How Does Lee Use Racial Discrimination In To Kill A Mockingbird

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the theme is that you shouldn’t discriminate anyone. One of the three who were discriminated in this book were the african-americans, the african-americans were the group of people who accumulated copious quantities of discrimination and presumably the worst out of the three. “There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads, they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s word, the white always wins. They’re ugly, but these are the facts of life.(252).” Lee was trying to rationalize that when a white man and a black man had a complication, the white man would always win no matter what had truly happened. Furthermore about discrimination there is age discrimination, while Atticus is very capable and unyielding, his abilities as a man are often judged utterly based off of his age.
Lastly, in Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, there is gender discrimination. For example, “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them…(Lee 119).” This is only one of the many gender discriminating quotes found in To Kill a Mockingbird. Many women in this book are unjustly and inequitably judged solely because of the fact that they are a woman. This has everything to do with discrimination because they are judged before anyone really gets to know them.