Blacks are the often the first target of neo-nazi’s and white supremacists. Macdonald uses this to justify the murder of Blacks; “If we are going to cave in people’s heads with bricks, they must be people who deserve it” (Macdonald 10). The person who “deserves it” in the book is a Black convenient store owner, who the Organization choses to rob and kill. James Byrd Jr., a 49 year old Black man, was brutally murdered in Texas on June 7, 1998 by 3 white white men who were racially motivated based on the writing of Macdonald. When Netzley was describing the connection of Byrd’s murder and The Turner Diaries, she wrote “...African -American James Byrd Jr. is beaten and dragged to his death behind a pickup truck, one of his assailants, John King, will say ‘We’re starting The Turner Diaries early’’ (Netzley 5).
Comparing the Tom Robinson Case with the Scottsboro Trial On March 25, 1931 nine black males are arrested after two white females claimed to have been raped on a Southern Railroad train. On March 30th they were indicted by the grand jury. The conclusion after the trial was that the majority of the nine boys were guilty. This conclusion caused a huge dispute about the innocence of the boys, and the case had numerous retrials. 2.
Black women, on the other hand, were viewed as loose harlots who were sexually driven; basically saying that us as black woman wanted these white southern men to rape us. However, the irony of it all is that white women were the ones pursuing black men and white men were the actual rapists and murderers. The worst part of it all is that none of the people who committed those vile acts were ever prosecuted. White men have been raping black woman and killing black people since the Atlantic Slave Trade and more frequently as the years
Of course this guy went to jail along with his friends for committing that crime. This film actually portrayed the racial hatred and was more specific on why white Americans have that stupid mentality about
Both examples show how prejudiced the city in the South actually was. b. Depression happening at the time as well. j. In a court case, a black man named Tom Robinson was ruled guilty by an extremely racist jury. He was obviously (due to the evidence) innocent, but racist southerners of the jury ruled him guilty anyways.
Reference Vigilante Justice; Scott Johnson; Dec. 20, 2004 An eleven year old girl is raped and the wrong man is attacked by a group of men, severely beaten he is sent to the hospital. The police had put a $10,000 reward for information to catch this criminal; because of mistaken identity an innocent man was beaten. The mob decided to be judge and jury. Amanda Cunningham of Knoxville, Tennessee was raped by her uncle when she was just nine years old, and again a couple months later. For five years this girl held this secret because of the uncle threatening her family.
And in those teachings he believed and manipulated his followers to believe there was going to be a war between the whites and blacks. This war would have been called “Helter Skelter.” At this time the Beetles “White” album was released, and Manson felt as if the Beetles were singing lyrics to what Manson was trying to say the whole time. Therefore Manson took it upon himself to start the Helter Skelter warfare. Him and his family started murdering many innocent people. When these murdering sprees took place Manson and his “Family” kept trying to frame the black people by putting a paw print on the walls with the victim’s blood.
At that time, Atticus’ city is located in Alabama which racism is prevailed all the states. In spite of prejudice that the black is always doing wrong, Atticus decides to defend a black guy, Tom Robinson who is accused of raping whiter woman. Even though Atticus’
In the name of preserving law and order in a white-dominated society, Klansmen punished newly freed blacks for a variety of reasons, including behaving in an "impudent" manner toward whites. They whipped the teachers of freedmen's schools and burnt their schoolhouses. But first and foremost, the Klan sought to do away with Republican influence in the South by terrorizing and murdering its party leaders and all those who voted for it…in outright defiance of the Republican-led federal government, Southern Democrats formed organizations that violently intimidated blacks and Republicans who tried to win political power...” It was all about change, evolving and becoming better then what the country was about, at that time. The founders of the KKK were stubborn to change; they had the mentality of supremacy, and tried by any means necessary to dominate others and deter the changes around
However, in both instances, the outcome of each situation that the African Americans were in made it so that they paved the way for future generations to come. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is wrongly accused of committing the crime of raping a young girl. Immediately he is thought of to have done the crime, simply because of the color of skin. Everyone in the town of Maycomb jumpes to the conclusion that just because Tom Robinson is of African American decent, that it must have been him who committed the crime. It took numerous days