To Kill A Mockingbird Injustice Analysis

Who would win a race, the person who starts at the finish line or the person who is a mile away? Obviously the person who starts at the finish line. Injustice works similarly. In a trial of a black man against a white man with a racist jury, the white man starts at the finish line. They win before the case even starts. This is simply due to racism. The very thing that biases a man’s brain to force him to weather right or not, chose the racist choice. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee argues that racism prevents justice because racism promotes inequality.

Harper Lee describes racism as the main obstacle in the way of justice. This plays a large role in the main plot of the book To Kill a Mockingbird. After the trial, Jem is devastated and

Atticus says, “They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again” speaking of how the racism is not a one time thing. This situation happens, people are racist. When people are racist it gets in the way of justice, and it always does. Racism is a very large problem that time after time biases people 's opinions to make decisions against a minority race. It shields people 's minds from doing what is right and forces them to chose the racist choice. (MAYBE DO MORE PART

Discrimination forbids justice from existing in daily life . In my life, I live in a town where I am the majority in religion and race, where my parents have worked hard enough that I do not have to deal with poverty. I basically have not experienced any hardships or anyone at all putting me down for things I can not control. A few months ago I saw a move called Straight Outta Compton. A movie about three men who had a very large impact on music today. In the movie there were multiple showing of the racism that these three black men had to go through. They would be walking home and the police would stop them just for being black and check them for drugs. In summary, they were treated very unfairly for their race. This was a realization for me on really understanding what life was like for a black man/woman in the 20th century. I can try to be sympathetic but I will never know how it truly felt to be a black man/woman and to have been discriminated against at such a large extent. About four weeks after that, I was hearing about a police officer who had shot Akai Gurley, a black man who was unarmed and apparently accidentally shot. The policeman could have been arrested and put in jail for 15 years for manslaughter but instead, is receiving no jail time. This hit something in my head that made me realize, this is not over. Racism, still today, prevents justice and corrupts