Out in front while we talked, the younger Bates children were playing with the neighboring Negro youngsters. Here was another one of those ironic touches which
life, oblivious of man's ways, gives so often. If the nine youths on the freight car had
been white, there would have been no Scottsboro case. The issue at stake was that of
the inviolable separation of black men from white women. No chance to remind
negroes in terrible fashion that white women are farther away from them than the stars
must be allowed to slip past. The challenge flung to the Negro race in the Scottsboro
case was Ruby Bates, and another like her. Ruby, a girl whom life had forced down to
equality with Negroes in violation of all the upholders of white supremacy were
shouting. As a symbol of the Untouchable White Woman, the Whites held high-
Ruby. The Ruby who lived among the Negroes, whose family mixed with them; a
daughter of what respectable Whites call "the lowest of the low," that is a White
whom economic scarcity has forced across the great color barrier. All the things made
the respectable people of Scottsboro insist that the Negro boys must die, had meant
nothing in the life of Ruby Bates.

According to the author, what is the main issue at stake in this case?

Read the passage from animal farm. as clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech. instead—she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. there was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. she knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. whatever happened she would remain faithful, work hard, carry out the orders that were given to her, and accept the leadership of napoleon. but still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. it was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of jones's gun. such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them. what was most likely orwell’s purpose for writing this passage? to show that clover is more sensitive to violence than the others to remind readers of major's speech and the original rebellion to present napoleon as a cruel leader unworthy of the animals’ support to represent misled followers and their dashed hopes for better lives