Friday, October 8, 2010

Social Injustice

Emmett Till was a 14 years old African American boy who has been humiliated and murdered. Just because he whistled at a white female store clerk. Like Emmet Till case, Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird has similar case. Both Tom Robinson and Emmett Till was judged in negative ways just because of their race / color. If they were not African American their case would not be issued and gets bigger and bigger. AND There's still many social injustices can be found in small things. For example, the minorities in certain country is easily neglected and ignored by larger populations of races. Even though racism is getting better as the time pass, still it happens. (it is kind of personal but) When I first came to United States, there was some difficulties with buying all the stuff. My mom and I was shopping at some store, and we had buy pretty a lot off stuff, and it cost more than 400 dollars. At that time, we only had cash, but when we paid cash, the store clerk started to look at us suspiciously and called managers over to check if the cash was genuine. Well I did not realize that it was unfair treatment at that time, but like this case, social injustice is pretty common and it should be stopped.

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