An Innocent Man Convicted:Now That's a Sin!
By: Link Deas August 28, 1935
All of Maycomb watched the big trial of summer 1935. Atticus Finch laid out the case to you all and the facts all prove that Tom Robinson is innocent.
Why the color of your skin ever mattered to anyone is beyond me. A physical trait has no effect on someone’s personality and morals as is proven by that dirty Bob Ewell! He abuses his own daughter...what kind of a man does that to his child? And he calls himself a “self-respectin’ member o’ the Maycomb community”. In reality his morals make him way lower class than Tom Robinson, or any Negroe for that matter. Now Tom, a man whose soul is purer than any white man’s skin, has a missing left hand and could not have possibly hit Mayella Ewell. He was PHYSICALLY incapable of committing such a crime. In a cotton gin accident, Tom had his left arm half chopped off. The only other trouble that he has gotten into is small fight with another worker that wasn’t even his fault. We all have some black marks in our book and skeletons in our closet, but does the color of your skin decide if they have to be exposed to the world and criticized? There is something wrong with anyone who ignores their common sense and writes a death sentence for another man. Everyone should gain some sense and start listening to the Finches. Scout Finch, though only a child shows some more sense than all of you combined! The insight that child has is worth something more than to be ignored because of her age and gender for that matter. She once said that there is only one kind of folks:folks. And that is absolutely true. We all live in the same town, in the same country, on the same planet and yet you are putting this innocent man to death. Atticus Finch has said that the court is the great equalizer. It is where all that counts is the truth and that is true only if you follow the system. The innocent and the guilty are determined but there is fault which is proved in the Tom Robinson case. You all have done the justice system shame! And don’t worry, I am not just picking on the people of Maycomb. This corruption is going on all around the world. Think about Hitler in Germany. He is blaming the Jews for everything and we look down on him, but we do not realize that we are doing the same thing to the Negroes. The Great Depression is not only sad because of the job deficiency and the poor families, but also because we are killing our own kind. |
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