Denise's Philosiphy
I believe that social justice is a struggle that society faces day by day in order to receive what they believe are rights and justice that won't just benefit an individual, but a group of people. In my freshmen year I had no idea what social justice was; all I thought was that social justice had something to do with strikes, but my teachers and peers helped me develop my understanding of what social justice meant. My African Latino history class constantly teaches us about our own history and how our own ancestors fought and struggled for social justice. Our ancestors resisted oppressors’ abuses, but once they had enough they did everything they can to run away and/or rebel. A man called Yanga started the slave rebellion that occurred in Mexico. The slave rebellion caused them achieve freedom and equal rights.
I believe that speaking up for something that we believe is wrong is the biggest step, but the hardest to do. The obstacles we face usually starts off with ourselves being scared and finding the courage to speak up. The main obstacles when it comes to struggling and achieving social justice have to deal with oppressors. Oppressors are usually the ones with the control and that don’t want to make a change since it won’t benefit them. The perfect example would be when the Spanish had control of New Spain, the natives and Africans didn’t had rights and were being overworked and abused by the Spanish for many years. Yanga who was an African slave spoke up and caused a rebellion against the Spanish. This rebellion caused equal rights and freedom to natives and Africans in Mexico.
The topic of child soldiers is connected to social justice is because it’s an issue that affects us all and manly the next generation. Child soldiers are linked with other issues like poverty, government corruption, and unequal rights for education. Children’s rights are being abused and being put into situations in where their childhood dies by serving military/violent groups. This is a cruel problem that affects society globally since there are child soldiers in almost every part of the world. This topic also affects us nationally and locally, but people don’t speak up about it for several of reasons. Children that are in gangs are also child soldiers that are killing their childhood and risking their lives to serve a violent group. Society tends to judge these children instead offering them help and don’t realize that society is oppressing these children by giving them low expectations that can later develop into psychological problems.
I believe that speaking up for something that we believe is wrong is the biggest step, but the hardest to do. The obstacles we face usually starts off with ourselves being scared and finding the courage to speak up. The main obstacles when it comes to struggling and achieving social justice have to deal with oppressors. Oppressors are usually the ones with the control and that don’t want to make a change since it won’t benefit them. The perfect example would be when the Spanish had control of New Spain, the natives and Africans didn’t had rights and were being overworked and abused by the Spanish for many years. Yanga who was an African slave spoke up and caused a rebellion against the Spanish. This rebellion caused equal rights and freedom to natives and Africans in Mexico.
The topic of child soldiers is connected to social justice is because it’s an issue that affects us all and manly the next generation. Child soldiers are linked with other issues like poverty, government corruption, and unequal rights for education. Children’s rights are being abused and being put into situations in where their childhood dies by serving military/violent groups. This is a cruel problem that affects society globally since there are child soldiers in almost every part of the world. This topic also affects us nationally and locally, but people don’t speak up about it for several of reasons. Children that are in gangs are also child soldiers that are killing their childhood and risking their lives to serve a violent group. Society tends to judge these children instead offering them help and don’t realize that society is oppressing these children by giving them low expectations that can later develop into psychological problems.