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Have you ever killed a mockingbird?
"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up other people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" (Lee 94). Man believing in his superiority over other beings can easily defend killing a mockingbird as a just act. Hence, a mockingbird can be equated with an innocent person. White people then would always think that they are greater over the other races. Without much effort, they would constantly utilize this to rationalize the bigotry transpiring in their society.
With this, the term paper will focus on how racial discrimination took place during the Great Depression in the 1930's. Comparison of the mockingbird with an innocent person would aid the researchers in establishing points and completing this paper. Discrimination existed in the past, and is rapidly increasing in the present. This consequently leads......

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