The Reality of Racism

Throughout our lives, we will all experience racism in some form xr another. We learn racism from society and we see how it affects people as we grow. In the novel, Scout who is a six-year-old child born and raised in 1930’s Maycomb County, Alabama. She grows up in a racist society were “colored people” are discriminated and learns about racism from society. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee the theme of racism is explored and it becomes clear that racism is something we learn from society.
Scout starts to learn more about racism from society when she is talking to Francis. When Scout and her family go to Finch’s landing for Christmas and talks to Francis she learns a segment of what racism is. She realizes the prejudice of being associated with a “Colored person” when Francis says “I guess it ain't your fault that Uncle Atticus is a nigger-lover” (94). Scout feels enraged at Francis when he calls Atticus this because even though she does not know what that word means, she still felt the prejudice of his words and she felt that what Francis called Atticus is not a good thing. From Francis’s words, Scout begins to develop an understanding of what racism is. …show more content…
Dolphus Raymond. When the children are at the trial and Scout ask Jem what a mixed child is she learns another side of racism. Scout learns about racism in a bit of a different form when Jem says “... around here once you have a drop of Negro blood, that makes you all black” (185). From Jem’s words, Scout begins to probe deeper into racism and sees how racist the world actually is and how that even if you're a small part black, you are labeled as a black person. Racism is something that we have no control over from the moment we are born because we have no choice of who we are and our place in the world from the moment we are