This past Sunday Jem and I accompanied Calpurnia to First Purchase African M.E Church. When we arrived some of the black worshipers stopped, stared and then slowly parted making a small pathway to the church door. I felt uneasy like there were butterflies in my stomach. Suddenly behind us a black woman named Lula yelled out to Calpurnia "I wants to know why you bringin' white chillun to n-word church." She also shouted "you ain't got no business bringin' white chillun here- they got their church, we got our'n." I don't know why that lady didn't like us, we pray to the same "God" it shouldn't matter the colour of our skin. Besides it was mean and it made Calpurnia feel bad because she got Jem and I all dressed up and brought us as her quests. When Lula hollered at Calpurnia regardless "bringin' white chillun to n-word church" it revels how segregated the white and black cultures are and how deep the racial conflict runs. The black people feel they suffer so much inequality and suppression by the white folk that they don't want them to invade their "church" where black culture thrives.

-Scout Finch