10 SSO (Second Sound-Off)

Today, I brought in this poster to show my fellow classmates the relation to our story we are reading, to kill a mockingbird. The relation to the story is that the simple discrimination in the story still stands today, showing that prejudice is still alive today. For example, we were discussing the fact of the all-white jury prosecuting Tom Robinson, a African-American on trial for the rape of a white woman. We discussed that in today's society, if a black man were to wear all blue, and same for a white man, 70% of the time the black man would be more likely to be attached to a gang over the white man. It is this that attaches to this photo, in which if you can see it or possibly look it up on the net, has somewhat prejudice(I'll stop short of saying Marvel is racist) and has only 8 black heroes compared to over 132 white characters. If you do the math that's nearly a 16:1 ratio(16 white characters to 1 black character) which is very strange.......in a polite manner....however this also points out to the book which had it been a white man who was accused of raping a black woman, all eyes would have been turned without a doubt. http://www.worldimages.com/KidsRoom_Boys_Superheroes.php for a closer picture to investigate for yourself