Leaders never follow

The town of Salem would be a good look into the future of American politics. The witch trials represent how intollerant of differences the public can be. I think that the witch trials and the injustices before the civil rights movement are eerily similar. In the south Black males were often accused of crimes they didn't commit for reason that were unknown to them, in Salem peoples accused of witch craft had never actually commited the crime but were just suspected because of their look and or how they acted. This is how it was like in the civil rights movement people of color were randomly selected and accused of crimes that most of the times they did not commit. As we can see that through out the history of Salem, that I know of. The towns people also reacted harshly to Hepziba because they assumed that she was a mean old woman because of how she looked.