Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

Throughout history, people have done their best to stop racism, however, there might always be racist people still in existence today. But at the end of the day, America and racism are no longer a prime relationship. While many citizens do believe that racism is still a major problem today, there are a vast majority of people who think that it is either fully gone or dying down. But, looking at history and the past of various types of people, it is clear that the time period citizens are living in do have an impact on how they see others. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee gives identifiers of how living in a certain time can affect people’s mentality. The 1930’s were an extremely racist time period. When Scout explains all the things she sees like Tom Robinson just …show more content…
He was accused for something he didn’t do just because of the color of his skin. If he was definitely guilty with provided evidence to prove it; that would be one thing. But because the society, environment, and time period was very against those of different race or skin color, it just made Tom robinson a prime target. Atticus who defended Tom Robinson gave solid facts of the town’s general mindset, “the evil assumption—that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption that one associates with minds of their calibre” (Lee). The phrase that sticks out upon anything else is “the evil assumption,” which points how people just assumed that this innocent black man was guilty of something. Again, because of the time period itself and the environment the people in this town were surrounded with. Even with all of the definite racism going on, there were also moments of question. A case that occurred at the peak of racism brought on this statement; “Overwhelming public sympathy for King following the national broadcast of holiday’s video tape prompted Los