Walking in Someone Elses Shoes

Atticus: Have you guys been reading the in the paper lately about how there is a huge war in Indonesia were between 200,000 and 500,000 people are being killed by vigilantes all to do with racism, discrimination and prejudice between the different communities there. The Amount of genocide that is occurring in so many various countries is unbearable.

Martin Luther: Things need to start changing around here people need to start realizing that the 1 thing we all have in common is that we are all different.

Molly Craig: I think people have to realize that by saying and doing all these thinks to implement racism and prejudice that they are becoming bad humans. Everyone needs to think really hard about what they are saying and doing and in a sense walk in someone else shoes.

Atticus: Molly I agree completely with what you just said then. As I always say to my daughter Scout, “you never really know a man until you stood in his shoes and walked around in them”.

Atticus: and I am sure that us three have all seen different aspects of racism and prejudice, Because I am certain that I have seen quite a bit of racism and segregation and my time.

Martin Luther: Really Atticus? Do you mind shearing with us some of the things you have seen and heard?

Molly: Do you mind Atticus. After you I wouldn’t mind shearing a few stories and situations I have come across in my time as well.

Atticus: I don’t see the problem in that at that.

Martin Luther: Thanks Atticus.

Atticus: Well I used to be a lawyer in Maycomb county Alabama. during the years of the Great Depression. As a widowed father I had to learn to bring up my two children Jem and Scout with great morals and not an ounce of prejudice in them. In 1963 I had chosen to defend a black man by the name of Tom Robinson who at the time had been accused of raping a young white girl. The whole county disapproved of me defending Tom Robinson, all because he was a black man and this clearly showed the large amount of prejudice around.

Martin Luther: I must say you had some mighty courage to go through with that.

Molly: And not to mention determination.

Atticus: My Daughter, Scout, was subjected to the taunting of children from her school calling me a “Nigger - lover”.

Molly: I couldn’t imagine how hard that must have been for your daughter.

Atticus: Well I did always tell her I was fine and that I didn’t need her to stand up for me. But the little one didn’t listen now did she. Ha-ha.Actually one night I had a mob of members from the community coming towards my house in rage with the intent to intent on killing Tom Robinson but my daughter scout put the mob to shame telling the men to view the situation from Tom And I’s points of view.

Molly: Well we can clearly see where you daughter gets her courage from.

Atticus: This got me really angry at the men. Why was it so hard for every race to get along?

Martin Luther: I think is all on the way you were brought up.

Atticus: I agree. Once we got to the court room you could clearly see that segregation was present. White people sat down the on bottom level of the court room where it was physically cooler and black people sat at the top level where it was always hotter. You could just see how divide the whole community was at that moment and how discriminative they all were.

Molly: I don’t understand how and why people had become so discriminative toward the black community.

Martin Luther: it’s hard to believe that only one man was willing to defend an innocent man because no one else would just because he was a black man.

Molly: I can understand where you’re coming from a little Atticus only my story comes from a very different perspective. Not just African people have to fight against prejudice and discrimination, but same too with the indigenous people of Australia just like I. I grew up as a half- caste child living in the outback of Western Australia with my little sister daisy and my cousin Gracie. We were taken away by a Mr. Neville the “protector” of aborigines.

Atticus: Where was he taking you and why. Its sounds like he’s trying to make life better for you.

Molly: Making life better was far from what he did. He was trying to