The theme presented in the poem by Langston Hughes relates to the verdict handed down to Tom Robinson because it talked about how justice does discriminate and that's exactly what happened to Tom Robinson. There was no solid evidence against Tom Robinson but there was defending him, yet his verdict was still guilty and he ended up dying because of it. This happened simply because of the color of his skin, they discriminated because of his skin which is exactly what the poem is talking about. "when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life. (Lee 224) The verdict did not represent the ideas in president Lincoln's speech because he was said to be guilty when that was
