Chapters 20+21 (free response) How is Dolphus Raymond's Coca-Cola a symbol?

Dolphus Raymond's Coca-Cola is a symbol; a symbol of the African-Americans of Maycomb. Everyone always thought that Raymond carried some sort of alcohol in that brown paper bag. No one would have thought otherwise because Raymond was looked at so lowly in society. The brown paper bag is a disguise in a way that lets people judge him. If he did not have the brown paper bag disguising the soda people would view it as normal. The same theory can be related to people. The citizens of Maycomb judge a person based on their outsides; not the insides. If everyone was the same color skin in Maycomb this may be different. The paper bag works in the same way that the African-American’s skin color does. It is a disguise of what is on the inside. Inside that paper bag could have been many things. It could have been what people assumed, what it actually was and any other type of drink. But as Jem said “…. It was just Coca-Cola.” Any white or African-American could be the same; nasty like alcohol or sweet like chocolate milk. I think that even today people are judged more on their outsides rather that their insides too. Though we have made improvement there is still more to be done. What is your opinion on how the world has progresed?