How to Kill a Mokinbird
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For many years African Americans have been blamed for things that they did not really do. In the book to kill a mockingbird written by Harper lee in the 1960`s and an extract from the introduction from native son by Richard Wright in the 1940`s, both talk about racisms and the corrupt justice system.
A back man accused of rape by a white man stood no chance in court. In the book to kill a mockingbird tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of raping mayella a white women. When Harper lee describes what was said on the court room it is obvious to every one that Tom Robinson did not rape Mayella. Mayella was hit during the `attack` she had a black eye on her right eye, which means the man that hit her would have to be left handed. Tom Robinson is a cripple whose left arm is short and its impossible for to hit her on her right eye. Its not possible because tom Robinson is black living in raciest times, guilty or not he is going to be punished and sent to jail just because the jury is not going to side with a black man.
A black man grilled, beaten, threatened by police for a confession. Yes, of coarse, he is going to confess just to make the police stop. In an extract from the introduction to native sun by Richard Wright, many crimes have been going on and the citizens of the town are scared. The police are looking for someone to blame to make the towns people happy. They pick up a black boy, who is considered homeless. After torturing him for days on end, they bribe him to sign a confession using the not receiving death penalty as the plea. The boy figures, he is black, he has no chance in front of a jury to be found innocent, so he signs the confession, but he still is executed. An innocent life taken because of peoples ignorance.
These two books correspond with one another even though to kill a mockingbird was published almost 20 years later. Black men blamed for crimes they did not commit because of racism. The people in both cases new for a fact that they werent guilty but the people did not side with black people or they were look at and treated different, yet this was American justice.