blog no. 2



"  Calpurnia sighed. "Old Mr.Ewell accused him of rapin' his girl an' had him arrested an' put in jail-"
Tom Robinson was blame him of raping a white girl so he got arrested and everyone found it truth because everyone base on there color. And they blame them for their color for the fault of the Jim Crow Laws in the 1876-1960. Now this case reminds me of case of the Scottsboro trials in the 1931's.
when 9 black mens were arrested for a charge they didn't do.http://jjie.org/our-justice-system-stuck-in-the-past-as-in-scottsboro-boys-case/

mayelle testimony
"I said come here n*****, and bust up this chiffarobe for me, I got a nickel for you. He coulda done it easy enough, he could. So he come in the yard an' I went in the house to get him a nickel and I turned around an' I went in the house to get him a nickel and I turned around an 'fore I knew it he was on me. Just run up behide me, he did. He got me round the neck, cussin' me an' sayin' dirt-I fought n' hollered, but he had me round the neck. He hit me agin an' agin-"

Tom Robinson testimony
"Mr.Finch it wa way last spring. I remember it because it was choppin' time and I had my hoe with me. I said I didn't have nothing" but this hoe, but she said she had a hatchet and I broke up the chiffarobe. She said 'I reckon I'll hafta give you a nickel, won't I? an' I said, 'No ma'ma, there ain't
charge then I went home. Mr.Finch, that was way last spring, way over a year ago."

        "So who's right?" thats my question. First Mayella says Tom Robinson was chopping the chiffarobe on November the 21st the day she was rape but Tom says he chopped the chiffarobe it was last spring, last year. I myself am personally confuse with all this because there are so many lies i can't even tell who is telling the truth.

This case reminds me of the one that happen with this father and daughter http://www.wdrb.com/story/30572449/man-accused-of-raping-murdering-7-year-old-ive-done-nothing-wrong

Blog No.1

"Suppose you and Scout talked colored-folk's talk at home, it'd be out of place wouldn't it?"
In this point of the book, Cal doesn't get the privilege of being the same person no matter where she is, because she has to live a double life to fit in.
This relates to the world around us because people outside your race characterize you due to how other people the same race as you, carry themselves. People also like criticize and label how certain races are supposed to speak and act. Therefore creates a lot of epectancies and boundaries for different races. For example, some African Americans say that white people do not have the right to curse, or even say the "N" word. Also, some Caucasians think that African Americans do not use correct grammar when they speak.

Courtly Racism: Part Two

"Jem seemed to be having a quiet fit. He was pounding the rail softly, and once he whispered, "We've got him." 

I didn't think so: Atticus was trying to show, it seemed to me,that Mr. Ewell could have beaten up  Mayella. That much I could follow. If her right eye was blacked and she was beaten mostly on the right side of her face, it would tend to show that a left-handed person did it."

In this excerpt from the book, Mr. Ewell  had just testified. Saying that he agreed with the injuries the sheriff described, he signed a piece of paper at Atticus' request, with his left hand. Later, when TR was told to stand up, everybody could see that his left arm was crippled, proving that he couldn't have beaten the right side of Mayella's face. And while that was the best evidence against the thesis that TR was guilty, it still pretty much proves he was innocent. Which is why it takes skill for the jury to convict him like they did.

Of course, not all stories have a happy ending. Tom should have been let free, and if the court deemed it necessary, there should have also been a trial for BE for allegedly beating his own daughter. However Tom sadly became a victim of a crime he never committed, which was wrong because it shows that members of our own society still can't get a fair trial, all because of their skin color, which is a pretty stupid reason to be wrongly convicted.

In some ways, this was similar to the part of TKAM where Dill, Scout, and Jem tried to look into the Radley household by going through the back yard and looking through the back window, and almost got shot.. However, in this case, it was a relatively harmless crime, while the courtroom case was huge. Also, in both cases, the true culprit got away with the crime, while someone else took the blame, whether they wanted to or not. Both crimes also had hard evidence to show who really did it, although one was acknowledged more in the TR case. In the spying case, Jem lost his pants on the fence, and everyone believed his cover story for it, that he was playing strip poker. Mr. Radley had said that he saw a Negro running off his property. So in both cases, the blame fell to an innocent black man.

Trial of Rascism

   The recent chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird have been about the trial for Tom Robinson. As you may know Tom Robinson is being (falsely) accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Atticus is representing him and does a very good job of making it clear that it was not Tom Robinson. Instead it was Bob Ewell who beat Mayella, after she tried to kiss Tom Robinson. Multiple clues to this were released such as when Atticus asks Mayella if she loves her father. "Love him, whatcha mean?'
"I mean, is he good to you, is he easy to get along with?"
" He's does tolerable, 'cept when-"
As she ends on this line and nervously corrects herself it becomes clear to me that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Which makes it even more infuriating when Tom Robinson is found guilty. Simply because they would rather trust a White Man's words, not matter how ignorant, wrong, discriminatory it is.
  Obi Wan Kenobi Meme - Imgflip

Yet it is no different than things that happen today in society especially with police brutality.
Trayvon Martin Shooting Fast Facts - CNN.com When will this change? I for one am tired of the events I see in the book and in today's society.

"The sheriff hadn't the heart to put him  in jail alongside negroes, so Boo was locked in the the courthouse basement." On page 14 Scout is explaining the story of Boo Radley. Boo Radley was sitting in the living room cutting some items, his father entered the room as Mr.Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his father's pants leg but nobody actually knows if Boo ever did that to his father,  there's only rumors the only thing that is true in this whole situation is that Boo was arrested right after.

Move on.

Scout," said Atticus, "nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don't mean anything—like snot-nose. It's hard to explain—ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody's favoring Negroes over and above themselves. It's slipped into usage with some people like ourselves, when they want a common, ugly term to label somebody."

"You aren't really a nigger-lover, then, are you?"

"I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody... I'm hard put, sometimes—baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you." (107-109)

In this section Scout and Jem were together playing around near Mrs.Dubose house when Jem had messed up her Camille for insulting Atticus by calling him a n***** lover. What Jem did was resonable but was not right. He could've just turned around and went back home ignoring Mrs.Dubose, there for being the bigger person. Something that I think that some people can relate to is that when people outside of your race try and put you in a box and assume you're all the same. But in reality no one is the same, even tho you may be the same race doesn't mean you act the same. And so when you're acting"different"from what a percentage of how people are acting in your race people start to say things like you act like this race and that race, you should act more like your own race. By saying that you're disapproving of the way someone naturally is. Causing people to say oh well he likes this race more than his own. Which isn't true for me atleast. I belive everyone is the same racially but its who we are culturally that makes us stand out from others.