What are Miss Gates' views on the oppressed in To Kill a Mockingbird?

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Miss Gates is Scout's third-grade teacher. During a "current events" activity, Cecil Jacobs speaks about Adolph Hitler's persecution of the Jews. One student asks how Hitler can get away with putting people in prison for no reason. Miss Gates explains to the class that Germany's form of government is a dictatorship, which is different from America's democratic system. Miss Gates then goes on to tell her class that persecution does not take place in America. She says that there are no better people in the world than the Jews. Miss Gates also tells her students that Jews have been persecuted since the beginning of time, and she thinks that it is one of the most terrible stories in history. She sympathizes with the oppressed Jews in Germany but fails to recognize the unjust treatment of African Americans in her community. Her views on the oppressed are hypocritical because she acknowledges the persecution of the Jews, but ignores the plight of African Americans in the South.