False.
Very often the Satan surrounds the lie with an armor guard of truth.
To Kill a Mockingbird depends on an injustice at its center. That injustice is that a black man has been falsely accused of rape.
That’s the story line.
The reality is that most cases of interracial rape are black on white.
The southerners especially knew this. It was true then. Its true today in all parts of the country.
White on black rape is almost un recordable. Extremely rare.
Does this in any way imply that a young black man unjustly accused of killing another black man in fiction is unrealistic? Because black people predominantly kill other black people, no black man can reasonably be held to be innocent if charged?
Is that what passes for logic in your parts?
Often consensual interracial sex ‘back in the day’ would become, if discovered, “rape” after the fact. For this reason Chuck Berry would take a picture of a smiling topless white woman before indulging in consensual sexual activity with them; so it was that much harder to claim that anything that happened afterward was somehow unwanted.
There is also the fact that one might well be falsely accused, i.e. someone else did it. Interracial identity line ups are notoriously inaccurate. Now that there is DNA evidence this is less of a problem; but they are sure clearing up a lot of cases where the ‘guilty’ party couldn't have possibly been the actual perpetrator.
While you seem fixated upon the “fact” that most interracial rapes are black on white; most rapes (like murders) are within the same racial group; and there ARE and HAVE been those who have been falsely accused.
“TKMB” is a novel that explores racial tensions, and a man doing the right thing even when it costs him. It in no way seeks to establish that no black man ever did rape a white woman; or that any who were accused were innocent; any more than every Perry Mason episode sought to establish that the person charged was NEVER guilty, but you could always get the actual guilty party to admit it in court.
So no black men were ever unjustly accused of rape? Innocent men are not convicted inspite of evidence that should exonorate them?
You seem primarily focused on the race aspect of the book, but that’s not what it is about. It is the story of a child coming of age, and her maturing relationship with her father. Most adults have, at least once in their life, the opprotunity to do what is right, despite popular opinion or peer pressure. The trial was just one example in the book of this.
Who cares about the race of most rapists? Does it make the crime less horrific? My white sister was raped by a white man. I don’t think any of her scars would be greater or lesser if it had been a black man. I don’t understand your focus. But then again, I don’t focus on race. Black people don’t commit crimes, white people don’t commit crimes. Evil people do.