Racial Profiling In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mocking

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As my mom and I walk into Walmart, we overhear a white man scream “Move! I doesn’t like niggers” to a black man all because he tried to help the white man pick up something he dropped. Everyone in the store started to yell and curse at the white man and he left in a hurry. Shocking, right; however, incidents like this occur all around the world and who is to say that it is going to stop. The burden of racial profiling in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird relates to today’s reader; evidence is presented in Carol Ullmann’s and Lynn M. Zott’s, “Introduction to Racial Profiling: Opposing Viewpoints” and David Erik Nelson’s "What Are the Consequences of Racial Profiling?" demonstrating that Lee’s novel is still relevant to today's world.
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Kennedy (JFK) airport in New York. Although born in Syria, Arar had moved to Canada as a teenager and been a Canadian citizen for more than a decade...Arar spent the next two weeks in U.S. custody. He was repeatedly questioned for hours at a time with no access to legal counsel, then finally deported. Due to false information furnished by Canadian authorities, Arar was deported not to his home country of Canada but to his birth country of Syria. There he was held in solitary confinement for almost a year, in a dark three-by-six-foot cell, and regularly tortured.As it turned out, there was no real reason to suspect Arar of anything.”("Preface to 'What Are the Consequences of Racial Profiling?’"). This article proves that racial profiling still exist, we just don’t pay attention to it as much. For instance, in To Kill A Mockingbird the Ewell family thinks of blacks as another class. Furthermore, racial profiling always will always exist. Racial profiling is going to live all throughout