To Kill A Mockingbird Discrimination

Throughout history, discrimination and acts of prejudice have been abundant, creating an unhealthy environment sustained and fueled by hatred and ignorance. Firstly, from the introduction of settlers traveling to North America, imposing the natives into slavery, killing them, unrightfully stealing land, and ignorantly murdering the natives with diseases brought overseas. The invasion of colonists’ created a soil camouflaged with blood of those who were exterminated. Effectively, conceiving the foundation for racism, slavery, discrimination, hatred, and prejudice. Similarly, following the genocide of North America's native people, slaves from Africa were imported into immensely demanding subjugation. In an excerpt from the Civil War Trust construing some of the reasoning behind slavery, “...a Dutch ship loaded with African slaves introduced a solution—and a new problem—to the New World. Slaves were most economical on large farms where labor-intensive cash crops, such as tobacco, could be grown” (Civil War Trust 1). In fact, slavery in regions that …show more content…
This was evident within Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, throughout history, and in society today. As a result, discrimination can cause undesirable stress responses that lead to negative health effects, both physical and mental. Within To Kill a Mockingbird, there were oodles of instances of discrimination from all different types of characters. Next, in history, especially black history, the major discrimination against black people spanned throughout many centuries, from slavery to segregation. After, in current society, we see the discrimination, while not as physical as in previous eras, still existent in racism, prejudice, sexism, and gender discrimination. As said by Malala Yousafzai, “I raise up my voice not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. We cannot succeed when half of us are held back” (Harris