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Racial Changes In To Kill A Mockingbird

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What if the world was still the same as it was back during the great depression. What if this was the truth. From To Kill A Mockingbird you can see not much change in prejudice towards race in today’s society from back then. In To Kill A Mockingbird you will find unfairness in court, hate crimes, and segregation. Today you can still find these same issues, but in different forms. Prejudice towards race has not changed from back then to now very much or at all.
One of the many ways prejudice towards race has not change is court fairness. In To Kill A Mockingbird you find unfairness and today you still find unfairness. From To Kill A Mockingbird, After getting home after the court case, Jem is upset “What, son? Said, Atticus “ “How could they …show more content…

In To Kill A Mockingbird when at the church people are mad that calpurnia brought white children to an all black church. “You ain’t got business bringin’ white chillen here -- they got there church, we got ours. It is our church ain’t it? Miss Cal?” “ Let’s go home, Cal. They don't want us here.(158) This shows that there is segregation in Maycomb. With this, segregation brings feud between both white and black, because whites kicked them out, and now whites are invading their territory. Today. In the article by New York Times “ Once latinos were arrested, bad things happened to them many were sent to Tent city. Which Arpaio himself proudly called a “concentration camp” Where they lived under brutal conditions with temperature inside the tents sometimes reaching 145 degrees fahrenheit” Krugman, Paul. "Fascism, American Style." New York Times, 28 Aug. 2017, p. A16(L). Global Issues in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A501982311/GIC?u=dist214&xid=cc2285cd. Accessed 14 Mar. 2018. With this evidence you can see how segregation has not changed for the better from back then to …show more content…

Hate crime also existed back then too prevalent in To Kill A Mockingbird. A gang approached Atticus at the jail cell to try to get to Tom “You know what we want” another man said. “Get aside from the door, Mr. Finch” This was when a mob came to the jail. They came for one thing and one thing only to lynch Tom Robinson. Luckily Atticus came to prevent them for doing so. To also note these men would never ever attempt to do this if it was a white man behind bars. Recently, From the news source “Globe and Mail” “Dylann Roof was deeply disturbed. Maybe he was high on drugs. But he chose victims carefully. He allegedly told his targets at the prayer meeting that blacks were “Taking over the country.” according to his friends he wanted to start a race war. This was a shooting of Charleston Church by Dylann Roof which in this church were black people which he killed. This was a hate crime and in this world there is still a discontent for colored people. "How Dylann Roof caught the virus of hate; His murderous fantasies were fuelled by the Internet, which hosts countless racist websites." Globe & Mail [Toronto, Canada], 23 June 2015, p. A11. Global Issues in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A418985357/GIC?u=dist214&xid=4f8efd46. Accessed 14 Mar. 2018. Wrapping up this evidence it is clear that hate crime is a current issue and need to be prevented.If not more people will ride the train and

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