Social Justice In Zeitoun

After reading Zeitoun, my response to social justice is that it does not exist in this universe. If we are looking at social justice in the big picture, it is a great thing to talk about social justice as if there was some imaginary balancing point at which such equality could be reached. However, in reality social justice does exist. It just being understood to those who it matters the most. For those whose lives are privileged, they would not want to know because they only hope for their own success to last forever. If social justice means everyone deserves equal rights, political, social and economic opportunities, then why the government did not take control and save those in greatest need. They were too worry about judging others like

When we talk about Zeitoun, our mind come across to Post Katrina disaster where hundreds of people lost their lives because the government especially FEMA neglected their duty. The agency was criticized primarily for ineffectiveness and for slowing down the efforts of other agencies as well as civilian volunteers to help after the hurricane. It urged authorities from other states not to send help to affected areas without the proper authorization from state and local organizations. The inexperience leadership in FEMA started to break out because no one wants to take full responsibility of the matter. According to the book Zeitoun, Dave Eggers the author states, “[Zeitoun’s] frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then

When frustration comes, the blaming game become an excuse of the matter. Since Zeitoun happen to be in a place where blaming others was the way to save their reputations, he was accused because of who he was, a Muslim living in America. In the Zeitoun, Dave Eggers states, “Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? ... When a crime is committed by a black man, it's mentioned in the first breath: 'An African American man was arrested today...' But what about German Americans? Anglo Americans? A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he's of Scottish descent? In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned” (Eggers, 41). This quote shows the stereotype that occurs during this time, especially when things needed to be resolved. Judging others for their religious beliefs or the color of their skin colors will only emphasize the differences. The single story here has created a danger in American society therefore they sentence the man who was serving social justice to save others the government couldn’t save. The consequence of not understanding the value of social justice is; it robs people dignity as we seen in Zeitoun. If we keep playing the blaming game to save our own good, the reality is social justice will never occur in our