Travesty

"I have to think it's a travesty. That they arrested him because he's Japanese." I didn't really pay attention to this quote when I read it, but when I looked back at it, it made me wonder what the word travesty meant...so I looked it up. Supposedly it's any grotesque or debased imitation. I also noticed that it talks about racism, which caught my eye because that's one of the main points of the book.