Don’t I think Bob knows Tom is innocent? Yes, I do think so, but would he be “shallow” enough to admit a black man is superior to him? No, he wouldn’t. Knowing Bob’s morals, he would have fought against Tom even if tom was a white. He’s just scum I think, and as scum, Bob wants people …show more content…
Had he been a white man, maybe it would just be left at what if was, just a kiss. Bob would have been angry, yes, but could the Ewells have had the guts to take Tom to court over a kiss and anger? No, because they would have been smart enough to know they would find him innocent, a “white dove”.
They knew he was innocent, yet they saw him as an easy target because he was black. When would a black man be found innocent? In a case as strong and serious as rape, they could make all evidence be pointed towards him, before this evidence is carefully analyzed by my father.
My father looked at all the information carefully and brought up very true points! I know this, I do! He said we can’t give up even if we know we will lose, but would we have found ourselves in court in the first place trying to prove Tom’s innocence if he had been white? I don’t think it would have been necessary, but my father is a fighter and I know he had hope we would prove Tom’s side of the story to be true, but I think in the back of his head he knew people’s blindness to see a person for anything other than their skin would stop him from wining the