Could someone give me suggestions of injustices?

Question

I need to write a one page paper on an injustive i experienced or witnessed could someone give me some suggestions to spark some memories cuz i am drawing a blank right now?

keep in mind it has to be something i experienced and not just social injustice

Answer 1

The classic one is "To Kill a Mockingbird," where the legal issues took second place to racial bias.

It is often the case that people who sit for a long time waiting for an appointment, or standing in line for something, will have someone else go ahead of them. A small but irritating injustice.

Most injustices seem to stem from bias or assumptions. A person just takes a look at you and decides whether you are a good person or not, before they ever hear you speak or see you do anything. Race and gender are two reasons, but I also see people who are simply poor being treated as if they are unworthy. And we all know that certain clothing and hair styles, piercings and tattoos and the like, can raise a negative reaction in others without ever knowing who the person is.

In California, people are often treated shabbily if they have a Mexican accent or a Mexican sounding name, because people assume they are illegal aliens. In fact, California used to belong to Mexico, and some of these people had ancestors who were here long before the Anglos who came from the east coast.

The one very systematic injustice I see today is the drug war, or the War on Drug Users. People who go to prison for drug use are often given heavier sentences than people who commit violent crimes. That is obscene.

Answer 2

Remember that injustice is the opposite of justice, so think of cases where you think justice was served and imagine that the opposite occured instead.

Here are a couple of examples (in my opinion) of injustices:

teacher likes one student and doesn't like the other. The student the teacher likes gets a better grade on a paper simply because the teacher likes him/her more, or the student the teacher doesn't like gets a bad grade on a paper because the teacher doesn't like him/her.

Person is sent to death row and executed based on DNA evidence that it turns out, several years later, was faulty. The person was probably innocent.

The president of the US is friends with someone who commits a crime, but that person is not charged with a crime because the president pulls some strings.

Food is marked higher at inner city grocery stores because they know that the majority of the people who shop there don't have transportation to other, cheaper stores, or they use food stamps. Those people are stuck shopping at that store.

These should get you started!

Answer 3

I'm not sure if this is what you want, but it could be as simple as stealing purse, or to go for the bigger ones, bank robbery, rape, or even bigger, the Holocaust. Not sure if thats what you need or not.

Just in response to the guy below. What do drinking and the military have to do with each other. And students do have rights in school. The locker situation is different. We don't own them. The school does. It's their property. We just rent it. And without a lease, we have no legal rights over it. And the school is a government building.

Answer 4

Tell about how students in schools have no rights (such as the right for the police to not search lockers without warrants) or how stupid it is to let people serve in the military at 18 but not allow them to drink until 21

Answer 5

Were you ever told you couldn't shop in a store? Was your family told they couldn't buy a house in a certain neighborhood? Were you ignored at a restaurant while others around you were served? Was anyone in your family denied a loan for a car or house? Did anyone have a problem with neighbors shunning them? Did you have any friends that had problems like these?