Social Injustices Currently in America (“Concentration on African American Injustices”)
Social Injustices Currently in America (“Concentration on African American Injustices”)
Key Words, Social, Injustices, Economic, Spiritual, Political, Living Infrastructure, Violence, Healthcare, African, Diversity, Privilege, Power, Supremacy, Incarcerations, and Americans
Abstract
Social justice tends to be narrowly defined as equality without due recognition of human dignity and respect for those whose daily lives continue to be adversely impacted by race. This article seeks to explore key issues and challenges at the intersection of social justice and race for couple and family therapy. These include: (a) defining social justice; (b) diversity and inclusion; © power and privilege; (d) witness; and (e) personal responsibility. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/famp.12427.
Historically, relationships with “social justice” is usually undefined. Originally a Catholic term, first used about 1840 for a new kind of virtue. Social Injustices has existed since time and memorable. Even the Bible speaks about: Leviticus 19:15 — “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.” … Proverbs 14:31 — “Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.” https://www.google.com/url?.
The American constitution has embedded social injustices within its articles, “Liberty and justice for all,” the heart of America’s Pledge of Allegiance, operates under the belief that equality is achieved by granting the same legal rights to every human being. The U.S. Constitution, the nation’s supreme law, outlines the minimum rights society must provide to protect citizens from social injustices, such as discrimination based on skin color, persecution for beliefs and unequal access to liberties.” https://www.theclassroom.com/social-justice-human-rights-under-constitution-18059.html. Inalienable Human Rights. What does the Constitution say about 3/5 of a person? Often misinterpreted to mean that African Americans as individuals are considered three-fifths of a person or that they are three-fifths of a citizen of the U.S., the three-fifths clause (Article I, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution of 1787) in fact declared that for purposes of representation in Congress, enslaved. The George Floyd incident has definitely enlighten the conversations and has caused an global movement concerning social injustices with people of color.
Article one, section two of the Constitution of the United States declared that any person who was not free would be counted as three-fifths of a free individual for the purposes of determining congressional representation. The “Three-Fifths Clause” thus increased the political power of slaveholding states.
Key Questions Concerning Social Injustices
What are the Economic, Spiritual, Political, Living Infrastructure, Violence, and Health that effects people of color on daily bases? Economically, blacks experience this denied of the opportunity to make money or becoming unfairly paid for the work that they do. Spiritually, let’s go back to the Bible it mentioned the curse of Ham, blacks that was considered as chattel property was unable to practice their religion in certain countries because it is illegal. Politically, the United States constitution considered blacks as 3/5 of humans, too this day or not give the appropriate rights to the people to be included in the political process as equals and viewed not being worthy inclusion. Housing is definitely one of the main social injustices plaguing living in adequate infrastructures and communities that are thriving socially, the living conditions has not allowed them to thrive and live to the fullest. Violence, against blacks and African Americans is the number one key to all social injustices since the inauguration of the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow institutions has grown out the systemic oppression, and racism, that has threatened the lives of African Americans being attacked or receiving physical harm from white persons because of the color of their skin. Whites Americans has justified their cause of racism simply because of white supremacy and nothing else can be found to based this on any other beliefs other than those mentioned. The mental attacks are unrealistic. The Health system in America has its own systemic racism incorporated. Inadequate and inappropriate behavior towards blacks and other minorities denying them this basic humanitarian services is another social injustice plaguing America healthcare system, blacks are subjected to be subjected to instantiated and uninsured healthcare, so as a result blacks suffer more than others. Massive incarceration of blacks and minorities has a tremendous impact nestled in the society whereas disparities exist that blacks and other minorities will experience higher incarcerations than whites based on the populations that experienced higher rates than others.
