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A time to kill In class we watched a clip of the movie A Time to Kill. It was about the trial of a father who killed two of his daughters rapists. The premise of the movie was should he go to jail because he is black, in a society that does not see the value of a black persons life the same as theirs in white society. The attorney named Jake Begance has to try to save his client named Carl Lee who took vengeance out on his daughters rapists by making the jurors see past their own racist prejudice and see themselves in Carl Less’s actions. The attorney tells the jurors to close their eyes while he tells them a story of a little girl being raped by two …show more content…

He asked “ how a black man ever gonna get a fair trial when the enemy is in the bench and in the jury box?” I believe Carl meant that America has a big problem with the black citizens whether they realize it or not. Some white people believe that they are not racist but they may find themselves isolated and insulated from black people and other people of color. They do not do this intentionally but they do it nonetheless. Examples of this is that they live in communities that are 80% or more of just white Americans, or they may not know any black people on a personal level and they may not expose their children to people of color in other cultures other than their own; and for that reason they find themselves unable to relate to people who do not look like them, so it is hard for them to feel sympathy for them, and that is the reason why Carl told the attorney that the reason he chose him as a lawyer is because he is just like the people in white society that he called the enemy. Carl said that Jake, the attorney never comes down to his part of town and that their little girls will never play together; I think that’s when it struck Jake that he is just like the so called enemy that Carl was talking about. Jake lives like them, and Jake can think like them because he is one of them, so he knows exactly what to say to them to make them understand why Carl did what he did to the rapists of his

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