'Racism Exposed In Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy'

Bryan Stevenson states, ‘“Racial integrity” laws were part of a plan to replicate slavery’s racial hierarchy and reestablish the subordination of African Americans.” In relation to the history of race, in Just Mercy, Stevenson incorporates how historical events such as slavery, mass incarceration, “Jim Crow” laws, and racial terrorism have affected how people perceive race and racism. Race was conceived the way it was in the beginning of the early modern period because people, especially white, saw different cultures and races obscure and it affected the development of racism today because people learned to develop racial profiling without actually investigating for the truth. Racism seemed to develop as early as the fifteenth century when Christopher Columbus encounter Native Americans, the British acted superior towards them as if they were not equal …show more content…
In Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson tells stories of how he takes on many cases of wrongly convicted people, especially those blamed because of their race. One of the people Stevenson defended was Walter McMillian, he was convicted of killing a women but McMillian was innocent, and he was blamed because he had an affair with a white woman which was forbidden due to the fact that he was black. It did not help McMillians case that he was accused by a white man who said that he saw him kill the innocent women even though it was not true but the jury and judge decided to believe him instead even after the person who accused him said it was all a lie. McMillian even had witnesses saying they were with him on the day of the murder but it seemed not to be enough to be set free. Stevenson was able to find enough evidence to prove that Walter McMillian was innocent but they are still many people like him who are innocent but are convicted because of their