It discusses other ideas associated with racial prejudice such as the effects of a social hierarchy. Mississippi Burning, likewise to Wild Cat Falling, explores how the ‘coloured’ people were being racially discriminated and prejudiced against since the white Americans too, had an ethnocentric perspective on their coloured neighbours. A quote that supports the concept of ethnocentrism is, “he wasn’t doing anything except be a negro”. The diction of negro creates a tone of anger in the quote which helps illustrates the same concept of, if you’re black then you will be excluded, denied public facilities and racially prejudiced by the white society. Furthermore the tone creates an authentic voice which helps illustrate to the audience the African Americans anger and frustration towards the concept and from being racially prejudiced against in general.
They have belief that black people are low-class people who do not deserve respect. They are not in white people’s sight. As the conversation between Scout and Dill after the trial. Scout says, “Well, Dill, after all he’s just a negro” (Lee 199). This quote shows that black people are treated unfairly in the society.
(Ellis 396) Because of his struggles he decided to allow negative thoughts to take over which caused him to hate black people. This goes back to what Parillo stated; people begin to become hostile when they see a threat which causes them to become insecure. Nevertheless, he had no real reason to really hate black people. The problem became clear, black people were beginning to receive rights while the white race was not receiving. As stated in the text, “So the natural person to hate would be the black person.
Prosecutor “You felt sorry for her? A white woman? You felt sorry for her?” (Lee,?) This quote is proving racial discrimination towards Tom Robinson. When Tom said that he felt sorry for Mayella it was wrong in their minds because he is an African American who should not feel bad for a white person whose class is higher.
This novel has explained the true meaning of how blacks’ lives were not valued regardless of the judgment system. The white and black families all made statements for and against each other stating their opinions. The life of a black man was taken for wanting his freedom that was owed to him. As well as the life of white men was taken for wanting revenge. The novel explained racial prejudice and what it will result to.
What if the Africans/African Americans were the slave owners? Would it be wrong? It made some slave holders and their overseers brutal, it made other white people feel guilty and ashamed. Slavery was a moral sickness upon the society. Most slave owners were of white descent and for them to turn their back on their own kind is awfully inhumane, you could tell immediately that these people had no type of conviction or mercy within their own race.
Corruption Based on Color Alveda King once said “Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less then fully human. It’s a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.” Unfortunately in 1930’s Alabama people treated others based on their skin color causing racism to be a reoccurring problem. Therefore, racism and segregation was harsh, and seemed never ending for African American citizens, even after slavery, but it could have been avoided if people treated other the way they wanted to be treated. Segregation or “separation of the races,” was one of the many ways for people to promote racism in the 1930’s (Novak, Julie). Birmingham, Alabama was one of the most tightly segregated cities at the time (“Alabama”).
History Sources Analysis Task 1. Source 5, an historian’s account, discusses the Jim Crow laws. Two points that can be made about these laws are, firstly its stereotypical image of black people was that they had poor etiquette. This was because black people were seen in society as the lower class in comparison to white people. Secondly, the white people thought they were inferior and so they felt no shame in making fun of them at minstrels.
Prejudice, according to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, is an irrational attitude of hostility directed toward an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics. Racial prejudice is discrimination against people who are associated with a certain group that differentiates from another; mainly based on physical features. African-Americans were the social group targeted most by this discrimination, based on their skin color. They were thought to be worth less than a human being and so were sold as property into slavery, which had an iniquitous effect on them, even when it was over with the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. Many believe that racial prejudice against African-Americans was only brought upon them by the whites, but as Charles Waddell Chestnutt shows in “The Wife of His Youth” there was discrimination between African-Americans themselves based on their skin color,
By using the same racist nicknames which whites called blacks, such as “niggers”, with each other, it ridiculed the whole scenario. Thus creating a productive, but by no means healthy relationship between slave masters and their