Examples of Social Injustice

[overst33r]

Would you all purty forum members be so kind to give me examples of social injustice in your community or other significant areas. I would prefer to keep the topic on a smaller scale, so global social injustice will have to sit this one out.

The reason I am in need of suggestions is because I have a paper due in about a week and I would just like to get some diverse ideas from others.

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: Social Injustice: An unethical doing of our government, or people around you. Basically something that is unfair to you and your community in such a way that it affects you frequently.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: mariok2006
"social injustice"

could you at least define what you think that means?

do you want the hippie version? or the "man is keeping me down" version? or the corporate version? (like they won't let me listen to Rush Limbaugh in my cube type of social injustice)

 

[MrWizzard]

I get paid less than all the people I manage.....

 

[JS80]

High taxes is a social injustice.

 

[overst33r]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: mariok2006
"social injustice"

could you at least define what you think that means?

do you want the hippie version? or the "man is keeping me down" version? or the corporate version? (like they won't let me listen to Rush Limbaugh in my cube type of social injustice)

OP edited.

 

[FoBoT]

do want recent things? like since 2000? or can it be anything in the last 200 years?

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: mariok2006
EDIT: Social Injustice: An unethical doing of our government, or people around you. Basically something that is unfair to you and your community in such a way that it affects you frequently.

You should post to P&N. They'll give you enough material to write your paper.

 

[overst33r]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
do want recent things? like since 2000? or can it be anything in the last 200 years?

Recent injustices would fit the guidelines of the project better, but feel free to list the others as well.

 

[FoBoT]

this one is old, from the 19th century, i'll look for something more recent

http://nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=8622

A great number of Native American children, beginning 1892, went through the boarding school experience necessitating their transformation from reservation life, their home land, to distant off reservation boarding schools. In all more than 100,000 Native American children attended 500 boarding schools after Richard Henry Pratt established the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania in 1879. At that time Richard Henry Pratt's famous words were "Kill the Indian and save man." Many boarding schools were established far away from reservations so the students would have no contact with their families and friends.

 

[chcarnage]

The crime fight strategy of Fresno's government and police: Link - This is indymedia but I'm sure you can find better ressources.

 

[SirStev0]

We did an entire week on social injustices for my Med Ethics class
Minorities (who make up the majority of the poor) tend to live in the dirtiest and most polluted (most unhealthy) sections of cities. I can not remember the author but we read this huge epidemiological study by the CDC that both AA's and hispanics live in the most unhealthy sections of cities. Whites and asians, of the same social-economic standing (aka poor cauc's and asians), lived in the healthier sections. AA's and Hispanics are more likely to get chronic diseases then their counterparts in the same socioeconomic standing.

You can also check out the 50 million un-insured americans (a majority of which are working class since welfare covers health care as well).

And if you are willing to get into it, look into the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments. Ever wonder why some black people (and others) believe the Gov't is using AIDS to try to kill them off and they are holding a secret cure? Starting in the 20's and continuing until the late 70's the CDC followed the natural course of Syphilis in poor black men in Tuskegee Alabama *I think it was AL anyway* even though we had many known cures (antibiotics) for almost the entire time. They purposefully withheld the treatment to study the natural progression of the disease. In essences letting the patients suffer and eventually die. Didn't help that the whistle was blown right in the middle of the AIDS scare.

 

[IronWing]

In my fair city, road widenings, bypass building, and civic "improvements" invariably result in the bulldozing of poorer neighborhoods and benefit folks from more affluent areas far more than the projects benefit the poor who were forced out of their homes. Folks who were homeowners tend to become renters after being forced out as the forced sales of their homes don't bring enough money to buy elsewhere. The latest freeway interchange project involved the destruction of ~20 homes in a historic low-income neighborhood. Not only was the neighborhood decimated but the nearest freeway exit servicing the neighborhood was permanently closed.

During the fiber optic boom, many different companies laid fiber across our region. These long distance lines do not service our region but connect distant cities. Some folks living along the corridors had their driveways and yards ripped up five times in a three year period. They derived no benefit from these lines as no switchs were installed to allow local access to the networks. I live less than a quarter mile from one of these fiber corridors. There is even a repeater/booster station in my neighborhood but no local switch. The only high speed internet we have here is provided via wifi, not associated with the fiber lines. All we get is the 24/7 drone of the AC units cooling the repeater facility.

