Racial Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird

“Injustice everywhere, is a threat to justice anywhere.” –Martin Luther King. When reading this quote what comes to your mind? It tells an obvious point which many people fail to recognize. When injustice is done to one person, another has to consider what would it take for him, or her to have the same injustice happen to them. People may say that injustice towards someone is a shame, but they don’t generally ponder on the possibility that it could happen to them at any given time. We see racial injustice happening frequently in courts. A man might get convicted of something he is not guilty for just because of his race, which is very unjust and inhumane. We see many ways of injustice in our world, like economic injustice, but one of the main examples of injustice is political and racial, especially in court rulings.
One form of racial injustice in court was portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird. Tom Robinson, a colored man, was convicted of raping and beating a white woman without any evidence besides some lousy witnesses. As said by Atticus in the book, “But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing…” (Harper Lee 47). Without a doubt this is totally correct. We