Black Population In To Kill A Mockingbird Essay

• The ladies (excluding Miss Maudie) view Maycomb’s black population with disdain, believing that they, as whites, are superior. o “We can educate ’em till we’re blue in the face, we can try till we drop to make Christians out of ’em, but here’s no lady safe in her bed these nights” (311).
 Mrs. Farrow is an example on how most of the white population of Maycomb will not trust a black person, thinking that even if a black person seems to be educated and a good Christian, they will never truly be, as they are black, and will always be a threat to safety of the white folk. o “If we just let them know we forgive ’em, that we’ve forgotten it, then this whole thing’ll blow over” (310).
 This comment is extremely insensitive and rude. Even though Helen’s husband just got convicted of a crime that he did not commit, Mrs. Merriweather believes that this great injustice to be unimportant and that since the white population “forgives” the black population for Tom’s “crimes,” the members of Maycomb’s black population should just forget about what happened and
She complains about how “a sulky darky . . . [j]ust ruins your day” (310). Not only is referring to Sophy as a “darky,” instead of by her name, extremely rude and disrespectful, but Miss Merriweather, despite her claiming to be a “good Christian” and being concerned about the wellbeing of everyone (like the Mrunas, an African tribe that J. Grimes Everett wants to convert to Christianity), doesn’t even try to understand why Sophy, and the other members of Maycomb’s black community is upset over the outcome of Tom Robinson’s case (it was unfair and the ruling was tainted by prejudice and racism). Instead, Miss Merriweather uses this as an opportunity to pontificate about how a “Jesus Christ never went around grumbling and complaining” (310), which is hypocritical of her, as she herself is complaining about Sophy’s