Saturday, June 9, 2012
The Personal Side of Prejudice and Bias
The instance that I chose to use comes from the movie and novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" written by Harper Lee. In the story, a back man is accused of raping a white woman who was actually beaten by her father. The woman blames the black man because during that time, a black man and a white woman were not to have any sort of relationship according to society. The equity was diminished when the black man was wrongly accused of raping a white girl, but because of the view of society at the time, he was found guilty. This incident made me feel ashamed to be a part of such a judgmental race of people. In order for this case to see equity, the court would have to have heard the case and looked past the color of the skin of the defendant and instead at the evidence in the case.
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Jamie,
ReplyDeleteHave you read the book "The Help"? In some ways I would compare it to "To Kill a Mocking Bird". I have read about half or it but cannot get through the rest of it. I know it is suppose to
be an acclaimed good book but the racial incidents really tears at my heart I have a hard time reading it.
I think in many ways that what is even more appalling is to realize that this is still happening even with all of the education that we have surrounding prejudice and bias and we have to create not just awareness but we have to incite action to change it.
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