Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, is a novel about a family consisting of Scout, her older brother Jem, and her father Atticus. It takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression. Tensions rise in Maycomb due to all of the segregation that takes place between the blacks and whites. The Finch family, which is white, is put to shame when Atticus defends a black man in court. Throughout history, racism has gotten better overall since the Civil Rights Movement of the1960’s, but racial segregation, police brutality, and racial profiling could still be greatly improved.
Racial segregation is a problem this world has been facing for generations. Thankfully it has decreased, but it can still be fixed. For example, in the courtroom in Maycomb, blacks and whites had separate seating. Whites sat on the ground floor, …show more content…
In To Kill A Mockingbird racial profiling is seen in the Tom Robinson court case. In this trial, Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of raping a white girl. Due to the high amounts of of racism and stereotypes, Tom was wrongly convicted even though all of the evidence proved his innocence. “Now don’t you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man…”(208) This shows that profiling people based on looks was a big deal, and many colored people got falsely accused of things they never did. Recently people have been profiling colored people to be more dangerous, so they show them less respect. “Black people are more likely to be stopped and searched, arrested, and, when taken to court, incarcerated. Their faces flood police registers and they are the ones that will be pulled out of the crowds in Notting Hill.”(The Use of Facial Recognition) This proves that people look and judge people before they can learn about them. This is known as disrespecting people because of the categories people put them in, just because of color of their
Racial segregation is a problem this world has been facing for generations. Thankfully it has decreased, but it can still be fixed. For example, in the courtroom in Maycomb, blacks and whites had separate seating. Whites sat on the ground floor, …show more content…
In To Kill A Mockingbird racial profiling is seen in the Tom Robinson court case. In this trial, Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of raping a white girl. Due to the high amounts of of racism and stereotypes, Tom was wrongly convicted even though all of the evidence proved his innocence. “Now don’t you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man…”(208) This shows that profiling people based on looks was a big deal, and many colored people got falsely accused of things they never did. Recently people have been profiling colored people to be more dangerous, so they show them less respect. “Black people are more likely to be stopped and searched, arrested, and, when taken to court, incarcerated. Their faces flood police registers and they are the ones that will be pulled out of the crowds in Notting Hill.”(The Use of Facial Recognition) This proves that people look and judge people before they can learn about them. This is known as disrespecting people because of the categories people put them in, just because of color of their