Civil Rights activist, Alveda King, once said, "Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centred falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated." Many people, regardless of race, have demonstrated this repeatedly throughout history. The Holocaust, for example. Harboring strong, yet unnecessary hatred towards Jews, Hitler had millions of them put in concentration camps and wiped out during WWII. And the Scottsboro Trials, about eighty years ago, where nine young African American men were falsely accused of raping two white girls on a train. Just a year ago, in August 2014 there was the Ferguson Shooting, where a Caucasian policeman just shot an African American man.
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This is seen very commonly in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, which demonstrates that in Maycomb, the main town of the book, most of the characters are shown having extreme racial prejudice against African Americans. Back in the 1930’s, especially in the South, many people harshly judged each other based on race, and took advantage of that. This is a commonly seen theme in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, where an African American man, Tom Robinson, was falsely accused of raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell. Even though he was innocent, which several people already knew, they had still voted him guilty, simply because of his racial status, ignoring all facts and logical evidence, extremely biasing the case. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee demonstrates the repeating theme of racism and how bad it was back in the
This is seen very commonly in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, which demonstrates that in Maycomb, the main town of the book, most of the characters are shown having extreme racial prejudice against African Americans. Back in the 1930’s, especially in the South, many people harshly judged each other based on race, and took advantage of that. This is a commonly seen theme in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, where an African American man, Tom Robinson, was falsely accused of raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell. Even though he was innocent, which several people already knew, they had still voted him guilty, simply because of his racial status, ignoring all facts and logical evidence, extremely biasing the case. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee demonstrates the repeating theme of racism and how bad it was back in the