Philosophy
What is “Social Justice”? Everyone has a different perspective on what this means but to me when someone mentions Social Justice i picture a world in which people suffer no type of discrimination or oppression. a world in which everyone can live in tranquility and justice is served to everyone without any type of bias. when i think about these two words i also see communities brought together by love and were social class levels are just something that is reflected on and far in the past. Something that i really think that shouldn’t exist in life is poverty. i mention this because i think that when you say social justice, poverty shouldn’t fit into this category. Everyone who is anyone should not feel stressed about supporting their family and thinking about what their meal for the next day will be, or whether there even going to be able to feed their family. Social Justice is something that we must all together as one should strive for. when everyone unites as one there can be many more things accomplished as if there were a million people trying to do things on their own (Hernandez, pg. 98).
Theres many things that hold us back from achieving Social Justice. Some of these obstacles are put in front of us by close friends, family and even ourselves. A couple of these barriers that we place on each other are, discriminating one another, making each other feel as if they are incapable of doing many things and sometimes not participating in events that help or try to unite communities. Historical obstacles that I can think of is the way in which gentrification plays a role in the development of interacting with one another and the splitting up of ethnicities due to economic social classes. I think that this is something that really hurts the way in which everyone looks at each other and how this problem builds up on how comfortable people feel when interacting with people whom are different from their own kind or race.
I think that the only way to reach Social Justice is to come together as one and try to resolve all of the issues in which we struggle with day by day. Everyone should commit to helping out each other in ways that are positive to up bring the communities in which we live in. My role in my community is to help people understand the way in which the world would be a much better place to live in if everyone treated each other as equals and there was no negativity Towards each other.