Discrimination In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Discrimination is a problem that is still happening in today’s society. This discrimination is against gays, people with different interests, and different races. Discrimination has not gone away even after the civil rights movement by Martin Luther King Jr. Discrimination can happen to anyone wither you are black or white, but the blacks still get it worst because of whites that think they are better than them. On the note of people that think they are better than others. Germany’s dictatorship is describe in To Kill a Mockingbird as persecuting people because of the persecutor’s prejudice. This was against many people, but in particularly the Jews. While dictatorship does not give out equal rights to all and gives special privileges to certain

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