Max's Speech

In Book 3 after Bigger is caught and the court wants him to confess, Jan has brought Max, a lawyer who will help work on Bigger's case for free. Jan might as well help Bigger because the communists are also tied into the situation. In court Max delivers a very important speech, he gives insight on a different view of the situation. Everyone is always talking about how it was the black's who have done wrong and it's their fault, but Max tells the side of how it could be the whites to blame. He tells the court about how it was the fear of being black and how they were treated by the white people which caused Bigger to do what he has done. He wants to show that it isn't Bigger's fault, and there is something to be said about the racism and discrimination towards blacks which caused the death of Mary Dalton. I personally liked his speech because it's things like this which help break barriers. It would be something like this that would make change in the world and it helps people realize themselves, because most of the time people are too busy pointing fingers that they don't see themselves.