Social injustices
Interview(s)
Yasin A. Abdul, 69 , Transportation, Asiatic, South Carolina, growing up in the south experiencing every kind of social injustices you could possibly imagined. South Carolina maintained its fully segregated system until 1963. I was born in 1950, so, let’s take a little bit of a glimpse into my past relationships with white people in South Carolina. Jim Crow was definitely rooted in the minds, and the hearts of the white people, and white supremacy was the rule of the day in our communities. My father was the representative of the NAACP, so on that note alone, our family was definitely constantly bombarded with all sorts of social injustices. My father was constantly called upon too represent the people at-large. My father encouraged me to attend the University of Michigan, and to major in political science, my focus was really there at the time , so, I withdrew from school, and want too experience other life experiences. In South Carolina, school desegregation did not begin until 1963, when Judge Robert Martin ruled in Millicent Brown et al v. Charleston County School Board, District 20 to approve requests from Black students to be admitted to White schools. https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/somebody_had_to_do_it/project_overview. My personal beliefs and opinions are deeply rooted in “I feel like a lot of black people, a lot of minorities, have gone through some really terrible times that people try and overlook or downplay”. That I can honestly say that the social injustices that I’ve personally experienced are as follows, equality, racial injustice, hunger and food, gun violence, income, healthcare, and voting rights to roughly touched on this conversation concerning social injustices and relationships with white America and systemic racism and oppression. Equality is at the spearhead of blacks and other minorities that’s bases our suffering in America, next is racial injustice, merely just looking at our skin color we experienced social injustices, right away whites used this against a whole race of people “unforgivable” to say the least, hunger and food, they the whites have deprived a people of a human basic source to substantiate your existence which is food feed and a man he’ll thrive, gun violence, is definitely one of the most disheartening experiences that single experience on the planet earth is the documented killings of African Americans, this mostly the topic today centered around social injustices in America. The outrageous of white supremacy when it comes to African Americans lives is unquestionably the defining moment of our conversation with white America, “black lives” does matter. The voting rights executive order was passed during part of my life experiences in America by passing and granting this as a executive order is similarly to the white women’s suffrage movement in contrast. Now, currently I’m experiencing age discrimination which also has social injustices attached. The beat goes on…
Shtoolah El, 53, Marketing Associated, Moorish American, Chicago, IL, growing up on the south side of Chicago was definitely a difficult segregated area mainly African Americans living and thriving in community that was very supported of each other nothing like what you witnessed today’s city of Chicago’s environment. My grandfather had a definite impact on my understanding and experiencing social injustices, my grandfather was a product of southern Mississippi and having a hatred for whites taught me about how he experienced social injustice in the south and the midwest. Chicago was considered a Mecca for blacks migrating from the south and experiencing oppression and racism, equality, and social injustices firsthand. In Chicago the largest ethnic group is Irish and Polish Americans, which comes from a different prospective when its comes to other minorities and the people seemed to clan together and they dominate the city of Chicago. So, not only did I had to deal with general white supremacy the Irish and Polish‘s peoples had their own beliefs and prejudices. In my experience systemic racism is also embraced by other immigrants from Europeans countries.
John Sigala, 62, Environment Specialist, Mexican American, Centra California, growing up in central California, having and appearance of being white and not having a typical Mexican accent, social injustices wasn’t my day to day experiences. I guess you could say that I had somewhat of a white special privilege experiences without my family having the necessary financial circumstances in hand. My family did suffer that many social injustices because of where we lived and the times catered to the standard lifestyle of the American society.
Kim Dean, 51, Homemaker, African American, Winston-Salem, NC, living as a person of color, in racially socially divided communities in the south has definitely sacred my social relationships with other races. The systemic racism, oppression, prejudices that I’ve experience significantly stained my prospectively in relationships with other races. The conversation I’m having are coming from being defensive. I realized that each individual person experiences with social injustices has molded their outlook on our they personally approach this subject matter presently and in the future. There’s countless research and studies in my area dating back to the sit-in demonstration during the 1960’s concerning integrating the food restaurant industry, so my recollections of this very social injustices behaviors within our systemic racism of separating the people from dining together was also very significant In sparking the civil rights movement in the south. I have two children a boy and a girl who are grown and have their own social injustices and experiences by having a darker skin color.
