Questions on Black Boy

... Raffles Institution I-Learning 2005 Secondary 2 GE English To Kill a Mockingbird Task 1 Questions on Black Boy: 1. Why did the whites feel blatantly superior to the Blacks from the 1920s to the 1960s in USA? [6 marks] The whites, through their upbringing and societal influence, stereotyped and believed that all Blacks were "bad", meaning that the Blacks engaged in corrupt practices, such as stealing and rape. Generally, they thought that Blacks were inferior in many ways, including intellectually and ethically. This slowly developed into the Whites making use of this stereotype to frame the Blacks. An example would be the Scottsboro Trial, which was similar to the trial of Tom Robinson in "To Kill a Mockingbird", in which Black was accused of rape in order to cover up a White's "crime", and the Black was in the end convicted. From this stereotype, the idea of "pure blood" arose. The Whites believed that by having interracial relationships

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