Social Justice

Social justice is the fair and just relation between the individual and society. This is measured by the explicit and tacit terms for the distribution of wealth, opportunities for personal activity and social privileges. In western as well as in Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has often referred to the process of ensuring that individuals fulfill their societal roles and receive what was their due from society. Today social justice lies in between the balance of chaos and insanity. In what possible way could law enforcement be viewed as criminals while professional athletes who show no respect to the country that pays them millions of dollars be viewed as political figures and heroes? Yes I am from a white suburbia in Sioux

With everything from the shootings of unarmed civilians, to people rioting and destroying the very city that they live in, the media could never run out of stories, but they try their best to hide the ones that tell both sides of matters such as police shootings. There will always be stories and statistics that the media will leave out just to add fuel to the fire. As of July 9th, of the current 440 police shootings, 54% of the victims were white, while 28% were African-American, and the other 18% were Hispanic. First look at these numbers, how could police officers be racist if shootings of African Americans barely count for one-fourth of all police involved shootings. Well I can elaborate on that; any story that involves a white cop shooting a black suspect is automatically going down as a racist shooting. Doesn’t matter if the suspect is resisting arrest or shooting at the officers, the title will always be “White police officer kills African American in city whatever.” Let’s make this a little more interesting

That’s an eight to one ratio; yet how many stories do we hear about where the subject was unarmed? But what is interesting is what police define as unarmed. In police reports, the word unarmed was only used for those not carrying a deadly weapon or any form or toy weapon or vehicle. What’s not included in this category is any attempt to resist arrest. While browsing the ninety some stories about unarmed suspects, it seems that the vast majority were attempting to run, snatch the officer’s gun, or flee the patrol car. So now let’s put these numbers in a real world case. New York City has a population of roughly eight and a half million. While only twenty three percent of their population is African American, they account for over seventy percent of all total crimes. How could a community expect help in a situation like this from a group of people, such as law enforcement, where every move they do that the community doesn’t approve of will be shown as a racist act to the