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Calpurnia Equal Ignorance

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In chapter 12 when Calpurnia was stopped for bringing white children into the church, suggesting that there is equal ignorance and racism from blacks to white as there is whites to blacks. Rather they are only stopped by one women making me assume the other blacks in town are more civilized and non-racist towards the whites and choose to conform to their norm. Since Lula is the only one to stand against the white children entering their church this suggest that she is ignorant and rude toward the Finches, since it was her way of getting revenge for all the racism that she had received by other

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