Open letter for our book
To anyone who agrees that segregation is wrong, I read the book and I think that opinion was wrong and I want to talk about the issue. I read this book in my English class because my teacher told me to read this book and it was hard for me at the beginning but I got a lot of things form this book. We had the book called “To kill the mockingbird” and I was interested in the part where they talked about racism. After reading that I started to wonder why they separated black and white because we are equal. I think everyone are the same and I don’t really get why they separated everything. For example: restroom, schools, church etc.
This book was talking about how people were separated because of their skin colors, Atticus Frinch is Scout’s dad, that’s because he’s a lawyer who helped black person. At the beginning of the play they told about how Atticus doing, they told us about he helped Tom Robinson, the black man from the white guy that accused him. the white guy named Bob, he try to accuse Tom that he raped his daughter, and everyone trust him and got scared form him because he was black. The lawyer could not help him and he was in the jail, he try to get out the jail and he got shot. when I was reading this I was mad at that time because he did not deserve it. He did not do anything wrong and they not supposed to shot him.
when I was reading the book I felt shocked because in my country never happens this before, but they kind of judge people with the darker skin. I think it not the right way to judge people with their skin because they cannot change their skin color.
I have heard about racism in my history class and I watched the movie called hidden figures. The movie was about 3 colored women. Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan they were African American mathematicians who played an integral part in NASA’s space-race successes. Katherine Johnson one of the women that worked was pushed aside because of her skin color. Even though she was smarter than everyone in her department. At the beginning she was unaccepted by the other people in her department. And that’s not because she was the only woman there but she was also a colored person but none of those things stopped her because she was capability no matter what color she was. She was the only colored person in the office and they separated the bathrooms, there were no colored bathroom in her office so she had to walk out of her office at lunch time to the bathroom and the coffee machine was separated for color and white. And Dorothy Vaughan she was an African-American mathematician who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and Mary Jackson was the first engineer colored female who work at NASA and she had to have the classes in the college but they were not allow her to take the class because she was black and after that she could take the class
In the movie I learned about what was happened before in the past and they made everyone accept them and in the book I got a lot of things, I learned how they separate in the book and it was sad that nothing he can do. And I wanted people that still think that segregation is wrong change their mind.
