“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of a reason.” Abraham Joshua Heschel, a Jewish rabbi, shows with his words that racism and injustice in the society is the one disease that can make people oblivious and neglect morals towards other people, singling them out due to their skin color. Harper Lee in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird depicts this racism in the 1930’s as a powerful and evil force that had once ate away the bonds and relations of the Southern whites and blacks and unfairly isolated people just because of skin color, and although better conditions such as income gap and social treatment have been improved, harsh matters of racism like social disadvantages and educational inequality still linger …show more content…
Jill Karson in her novel Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement points out the impoverished people of the South and the underpayment of their jobs. “Indeed, perhaps more than any other civil rights leader, Malcolm X articulated the intense frustration experienced by millions of blacks mired in poverty and second-class citizenship” (Karson 133). The fight for the rights during this time period shows the terrible conditions and balance between the African-Americans and the whites. Not only are the general conditions unfair in normal everyday life, but also the income and economy of the segregated races are not equitable and are depleting the African Americans of their money, blocking them of obtaining fair and equal incomes and wages. Despite the past damages to the economy, the society is changing and more colored people, especially of the South, are starting to be seen as people who can hold normal jobs and receive the same amount of money as anyone else. Brookings Institute explains that 60 percent of colored women today have white-collar jobs and are employed in real jobs (Thernstrom). Today, the South community can see much improvement of racial relations between the colored and the rest of the society and can visualize the economic …show more content…
Patrick Chura describes in his article, "Prolepsis and Anachronism: Emmett Till and the Historicity of To Kill a Mockingbird," the atrocities the whites would manage to pull off just because of their hate of another race. "It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children" (Chura). The racism had gotten so bad in the South that child murder was a plausible and logical way to deem superiority. This irrational mindset drove the whites into a deeper abyss with the colored society and was never going to stop. Strikingly, all of this damage and harm and resent towards each other has driven these acts into the current day. Peter Moskos, an assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York states “... that black men were 3.5 times more likely to be killed by cops than white men” (Rosenthal). Despite the major changes in today’s society on the viewpoint of different races, especially the African-Americans, there are still some issues that lurk in our community. This astounding statistic showing that black men are far more likely to be killed than white men by police just explains that this society is still acutely suspicious about