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Why is an innocent man being accused of rape? He is being accused because he is a black man. Tom Robinson is an innocent black male that is being accused of rape because they don't know who the real suspect is. Maybe they do know who raped Mayella Ewell but they don't want to say because they're protecting this person. Why must they accuse a black man instead of a white man? Let me tell you why.

Why must they blame a man that didn't commit a crime? The reason they do this is because they don't want the real suspect to do the time. So they just blame the black man since they don't care about him. He is just another black man, he isn't important so who cares if he goes to jail. Little do they know is that this innocent man has a family that

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