Dante Wright, 42, Real Estate Investor, Guyana, West Indian American, my experiences of social injustices and having two West Indian parents was a bit of challenge with the African American people living in my neighborhood. The social injustices we experienced was from the other blacks, white, and African Americans, there was prejudice coming from the above mentioned groups mostly on a daily basis. I got teased about my family coming from South America, and called names such as “Coconut” etc. I witnessed and experienced social injustices in all areas on a daily. My brother and I experience somewhat of a difference than our parents because of their accents and ours because we where born in America, so in that regards the experiences was vastly different. My comments on this subject matter is well established within the West Indian communities throughout America, we suffer similar racial stereotypes and social injustices the same. We’re viewed through the lenses of most blacks as being very aggressive with among very high towards living the American dreams…
Mary Bronner, 55, Real Estate Management, African American, Atlanta, GA, born and raised in Cincinnati, OH, my neighborhood was definitely segregated from other races, we manly had African Americans living in my community. We sorted like had some what of a village like environment growing up and the social injustices we experiences can from the white peoples in control of our daily lives. Now, that I grown up being a divorced single mother raising two children a boy and a girl, I can say honestly that my worries are concerning my son being of the age of 23 years old and not having too many experiences with knowing about how definitely that how white society views him cause me anxiety constantly knowing that he has a target on his back everyday he leaves the house. Knowing that things exist out of my control when it comes to his skin color along. In Georgia the dirty south as it is know today just recently the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, is constantly centered around protecting my son welfare and mental suffering to give him the opportunities and the necessary support he needs under these current circumstances living in America and having dark skin.
In summary the conversation is changing. I know it may not seem like it at the moment under the current political climate, particularly here in the US, but it is. Race, equity, and social justice are becoming a driving forces across all sectors. The world’s global population are demonstrating and protesting in this world phenomenon cause the millennials has and energy that the world hasn’t experience before and the the changed of social injustices aren’t centered around politics anymore. In my opinion the politicians have lost the control and must follow the lead of the millennials, they have taken this movement out of their hands and are now the driving force behind the social injustices causes. Culture and appearances are the dominant forces impacting human relationships with each other individually and collectively. I personally was born in the south but eventually migrated to the north, so my personal experiences are very deep rooted by experiencing two different situations and having relationships with white supremacy on two different levels. On the rise simply because of now whites are experiencing some forms of social injustices such as federal police organizations are treading on the rights of white people expressing their 1st Amendment right to peaceful assembled and protest. Authoritarianism seems to be on the rise from the president.
Studies on Racism and Social Injustices;
One study showed that African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans have more than a one-in-three chance of suffering discrimination in any given job search, concluding that roughly 600,000 blacks, 275,000 Latinos, and 150,000 Asian Americans face job discrimination each year (Wise, 88).
In studies of service-industry employment, research showed that even when researchers sent African-American testers who were more qualified; white applicants were more likely to get an interview (Ibid., 90–91).
A Princeton study using black, white, and Latino test applicants who were trained to have the same communication styles, physical characteristics, and demeanor found that white applicants were far more likely than applicants of color to be called back. It also found that even white men claiming a felony record were slightly more likely to be called back than black applicants with no criminal record (Ibid., 88–89);” and
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Social Injustices Experienced by Children of Incarcerated Parents
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Whereas, in 1967, when Jim Crow segregation was wounded, but still alive, median household income was 43 percent higher for white, non-Hispanic households than for black households, yet by 2011, with legal segregation eliminated, that figure had risen to 72 percent (Ned Resnikoff, “Race is the elephant in the room when it comes to inequality,” MSNBC, posted 03/13/14, updated 05/23/14. Available online at http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/washingtons-silence-the-racial-wealth-gap)
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Marking time: art in the age of mass incarceration
Book Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication Year
2020
Article Title
Social Injustice in America — Social Issues and Problems
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Study Lecture Notes
Date Accessed
August 16, 2020
Date Published
September 29, 2015
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Examples of current social injustice across cultures
URL
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Brecht Forum
Date Accessed
August 17, 2020
Date Published
January 23, 2018
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US black-white inequality in 6 stark charts
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CNN
Date Accessed
August 17, 2020
Date Published
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Article Title
Social Justice Issues
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Examples and Solutions | Pachamama Alliance
Date Accessed
August 17, 2020
Article Title
Examples of current social injustice across cultures
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Website Title
Brecht Forum
Date Accessed
August 17, 2020
Date Published
January 23, 2018
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Racial injustice in America is worse than you thought
Date Accessed
August 17, 2020
Date Published
April 11, 2018
Article Title
41 Examples of Outstanding Injustice
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https://www.lifepersona.com/41-examples-of-outstanding-injustice
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Life Persona
Date Accessed
August 17, 2020
