In the past To Kill a Mockingbird has been banned on the basis that it supports white supremacy, but in reality the opposite is true.

The story  is a coming of age tale about Scout, the book’s main character and narrator, growing up in a racially biased fictional Alabamian town. Scout’s story shows her becoming mature and learning how to handle the world, aspects that any young person who reads To Kill a Mockingbird should learn from the book.

The entire story comes from the perspective of a child, Scout, who though she is young can tell that what is happening is wrong.

Scout sees the events unfurling around her and can only perceive it with confusion. Why in the world would these people take an innocent man and lock him away? Her innocence was created to show that even someone as young, and seemingly immature, as Scout could see the system was rigged and needed to be fixed.

The main plot point of the book, which is why it has been banned in the past, is that an innocent African American man is being charged with the rape and assault of a white girl, when it is apparent that the man is not guilty. Plenty of evidence is put up to say the African American man should go free, but the all white jury still puts him jail.

Some believe that this supports white supremacy and it’s understandable how the book’s plot can be twisted and viewed this way.

An all white world put an African American man down with no one challenging their choice to do so. However, this is not supposed to support the ideals of white supremacy, but is actually supposed to mock the disgusting practices of the racist south.

To kill a Mocking bird is a great book, but banning it from the world is as bad as locking an innocent man away.