Sharon Dang
Stevenson
Honors English I
11 October 2011
Racism
“Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.” –Walter Lang. Racism is treating others differently based on the color of their skin and ethnicity. Not many people realize that racism still exists in our country. Even though we have fought for the freedom of slaves and against the prejudice of black people, racism still lives. Harper Lee shows an aspect of racism through the outcome of Tom Robinson’s case, the prejudice of the townspeople, and the Finches’ neighbors. “In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life” (Lee 295). The outcome of Tom Robinson’s case shows that the jury is guilty of racism. Even if the evidence is clearly at fault with Bob Ewell, and most would say the Ewells’ are guilty, Robinson was the one taking the blame. Robinson was only trying to help Mayella Ewell and she seduced him. She wasn’t beaten by Tom, she was beaten by her own drunken father. The Ewells’ lied to the jury and yet they got away with it because of their skin color. The townspeople are also guilty of being prejudice. When Calpurnia take the children to church, she was scolded by Lula, a black lady not satisfied with the sight of white children in her church. She said, “You ain’t got no business bringing white chillun here-they got their church and we got our’n. It is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal?” (Lee 158). The children’s father, Atticus, was on a business trip for the Robinson trial; therefore they had to result in going to church with Calpurnia. Just because they were white, Lula wasn’t happy with the fact that they were there to practice the same religion under the same God. Blacks had separate churches than the whites and according to Lula, it should stay that way. Another way of