Essay4 Harter

One of the social issues that keeps coming to my attention in The Green Mile is racism. Had John Coffey not been a black man would he have received a fair trial and not ended up being put to death for a crime he did not commit? Does that still happen today? How many of the inmates on deaht row that belong to a minority may not have ended up there had life been more fair (or less racist) to minorities? Did their life experiences drive them to commit the crimes that put them where they are today?