The Role Of Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

The United States has had a very eventful past when it comes to racism. Many Americans would say that we have come a long way from our past, and racism does not exist in our country anymore. This is not true. America has come a long way since the beginning, but we still have racism. The author of To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, has a great way of pointing out our issues with racism in the past. She shows the injustice of how blacks were treated in society. Our country isn’t quite like that anymore, but blacks are still very unjustified in American society today. Racism still exists in our country and our racism is still like the racism in the book To Kill A Mockingbird. One example of how racism is like the racism in the book, is the University of Missouri. This college is now well known because of some racial issues at the school. White students were threatening other black students at the school, and many students even left the college because they were frightened. One student, Peyton Head, experienced direct racism his sophomore year. On his way to a party, some other students repeatedly shouted racist slurs at him. Head recalls that this was his first encounter with direct racism. (Summer Ballentine 1). The racism at this school is like the “Jim Crow” segregation laws in To Kill A Mockingbird. There were
In To Kill A Mockingbird and America today, there are many racist comments, especially names. “ You’re daddy’s a nigger lover!” ( Lee 83). “When you're in "Michissippi" you're surrounded primarily by blacks, whites and Arab-Americans so obsessed with racism you think you've been transported to the 'Deep South' of the past.” (Nick White 1). African Americans in To Kill A Mockingbird and America today will tell you of their stories with racist words. All of the blacks in To Kill A Mockingbird would have a story about some racist comment that was shouted at