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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Law one

"If you had been on that jury, son, and eleven other boys like you, Tom would be a free man,' said Atticus. 'So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, Tom’s jury, but you saw something come between them and reason. You saw the same thing that night in front of the jail. When that crew went away, they didn’t go as reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.'"  


            As we read in the book By Harper lee How to kill a mocking bird we See a trail which has a large connection in real life where an unjust jury and court system. In real life the american justice system to prosecute black African Americans specifically men. Famous trails being Emmett till who two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river, James byrd who had his neck tied to a rope and on the other end of the rope was a Chevrolet pick up truck where he was dragged until his head was ripped off.
  
         Anyways the point is that black men have always gottenthe shot end of the stick and will continue to for a long long time.


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