Everyone has the same rights

Last time I read a book " To Kill a Mockingbird" and it touched me a lot. It contains very important topic which is I guess nowadays still popular. The novel takes place in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. The main characters are three children whose father is a local lawyer. The reader observes the provincial community and follows the events through the eyes of a daughter of a lawyer who is six years old. Jean looks at the behavior of his father and the rest of the Maycomb residents. She learns the structure and morality of the community in which she lives. Many thinks that  what she observes is new and unclear to her, but on the other hand she has a childish fresh look, which is not burdened with the world of adult stereotypes, so she can see and understand more than many of them. But what is the most important for me in this book is that it shows a problem of racism which in that times were huge, especially in Alabama. The lawyer had to defend an African American who was accused of raping a white girl. Although it is clear from the beginning that he is innocent and has fallen prey to racial prejudice and hatred, the white Maycomb community prefers to believe the lies of the girl and her father. Racism and small-town ignorance are enormous, African American is killed for innocence.

This story shows people's brutality and soullessness. Why did skin color decide and still decide how we treat other people? What does it matter? Will the world ever understand that everyone, regardless of skin color, age, origin or gender, has the same rights and everyone is equal?