...was just me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of a Shame”. Brene Brown uses strategically planted rhetorical devices to influence the reader’s reaction to women reclaiming their ability to be courageous. Social injustice was even harder to try to put to an end for a women like Harriet Tubman, but the world has slightly improved on social injustice. Social injustice is unfair, everyone deserves to be treated with privacy and respect. The three most common ones are Discrimination, Homophobia, and Ageism. There are plenty examples of social injustice in the world today, although, there has been some trials to stop it in the past. Tubman did her best to fight against racial discrimination. Harriet Tubman was the beginning leverage for the success of the African Culture. For over 200 years, African Americans have had to fight with their pride. Many people have died, but the chain on the African culture hasn’t. Blacks still have to fight daily to stop racial discrimination upon them. Why is this? Why is the African American culture still at oppression? Studies show that police are more likely to pull over and frisk blacks than whites. For African Americans, every day is a day of social injustice. Recently, many blacks have been shot and killed by policemen based on the color of their skin....
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...which was written by Harper Lee. This story took place in 1930’s in Southern Alabama when the injustice between black people and white people was very deep. In this period, the black people were considered as the Mockingbirds, the innocuous birds for people’s lives. However, these birds often were killed without any guilt just like the black people were shot and lynched by the white people even though they were innocent. It was the fate for the black people in the South who lived in the 1930’s. Especially, through the court scene in “To Kill a Mockingbird” which was about the trial of Tom Robinson, a married black man, who was sentenced for raping Mayella, a white woman, Harper Lee emphasized deeply the injustice for the black people. Indeed, the black people did not have any justice in the South in 1930’s. Tom Robinson was the defendant who was accused of raping Mayella on the night of August 21st. The truth was that Tom did not do anything bad to Mayella. On that day, he only passed by Mayella’s house and came in to her house to help her as she requested. Suddenly, she hugged him around the waist and kissed his face. She made him so embarrassed and afraid that he had to run away. Although Tom did not commit a crime, he was still accused of raping Mayella by her father, Bob Ewell, just because he was black. In fact, Tom only wanted to help Mayella and he also knew where the black and the white people stood; so he always tried to keep himself in the right position in the society...
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...lot of racial injustice in the legal system. Black people would be sent to prison or killed for crimes they either did not commit or for crimes that did not deserve such punishments. The author Harper Lee was aware of this injustice and she based her book To Kill a Mockingbird on one of these trials. The trial that was taking place during this novel was called the Scottsboro boys trial. Once again black men were being accused of a crime but they did not commit. -The Scottsboro boys trial •What Happened On March 25, 1931 in Scottsboro, Alabama a group of nine black teenagers entered onto a train. Their names were Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Hayward Patterson, Eugene Williams, and Andrew and Leroy Wright .When a group of white teenagers saw one of the boys,...
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...feminism is also real, white feminism rejects intersectionality as it can only benefit the most privileged and is not a term for a white person who is a feminist. Intersectionality feminism usually deals with racial, social, and political injustices. Believe it or not, racial injustices still occur today. One of the most recent racial injustices is what happened to Sandra Bland who was manhandled, arrested and three days later found dead in her jail cell. Even though it is unclear what really happened, this was an act of police brutality because if she were a white women she wouldn’t have been arrested for a traffic stop incident and she wouldn’t be dead. Another case of police brutality is when 12 year old, Tamir Rice died by two police officers who shot him to death for having a toy gun. He received no justice because of how old he looked. Not only that but the way black women and other people of color experience...
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...Do All Black Lives Matters? Do all Black Lives Matters? Since the being of the movement late last year that is the question running through most peoples’ minds. Whenever there is a story that is about Black Lives Matters it mainly focuses on straight this gender, males with the exception of Sandra Bland. We barely hear about black women being victims of police brutality even though the founder of the movement are women. We also never hear and get media coverage for LGBT+ victims even though they too have large murder rate. There is also a lack of support in the movement for people that aren’t perceived as “Black enough”. The lack of focus on black women, Eraser of the black LGBT+, and colorism shows the injustices within the Black Lives Matters movement. The first example of injustice within the Black Live Matters movement is the lack of focus on women. Black Lives Matters were created in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi after George Zimmerman was acquittal. Since then the movement has grown tremendously from being mentioned on every major news network, newspapers and websites, to even come up in the presidential debates. Yet there is no mention of the founders being females at all. . Being that the movement was started by women there is hardly any coverage on female victims of police brutality, with the exception of Sandra Bland....
