Racism

Racism. Was it right? In To Kill A Mockingbird, racism was the center of their society. Everything from school, to walking on the streets, even in huge court cases revolved around the color of your skin. This was shown throughout the book. In many cases though, the whites were shown to be worse people than the blacks were even thought to be.

All of the kids were brought up with this thought that racism is okay, that that’s the norm. They were brought up thinking that it was okay to treat blacks like they were less than us whites, like they didn't even exists. Scout was one of the only children that saw the way that they were acting was terrible. She saw that racism isn't right, and that all people should be treated equal, but the most adults didn’t agree. They had grown up that way and weren't willing to change.

One person in the book that didn’t see everyone as black, or white, was Atticus Finch. He saw everyone as equals and gave everyone a fair chance, even blacks. In the big court case when Tom Robinson, who was black, was against Mayella Ewell Atticus stood up for Tom Robinson only stating the facts. He was trying to prove that maybe it wasn’t Tom Robinson, and that maybe, just maybe, they had everything wrong.

Today, racism is seen differently. There is still some racism in the world, but not to the extent that it was years ago. We have gotten past that time frame where racism was okay. People who are racist are in way, frowned upon. That is a time frame in our history that most of us are not proud of, but others grew up that way, and don’t see the problem. Which is one of the reasons why we are still racist. Some people believe that once all of the elderly people who grew up with racism die off, then we will be a better country.