Injustice And Social Injustices

Another major predicament that plays a large role in the amount of African Americans that do not receive a higher education is once they get to college, they do not have a typical or enjoyable experience once there. In today’s society, it is hard to imagine that there is still racism and segregation in schools and colleges today but the reality is, it still does very much exist. This is especially true when black students attend predominantly white universities. Even though most colleges promote themselves by talking about how diverse their

The memory of incidents such as O. J. Simpson’s high profile criminal trial, the assault of Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1992, and the 2009 arrest and charging of Harvard Professor Henry Gates for racial profiling still freshly linger in the minds of many Americans. The people’s perceptions of justice in these situations continue to represent how the criminal justice system is viewed in present times, and continue defining racial disparity in America (Mauer, 2011).

The criminal justice system of America is deeply scarred with racial bias. Crimes are being committed and, in turn, are resulting with innocent people doing hard-time. Thankfully, newfound methods of appealing court rulings are finding justice for these minorities; however, the results are as shocking as the crimes being committed. When it was found that the majority of successful appeals were of minorities, the true defects of the system was apparent. The minority community is being critically judged for things they’re not doing.

Today, African American students are under-represented in college and universities, and the reason is the ongoing disenfranchisement of African American students. Our education system needs be more responsive and needs to pay more attention to the college preparation for these students. People of color historically have been misrepresented, exploited, silenced, and taken for granted in education research (Dillard, 2000; Stanfield, 1995), (H. Richard Milner IV, 2008).

Incarceration rates are a definite proof that racial discrimination occurs. “Incarceration rates in the United States have risen sharply since 1980”, stated Filip Spagnoli, “the racial distribution of inmates in the U.S. is highly negative for black Americans. Whereas they only make up 12% of the total U.S. population, they represent more than 40% of inmates”

Racism has a huge impact on society to this day. The greatest wrong doing in the U.S criminal justice system is that it is a race based organization where African Americans are specifically focused on and rebuffed in a considerably more forceful route than white individuals. Saying the Us criminal justice system is racist might be politically disputable in different ways. In any case, the actualities are debatable. Underneath I explain many cases of these issues. Information on race is available for each step of the criminal justice system – from the use of drugs, police stops, arrests, getting off on bail, legal representation, jury selection, trial, sentencing, prison, parole, and freedom.

To look closely at many of the mechanisms in American society is to observe the contradiction between constitutional equality and equality in practice. Several of these contradictions exist in the realm of racial equality. For example, Black s often get dealt an unfair hand in the criminal justice system. In The Real War on Crime, Steven Donziger explains,

It pains me to say that as a Black man in the U.S. when I make a mistake, do something deviant, or brake a law my skin color will be looked upon to decide my fate. Once I fit the stereotypes that society possesses of black men, I no longer am an individual but, simply a Black man. To be a Black man in this country means you are: a monster, a danger to society, and other. My white counter parts will never suffer such a fate. As Jay Coakely says in his book Sports in Society, “stereotypes provide ready-made evaluative frameworks for making quick judgments and conclusions about others...” (232). And so, when Ray Rice a Black man and Josh Brown a white man assaulted their wives; Rice was fired indefinitely while, Brown the white man was only

“Black woman are raised to epitomize “strong black women” in the most exemplary fashion possible, and faithfully to remain one without pause or rest until the grim reaper relieved us of the burdens of our mortality. This is a slight exaggeration of course, but the point I am trying to make is that there is this notion that black women should have everything in order all the time. This is not always the case. Research shows that 72% of black children are born to single mothers. Black women also hold a large lead over black men in almost every facet of higher education. According to scholars, “black women currently earn about two-thirds of all African- American bachelors degree awards, 70% of all masters degree and more than 60% of all doctorates. Isn’t that ironic? Black women makes up majority of single parent homes, but also obtain the most degrees in higher education. However, there is not enough light being shun on the idea of black women being “super woman” also have a negative connotation. For example, the ratio of girls to boys at Hampton University are completely disproportionate. Hampton University is made up of approximately 70% girls and 30% males. I have surveyed 100 students regarding the aid that they are receiving. The 100 students were comprised of 50 males and 50 girls with stellar academia. More than half of the males stated they are receiving some scholarship to attend Hampton, and as for the females they are paying

