Art to denounce racism

Artists give us a testimony of inequalities towards colored people that have always existed.

As we see it with the movie 12Angry Men, where an hispanic boy is accused of murdering his father, racism was already and issue back then. In fact, 12 jurors have to decide whether or not he's guilty but 11 of them thinks he is as he is a colored person. It shows us how close-minded, full of prejudices partial, and biased people were.

Moreover, Martin Luther King's iconic speech «I have a dream», is also a testimony of old

injustices. In it, King talks about what blacks went through, his dream of freedom and equality for black people, that they don't have. To convince people he uses figures of speech, such as an epiphore when he repeats the words «together » to make his speech unforgettable. His speech is all the more powerful and important as it was delivered in 1963 (during the Civil Right’s movement against segregation,100 years after slavery has been abolished in 1863, which shows that it did not freed blacks because they still have to protest and fight for their rights).

Besides, Martin Luther King was tragically killed by a white racist in 1968, which proves that his powerful words were not thought-provoking enough to stop American close-minded people . So we see that whether people were black or Hispanic, they were considered less than whites and were systematically discriminated.

Yet, art shows us that those injustices have not gone away and are still relevant today. Indeed, in Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson's autobiography, he denounces the omnipresent racism in the judicial system. In his book, he defends Walter McMillian, an innocent black man, as a black lawyer. He was wrongly accused of murder.