To Kill A Mockingbird Racism

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At the time To Kill a Mockingbird was written racism was still apparent. This book was written in the 1960’s almost a hundred years after slavery was abolished in the United States. The time period in the plot of the book was during the Great Depression, around 1933-1935, this was roughly seventy years after the Civil War. Throughout the entirety of the book the author, Harper Lee places slavery into the plot of the book, many phrases and actions shoe the racism and it makes the audience wonder if the modern world still experiences this racism we all fear.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a well known book. The setting is in a small county called Maycomb, down in Alabama. To summarize, the book is told from a young girl named Scout’s perspective of her town and the trial of a black man convicted of raping a white women. Today a
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Although everyday culture has now put out the minority, majority. This means that if a person was female, race, or of a certain religion they would be considered the minority. In recent events involving United Airlines, a passenger was brutally taken off the plane when he did not give up his seat. The passenger happened to be Asian and the media took this incident as a form of racial backlash. “United Airlines... CEO Oscar Munoz offered an apology Tuesday afternoon... amid a spiraling PR nightmare that saw Chinese social media users accuse the airline of racism… A video of Chicago police dragging an elderly man off a flight headed to Louisville on Sunday was the top trending item on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo... with some users saying the man was discriminated against for being Asian and others calling for a boycott of the airline" (Rich). Many more examples from modern day can be shown but this also shows how the media plays a huge role in the racism. The incident was probably not a form of discrimination but the masses believe a juicy