How Does Atticus Finch In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the heart of Alabama, it's rare to find a white man willing and proud to defend a colored man to the best to his ability, especially a man conscious of the social repercussions of doing so. Yet in our home of Maycomb a man fitting these characteristics reside and I have never had more respect for a man than I have for Mr. Atticus Finch. The case of Tom Robinson was a losing one from the second Mayella Ewell began crying in the courtroom, however, Atticus never stopped fighting for Tom and for that I admire him.
This week Mr. Tom Robinson was fatally shot seventeen times by guards at the Enfield Prison Farm, where he was waiting to be executed. I send my sincerest condolences to his family, and I intend for this editorial to be a light

in the thick fog of racism and prejudice that plagues this town. Atticus Finch is a smart man, he analyzed and displayed every single piece of the evidence and very clearly proved Tom was an innocent man. However, no matter how clear a lawyer can make the innocence of a black man to be, we live in Alabama and the twelve white man of the jury will take the word of a white woman over a black man any day.
The conviction and death of Tom Robinson have left me appalled and disgusted with Maycomb and Alabama as a whole. An innocent and crippled man fell victim to the very clearly racist judicial system. Tom had no reason to be dragged into to the scheme that the Ewells successfully carried out. I say to whoever may be reading this article that it was the racism of Maycomb Alabama that killed Tom Robinson; the racism of Bob Ewell, the racism of the jury, and fatally the racism of the prison guards. Residents of Maycomb Alabama I hope you take to heart that it was your prejudice that resulted in the slaughter of the innocent, Mr. Tom Robinson.