Oppression Blog Entry II

 On page 175, it says "There was indeed a caste system in Maycomb, but to my mind it worked this way: the older citizens, the present generation of people who had lived side by side for years and years,". I was thinking about this, and thought about how racism is not something you are just born believing. You are taught it. At this time, and in a good amount cases nowadays people are taught racism. Just keep that in mind.
On page 180, the start of Chapter 14, Atticus told Scout a definition of rape in which he says "rape was carnal knowledge of a female by force and without consent." This was of course about the Tom Robinson trail, in which he was accused of raping a white woman.
I had researched about the Scottsboro Boys trail. It was basically nine black men who were falsely accused of raping two white women. Deputies had actually pressured the women in accusing the men on raping them. To think if the deputies weren't even there, the women might have not even charged the men on raping them. The deputies had pressured the women in doing this, because they knew they could get away with this. Because the men's color of skin is not white but black they knew they could get away with this. PEOPLE'S COLOR OF SKIN SHOULD NOT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. The fact that it does have a say in this, and even years after this, today we still have this issue. In the end of this, eight of the nine men were sentenced to death, while the youngest was sentenced to life imprisonment. What should have happened was that there should have been an actual trial. Where the color of your skin does not mean anything. Where there should be actual evidence of this happening. Of course that did not happen.








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