Bob Ewell is the Worst

In the trial, Tom Robinson, a black man, was tried for raping a white woman, a crime that he did not commit. What truly happened is that a young white woman named Mayella Ewell asked him into her house to have help with something. She then tried to kiss him but he pulled away, and when her father walked in, he beat her and made racist comments to Tom. Though completely innocent, Tom was convicted and Bob was called innocent.
This part in the book has always made me so angry no matter how many times I read it. Mayella Ewell assaulted a man and then lied her way through his trial, and allowed him to be convicted while her father, who is a terrible racist person is left innocent? That's so wrong. I was SO angry with her and her father for lying, discriminating and being so unfair. If they would just tell the truth and not do such terrible things, maybe it would be a better world.
"I've asked this county for fifteen years to clean out that nest down yonder, they're dangerous to live around 'sides devaluin' my property-"
This quote is talking about people and he says "clean out that nest." This quote shows who Bob Ewell really is, and if the justice system in TKAM would have payed attention (like Atticus was) then maybe they would have caught on.
You can see how this connects to current events, and even events from a long time ago, like the Emmett Till case, where a black man committed no crime towards a white woman but faced backlash resulting in murder from the white community. We don't know for sure whether Harper Lee used this purposefully in her writing (the Till case having occurred 5 years prior to the publishing of the book) but either way the court has an unrealistic idea of black men being violent in relation to white women and jumps to extreme conclusions, according to bias or obviously unreliable evidence.
-Zosia