Racism In Ernest Hemingway's 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

The trial was confusing to me, but Dad brought up evidence that was valid and thought provoking, yet no one seemed to acknowledge until he had to point it out and even talk the jury and court through the reasons why this evidence made sense. Why did they all choose to shake it off? Why do they see these solid facts and cover them up as if they did not exist? I found myself thinking how the court case would have ended if Tom was white. That’s it, ain’t it?
Don’t I think Bob knows Tom is innocent? Yes, I do think so, but would he be “shallow” enough to admit a black man is superior to him? No, he wouldn’t. Knowing Bob’s morals, he would have fought against Tom even if tom was a white. He’s just scum I think, and as scum, Bob wants people
to think he is in some way important or in this case, innocent.
Poor girl, so lonely, but Tom says she kissed him, and because of her loneliness and what I could call desperation, poor Tom is out of luck.
Had he been a white man, maybe it would just be left at what if was, just a kiss. Bob would have been angry, yes, but could the Ewells have had the guts to take Tom to court over a kiss and anger? No, because they would have been smart enough to know they would find him innocent, a “white dove”.
They knew he was innocent, yet they saw him as an easy target because he was black. When would a black man be found innocent? In a case as strong and serious as rape, they could make all evidence be pointed towards him, before this evidence is carefully analyzed by my father.
My father looked at all the information carefully and brought up very true points! I know this, I do! He said we can’t give up even if we know we will lose, but would we have found ourselves in court in the first place trying to prove Tom’s innocence if he had been white? I don’t think it would have been necessary, but my father is a fighter and I know he had hope we would prove Tom’s side of the story to be true, but I think in the back of his head he knew people’s blindness to see a person for anything other than their skin would stop him from wining the
case.
Why do we have to base our judgment on color? It seems like by having black skin, Tom was guilty be default. I don’t think I understand, maybe dad has a deeper explanation to our way of judging people, but I believe if he does, it’s a scary reality he might tell me one day, when I begin to see the world through the eyes of an adult.
I think that I can see the world better than that jury, because I can see into Tom’s eyes and see a person that is a “Mockingbird”, while their narrow minds don’t let them go beyond his skin. If Tom was white, I would have not learnt this lesson on prejudice, and people’s low morals. I feel bad though, that a lesson this valuable had to cost a mockingbird his life.