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...coined expression "black feminist thought", and increased the general applicability of her theory from African American women to all women". An example is black feminism, black feminism argues that racism, sexism, and class oppression are all bound together. Patricia Hill Collins argues, that intersectionality focuses on the intersecting forms of oppressions. Black women are uniquely placed in the middle of where two exceptionally powerful and prevalent systems of oppression come together: race and gender. Women need to understand this position as something Collins calls “intersectionality” which opens up the possibility of seeing and understanding many more spaces of crosscutting interests. That means women must understand the social position black women should require, look for, and other spaces where systems of inequality come together. No one identity or oppression is the primary axis of oppression, which needs to be tackled in order to solve...
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...slavery was a very common topic but there were others such as inequality between the races and sexes, injustice and resentment, the black identity, and a strong faith and religion. Even though the words can be separated in the end they all come back together. There were many narratives written by fugitive slaves before the Civil War and by former slaves in the postbellum era. These narratives document slave life from the perspective of first-hand experience. The stories they tell are dark and ugly. The authors like Douglas and Jacobs reveal the struggles, sorrows, aspirations, and triumphs of slaves in absorbingly personal story-telling. Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was the first autobiography by a formerly enslaved African American woman. In it she describes her experience of the sexual exploitation that made slavery especially oppressive for black women. She also recounts her life in slavery in the context of family relationships with her escape and her struggle to free her children. Fredrick Douglas who wrote Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas, an American Slave, Written by Himself depicts the grim life of slavery as well. He vividly describes the brutality that slaves endured, the meager rations they are allowed for nourishment, and even the murder of a slave. He also hits on the common practice of slave owners raping the enslaved women. Douglas also writes of his escape from slavery and fleeing north. This brutal harsh life was reality...
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...in America. Women are the targets of rape, the most underreported violent crime. 60% of rapes go unreported to the police; cases that are reported and end up going to trial have a low rate of punishment for perpetrators (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, 2008). Rape is a powerful tool of sexual violence because women are forced to assume the position of powerless victim, one who has no control over what is happening to her body. The ability to silence its victims also erases evidence of the crime, thus leading to a higher incidence of underreporting. Rape is part of a system of male dominance. This system has lead to opinions that the female body, especially the black female body, is available for men at their leisure, thus leading to a society tolerant of prostitution and sexual violence against low-income black women. Race is one of the predicting factors of sexual violence. Although 80% of all victims are white, minorities are more likely to be attacked (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, 2008). Since the black female body is hypersexualized, due to negative media images, black women face injustices when trying to pursue justice for an unjust attack on their bodies. Societal male dominance has created an environment where sexual violence is tolerated; this environment combined with the social position of low-income black women in the United States has lead to disproportionate sexual victimization of black women, which is exacerbated by injustices in the United...
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...Give Me Liberty! Give Us Suffrage! “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!” This famous quote used by Patrick Henry during his Virginia Convention speech was the declaration of the many persons who faced injustice and inequality in America. The United States of America was said to be the land of opportunity and prosperity, but opportunity and prosperity for whom? Terms and conditions were not stipulated upon living in or relocating to America that liberty would only be available to those that qualified. Prior to the 1900’s most of America’s population did not enjoy the full blessings of American Liberty. There were many factors during the 19th century that contributed to being afforded and denied American Liberty. While it was easier for white men with wealth and property to exercise full liberty, the color of ones skin, race, or sex was a hindrance to others wanting to enjoy the benefits of full liberty. During the 19th century, the United States was a “white man’s government.” Whites mainly associated liberty with ownership of property. Therefore, if one owned property, they were entitled to enjoy the benefits of liberty. However, the only persons that owned property prior to reconstruction were white wealthy men. White men in America during reconstruction wanted to keep the “privilege” of liberty to themselves. White men during reconstruction also wanted to keep the right to vote to themselves. According to J. Morgan Kousser “A man with a ballot in his hand is the master...
