Sandra Bland's Injustice

Throughout the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, many social justice issues were presented. One of them was racial discrimination, specifically in the medical world. Race was perceived in an extremely different way than it is now; it is clearly evident how it impacted the medical care that Henrietta Lacks received and what happened with the family as her cells were spread and studied. Today the situation would be handled differently. There are not segregated hospitals with people saying that since a person does not have enough money to pay for a hospital visit, taking tissues and cells from the body is okay. Racial discrimination in the medical world has changed a great deal since the time that the HeLa cells were first taken.

Superheroes; they save and protect the world’s people. They courageously stand up and battle against evil, anarchy, injustice, crime, and sin. When the world has nothing else to defend itself, they are the ones who are present with a duty to safeguard everyone. The superheroes you may know, such as: Superman, Batman, Iron Man, etc. all have extraordinary superhuman powers which they use to shield those in need. However, anyone can be a superhero. Throughout history, many people have become like superheroes not because of extraordinary powers, but extraordinary courage, bravery, humanity, and love. Those people made a choice to risk everything they had in order to save another human being. Is it the right thing for a person to stand up

Houston Democratic Rep. Garnet Coleman passed the Sandra Bland Act, a law named after an African-American woman who died in a Waller County jail in 2015 after being arrested during a routine traffic stop. Though it was intended to be a more expansive overhaul of criminal justice processes, the

Because of the color of her skin, Sandra Bland was unlawfully detained, which was not uncommon in this city. Trooper Encinia, the officer who made the initial traffic stop and arrest, committed an unlawful arrest and failed to correctly do his job, and is now being indicted on a perjury charge because of it. In the video of the traffic stop, Bland repeatedly asks the officer why he was trying to detain and arrest her, but the only response the trooper gave her was “I am giving you a lawful order,” (Hassan and Yan). Though the event was unlawful, it was argued that the incident was not driven by racism. However, Trooper Encinia has worked with some that have committed unlawful acts that were driven by racism: Sheriff R. Glenn Smith.

Just mercy is a powerful novel Written by Bryan Stevenson in the book he put us in a different world. while he depicts the social injustices he experiences while he defended an innocent man. Walter whom was set up for a murder of a women named Ronda even with multiple witnesses he is still convicted. Which made this be my topic of interest during the time that I was reading Just Mercy. Because In this society we have a race based institution where they can directly say a African American is guilty without fair trial. in the which mean that African Americans are “Guilty until proven innocent”. which is the opposite when it come to the opposite races.

On July 13, 2015, Sandra Bland committed suicide in Waller County Jail in Hempstead, Texas. Bland was an African-American, and was subject to police brutality. A few days before her death, the police placed Bland in jail as a result of traffic confrontation that did escalate to violence. Her incident with the police is a prime example of the racism that goes on today. Though policies were passed to combat acts of prejudice against blacks, there is always an underlying hatred towards African-Americans that continues to manifest itself. This is because racism in its social has not been as combated, which causes people to continue to live in a continuing era of white supremacy. The better-treatment of white people, causes black people to live

Images of the young Till lying in the casket were published in several black magazines and newspapers in the US. Till's face and body were dismembered and mutilated, and his own mother couldn't even identify him. The fact that Till was never properly identified strongly affected the trial, and some people doubted the body in the casket was Till's. In 2004, the US Department of Justice reopened the case and exhumed and autopsied the body- which resulted in a positive identification that it was Emmett Till. The Civil Rights Movement aimed to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans. Today, black Americans are still fighting against the discrimination and police brutality seems to be at the forefront of the injustices. Most recently, a woman by the name of Sandra Bland was unlawfully arrested in Texas. Bland was initially pulled over for failing to use her turn signal while she was switching lanes. Bland explained to the police officer that she quickly switched lanes because she was trying to get out of his way. The traffic stop escalated, and Bland was arrested by the officer for assaulting a public servant. The story has gained national attention, and those who watched the video surveillance of Bland's encounter with the police

Sandra Bland’s family thinks she wasn’t responsible for her death. Even though there wasn’t any cameras in the jail cell where she was found dead, their cameras in the hall outside her cell, that was monitoring, showed that no one entered or left the cell between the time she last spoke deputies through an intercom system to when her body was discovered

Ernest J. Gaines uses symbols in his novel A Lesson Before Dying to convey the theme of injustice towards the colored people.

The article published by “USA Today” talks about a african american woman named Sandra Bland who was pulled over for a traffic violation, put in jail, and two days later “supposedly” committed suicide while in jail. Sandra was on her way to a church gathering, when she was pulled over by a white police officer. She was pulled over and the police officer kept asking her to put her cigarette out. When she refused to put the cigarette out the police officer kept asking her to step out of the car. She was asking the question, “ what does this have to do to anything, if you're going to give me a ticket just give it to me and we can both get going.” The police officer then said he would drag her out the car if she didn't throw her cigarette out and

Ashante is a 17-year-old African American female. She is currently residing in Apopka, Florida with a church member, Tracey Aarons. She was attending was attending Pace School but is no longer attending any school. She is not attending school because she was kicked out for not attending which stemmed from getting suspended for bring a knife and Taser to school. Ashante was arrested for contempt of court and she was previously arrested for bringing a weapon to school.

In all of these cases, these individuals ultimately died because of abuse of power and police brutality. In the case of Sandra Bland, she was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer during a traffic stop. This event was similar to the incident regarding Coalhouse Walker and his Model-T in Ragtime. Following the conversation with the fire chief about his vehicle and the “fines” that were put in place to keep him from passing, Coalhouse Walker was arrested.

There comes a time, in most citizens’ lives when they must stand against their government to produce change. Change can only be acquired if people take the necessary actions for it to take place. Nelson Mandela was a historical revolutionist who helped his people in Africa, to revolt against the government, in order to bring about change. As a result, he was sentenced to prison for 27 years for trying to overthrow the government. Many revolutionist, such as Arundhati Roy and Martin Luther King Jr., explain in their essays how the role of the citizen is to stand against injustice, and how the government labels them as anti-national because of it.

In Testimonial Injustice by Miranda Fricker, she identifies that there are systemic testimonial injustices and they relate to a common prejudice towards the speaker. Fricker uses the term testimonial injustice, which is an injustice to someone whom is unjustly perceived by others to have less knowledge than he/she actually has. An example of a systemic testimonial injustice would be the accent of a speaker, causing the speaker to receive a credibility deficit. The speaker is wronged in his/her knowledge as a result of the prejudice employed against him/her. However, Fricker did not include an exhaustive enough list of testimonial injustices. More specifically, I argue that Fricker overlooked a

One of the most popular arguments I hear about whether or not God exists is if He does, why does the world and its occupants experience all the calamities, disasters, and misfortunes that we do? And unfortunately, I do not have an answer that will suffice. That God works in mysterious ways or that our finite minds simply can neither comprehend nor understand the inner workings of His infinite mind do not seem to placate the skeptics. However, on the bright side is that skeptics do realize injustices exist in the world. The reason this is promising is that if a person who doubts religion as well as God but recognizes transgressions in the world, then you can infer that they also recognize goodness and