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The oppression has certain similarity with the other impacts of racial prejudice. They are very dangerous for social life, because those are actions
which are done by ignoring humanity in life. People who discriminate and oppress the others usually do in illogically way even in extreme way. They do
not humanize human. Despite minor people are not guilty, but they are always become scapegoat to legitimate discrimination or oppression.
Macionis, 2007: 371 added that they are safe target to be scapegoat in society.
Therefore, the researcher can conclude that racial prejudice leads some impacts in social life. It bores social distance among social groups in
society which has an extreme form, segregation, discrimination that treats everyone depend on differences they have, and oppression which ignore
humanity. There are three impacts of racial prejudice in the novel:
1. Segregation
Racial prejudice can create social distance between majority and minority in society. Majority will not want to get along with people in
minority, because they feel minority is different from them and they are superior in society. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, white people will
get along with another white people, and blacks do too. Blacks and whites in Maycomb County never have a seat together to drink some glasses of tea like
what white people do on Sunday. Blacks and Whites just keep interaction in
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occupation.
2. Discrimination
Racial prejudice also emerges discrimination in society. Schaefer, 2004: 75 argued that discrimination is the denial of opportunities and equal
rights to individuals and groups because of racial prejudice or arbitrary reasons. Furthermore,
racial prejudice can be
the background of discrimination, because prejudgment can stimulate individual or group to
discriminate the others. The government which consists of white people does not give fair treatment to Black people.
3. Oppression
Racial prejudice can make certain people oppress the other people in society. Macionis 2007: 371 argued that prejudice is a tool by major people
to oppress the other people. Oppression can be done in many ways.
D. African-American in Alabama
African-Americans experienced many sad histories in their state. They experienced discriminations, segregations, oppressions, and the other
cases in their social life, because they were supposed as minority in society. Being African-American in Alabama in the 1930s was not easy.
Because in 1930 African-Americans had only been free citizens for sixty-five years. It is because racial discrimination and prejudice were still common in
Alabama. Until 1960s there was a policy of segregation, which meant