 

[j00fek]

i cant get a good apartment where i live because all the imports get first dibs?

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: ironwing
In my fair city, road widenings, bypass building, and civic "improvements" invariably result in the bulldozing of poorer neighborhoods and benefit folks from more affluent areas far more than the projects benefit the poor who were forced out of their homes. Folks who were homeowners tend to become renters after being forced out as the forced sales of their homes don't bring enough money to buy elsewhere. The latest freeway interchange project involved the destruction of ~20 homes in a historic low-income neighborhood. Not only was the neighborhood decimated but the nearest freeway exit servicing the neighborhood was permanently closed.

During the fiber optic boom, many different companies laid fiber across our region. These long distance lines do not service our region but connect distant cities. Some folks living along the corridors had their driveways and yards ripped up five times in a three year period. They derived no benefit from these lines as no switchs were installed to allow local access to the networks. I live less than a quarter mile from one of these fiber corridors. There is even a repeater/booster station in my neighborhood but no local switch. The only high speed internet we have here is provided via wifi, not associated with the fiber lines. All we get is the 24/7 drone of the AC units cooling the repeater facility.

What city is this?

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe

Originally posted by: ironwing
In my fair city, road widenings, bypass building, and civic "improvements" invariably result in the bulldozing of poorer neighborhoods and benefit folks from more affluent areas far more than the projects benefit the poor who were forced out of their homes. Folks who were homeowners tend to become renters after being forced out as the forced sales of their homes don't bring enough money to buy elsewhere. The latest freeway interchange project involved the destruction of ~20 homes in a historic low-income neighborhood. Not only was the neighborhood decimated but the nearest freeway exit servicing the neighborhood was permanently closed.

During the fiber optic boom, many different companies laid fiber across our region. These long distance lines do not service our region but connect distant cities. Some folks living along the corridors had their driveways and yards ripped up five times in a three year period. They derived no benefit from these lines as no switchs were installed to allow local access to the networks. I live less than a quarter mile from one of these fiber corridors. There is even a repeater/booster station in my neighborhood but no local switch. The only high speed internet we have here is provided via wifi, not associated with the fiber lines. All we get is the 24/7 drone of the AC units cooling the repeater facility.

What city is this?

Tucson, AZ

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

You want a social injustice? How about in Richardson, TX a suburb of Dallas ( a wealthy one at that) In the last 3 years the number of autistic children in the district has doubled. The number of teachers and money allocated to special needs kids has been at the same level for 10 years. What's more important? Building a football stadium for a high school that has always sucked at football, or spending that money on actually helping kids that need help?

 

[CycloWizard]

My new favorite is that Washington University just set up a new endowment to encourage the best foreign students to come here to study. The foreign students who get the fellowship get paid 40% more than I do as an American grad student, plus they get a paid trip home once per year, plus they get housing costs covered.

I'm not allowed to be a member of an American grad student group because that would be discrimination. But groups for Serbian, Indian, and Chinese (I'm sure there are others as well, but these are the prevalent ones in my department) get money from the university and from the engineering school to hold ethnically-exclusive events.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: CycloWizard
My new favorite is that Washington University just set up a new endowment to encourage the best foreign students to come here to study. The foreign students who get the fellowship get paid 40% more than I do as an American grad student, plus they get a paid trip home once per year, plus they get housing costs covered.

I'm not allowed to be a member of an American grad student group because that would be discrimination. But groups for Serbian, Indian, and Chinese (I'm sure there are others as well, but these are the prevalent ones in my department) get money from the university and from the engineering school to hold ethnically-exclusive events.

Welcome to being a white male between the ages of 18 and 60. No one cares about us.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: CycloWizard
My new favorite is that Washington University just set up a new endowment to encourage the best foreign students to come here to study. The foreign students who get the fellowship get paid 40% more than I do as an American grad student, plus they get a paid trip home once per year, plus they get housing costs covered.

I'm not allowed to be a member of an American grad student group because that would be discrimination. But groups for Serbian, Indian, and Chinese (I'm sure there are others as well, but these are the prevalent ones in my department) get money from the university and from the engineering school to hold ethnically-exclusive events.

Welcome to being a white male between the ages of 18 and 60. No one cares about us.

technically you could attend those "ethnically-exclusive" meetings because it would unconstitutional if they didnt allow you. Technically I could too. I am of Indian descent but have pretty much been Americanized. I would feel just as awkward as you going to those meetings.