Missael Galvez
5-29-12
CRW 2nd Social Justice Philosophy
For me Social Justice is when a person is treated with equally no matter race, gender, or class also to have the
right to speak and to be heard when he/she is communicating. Social Justice is
one thing that we all humans should have and no one should take it away because
we are all equal. Social Justice is not oppressing others because that only
leads to dehumanizitation. Social Justice is to help those being oppressed by
the oppressors to liberate themselves. At the beginning of my freshmen year I
did not know what really Social Justice means I used to think that Social
Justice was just laws, and rules that we had to follow. But now as I realize,
Social Justice became a huge part in my life because now I try to create
solidarity and equally everyday I can. What transform me was a film that I watch
in College Reading And Writing class it was called La gardens it was basically
about how a group of Latino people had a garden were there they grew crops to
help support their families. But a men that did not knew nothing about social
justice did not wanted this families in the garden that supposal was his garden
then he wanted to sell the garden to the families and the families did
fundraiser to found for the money to buy the garden then the owner did not want
to sell the garden because the families were Latinos. Then the families stoop up
for their social rights and with the money they raised they bought their garden
to grow their crops.
Social justice generally refers to the idea of creating a society or institution that is based on the principles of equality
and solidarity that understands and values human rights, and that recognizes the
dignity of every human being. Yeah that we all think it is but in reality is not
when we have poverty in the world and unequal distribution of goods between
minorities and majorities. We do not have Social Justice because there is those
that abuse of their power we have cops that abuse of their power we have a
corrupt government that does not share the goods equally. The obstacle of trying
to achieve social justice is that in can put you in danger. Like if your trying
to do a change in your community others out side of your community could take it
the wrong way and get offended and that is when they try to defend their
thoughts and beliefs and can lead to arguments or attacks. Like what happen Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. he got assassinated unfairly when he was trying to
achieve social justice for the African Americans when everything was segregated
in the past back then there was no Social Justice between whites and blacks
because their was no equally between one another. Trying to achieve Social
Justice can be hard but it can really pay up.
The techniques and strategies that can help us to achieve Social Justice is try to create
equally to one another, treat everyone the same way we want to be treated, and
don’t say nothing that others may get offended with. Another strategy is
organized a group of people to create a movement to look for a change. People
struggle to achieve Social Justice because they don’t follow these techniques we
do not treat each other with equally or respect. We also don’t show solidatarity
to one another. Social Justice can only occurred if we want to others should not
influence us and treat everyone with equality.
What I will do right now is when I see unfairness like racism, discrimination, try to stop and try to
explain to the oppressor that he’s causing a bad and instead lead to a social
justice world with equal opportunities or everyone no one getting discriminated.
Imagine my self-helping out others to try to achieve Social Justice in the ways
I can. What I would do in the future is try to help others know about what
social Justice means so no one w\can take advantage of them.