Causes of Social Injustice
When thinking of events that influenced a social injustice world, the first thing that came to mind was the death of Philando Reynolds. Philando Reynolds, a black man who was shot by a police officer in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Philando Castile was shot by Officer Jeronimo Yanez, who stopped Philando because he allegedly fit the description of a robber. Philando was shot in the driver’s seat of the vehicle while he was reaching for his ID after he told Officer Yanez he had a gun permit and was armed. As Philando sat in his car covered in blood for doing nothing wrong, his girlfriend and four-year-old daughter saw everything that happened. This moment was the breaking point for myself, because Minnesota is only hours away from South Dakota and Philando did absolutely nothing wrong, and his daughter witnessed the death of her father at the age of four. I believe this is one of the most disgusted police officer shooting of them all, because this situation was never supposed to happen.
Stereotypes of what society thinks of individuals has hurt the potential of America, an unpleasant action that occurred in
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Dan Ariely and Norton recorded the people believe the wealth distribution of America was and compared to what it was, they quoted that, “Respondents vastly underestimated the actual level of wealth inequality in the United States, believing that the wealthiest quintile held about 59% of the wealth when the actual number is closer to 84%.” The gap of wealth inequality is very large and I believe that as a decision to tax the rich more than the poor should be something that our government should do. Taxing the rich would bring in more money, while the poor would still pay their portion of taxes, but less would be taken from them due to the different. Government would be able to refrain from taxing the poor any more they are
Racial discrimination in our society has reached its tipping point such that rioting has become a last resort. After the deaths of two young African American males that occurred due to police brutality , the public has been in an uproar, fighting and hoping for change;however the means of fighting aren’t seen as appropriate. The majority of the population argues that the rioting that had occurred in Baltimore and Ferguson, where the shootings happened, were unjustified. The media depicted the rioting to be criminalized and unrelated to the cause. It was portrayed that African Americans took the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray as an excuse to loot and raid.On contrary to popular belief, the rioting in Baltimore and Ferguson were adequate actions that took place. It wasn’t until the rioting occurred that investigations of these cases followed. Because of the investigation it was found that the problems at hand were more than racial issues highlighted by police brutality, but racial abuse in the system of the cities.
Following the shooting of Trayvon Martin, I began to understand the effect that systemic racism could have on the lives of Black people, and how it had already been affecting me.
The struggle of oppression and social injustice in recent news media reports of unarmed black males regularly shot in routine traffic stops,
We have heard a lot about criminals who have gotten shot by the police, but we haven’t heard of a case where police officer killed innocent man to death, except in the case of Eric Garner. Eric Garner’s case sparked about institutional racism in America’s criminal justice system because he was killed for minor crime and the grand jury didn’t indict the officer.
In 2014, the death of Eric Garner in New York City raised controversial conversations and highlighted the issues of race, crime, and policing in neighborhoods that tend to be poor and racially isolated. Garner, an unarmed black man, was killed after being tackled and held in a “chokehold.” According to the AP Polls in December 2014, “Police killings of unarmed blacks were the most important news stories of 2014.” The problem is that young black men are targeted by police officers in which they have responded with the misuse of force and policy brutality. It is evident that this issue affects many people nationwide. The civilians do not trust the police department and the justice system because they hold the perceptions that police officers are immune from prosecution despite their actions. In particular, black individuals, specifically black males, do not feel safe in the presence of police officers because they are not held accountable for their mistakes.
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In America, police brutality affects and victimizes people of color mentally and socially. Social injustice has become a major issue, which involved the principle of white supremacy vs minorities. The current police brutality that has been occurring is culturally disconnecting ethnicities from one another. According to Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell, “…the cultural disconnect is very real; you have the weight of generations of abuse on African Americans,” (Flatow, 2016). For example, over the past four years, there have been countless acts of police brutality. The three key deaths of Eric Garner, Philando Castile, and Alton Sterling have become the face of police brutality in the year 2016. People knew that it was unequal treatment of black people by police in the United States and they made it known by creating #BlackLivesMatter.
Wealth inequality is a real issue that needs to be fixed. The imbalanced growth of the upper class compared to the middle class is a danger to American society as a whole. The rich becoming richer while the middle class remains the same leads to a power imbalance, with the rich using their money to run the country the way they see fit while the middle class speaks to ears that do not listen. The issue of wealth inequality needs to be fixed by raising taxes on the rich.
Inequality exist and is high in America because the amount of income and wealth that is distributed through power. In America the income distribution is very inequality and the value of a person wealth is based on their income with their debts subtracted. “As of 2007, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 34.6% of all privately held wealth, and the 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business stratum) had 50.5%, which means that just 20% of the people owned a remarkable 85%, leaving only 15% of the wealth for the bottom 80% (wage and salary workers)” (Domhoff, 2011). In contrary the poor do not get ahead and the rich get more. Americans are judged and placed in class categories through their home ownership which translates to wealth. Americans social class is often associated with their assets and wealth. “People seek to own property, to have high incomes, to have interesting and safe jobs, to enjoy the finest in travel and leisure, and to live long and healthy lives” (Domhoff, 2011). Power indicates how these “values” are not distributed equally in American society. Huge gains for the rich include cuts in capital gains and dividends and when tax rates decrease for the tiny percent of Americans income is redistributed. Taxes directly affect the wealth and income of Americans every year.
Robert Heilbroner, in his essay “Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments,” justifies why the ideas stereotyped aren’t always correct. He goes on saying that stereotypes are “a kind of gossip” which makes us fit more into the life we think we need to live. He states examples of how names, nationalities an...
In today’s society, many people deal with the stereotypes media has placed upon a certain group of individuals as a whole, regardless of the person themselves. These particular groups of people are judged based on those stereotypes we see all the time. Until we have experienced those labels for ourselves, our emotions toward these stereotypes are just a mere fable of sympathy. We as people view things based on our own experiences, upbringing or even our backgrounds, but when the perspective of stereotypical stories is told from us, we tend to see things in a totally different way.
The authors of this essay state the media has been stereotyping races into different groups, and surveys performed only seem to put emphasis on this. The studies conducted reinforce that America is a country filled with stereotypical opinions. In their essay, the authors list several stereotypes given to minorities that they gathered from surveys they performed over a period of time. The essay also shows how to overcome racial stereotypes. The authors state different ways that society can come together and stop giving different races stereotypes.
What is social justice and how does it relate to liberation theology? How do sin, love, grace, and human freedom affect social justice? What restricts freedom and social justice? And how does all of this play a role in the Kingdom of God?
One of the most controversial topics that has been around since the beginning of mankind: equality. I believe in an equilibrium amongst all human beings. All forms of social injustices have impacted people but some have created a greater impression on history. People from across the globe speak of the moral values of equality. The United States is the country that advocates egalitarianism the most profoundly yet it still faces many issues. It is morally incorrect to discriminate each other solely because we are not all the same on the outside but anatomically, we are all the same. No one relishes in being judged, therefore, why do we do it to others? People encounter social injustice based on their economic status, gender, race, religion, age, health,
In conclusion, If this wealth tax is done fairly and logically then it would be a incredibly good solution to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor as well as creating a climate for social reconciliation and substantive equality.