People always praise our world is beautiful and peaceful, but they ignore the injustices still exist and some of them without good solutions. Although people believe social injustices are unfair and will bring pain and tear, they are used to treating them as air because they never experience these unequal things. Likewise, the discrimination occurs both in upper class and regular class between Puerto Ricans and Mexicans. For example, there was an obvious discrimination happened in the speech of the Republican nomination for president election. At that time, Donald Trump, who was one of the speakers, believed that force illegal immigrants repatriation can be the best way to make America great again. Because Mr. Trump recognized these immigrants only bring drugs and crimes to the U.S., and they occupied a large number of jobs which made the unemployment rate increasing currently. In addition, he said if he becomes the president, he will declared three principals and two of them can be social injustices. Firstly, America has to build a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border that stowaway cannot enter America illegally. Secondly, the laws must be fully enforced illegal immigrants to go back to Mexico. In addition, Mr. Tramp is not the only person who gets rise to injustices, but the social injustices and discrimination also happened in various aspects.

While the numbers did reflect a distinct problem in our society, and there were certain things that I did not know in the way of specific statistics relating to this issue, I found that the class during which this information was given was a largely inappropriate time to provide it. I do realize that inequality, racism, sexism, as well as other discriminatory acts are occuring everywhere in our society, but a class on computational thinking and design may not be the best time or place to talk about it. Inequality and injustice can be found anywhere and everywhere. For example, my grandmother is Jewish. Her entire family was killed during the Holocaust, and she was lucky enough to make it out alive on one of the last programs which allowed her to exit the country. She survived and underwent an

With the release of the Panama Papers today online, and my great disappointment to find there weren't any Canadians of any importance implicated (besides your average millionaire Joe Shmoe or some nameless but undoubtedly flourishing corporation, no one of any importance, no one really juicy) , I was found thinking of David Cameron of all people. When Dave's dad bit the dust, he left old Dave a good chunk of offshore shares. David promptly sold them and paid taxes on them. Years later, when this came to light, the fun began. The public was incensed, Cameron hadn't been trending on Twitter this much since he'd been accused of engaging in fellatio with a pig. Twitter didn't care about the fact that he hadn't done anything illegal, they just

According the National Association of Social Workers: Code of Ethics, it is the responsibility of a social worker to challenge social injustice. Social injustice, according to the dictionary, is described as unfair treatment, a situation where the rights of a person or group is ignored (Dictionary,2015). Reflecting on what I have been told in practice class, I feel that addressing social injustice will be a challenge. This will be challenging because I strive to treat each person that I encounter with dignity and respect but, I know that there are many social injustices that individuals faced on a daily bases. I strive to be a person of good moral faith so addressing social injustice issues will affect my personal opinions of people, which I will work on so that I will not be biased.

Is it better to suffer injustice than to commit injustice? Or is it better to bully or to be bully. Many would choose to be the bully because who wants to be picked on. In reality, to be the good person is always best choice. Why is that? According to Plato it is better to suffer injustice than to commit injustice, and I agree with it. Because the person who commits’ injustice is not happy and won be happy however the person who suffers injustice can be happy because doe s not carry with guilt.

The problem of racial justice in the entire justice system has been a subject of debate for the last few decades. Walker and Meyers classify Race as “a distinction of the group of people with relatively the same biological inheritance from other groups” (3). In other words, race represents a group of people with the same ethnic and biological traits. An example of race is African American. In the same context, racism entails social practices that attribute specific merits or values to people within a category of the same racial background by virtue of their race (Welch 276). Racism comes in different aspects, but there are three main ones: ideological racism, personal racism, and institutional racism (Welch 275). Ideological racism is where biology or culture used in rationalizing the superiority of a dominant culture, while personal racism takes place between individuals. However, racism in the justice system would be classified as institutional racism. It applies for systemic racial disparity within an institution or a system. The manner in which racial disparity plays out in the justice system is through formal as well as informal interactions between the authorities and members of the minority groups. This is noted though different sectors of the system and at various levels. Not only has it sparked debate in different quorums, but it has also been the subject of numerous