Violence In To Kill A Mockingbird

1,134 black males were killed at the hands of the police in 2015, but only a couple of those stories have been published. Why is that? Why do people want to cover up the actual numbers and only show the stories that people see and report? We have heard of Laquan McDonald, Mike Brown, and Trayvon Martin, but what about Arthur J. DaRosa, who was killed on May 10, 2016, or Alton Witchard, who was killed on May 7, 2016. We complain about gun laws and how it will only make the situation in Chicago worse, but the only reason why the violence is going up exponentially every year is because society hasn’t given the blacks on the south and west-sides an opportunity to leave and prove themselves. The hyper-violence mixed with lack of opportunity has

Towards the end of the book, Atticus Finch must represent a black man named Tom Robinson. Tom was being tried for a rape that he never did. Not only were the people of Maycomb are aggravated with Tom, but they also got frustrated with Atticus for protecting Tom in the trial. In the book it says, "Scout," said Atticus, "nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don't mean anything—like snot-nose. It's hard to explain—ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody's favoring Negroes over and above themselves” (107). These lines show how even people who associate themselves with blacks are frowned upon and mocked. All for trying to help a fellow human being out. When the term “nigger-lover” is used, there is a negative connotation that goes along with it, but for what reason? People have taken the color of a person’s skin and given them a bad name just for being different. The world can’t look to forward every individual’s life when even the biggest and most important countries don’t have equality amongst their

Problems such as police shootings and unfair treatment against people of different color continue to happen everyday, and if we can’t figure out a way to stop it then our entire nation is going to suffer. We can look at our world today and think that everything is alright, but what we need to do is look at it from the perspective of someone who is constantly judged for no reason other than their skin color. Once everyone is able to understand both sides of this dilemma, then hopefully our society will be intelligent enough to put an end to racism and allow everyone to live together in peace. We cannot allow for fellow humans to go through pain and misery simply because we think that they aren’t productive members of society since they look different. When the day that each and every individual is treated with the same respect and is given the same opportunities, then we can finally say that we are not racist. Until then, there is a lot of work that needs to be done before we can truly say that there isn’t a “negro problem” in the United States of