Racial prejudice and discrimination is just another form of corruption in our government system here in America that has stopped actual justice from being made in cases like Tom Robinson’s in To Kill a Mockingbird. The United States has an extensive background on violating human rights due to racial disparities. For instance, in 2005, the United States Sentencing Commission wrote a report that stated, “African Americans receive longer prison terms for drug offenses than whites. In 2002, the average prison term of 105 months for African Americans was 69% longer than the average of 62 months for whites,” (The Federal Prison Population: A Statistical Analysis, 2004). In other words, blacks who committed the same crime as whites were being given
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Alongside, the men, “Women received sentences ten percentiles lower than men,” (USSC 130). In other words, females were getting a lower sentence than males. This connects with the discrimination the women of Maycomb faced, why they could not serve on juries because of their “fragile” state of mind. The USSC also writes, “A significant difference in the treatment of similar male and female offenders remains unaccounted for, and may reflect lingering paternalism or, perhaps, sentencing-relevant differences between the genders on which data are not collected,” (USSC 141). To put in short, these crimes were never accounted for, so who knows how long some women are actually supposed to be in. Ultimately, the only way this issue will be solved is by speaking up in a nonviolent form and not keeping quiet. We live in a country where we are able to speak our minds freely and the only punishment for that is judgment. Not as painful as death, …show more content…
People find this so hard to do because it is mostly our job to be cranky or yell, and follow their direction. I believe the way a person is raised show how their beliefs systems and logic work. Many white people do not like blacks simply because they were always taught the negatives about them, and vise versus for blacks.
Harper Lee addressed the issues, racism and discriminations, seen in the book To Kill a Mockingbird and throughout history. Her brave writing is definitely the one to pay for her success. Lee publish is TKAM the year we stopped segregation in schools, our first huge step toward equality. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. are two of the people that fought for what they believed in and thought was not okay. While I cannot say when this will stop, let’s go back to elementary school and learn the golden rule, treat others the way you want to be treated, and that applies to every living human
Alongside, the men, “Women received sentences ten percentiles lower than men,” (USSC 130). In other words, females were getting a lower sentence than males. This connects with the discrimination the women of Maycomb faced, why they could not serve on juries because of their “fragile” state of mind. The USSC also writes, “A significant difference in the treatment of similar male and female offenders remains unaccounted for, and may reflect lingering paternalism or, perhaps, sentencing-relevant differences between the genders on which data are not collected,” (USSC 141). To put in short, these crimes were never accounted for, so who knows how long some women are actually supposed to be in. Ultimately, the only way this issue will be solved is by speaking up in a nonviolent form and not keeping quiet. We live in a country where we are able to speak our minds freely and the only punishment for that is judgment. Not as painful as death, …show more content…
People find this so hard to do because it is mostly our job to be cranky or yell, and follow their direction. I believe the way a person is raised show how their beliefs systems and logic work. Many white people do not like blacks simply because they were always taught the negatives about them, and vise versus for blacks.
Harper Lee addressed the issues, racism and discriminations, seen in the book To Kill a Mockingbird and throughout history. Her brave writing is definitely the one to pay for her success. Lee publish is TKAM the year we stopped segregation in schools, our first huge step toward equality. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. are two of the people that fought for what they believed in and thought was not okay. While I cannot say when this will stop, let’s go back to elementary school and learn the golden rule, treat others the way you want to be treated, and that applies to every living human