Read the sentence below and answer the question.

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it-whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."

What is Atticus claiming makes a white person trash?

a) growing up in poverty

b) taking advantage of black persons

c) their manners

d) being a descendent of a morally suspect family

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Shelby Mosley

2 October, 12:40

Read the sentence below and answer the question.

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it-whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."

What is Atticus claiming makes a white person trash?

a) growing up in poverty

b) taking advantage of black persons

c) their manners

d) being a descendent of a morally suspect family

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Macias · Answer 1

It's not letter B 'because of slavery' it's letter B because Atticus is explaining that in no circumstance is white men take advantage of a black person okay