Discrimination has been an issue in the past and is still a predicament. It is said that 27% of African Americans have been denied a job that they are qualified for (“Racial …show more content…
The book To Kill a Mockingbird has a great resemblance to this when Tom is shot because he ran off due to the fact that he was falsely accused of raping women. He was just scared and because of his fright he is dead, an unarmed black man is dead. Someone from the real world that has died innocently was a man named Donnell Thompson. The 27-year-old man was sleeping in the yard of a stranger's house. A carjacker was on the loose so police went out to investigate and thought that Donnell Thompson did it because he looked the same as the description that was told, a black man. Thompson got shot because the cops thought he was going to hurt him. Later on they discovered that they got the wrong man. There are so many other cases similar to this one that shows black men, especially, are targeted without a