Racism made Tom Robinson look evil even though he was not. Racism cost Tom Robinson his life. The people on the jury, their families or someone was told that colored people are terrible and they shouldn’t even be considered human. All the white folks who believed Tom was guilty were evil because they had been taught, learned that way. They did what was passed down to them. But there were some people/ kids who had no idea what racism even was because they were taught nicely. Jem, Scout, and Dil were taught everyone is equal and we shouldn’t say someone is not equal to us just because of their race, color believes etc. They had never experienced racism before and when they finally did they were shocked. When the case was progressing and when Mr.Gilmer talked to Tom Robinson in an inappropriate way he couldn’t handle it and was taken outside by Scout where he stated, “It was the way he said it made me sick, plain sick”(Lee 266).This shows how innocent and pure-hearted he was and if there was any evil inside of him he wouldn’t have reacted that way. He technically stood up for what was wrong but since he is a kid his opinion didn’t really matter at