To Kill A Mockingbird: Cruelty Against Blacks, Lawyers and the Poor To Kill A Mockingbird “takes readers to the roots of human behavior” (Lee). It portrays how unkind people of Maycomb County could be. It shows a time when being different made life more difficult than it had to be. It was a time when people did not accept differences. It especially shows cruelty against blacks, lawyers, and the poor. Discrimination against blacks is shown a lot all throughout the novel. Maycomb County didn’t exactly welcome blacks as well as the whites were welcomed. The white people had more priveleges than the black people ha