The Inequality of Equality
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal” claimed Aristotle, a greek philosopher. Equality has always been an issue for us as humans for as long as we can remember. We strive for life to be “fair”. When our neighbor gets great objects we expect to get possessions equally as great. After all, that is only fair. Despite how much we try to reach this fairness and equality, time and time again history proves that we are far from it. The Little Rock Nine demonstrated this when the group of African American students struggled to integrate into an all white school as the other students harassed them. While in order to be fair, children of all races need to receive the best education possible, …show more content…
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, inequality between races is continually brought up as Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson in a feud between black and white similar to the one the nine kids in Little Rock Arkansas fought …show more content…
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch, the defense attorney in the Tom Robinson case, addressed a common misconception of the people of Maycomb by saying, "You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women—black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men’" (Lee, 273). People make assumptions about a person because of their skin tone. In this case Atticus is telling the people of Maycomb that while a Negro man can be immoral and do wrong things, not all of them do, and any man can do the same things, regardless the color of their skin. It is the truth that everyone does the wrong thing sometimes, but it is easy for a white man to see another with different skin tone as lesser than him and more immoral. Later in the closing statement, Atticus points out in inequalities in things more important, such as the verdicts in court cases by asserting the fact that, “In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins” (Lee, 295). Atticus points out the inequality in things that matter. It could be a life or death situation, but a white man wouldn’t care less. Since he was able to, the white man
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal” claimed Aristotle, a greek philosopher. Equality has always been an issue for us as humans for as long as we can remember. We strive for life to be “fair”. When our neighbor gets great objects we expect to get possessions equally as great. After all, that is only fair. Despite how much we try to reach this fairness and equality, time and time again history proves that we are far from it. The Little Rock Nine demonstrated this when the group of African American students struggled to integrate into an all white school as the other students harassed them. While in order to be fair, children of all races need to receive the best education possible, …show more content…
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, inequality between races is continually brought up as Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson in a feud between black and white similar to the one the nine kids in Little Rock Arkansas fought …show more content…
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch, the defense attorney in the Tom Robinson case, addressed a common misconception of the people of Maycomb by saying, "You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women—black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men’" (Lee, 273). People make assumptions about a person because of their skin tone. In this case Atticus is telling the people of Maycomb that while a Negro man can be immoral and do wrong things, not all of them do, and any man can do the same things, regardless the color of their skin. It is the truth that everyone does the wrong thing sometimes, but it is easy for a white man to see another with different skin tone as lesser than him and more immoral. Later in the closing statement, Atticus points out in inequalities in things more important, such as the verdicts in court cases by asserting the fact that, “In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins” (Lee, 295). Atticus points out the inequality in things that matter. It could be a life or death situation, but a white man wouldn’t care less. Since he was able to, the white man