Essay On Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

Picture a world without racism; what would our economy be like, our history, our society, what if racism never existed? Racism has been used around the world. People were tortured, put into slavery, and even killed because of racism. In the story “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, A character named Atticus fights for his beliefs against racism while everyone else doesn't agree with him. People in Maycomb are racist because Society tells them to use racism, and people’s usage of racism is stronger than the court of law. In Maycomb, society is a reason why people are racist. People in the story are being mean to black people because they want to look good in society. Nathan Radley says, “If anybody sees a white nigger around, that’s the one” (pg 54). It shows that he is calling a bad person a nigger, but white. If he calls out a white person for being
Racism in a court goes before the law in the story. Atticus says, “In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s word, the white man always wins” (pg 243). That ever since people are racist, they never let a black guy win. The jury knows the black man has the better case, so they refuse the right thing for Tom Robinson. Atticus fights for Tom Robinson put loses because the jury is racist and not putting the court of law before racism. Judge Taylor says “Guilty. . .Guilty. . . Guilty. . . Guilty” (pg 211). Atticus lost the trial by the jury saying guilty. The jury thinks that white people should win because of their rights in Maycomb against blacks. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, racism is all over the town of Maycomb. At some points people are racist for their spot in society. People are also racist for being against the court of law. People in Maycomb are bad people, but it’s been like that in a ton of other places, not only Maycomb. If people were never racist, how would people act like