One example of injustice appears throughout “The Hate U Give” when Khalil gets shot and they leave his body out in the open for everyone to see. For example, when Star thinks about how they didn’t respect the items in his car. “...The cops rummage through Khalil’s car. I try to tell them to stop. Please, cover his body with a sleeve. Please, close his eyes, he said. Please, close his mouth. Get away from his car. Don’t pick up his hairbrush. But the words never come out.” (Thomas, Page 17). This shows that they didn’t care about him enough to care about his things. In addition, this means they didn’t care enough to respect him or Star in the situation. Additionally, When Star thinks about how long it took them to cover Khalil's body. “...They …show more content…
Louis had a loud disagreement. For instance, when the cop holds Mavrick down on the ground, it reminds Star of what happened with Khalil. The black cop keeps his knee on Daddy’s back as he searches him. He pats him down once, twice, three times, just like One-Fifteen did Khalil. Nothing.” (Thomas, Page 88). This shows that even though Maverick didn’t do anything, they decided to make an example out of him. In addition, this shows that they wanted to scare Star by being disrespectful to her dad in front of her. Beforehand, the officer yells at him to get down, but only after learning who he is. ”The black officer looks at him. “Get on the ground, hands behind your back.” “But—” “On the ground, face-down!” he yells. “Now!” (Thomas, page 87). This means that they didn’t want him on the ground until they found out he was Star’s dad. This also shows that they didn’t care about causing a scene as long as it scared Star. This shows “The Hate U Give” has mentions of police brutality, which is also an injustice that needs to be fixed in the real world. It also shows that injustice appears throughout “The Hate U Give” when Mavrick doesn’t want to call the cops because they could have been the reason their house got shot up in the first place. For example, when Uncle Carlos finally gets to their house, Mavrick says “Hell nah! How did I know it wasn’t them?”
Justice is among the most significant moral and political concepts. The word originates from the Latin jus, meaning “right or law”. All throughout history, injustice has been an issue each individual has experienced during his or her daily life. Even today we are still experiencing riots and protests from African-Americans in order to attain justice. In Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith, readers see an example of injustice through the Rodney King case and the shooting of Latasha Harlins. Rodney-King and Latasha Harlins experienced racial injustice, which can be described as the denial of rights based on an individual’s race or racial background. Both two victims were mistreated for the color of their skin and were stripped
In the novel, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee some characters suffer in the hands of justice and fairness more than others. Many characters in the novel are discriminated against such as Calpurnia, Dolphus Raymond, Helen Robinson, Burris Ewell and more. However I will be focusing on the discrimination against Tom Robinson for his race, Walter Cunningham for his low socioeconomic status and Boo Radley for the rumors and supposed mental instability he holds. I chose those three because they are the most prominent and I will discuss how the discrimination against the characters therefore leads to their injustice or unfairness.
The beating of Rodney King from the Los Angeles Police Department on March 3, 1991 and the Los Angeles riots resulting from the verdict of the police officers on April 29 through May 5, 1992 are events that will never be forgotten. They both evolve around one incident, but there are two sides of ethical deviance: the LAPD and the citizens involved in the L.A. riots. The incident on March 3, 1991 is an event, which the public across the nation has never witnessed. If it weren’t for the random videotaping of the beating that night, society would never know what truly happened to Rodney King. What was even more disturbing is the mentality the LAPD displayed to the public and the details of how this mentality of policing led up to this particular incident. This type of ethical deviance is something the public has not seen since the civil rights era. Little did Chief Gates, the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, and the LAPD know what the consequences of their actions would lead to. Moving forward in time to the verdict of those police officers being acquitted of the charges, the public sentiment spiraled into an outrage. The disbelief and shock of the citizens of Los Angeles sparked a mammoth rioting that lasted for six days. The riots led to 53 deaths and the destruction of many building. This is a true but disturbing story uncovering the ethical deviance from the LAPD and the L.A. riots. The two perspectives are from the Rodney King incident are the LAPD and the L.A. riots.
This problem consisted of excessive use of force on behalf of police departments which resulted in the death of many citizens and one of those citizens, was Radio Raheem. Although, Radio was just a character, the person he was portraying, Michael Stewart, was not. Spike Lee describes how understated Radio’s death was in comparison to Michael Stewards stating that, “…we didn’t have his [ Radio Raheem] eyeballs pop out of his head like Michael Stewards did— [the police and medical examiner] greased his eyeballs and tried to stick them back in the sockets”(pg. 189). This description of the gruesome death of Steward serves to understand why Mookie proceeds to initiate the destruction of Sal’s pizzeria after the police kill Radio while having him in a choke hold. “Note that just three years after this film appeared, the nation witnessed yet another urban disaster when the Los Angeles ghetto as once again set ablaze in the violence following the announcement of Rodney King case” (pg. 186). Note that even in the early 90s there still existed racial tensions between the police department and its citizens, showing that there was still distrust in the justice system, a distrust that is also portrayed in the film. Both the death of Radio and Mookie’s actions were symbolic because it tied a series of conflicts and ideas together. These ideas consisted of not only the boiling point of racial tensions within our country and police brutality, but also the decisions the African-American community had to take regarding doing the right
Throughout history arguments and debate have been used to decide the fate of kingdoms, challenge a ruler’s authority or even decided where homes would be built. Without arguments our world would be bland and nothing like it is today. Being able to form a well built argument and use it properly is known as rhetoric. Ancient Romans and Greeks considered rhetoric to be one of the most important skills for students. Even today rhetoric is considered a great feat for all scholars. Two great men who were able to use rhetoric and excel at using it were Cicero and Machiavelli. They both argued in some of their most famous works that at times injustice was defendable. Cicero did this in his piece called The Defense of Injustice. Machiavelli did this in his work called The Prince. Each of these men was from completely different times in history, yet both were able to use rhetoric to help make people support their argument. Although rhetoric has many rules and many different formats one of the most well know and organized format is known as the Toulmin method. With the two pieces of work and using Toulmin’s method of rhetoric we can evaluate and discover who makes the best argument and why.
