Lastly but most importantly, white supremacists oppress the black community through murder. In the poem, it shows us that white supremacists want to oppress the voices of blacks which explains why they murdered Medgar Evers because, “A finger fired the trigger to his name” (Dylan line 2). The murderer shot him because of what he believed in. In The Help, it also shows us that white supremacists kill blacks that are speaking the truth. This is evident when “Carlton Roberts told Washington reporters what it means to be a black man in Mississippi calling the governor a pathetic man with the morals of streetwalker. Roberts was found cattle branded and hung from a pecan tree” (Stockett, page 282). After Medgar Evers and Carlton Roberts it sparked
