Social Injustice

Thousands of immigrants moving to America during the turn of the nineteenth century have faced extreme diversity on their quests to fulfill their American dreams. Immigrants faced a multitude of hardships and battled prejudices that were rampant throughout America during this time period. However, for the most part, Hilda Polacheck, an immigrant emigrating from Poland made out fairly well in her life. Hilda experienced what it was truly like to be a poor working immigrant, however, she was able to break out of the poverty cycle and was determined to make the world a better place. With this success she was able to step back and look at the social injustices being committed in the United States clearly, without being blinded by the hardships and the tragedies of being a poor immigrant. Throughout Hilda’s Autobiography, as well as throughout history, an immigrant woman in the United States faced extensive discrimination as well as vast and often unjust limitations on their inalienable rights as citizens of the United States.

Speaking from first hand experience what it is like to experience being poor and on government programs. Most of the upper class of society feels that black Americans take advantage of government programs and are lazy. Their children drop out of school and commit crimes. That often wonder why black people are still poor or remain I their situations for long periods of times. The upper class feel that welfare was solution to solving the poverty issue. When in all reality it created a bigger issue. This problem is important to talk about because, the poverty rate is steading going in the United States among Black Americans. Society is affected by this in many ways. I choose this topic because, I grew up in a poor black family in America. Therefore, I can speak from first-hand experience what it’s like to be poor and black in America. Most of society often wonder why black people are still poor or remain on government programs for

Social workers are ethically obligated to engage in social and political action that help seeks to ensure that all people have equal access to the resources. NASW (2008) (pg. 27) The Code of Ethics further notes that social workers should be aware of the impact of the political arena on practice on practice and should advocate for changes

The United States has a long history of racial injustices. Today, this can be seen manifested in our drug laws and policies. The war on drugs, otherwise known as the United States drug polices, systematically targets minorities and their communities. The war on drugs has caused a huge disparity between race, gender and sentencing. According to Gunja (2003), white people outnumber black people five to one in the United States, and they both use and sell drugs at similar rates. However, in seven states, 80%-90% of prisoners serving for drug related charges are black Gunja, F. (2003). These disparities are caused by “mandatory minimums” were sentencing for the same drug, but in different forms are much different. According to Women and Gender

Social injustice can have a devastating and crippling effect on persons, both physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Injustice carries with it the potential to trigger life events that negatively affect individuals’ health, lifestyle, and relationships with family members, friends, and the workplace (Hays & Erford, 2014). Currently, in the United States, there are many and more individuals and groups who struggle to overcome past and present prejudices in the areas of housing, education, differential treatment, discrimination, child exploitation, and racial profiling. Barrett (2011) found that multidimensional issues associated with the biological, psychological, and societal differences among persons, social justice, and fundamental human rights many times prevent practitioners from supplying adequate services to all the peoples of a town, area, or country. The complexities of national, state and public administration have generated institutional inequity that is so entrenched within communities that “professional standards and documents and United Nations Conventions and Declarations are not enough” (Barrett, 2011, p. 5). To understand and apply the construct of multicultural counseling and social justice as interdependent and interactive forces practitioners and researchers should analyze and fine-tune traditional counseling theories and methodologies using a systems approach.

Our country has a grim past marked by racial turmoil and segregation. Since the founding of this country, there has been some form of racial injustice. For example, the enslavement of Africans until 1860, the segregation of colored citizens until the rise of MLK and Malcolm X, or the racial profiling and innocent killing of young black men and women in modern times. All these examples show just how unjust and discriminated America really is.

Social oppression is socially supported mistreatment and exploitation of a group or category of people by anyone. Oppressors usually suffer from the need to be Socially Dominant over others in order to retain power or assert power (Sidanius, Jim. Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.). Social dominance is commonly the root cause of social oppression. The United States has always claimed the moral high ground on human rights and equality, yet our history is fettered with situations of discrimination and oppression of many different demographics. Our American culture is greatly diverse and

The concept of liberty and justice in America can be traced back 200 years ago, when Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that all men were entitled to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” in the Declaration of Independence. 200 years ago in America slavery was alive and well, women were second class citizens, and the Native Americans had been successfully exiled from their home country; liberty and justice were most definitely overlooked then, and they continue to be overlooked now. Racism in America did not end with slavery, nor did it end with the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Injustice against people of color in America still remains and the epidemic of police brutality is one of the many ways America oppresses blacks, Latinos,

To my acceptance, the social work profession’ vision and mission strives to promote a just society (NASW p.1). Sincerely, I believe a just society is communities composed of diverse and united populations who actively participate in the creation of peaceful norms, laws, practiced behaviors, and policies that aim to provide equal opportunities to all members within such society. Therefore, I am convinced, the social work profession’ mission is to promote the dignity, integrity, and the well-being of all persons (NASW p.2). For instance, the nation social work associations’ code of ethics (NASW) is composed of enriched sets of ethical principles and practiced behaviors; that focus on promoting adequate and equal distributions of resources to

The world pretends that it has become an almost perfectly just place, since the passing of laws that protect people of color, or the rebirth of the state of Israel. The world, despite having created bounds to injustice, is hardly greater in terms of equal opportunity, than its yesteryears. Even though the world still battles its injustices, the United States has become a more just and safe place (Tupi). Although justice often fails around the globe, in America, one can expect fair treatment from the system, as America has set forth an agenda of progression in justice and equality. Regardless of the ethics that America has begun to subscribe to, injustice is not something that Americans or any other people should ignore; therefore, protesters

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.

Though the concept of social injustice is universal in nature, the experience varies with each person. Factors like a person’ race, or gender can further influence the severity of the injustice; victims caught in the overlap between discriminations often go unrecognized by the law and society. Many people recognize the names Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice as African Americans who were murdered by local police. But names like Michelle Cusseaux, Tanish Anderson, and Meagan Hockaday often receive less feedback even though they are also murdered African Americans. The only distinction between the sets of names is gender. Even within racial injustice, discrimination is present between genders as some cases get national

Over the years in our country’s history it has been apparent that the idea of same sex marriages is becoming much more popular, however in most states there is still one thing stopping them. That one thing stopping two people from the pursuit of happiness which they desire is a social injustice. Social injustices are situations where a person or group of people is treated unfairly due to certain factors for example discrimination, prejudice, racism, heterosexism, sexism, and so forth. In the case of same sex marriages, the factor playing a major role in this social injustice is where most people believe that opposite sexes attract, but in the case of a same sex couple wanting to be married, this brings about many topics to be discussed by

When will we stop being unjust? Our society today is full of problems and issues. We not only experience economic and politic issues, but we face social problems as well. One main problem that our society must acknowledge is injustice. However, many members of our society are blind not to recognize that permitting unjust and unfair acts is an actual injustice. They believe it’s appropriate to judge others, to make inappropriate comments and to be disrespectful.

In the NASW Code of Ethics, principle #2 is “social workers challenge social injustice.” Social Workers are change agents. They fight to break ethical, cultural, economical, and social walls of indifference. Because people are different and tend not to fit in with the rest of society, or at least with how the rest of society believes they should be like those individuals are excluded from society. They are discriminated against and ridiculed. If they aren’t the ‘right’ color, hold to the ‘right’ beliefs, live the ‘right’ life or come from the ‘right’ place they are treated as ineligible to live. Those people are torn down, shunned, and disgraced.