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...Racial injustice is the plague that has infected the nation we live in today, spreading from the day that farms discovered cash crops and fighting against all odds to ruin the views that we have against people of color. It takes the form of denial of rights in front of a judge, or casually residing in those on the streets, tempting them to change their opinions based on someone’s differences. The courts, juries and everyday people across the nation demonstrate this ideal of racial injustice everyday, shown from the writings of anti-racist Tim Wise and the life of Scout Finch in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, in which they highlight the difference in treatment between those of color and those who are white. Throughout the entirety...
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...When black women, who are defending themselves, are charged with assault or murder, it demonstrates how these individuals are marginalized and victimized all over again. There is no other female demographic group that is more likely to be assaulted, domestically abused or murdered, than black women (Jones-DeWeever). However, instead of these women receiving justice through the American legal system, they are charged and incarcerated at disproportional rates. Therefore, one must ask why the justice system contains such disparity and what can be done to rectify these injustices? Marissa Alexandra’s case demonstrates how the Stand Your Ground law was applied so randomly in one state. A Florida jury found George Zimmerman, who gunned down an unarmed black man, innocent of murder, on the basis of Stand Your Ground law. However, when...
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...In Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” he tells his followers, “We are saying we are determined to be men” (King). He is telling them that what they desire is not wrong; it is simple. It is the desire for justice and equality. Similarly, in her book The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan tells women to seek their freedom, despite feeling wrong for wanting to have the opportunities their husbands and their brothers were raised to expect. Just as Friedan tells women they can no longer “that voice within [them] saying “I want something more than my husband and my children and my house’” (Friedan 32), MLK tells the black people “we’re going to march again, and we’ve got to march again, in order to put the issue where it is supposed to be” (King). The leaders of both movements work to inspire their people and call them to action. This connection shows the ideological connection between the two movements. In each, there is the understanding that people need to be shown the injustice and that the injustice needs to be fought by the...
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...Since the mid-20th century, nonviolence and civil disobedience become the main form of social change, and it also is respected political and social philosophy. As the practice of social and political change, non-violent has the essence difference with pacifism, it is contrary to the wishes of the oppressed, and it struggle with any injustice and power political. In my final paper, I will instruction three famous Non-violence movement leader: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela; and also I will compare the similar and difference between them. Mahatma Gandhi was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in Britishruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world. A very important turning point in Gandhi’s life is he arrived in South Africa to work as a legal representative for the Muslim Indian traders based in the city of Pretoria when he was 24. In South Africa he faced the discrimination directed at colored people, prejudice and injustice law. In order protest this discrimination and injustice, Gandhi held a mass protest meeting in Johannesburg, and Gandhi adopted his non-violent protest for the first time. After this mass protest meeting, Gandhi’s ideas took shape, and the concept of non-violent matured...
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...because a historical event or social movement may transform policy, it doesn’t necessarily shift individual attitudes. Perpetrators and victims of historical injustice often view events differently because they have different incentives for acknowledging the past. People who benefit from inequality tend to distance themselves and blame the victims, while the victims attempt to preserve memories of past atrocities (Perlman et al., 2015)....
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...all fronts. Generally the leaders of these movements were educated middle class white women, like Betty Friedan, and Alice Paul. Although these women were major contributors to the cause, they claimed to be victims of the oppression of male dominance, but the privileged white women doesn’t even come close to the social inequalities and injustices dealt to women like Fannie Lou Hamer. Hamer was a victim of racial and sexual discrimination from the day she was born. Although Hamer was born into a lower class, slave like family, she refused to become a victim of the system and rose to become a prominent figure for the rights of all black people especially women. As stated previously most rights activists came from middle class families who were sent through a college education. Whereas Fannie Lou Hamer was born into a family of share croppers, and was the last of twenty children. Obviously Hamer grew up in an extremely poor household, and she ended up dropping out of school to work full time on the fields with her family. In the 1950’s Hamer became a victim to one of her major forms of injustice, “She went into a hospital to have a small cyst in her stomach removed, only to wake up and find that she had been given a hysterectomy.” (Lee 21). Without her permission, a doctor had taken one of the most valued privileges the right to reproduce. Although Hamer did not speak out much about this injustice, it did incite her to attend her first Civil Rights Meeting by James Forman of the Student...
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