Racial Discrimination In To Kill A Mockingbird

Race discrimination is when a person who is black or a different race that is treated more poorly than others in a certain situation. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee and from credible articles, american use racial discrimination and it needs to be stopped. This is a big problem because people are being blocked from certain areas because of their race, white people don’t trust black people when they are in trial, and specific people can’t buy a nice house or live in a nice neighborhood because they are “different”. These are some reason why we need to stop race discrimination in the United States and prevent it from happening again. In the 1960s, there was much discrimination in towns and certain places and it was unfair

They thought they they could rule blacks and they blacks were a lower ranking class than them. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” Harper Lee showed how during the trial for Tom Robinson that whites got to sit on the bottom of the court and the blacks had to all fit in on the top. There was a separation of them and during the trial “people say that fair play is not marked White only...and the handful of people who with enough humility to think, were Negro” (Lee 236). This means that whites thought that they were better and this could affect how the trial goes because most whites don’t trust black people. People may believe that in the trial Tom was innocent but he was black to he was guilty. In the article “Supreme Court Shows Concern over Alleged Race Bias in Jury Selection Case" people who where whites may cause discrimination in a trial because of someone's race. Citizens "focused on black people in the jury pool during the trial” because they thought they might make someone innocent guilty because they were white (al jazeera). Racial discrimination is affecting people's lives because jury courts are not being fair. Americans need to realize that it shouldn’t matter the color of your skin because everyone is