Racial Bias in the Courtroom Individual by Brandon Bae https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv By Brandon 9D en-us 2018-08-15 05:21:43 UTC 2025-12-22 06:50:15 UTC hello@padlet.com Book gbae22 https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv/wish/273993611 Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York, Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 2000.]]> 2018-08-20 07:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv/wish/273993611 Black people giving their seats to Scout, Jem and Dill pg. 138 gbae22 https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv/wish/274488265 pg. 138:
"There, we went up a covered staircase and waited at the door. Reverend Sykes came puffing behind us, and steered us gently through the black people in the balcony. Four Negroes rose and gave us their front-row seats."

In chapter 16, people from all over Maycomb come to the courthouse to watch the trial of Tom Robinson. Jem, Dill and Scout enter the courthouse late so they see white people getting in the court and enters the courthouse with black people. With Reverend Sykes' help, the kids get up to the black people's balcony and as they enter, some black people in the front row gives their seats to Jem, Scout and Dill.

This shows how impactful racism was in Maycomb. White privilege was normal in the town and black people asked to the fact that black people were inferior. The behavior of black and white people changed as black people were less important at that time period.

]]> 2018-08-22 04:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv/wish/274488265 Question gbae22 https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv/wish/274488846 How does racism affect people's behavior in the courtroom?]]> 2018-08-22 05:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv/wish/274488846 Thesis gbae22 https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv/wish/274490205 Although casual racism shown in Tom Robinson's trial may seem like a thing of the past but racism still lingers in the modern courtrooms.]]> 2018-08-22 05:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv/wish/274490205 White people entering the courtroom first and then the black people entering pg. 136 & 137 gbae22 https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv/wish/274491541 pg. 136:
"Children came to mothers, babies were cradled on hips as men in sweat-stained hats collected their families and herded them through the courthouse doors. In the far corner of the square the Negroes and Mr. Dolphus Raymond stood up and dusted their breeches. There were few women and childen among them, which seemed to dispel the holiday mood. They waited patiently at the doors behind the white families."

pg. 137:
"The Negroes, having waited for the white people to go upstairs, began to come in."

This passage in the 16th chapter of the book shows how the priority of white people was prominent and somewhat common in Maycomb at the time. Scout expresses how black people in the entrance of the court was patient and waited for the white families to enter the courtroom first. This shows how the people of Maycomb are used to the racism as the black people don't even complain once and just accept the fact that racism was a daily thing in the area. ]]> 2018-08-22 05:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv/wish/274491541 Biased, Racist Opinion from a Juror gbae22 https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv/wish/274810075 "In 1998, lawyers seeking to appeal Tharpe’s 1991 conviction interviewed a juror in Tharpe’s case named Barney Gattie. In their discussion, which the attorneys documented in an affidavit that he confirmed and initialed (though later contested), Gattie claimed there is a difference between “good black folks” like the victim’s family and “niggers,” and says that he voted for the death penalty because he considered Tharpe the latter. He talked about kicking “niggers” who “act up” out of the store he owned in the same small town where the crime happened. He randomly chimed in on the O.J. Simpson case, contending that the 'white woman… wouldn’t have been killed if she hadn’t have married that black man.'"

This TIME article shows the words of a racist juror against a black defendant. The juror called the black man with the N-word and voted for death penalty because of his skin color. The juror said he kicked out black people out of his store because of their race. He also mentioned that O.J. Simpson case would not have happened with the white women married Simpson. This relates to how a poor, kind, black man, Tom Robinson was accused for raping Mayella Ewell. Tom Robinson felt bad for Mayella for taking care of her siblings and her father so he helped her with some household chores but he got framed just because he was black. His trial was completely on his side and even the reasonings seemed to tell that Tom Robinson was innocent but the biased jurors accused him for rape and he got sentenced to jail.

Claiborne, Shane. "A Black Man Convicted By a Racist Juror Is About to Be Executed." TIME, TIME, 21 Sep. 2017, amp.timeinc.net/time/4949761/keith-tharpe-death-penalty-supreme-court. Accessed 23 August 2018.

]]> 2018-08-23 09:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv/wish/274810075 Man Guilty for being Hispanic -Brandon gbae22 https://padlet.com/gbae22/lw9n1h4rw4yv/wish/275034418 "The justices threw out a Colorado state court decision that upheld the conviction of Miguel Pena Rodriguez, who was accused of sexually groping two teenage sisters in a bathroom in 2007 at a race track where he worked and was convicted on three misdemeanor counts. Pena Rodriguez can now seek a retrial."

"A juror in his trial said during deliberations that Pena Rodriguez, a Mexican-born lawful permanent U.S. resident, “did it because he’s Mexican, and Mexican men take whatever they want.”

I used this passage because a Hispanic man was biased and accused of sexual assault just because he was Mexican. The racist juror even said that he assaulted the women just because he was Hispanic and the juror said Mexicans do whatever they want to.     This relates to Tom Robinson's trial as most of the jurors at the time were racist and accused Tom of rape even though he was innocent.

Hurley, Lawrence. "U.S. top court backs Hispanic man over juror's racist comments." Reuters, Reuters, 6 Mar. 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-race/u-s-top-court-backs-hispanic-man-over-jurors-racist-comments-idUSKBN16D1TJ. Accessed 22 August 2018.
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