The news that relate to TKAM

My motif about income inequality is a big issue in the Durham community than it is in To kill a mockingbird. There is something happening in the Durham community that is violating human rights, and its making downtown housing affordable: gentrification

Many people in the durham community are being placed out of their homes and the neighborhoods due to economic issues and race relation. That is what Duke is saying right now.

Melissa Norton, an affordable housing advocate said, "Gentrification is a social justice issue and its not synonymous with neighborhood revitalizaton."

The way I can relate to this in to kill a mockingbird is Bob Ewell, he is very poor and has no source of education in him. He drinks, smokes, and has no money. Also Walter Cunningham Jr is poor because he has no money to buy school lunch for himself. They were involved in the GREAT DEPRESSION, an economic failure in the 1930's. Plus Bob Ewell will have a greater chance of loosing his house. Rob Kirk, the director of the Duke Human Rights Center at FHI said, "Malcolm X saw gentrification as a human rights violation when people were getting priced out of their houses and neighborhoods."

Because of Bob's lack of knowledge and doing other bad stuff, he is going to be placed out of the neighborhood. That is how the news and my to kill a mockingbird motifs shares a connection.

Gentrification and Human Rights in Durham | Duke Today