Tom Robinson Trial For To Kill A Mockingbird

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Tom Robinson, as know is a colored man in a time where colored people were treated differently than white people because of their skin color, as if white people were more superior. For a colored man to commit a crime as such Tom Robinson was accused for was horrible. People treated Tom like a monster, as if he was an animal not a human. Tom was obviously innocent, he never raped or abused Mayella but because of his skin color the jury could not let him go free because it would bring shame to Mayella and her family. I cannot relate to this, however I have heard racist jokes, slurs, and other mean things said in those matters and I am against racism. Tom was a good man, with a family, living his life in peace and helping others in need, and what

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