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Society's View Of African Americans In To Kill A Mockingbird, By Harper Lee

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In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout learns that many people in Maycomb County have garbage assumptions about people of the African heritage. Scout must deal with these opinions for her entire life, but she won’t let them taint her mind. “’That’s what I thought,’ said
Jem,’ but around here once you have a drop of Negro blood, that makes you all black’” (Lee
217). This quote is valuable because it shows that children were taught that if a person even has a speck of Negro blood, then that person is automatically a different race. Society’s perspective of African Americans, in Macomb County, affects children at a very young age and teaches them that Africans are bad people. “’Calpurnia says that’s nigger-talk’” (Lee 49). Harper
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