Examples Of Racial Inequality In To Kill A Mockingbird

According to The Huffington Post, African Americans and Hispanics still live in poorer neighborhoods than Whites, even though they have similar incomes. In today’s society almost everything is segregated in some way, shape, or form. For example, in popular music today, some is referred as “white people music” referring to any happy pop music. Then there is any harsh rap music which is labelled as “black people music.” There are so many types of segregation in today’s culture, we aren’t even close to being equal. Our society will never reach true racial and social equality.
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are many different examples of racial inequality in the community of Maycomb. For example, We see the imbalance of the Tom Robinson case when Scout says “Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed” (Lee 323). The unjust legal system really shows when a nine year old can tell that something is off with this case. The segregation wasn’t just on the white side of Maycomb it also extended to “The Quarters”, this is clearly seen when Lula says “You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here-- they got their church, We got our’n, ain’t it,
On November 26, 2016, in Charleston, West Virginia a white man shot a black teenager and then after said that he removed a piece of ‘trash’ off the street. The teen flashed a weapon but never shot a bullet, the grown man however shot him twice in his abdomen and didn’t think twice about it. Reading this article made me very upset because this situation could’ve gone a totally different direction and not gone violent if the man would have just left it alone and moved on like any adult should. Guaranteed if the boy walking towards the man was not African-American, he probably would not have reacted to way he did. This situation shows how racism is still very present in today’s