in this case. Eventually, we can realize that the laws will have a racial double standard when we are the white people. Following Just Mercy chapter one-Mockingbird Players by Bryan Stevenson, he mentions that “But there was no evidence against McMillian-no evidence except that he was an African American man involve in an adulterous interracial affair, which meant he was reckless and possibly dangerous, even if he had no prior criminal history and a good reputation” (34). The author discussed about America’s criminal justice system discriminated against African Americans. McMillian is a black man who had a difficult childhood; nonetheless, he achieved success in starting his own pulpwood company. Unluckily, he got entangle with the white woman-Karen Keely which violated the laws prohibiting interracial relationships in the state of Alabama. Because of the adulterous interracial affair, it trapped him in death penalty case even though he didn’t murder