Ronda Morrison’s murder takes place in Monrcoeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee grew up and wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. People there are crazy about that story. But when Bryan Stevenson tries to get the community to help Walter McMillian, an innocent African-American man, there is only indifference and hostility (Stevenson). Li 2 Li 2 As defendants, Tom Robinson and Walter McMillian are both black and innocent. Tom Robinson is accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell who in fact
Bao ngo English 3 Book report Malcom X Don't let people put labels on you-and don't put them on yourself. Sometimes a label can kill you. These words were spoken by Malcolm X, who fought for Civil Rights for African Americans. The truth of it all was that his very own quote was proven by how he himself was assassinated. Malcolm X himself predicted his own death because he knew his beliefs were so true to himself, but what was so different in his life.
But when it came to the debate against the Harvard, Farmer proved himself to be quite a motivational speaker when it came to debating about civil disobedience. Farmers explains this when told them that one night he was with his teammates and they saw one of their own people tied to a tree set on fire with a lynch mob circled all around. Farmer said that this was done because of hatred and racism against black people, and said that the true crime was committed by those who used acts of violence to those innocent victims that didn’t do anything wrong in the first place. There was also discrimination in the movie. White people are referred as the superior while the black are considered to be in the lowest rank.
Atticus thought that it was Jem but the sheriff said that Bob Ewell fell on his knife. The person that really killed Bob Ewell was Boo Radley and the sheriff hides that fact to protect Boo Radley from trials in court. For readers to be able to tell that it was Boo Radley who killed Bob Ewell they had to pay attention to quotes like “Thank you Arthur….. Thank you for my children” (Lee chap 31). The Author gives readers clues and makes them think to figure out questions, she never gives a straight out answer.
Racism and prejudice inside and outside, same races, and schools still happen today. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird there was a lot of racism in and out of the schools. As we both know Tom Robinson was accused of rape from Mayella Ewell. But in the court room when the judge is speaking to Tom, we as an audience realize that he did not rape her. From her story to the scar nothing matches up to what she is saying, but because he had an all white jury, they found him guilty.
Are we morally obliged to obey unjust laws? Do we have to follow a law regardless of how unfair, unjust, or immoral it may be? The only reason that these laws must be followed is because they are the law. But if you’re caught in a situation where the “unjust” law needs to be broken would you create civil disobedience and take a stand for what you believe in? In the article, America’s unjust sex laws it’s giving a detail analysis on the strict laws designated for sex-offender across the globe.
If he had an impartial jury, he would have been a free man. However, none of the jurors believed that Tom was telling the truth. They were raised to hate all black people. White people have been hurting and killing black people for centuries because of hatred. Therefore, the black community in Maycomb was crippled with fear.
The article I chose to discuss an author’s subjectivity is about the Trayvon Martin case. Trayvon Martin was a young Black man who was shot to death by George Zimmerman. The article states the verdict in the case, which was that Mr. George Zimmerman was acquitted of murder. In the article, I can sense the anger and hostility of the writer. He also displays a sense of frustration when he writes that “the verdict, which should have been shocking, was delivered with the inevitability that Black Americans know too well when criminal law announces that they are worth less than other Americans” (Yankah, 2013, p.A23).
The legal system fails the innocently accused back then and still today. In the trial in To Kill a Mockingbird, a black man is charged with rape of a white girl, with no medical evidence and no solid support except the religiously supported views of racism. “The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place. The defendant is not guilty…”said Atticus, the lawyer. In this trial, an all white jury charges a crippled man with rape of a white girl just because he is black.
Martin Luther King Jr’s main perspective during the fight on racism was equality. At the time in which he fought the crisis of racial inequality a main concern was to address that "white America must assume the guilt for the black man's inferior status" (King, 9) as stated in the reading Racism and the White Backlash. Also Dr. Martin Luther King from my understanding believes reparation in this nation at that time was not the top priority. He could not stress enough about how essential racial equality was for the nation to become solve mainstream crisis during the peak of