Philosophy
The word social justice, after 4 years of attending Social Justice High School this term resonates within me like a wildfire or more so, a phoenix, because social justice is much more than what its namesake provides you to understand.
Social Justice means justice for all regardless of culture, ethnicity, gender, and social class. I have come to understand that social justice is the root of all equality, I’ve had experiences in my life where I’ve seen injustice and knowing how powerful social justice can be as well as knowing what to do with this knowledge can allow me to protect myself, my family, and community.
In class we hear this term everyday because it is through social justice where change can really be imposed. You might ask why we can’t achieve social justice and that is because of the lust for power, and wealth. While there is ongoing hate towards different races reaching total equality is near impossible. However, time and time again we see examples in history that show us the path, in order to reach our goals for social justice. Just like during the civil rights movement the blacks struggled for racial equality and were treated so poorly, they were scolded, beat, and murdered just for having a little more melanin in their skin than everyone else. In addition, they achieved social justice because of their desire for equality and a better future for their children.
Another example of this is the Cuban Revolution. The downfall of Fulgencio Batista’s regime in Cuba was a pivotal event that had to take place for if it were not through the struggle of the people involved they would not have rid themselves of such a tyrannical dictatorship. Current obstacles towards social justice is now Islamophobia, in the United States a presidential candidate by the name of Donald Trump specializes in siphoning the fear and hate from people’s hearts and due to this we are again at a standoff against injustice.
We live in a country where private corporations profit in the incarceration of the nation’s people. Striking contracts with local and state governments to meet lockup quotas. This is clearly an injustice that we must as a people fight againsts and taking up arms is not the first way to take action.
There are many techniques possible for social justice.The one and most effective of which is non-violence protesting. Protesting without presenting violence makes us nothing more but the victim and the oppressors the enemy. This form of civil disobedience inflicts more of a scar than bullets ever could.
Mahatma Gandhi once stated that only through “ahimsa” (non-violence) there will be change. With this mindset is how he accomplished to change India forever from colonialism.
Additionally, our president John F. Kennedy once stated “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”. His words state that if we cannot formulate a way to change without violence, then we are doomed to see that violence will be the inevitable cause for change.
Through my lifetime the word social justice shall begin to flood people’s minds as they are free from the perplexion that the 1% has made them follow. As a freshman at Social Justice High School my classmates and I entered at an unfortunate time with so much calamity going on although new to the word social justice and what it meant we protested. Through the guidance of upper classmen we sat and protested not only for the return of the AP classes we were soon to take ourselves but for the principal that made everything at Social Justice possible.This was the beginning of our struggle.
My personal contribution to social justice is simply breaking the stereotype that my ethnicity has been labeled with. To show those who believe that because I am a minority it shows my inferiority. My fire is to prove those who constantly throw labels at my community and my race are wrong. That is my fire, showing that every color that exists on this Earth is not only equal in heart, mind, and soul but that it does not define one's character and never will. I will commit the rest of my life to social justice. I will be the one to stand against the tyranny of injustice whenever I see it. To stand up for those who cannot. And that is what Social Justice means to me.
The word social justice, after 4 years of attending Social Justice High School this term resonates within me like a wildfire or more so, a phoenix, because social justice is much more than what its namesake provides you to understand.
Social Justice means justice for all regardless of culture, ethnicity, gender, and social class. I have come to understand that social justice is the root of all equality, I’ve had experiences in my life where I’ve seen injustice and knowing how powerful social justice can be as well as knowing what to do with this knowledge can allow me to protect myself, my family, and community.
In class we hear this term everyday because it is through social justice where change can really be imposed. You might ask why we can’t achieve social justice and that is because of the lust for power, and wealth. While there is ongoing hate towards different races reaching total equality is near impossible. However, time and time again we see examples in history that show us the path, in order to reach our goals for social justice. Just like during the civil rights movement the blacks struggled for racial equality and were treated so poorly, they were scolded, beat, and murdered just for having a little more melanin in their skin than everyone else. In addition, they achieved social justice because of their desire for equality and a better future for their children.
Another example of this is the Cuban Revolution. The downfall of Fulgencio Batista’s regime in Cuba was a pivotal event that had to take place for if it were not through the struggle of the people involved they would not have rid themselves of such a tyrannical dictatorship. Current obstacles towards social justice is now Islamophobia, in the United States a presidential candidate by the name of Donald Trump specializes in siphoning the fear and hate from people’s hearts and due to this we are again at a standoff against injustice.
We live in a country where private corporations profit in the incarceration of the nation’s people. Striking contracts with local and state governments to meet lockup quotas. This is clearly an injustice that we must as a people fight againsts and taking up arms is not the first way to take action.
There are many techniques possible for social justice.The one and most effective of which is non-violence protesting. Protesting without presenting violence makes us nothing more but the victim and the oppressors the enemy. This form of civil disobedience inflicts more of a scar than bullets ever could.
Mahatma Gandhi once stated that only through “ahimsa” (non-violence) there will be change. With this mindset is how he accomplished to change India forever from colonialism.
Additionally, our president John F. Kennedy once stated “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”. His words state that if we cannot formulate a way to change without violence, then we are doomed to see that violence will be the inevitable cause for change.
Through my lifetime the word social justice shall begin to flood people’s minds as they are free from the perplexion that the 1% has made them follow. As a freshman at Social Justice High School my classmates and I entered at an unfortunate time with so much calamity going on although new to the word social justice and what it meant we protested. Through the guidance of upper classmen we sat and protested not only for the return of the AP classes we were soon to take ourselves but for the principal that made everything at Social Justice possible.This was the beginning of our struggle.
My personal contribution to social justice is simply breaking the stereotype that my ethnicity has been labeled with. To show those who believe that because I am a minority it shows my inferiority. My fire is to prove those who constantly throw labels at my community and my race are wrong. That is my fire, showing that every color that exists on this Earth is not only equal in heart, mind, and soul but that it does not define one's character and never will. I will commit the rest of my life to social justice. I will be the one to stand against the tyranny of injustice whenever I see it. To stand up for those who cannot. And that is what Social Justice means to me.