How does Lee use Scout's innocence as a vehicle to explain Atticus' attitude toward African-American?

There are a number of places that Scout' innocence is used in this way. Atticus has a quality of explaining the ugly parts of human nature clear enough for Scout to understand yet with a demeanour that respects her intelligence. I love his simple statement, “It’s not okay to hate anybody.”

Another one is,

"As you grow older you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it— whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, of how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”--Atticus

An example of this in chapter 9:

"Scout asks if he's going to win the case and Atticus says no, but "simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win." He tells her that no matter what happens, the people of Maycomb are still their friends, and this is still their town."

An example of this in chapter 9:

"Scout asks if he's going to win the case and Atticus says no, but "simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win." He tells her that no matter what happens, the people of Maycomb are still their friends, and this is still their town."

There are a number of places that Scout' innocence is used in this way. Atticus has a quality of explaining the ugly parts of human nature clear enough for Scout to understand yet with a demeanour that respects her intelligence. I love his simple statement, “It’s not okay to hate anybody.”

Another one is,

"As you grow older you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it— whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, of how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”--Atticus