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Examples Of Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

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One of the many, many themes in To Kill a Mockingbird is Race. Imagine a world where everyone with blue or green eyes could boss and push everyone with brown eyes around. Everyone with the blue eyes got the better education, better clothes, better housing. Rasism was one of the major topics in the novel, and the following paragraphs will further explain and go into detail.
A man in the novel, Mr. Raymond, Prefers People of color rather than white people simpily because of how they act. He also pretends to be drunk so white people wont talk to him. Mr. Raymond is refered to as an outcast. As someone that the children should avoid simpily because he is in a relationship with a colored women. He is a white man, but because of whom he loves he

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