Social Justice/Injustice

Once again we are on the topic of Justice. As I have stated many times before Justice is unachievable. There is no way to completely satisfy every party in a situation, therefore no one will feel like they have achieved justice. In Brian Stevenson’s TED talk “We need to talk about an Injustice,” He has some good points yet some bad ones. He talks about how there are many people on death row, how children are given life with out parole for certain crimes and how there is a poverty cycle. For the people put on death row, he claims that a lot of it has to do with race. He says that if a white man is victim and criminal then they are 11 times more likely to get put to death. If a white man is the victim and a black man is the criminal then they are 22 times more likely to get put on death row. Death is a serious punishment for a crime. No judge and jury will put someone to death unless they absolutely deserve it. If there are any doubts then the chances are they won’t put them on death row. I do not agree with the statement that some criminals are mis judged and put on death row because of their race. It’s not because of their race that they were put on death row, it’s because of what they did. The reason he believes African Americans are more likely to be put on death row is because their are more of them committing crimes. I do not want to sound racist at all. But coming from a family where my mom is a crime scene detective, I hear a lot of stories and most of the crimes that are commited where she works are from the African American community. Stevenson actually talks about the reason for this. He says that these people are stuck in a poverty cycle, which is one hundred percent true. When this life style is all you know and you watch your parents grow up with it, then of course that is how you are going to live your life too. And that is an injustice in itself. Everyone should have an equal opportunity to live a fair life, but it’s not like the government is doing much to help certain people. Sure there are some programs like welfare and what not, but is that really helping someone get out of poverty? NO. “It’s like the saying if you give a man a fish he he has food for a day, but if you teach a man to fish then he will have food for a lifetime.”