“ … Confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption --- the evil assumption --- that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with the minds of their caliber.” said Atticus in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee in (204). In this situation the jury was going on about Tom Robinson raping Mayella Ewell and Atticus proving what people are assuming. These are the people that believe in other people’s word. Racial Inequality has not only been shown in To Kill A Mockingbird pages, but it has been seen everywhere around the world.
It takes place when Atticus was having a conversation with Jem about juries and their lack of equality. They were talking if a Negro is going against a white person in a Jury the white person always win no matter who they are. In their conversation Atticus said “ In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always win. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.” (220). This relates to Racial Inequality because when a white person is going against an another white person one of the person should or must be guilty. It is different when a white person going against a black
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Atticus is talking to the people in the jury and explaining what Mayella did to Tom and how bad it is. Atticus said “ She was white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: She kissed a black man. Not an old uncle, but a strong young Negro man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards.”( 204). Mayella did something that never happened in Maycomb history, she kissed a black man. Atticus mentioned this because kissing a black man can get in this kind of