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What is happening with all of you? Can't you see that an inocent man is being convicted because of his skin color? Are you all too stuck-up to notice that he couldn't have done anything? Everything really points to the victim's father. There shouldn't be such a detachement between "whites" and "colored" folks. We're all people and none of us should be limited by our skin color. Mr. Ewell is a drunk man. He is known as a man who breaks the law and has never worked. Who are you to trust him? Mr. Robinson is an honorable, kind, hard-working Negroe that everyone should respect. Have you no heart? If we convict this poor man, his lawful, happy wife will become his widow and the sole care-taker for his band of well-behave children. What an abomination! The trial will take place tomorrow and I ask the people of the jury to use their heads. Atticus has no chance of winning: only yesterday, a band of evil men came to take away Tom Robinson. I was there the whole time, a gun pointed at them until three people made their heroic appearence and fought the oppressive attackers who finally had to run away. Some of those people are most-likely going to be on the jury. I was just talking to our great lawyer, Atticus Finch. He seems to think the exact same thing as me: I think we have all been created to be equal, not different. I think it is unfair to treat our brothers the way we have treated them these past few years. Just thinking about the trial makes me angry. This one mistake committed by a white person has been blamed on a Negro. Why? Because of his color. It is always the Negroes' fault. But if we just turn off the light, nobody can tell if you are a Negro or a white person. I think everyone should try it sometimes. Or just to put yourself in their shoes, and walk around in them. That is how and why I took the case. Because if I wouldn't have, nobody would. Just think if Mayella Ewell was a Negro. What would happenen? She would have been blamed. If we don't stop this now, we never will." |
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