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Examples Of Racism In The Heat Of The Night

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In the Heat Of the Night
Throughout the movie racial tensions are high, the attitude of whites in Mississippi towards African Americans.
The movie follows Virgil Tibbs a black detective who is hired for a murder investigation in a town in Mississippi. Gillespie is the new chief in town who leads the investigation.
Tibbs is arrested in the train station as a suspect for murder. Gillespie does not know by that time that Tibbs is the homicide detective. Gillespie is embarrassed when he gets to know that Tibbs assigned to assist him in the investigacion. The viewer gets to follow the changing relationship between Virgil Tibbs and Gillespie.

There are some notably scenes in the movie where Gillespie starts to realize that he is doing wrong by …show more content…

There are a couple of clear examples of racism in the novel.
Lula shows racism towards Jem and Scout when they visit Calpurnia's church. The Jury at Tom Robinson's trial shows racism because all of the evidence in the case proves Tom's innocence.
Tom is not given a fair trial because he is a black man and the jury is made up completely of white men. Tom Robinson gets charged for the Rape of Mayella.
Bob Ewells words are given more importance because he is a white man, racism can be seen very clear in this particular period of time.

Unfortunately racism is still taking place all over the world, specifically in America.
In the last couple of years a numerous black men have been shot by the police. One of the men that was shot on 9th August 2014 was Michael Brown a African American. Michael stole some cigarettes with a fellow and walked away from the market. Officers were called to the place, they started driving around in the area with the description of the suspect. Was Michael was seen by the officer he was walking on the sidewalk with his friend. He shouts and tells the men to stop, he fires at Michael through the car window, Micheal turned around raised his arms in air according to a witness and was shot multiple times till he fell to the ground. Michael was unarmed and did not cause any threat. The St Louis jury gave their verdict on the 24th November 2014, Officer Wilson was not charged for the

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