Oppression

Oppression

Friday, November 20, 2015

Chapter 11 page 141,
"So you brought that dirty little sister of yours, did you?" was her greeting. Jem said quietly, "My sister ain't dirty and I ain't scared of you," although I noticed his knees shaking.
Jem says this and is showing arrogance but no fear. I admire Jem doing this because Mrs. Dubose says plenty of ignorant things and gets away with it. It was about time someone stood up to it.
In history raciest white people would say even more ignorant things about black people and get away with it because of the law. Black people would be criticized for the smallest things  and get penalized for it. For example the Emmett Till incident in 1955. All he did was whistle at a white woman and he got jumped and killed.
In the time period TKAM was written and the time period TKAM was based off of has a lot of similarities with black peoples rights and lifestyle. TKAM shows what struggle African AMericans went through.

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