Similarities and differences between Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam?

Emmett Till was a real person and Tom Robinson is a character in fiction, although both of their cases are representative of the difficulty of black people in the south (and don't think the northern courts and juries were free of the same prejudices) getting fair trials in the post-Civil War era on up to the middle of the twentieth century. Both cases play into the obsession of many white males in both sections of the country that no white woman was safe from a black male over the age of puberty.. Till was a teenager who had not been raised in the south, and probably had no idea that whistling at a white woman (if indeed he did whistle at her--he could have been just whistling to an acquaintance across the street) could have serious consequences. Even if he had indeed whistled at her, it could have been meant as a compliment, which is often how many northern women took it up until the advent of the feminist movement in the last third of the twentieth century (having grown up in the north myself, the understanding in the particular place where I lived was that a woman might smile to herself about it but not acknowledge the whistler unless she knew him already).

The motive could have been entirely innocent on the part of Emmett Till, and probably was. What followed is reflective of the paranoia of many white men at the time. If you let a black man "get away with" such things, then no white woman was safe; a "real man" had to protect his wife, his mother and his daughters from wholesale ravishment by the "uncivilized" black hordes.

So, in order to "teach this boy a lesson," a crowd beat him to death. In the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is accused of beating and raping a young white woman and is convicted of doing so, despite the fact that his defense attorney showed that Tom had come into the house by invitation of the young woman and, because of a childhood accident could not possibly have inflicted the bruises that were noted on the victim at the time the alleged rape was reported. The length of the jury deliberation gave some hope that Tom might be acquitted, but he was convicted in spite of it.

His lawyer was even hopeful of the conviction being overturned on appeal. Tom Robinson got at least the appearance of a fair trial; Emmett Till was denied this. Emmett Till was a visitor who had grown up in a different place with different viewpoints on whistling and probably had no idea he was violating a local taboo.

Tom Robinson was a hardworking black man with a good reputation among both his own community and the larger white community (better than that of the father of the alleged victim), yet when the accusation of rape was levelled he was no longer the upstanding man the white community had always thought him to be. Rather, he automatically became "just anothe n***** who wanted to rape a white woman." In both cases, long-held prejudices overcame the ideas of innocent until proven guilty and played into the paranoia that believed that no white woman was safe from a black man.

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