To Kill A Mockingbird And Social Inequality
After being arrested, African-Americans are 33% more likely than whites to be detained while facing a felony trial in New York. This essay is not intended to review the entire history of the social-economic equality in this country. Rather it will be an overview of the progression of this inequality. America will never achieve true racial or social equality.
The reason this issue still exists or is accelerating is because it does not happen to the non-minority. If we do not experience it, it’s hard for us to acknowledge. Currently, black men are arrested at a rate of 33 murders for every hundred thousand black men. Compared to 4.7 for every hundred thousand whites. In 1960, white men were jailed at a rate of 262 per one hundred thousand, while black men were jailed at a rate of 1,313. This is more than five times the white population. On the topic of racism in courts and not knowing because we haven’t experienced it, as said by Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird “Do all lawyers defend n-Negros, Atticus?” This is an example of Scout not knowing the full thing because she has not experienced it herself. (Lee 20)
After being arrested, 80 percent of the people in this category are assigned a public defender. These …show more content…
Reasons are that it’s easy to judge on something we see, even though because we haven’t experienced it, we don’t fully understand. Another reason is that the poor are unable to hire a good attorney and are forced with the over worked public defender. Lastly, the fact that the expectations of young blacks are to be treated unfairly when arrested because of all this racial profiling. The United States has a higher rate of incarceration than any other country in the world. This system is broken! Continuing with a deeply racist system is not making any of us safer. We need to rouse people to be interested in justice and safety. Joining together and working toward a solution is the best answer for the people
The reason this issue still exists or is accelerating is because it does not happen to the non-minority. If we do not experience it, it’s hard for us to acknowledge. Currently, black men are arrested at a rate of 33 murders for every hundred thousand black men. Compared to 4.7 for every hundred thousand whites. In 1960, white men were jailed at a rate of 262 per one hundred thousand, while black men were jailed at a rate of 1,313. This is more than five times the white population. On the topic of racism in courts and not knowing because we haven’t experienced it, as said by Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird “Do all lawyers defend n-Negros, Atticus?” This is an example of Scout not knowing the full thing because she has not experienced it herself. (Lee 20)
After being arrested, 80 percent of the people in this category are assigned a public defender. These …show more content…
Reasons are that it’s easy to judge on something we see, even though because we haven’t experienced it, we don’t fully understand. Another reason is that the poor are unable to hire a good attorney and are forced with the over worked public defender. Lastly, the fact that the expectations of young blacks are to be treated unfairly when arrested because of all this racial profiling. The United States has a higher rate of incarceration than any other country in the world. This system is broken! Continuing with a deeply racist system is not making any of us safer. We need to rouse people to be interested in justice and safety. Joining together and working toward a solution is the best answer for the people