... Furthermore, with the shootout between the police and the Mau Maus in which all the black members of the group are quickly killed, except for the white guy, Lee sends e message to all those people proclaiming to understand the black identity better than black people, saying that no matter how strongly you might empathize with these people, you can never truly understand their experience. In addition to this, Lee condemns all those Delacroix- and Dunwitty-type characters who try to deny what they really are, suggesting that the biggest crime is to pretend to be something you are not, and trying to be more ‘other’ than the other. This film is so full of complex symbolic satire that it challenges every aspect of how black identity is construed on ‘the idiot box’ and stereotyped in reality, thus becoming one of the strongest satirical pieces ever created by Spike Lee.
I firmly believe that there is no such thing as justice. What might be justice for one person, could be injustice for the other. For instance, in the 1950’s film 12 Angry Men directed by Sidney Lumet, a 18 year old boy was accused of stabbing his father with a switch blade knife. 12 “angry” jurors had to decide the fate of a young boys life. Each man wrote down there votes, either guilty or non guilty.
Reginald Denny, a truck driver that was driving through the area of hate, stopped his truck and was pulled from his seat only to be beaten by a group of African Americans, was smiled at for his stupidity. Did Reginald Denny deserve to be beaten as much as King did? Many people that participated in the riot believed so, even though those were the same people that felt that that King was wrongly treated. Was this feeling of revenge produced by racism or fair 'take a hit, leave a hit' that would be forgotten once the pain was the same for everyone? Unfortunately, revenge never finds its own way to normal, humankind always wants to be 'one up' on the competition. The system of LA seemed to be falling apart at the thought of "Blacks" getting unfair treatment under the same conditions. The fact that "Blacks" were the ones tha...
From the creation of the very first civilizations, people have been using laws for potential disputes and or other issues that they come across. With the evolution of time and the expansion of the legal system, many laws were established that did not promote justice and equality. In essence, they did not take into consideration the ethical and racial implications that these laws generated. In our days, laws of this nature are still in effect and are characterized as unjust. They can be found anywhere and can take various forms.
One example that Tom Robinson is suffering injustices that he was sent to court for something he didn't do. He was put to court because Mr.Ewell said that he had touched and raped mayella her daughter. Tom Robinson said, ” No suh,she-she hugged me.She hugged me round the waist” (lee,259). This is not right just because he is black doesn't make the right to accuse him he didn’t do.
Imagine seeing your best friend getting killed by a police officer in front of your eyes for no legal reason and doesn't get in trouble for it. The Hate U Give is a fictional book by Angie Thomas, about a boy named Khail and a girl named Starr, that is inspired by real-life police brutality situations. Starr, a 15-year-old girl who has already seen two shootings of her best friends, witnesses another shooting right at the beginning of the book. From the shooting, Starr has to deal with her internal conflict of dealing with grief and also herself versus society. Starr has to deal with her internal conflict of dealing with grief and also herself versus a society that is forced upon her by the people wanting to know the truth about what happened
Introduction "The Hate U Give" follows Starr Carter, a 16-year-old navigating the difficulties of her two worlds: her primarily black, low-income neighborhood of Garden Heights and her wealthy, predominantly white private school. Star's life takes a dark turn when she witnesses a white police officer fatally shooting her childhood friend, Khalil, during a traffic stop. As the only witness to the shooting, Starr faces enormous pressure from both the gang in her community as well as the authorities to stay silent. However, inspired by her activist father, Maverick, and motivated by her commitment to justice, Starr decides to speak out against the injustice. Her choice to testify sparked a wave of protests, and challenged her relationships with family, friends, and peers.
According to the words of Dr Martin Luther King Jr “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
There were buildings set on fire and stores looted in a cry of anger and the need for social justice. However, these riots caught national and global attention. As King states in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, “.... an injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.” With Trayvon’s death a term was coined and for a short time “Black Lives Matter” circled the nation. It was not until another child, Michael Brown, was gunned down by Officer Darren Wilson that the term truly caught fire and spread. Three words, fifteen letters hold so much meaning but unfortunately many people of all races only see the surface value of these words. These words go beyond the black lives that seem to only matter to the media. The Oprahs and Michael Jacksons of the world are of equal importance to little Shaniqua and Tommy in Decatur, Georgia and people fail to see that. Jussie Smollett, actor, stated on a visit to NBCBLK that, “You cannot pick and choose when Black lives
In 2014, I went to Morocco. It was one of the most wonderful country that I ever saw. The beauty of the landscape was unbelievable, the desert, the mountains, and more. However, the prettiest aspect that impressed me the most was the strong culture of Morocco that unified this country. So, when I heard that I needed to interview someone for this project, I, instantly, think of one of my godmother’s friends who has immigrated to Canada 12 years ago, when he was 17 years old.