Injustice

I personally have never experienced or observed an injustice in person. In my social work class we have been watching movies and documentaries about segregation and oppression among African American’s. It upset me when I saw people yelling and cussing at African Americans for absolutely no reason. In the 60’s there were people who had signs that had the N word written all over it, saying they would never want to be in the same school as someone who is African American. There were an abundance of police brutality and arrests for no reason, just because of the color of their skin. There was footage of lynching’s, mobs, protests, all over the color of someone’s skin. One child got beaten up so bad that he was unrecognizable due to his face being swollen from the beatings. That should never of happened in the first place. When I was watching that I just felt sad and helpless, like there was no reason for someone to get treated that way just because you look different on the outside. We are all humans at the end of the day, not one person is more superior than the next in my eyes. I have thought to myself what would I do if I were walking and saw some people picking on or being racist to anybody, not just African American. I know that I would stick up for them and have their back. BUT, if I saw people getting physically bullied like pushed around, I am stepping in and reciprocating back. When I saw the footage of a helpless African American being beaten and pushed by a group of white kids, I remember my adrenaline pumping through my body and I had this sense of anger and wanting to be there so I can fight those kids. Obviously I cant go around fighting everyone who is being bullied like that (although sometimes I think it should be that way). Although discrimination is still a thing today I do not understand why and wish I could sit down with a bunch of people who are racist, homophobic, sexist, and figure out WHY they are like that because it doesn’t make sense to me how anyone can be that negative to another person. You don’t have to like every person you meet, but there is absolutely no reason why someone should have these negative feelings to anybody just because they are different than you.