Essay On Jim Crow Laws In To Kill A Mockingbird

Jim Crow Laws: they’re long gone, right? No, not entirely. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, these oppressive laws are prevalent and a fact of life for the black community. The purpose of the system, in theory, was to create “separate but equal” treatment between black and white civilians. In actuality, this was not the case; black people were almost always treated as inferior to whites. Though legally the Laws have been eradicated, all sorts of racial bias are still common in modern society, from implicit biases to extreme cases of bigotry and racism. Prejudice is present in every factor of our culture, including daily life, the workplace, and the criminal justice system, which, ironically, is unjust. Racial bias comes in many forms,

It is often enacted on people of color by those in power, and the targeted groups are denied social opportunities and their dignity. In Maycomb County, racism is easily distinguishable, whereas in the modern world, the line between what is racist and what is not is blurred and vague. In the novel, nearly all white citizens are unquestionably prejudiced against their colored neighbors, and they display their bias in the form of **book evidence** In our current society, racism tends to be viewed as wrong and unjust; humiliating minorities is seen as uncivil and vulgar. Many see the country we live in as one where “it’s no longer culturally acceptable to be openly racist” (Blake). However, as socially unacceptable as it is, racism is ubiquitous, especially in subtler forms such as institutional and symbolic racism. Institutional, or systemic, racism is exercised through social and political practices, and it can be seen clearly in the imbalances between income, education, employment, and criminal justice, among others. An example is when black people are subject daily to biased merchants, real estate