(Chapters 19-20) Why is Tom Robinson already in trouble when Mayella tries to kiss him and why in court is he not favored to win?

Most of chapter nineteen is Tom Robinson being questioned by Atticus and the plain tiff's judge. When Atticus asks Tom his questions, he is respectful, calm and never racist. When Mr. Gilmer questioned him, he was disrespectful calling Tom a boy and even saying the outrageously racist word nigger. During the trial, Mr. Gilmer asks Tom why he ran. Tom replied,"it weren't safe for any nigger to be in a--fix like that."Tom is talking about interracial interactions witch is not only unaccepted but is also not legal. Tom being black would be physically punished or maybe killed while Mayella just becomes unaccepted by everyone black or white. When Mayella asked Tom to come inside the fence, Tom kindly obliged because he had been let into the fence prior to when Mayella was beaten. But when Mayella tried to kiss Tom, he instinctively backed off knowing what the consequences would be. He runs as fast as he could but not before Mayella's father Mr. Ewell witnessed everything that happened. I believe that Mr. Ewell beat up Mayella. If he had beaten her up he could have easily gotten away with it. Tom was at the scene and who would believe a black man when a white man says otherwise.

When this issue of Tom being inside the Ewells property came up, Mr. Gilmer attacked him for supposedly not being aloud inside the property. Mayella and Mr. Ewells both testified to this being true and as I said before, what is a black man's word against a white mans word. I believe that Tom is being tried unfairly judged, and at this time in history, is being racially targeted by racist whites.