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How is Tom brave for saying Mayella had assaulted him instead in to kill a Mockingbird?

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It was very uncommon for a black person to 'go against' a white person in court. It was a cultural belief that black people were liars, and dangerous. The jury in this situation, was full of white people who were very racist.

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