What is Social Justice?Social Justice is having the same privileges and rights to things in our society from concrete to abstract and every voice is heard. It excludes the separation between the rich and the poor and blacks and white, allowing people to have the same advantage to resources. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development. Social Justice isn't just a word. It's an act to seek for protection for all. Throughout our world we currently face social justice issues, where the poor are rejected, taken for granted and dehumanized. However, poor communities have raised their voice to achieve and obtain justice. In our Little Village communities hunger strikers have fought endlessly, showing strong devotion, to receive a school that was supposed to be ours since the beginning. But the fight hasn't stopped there, a group of young fighters struggled and voiced as a community to shut door a nearby Power Plant that only harmed our health. Throughout my high school experience I was able to grasp on a much clearer meaning of what Social Justice means to me. At first I viewed social justice as a term not an act.
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We have not achieved social justice yet because many people still remain uneducated. They believe that a governmental system so powerful is unable to be shut down. Whereas the poor are always eluted and looked down as if they are nothing, taking away their sense of motivation to keep thriving. Adding on to that, people still haven’t found their definition of social justice. Without a clear knowledge of what social justice is you don't know what to fight for. During the early 19 century women were excluded from most scientific formal education, this kept women from obtaining similar occupations from men. However, now minorities face a harder challenge in science fields due to ethnic backgrounds, occupations, and opportunities are taken from the public and withdrawn. According to the American Society for Engineering Education, 68% of all undergraduate engineering students in the U.S. are white, 14% are Asian-American, and just over 5% each are Hispanic and African-American.20
In order to achieve Social Justice one must step up. A leader is different than a boss. A leader must be willing to take charge but be part of the struggle. They must educate the public and give them a sense of motivation to boost up and fight. Let the ones around us know the injustice problems we are facing. We must first start up as a small group and build up to something big, being opened, like a fire that starts off with a spark and ends with a flame. Throughout the years I believe there will be an increase of minorities in science field, where the black and brown take on science occupations and prove their capabilities.
I want become an environmental engineer and work with scientists from my community, Little Village, and find ways in which we could secure and protect the health of the people. Along with that I want to work with other poor communities and contribute my environmental knowledge. As an engineer I want to improve the natural environment, to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms. I also want to travel to other states and countries, and advocate for poor communities and be their voice to protect their health and environment. My fire is the lack of scientific knowledge provided to the minorities. Without a deeper knowledge of what science really is we aren’t able to secure and advocate for ourselves, people begin to lose interest in the importance of science and forget the meaning. With my education I would fix is the lack of environmental knowledge in my community, the best way to do this is educating my community of the environmental effects that we are currently facing and strategies of ways we can fix them. I want my community to have a deeper knowledge of what science actually is and have them know the conditions we are living in as a poor community. It is important that our community, especially our young adults, know about these science issues.
In order to achieve Social Justice one must step up. A leader is different than a boss. A leader must be willing to take charge but be part of the struggle. They must educate the public and give them a sense of motivation to boost up and fight. Let the ones around us know the injustice problems we are facing. We must first start up as a small group and build up to something big, being opened, like a fire that starts off with a spark and ends with a flame. Throughout the years I believe there will be an increase of minorities in science field, where the black and brown take on science occupations and prove their capabilities.
I want become an environmental engineer and work with scientists from my community, Little Village, and find ways in which we could secure and protect the health of the people. Along with that I want to work with other poor communities and contribute my environmental knowledge. As an engineer I want to improve the natural environment, to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms. I also want to travel to other states and countries, and advocate for poor communities and be their voice to protect their health and environment. My fire is the lack of scientific knowledge provided to the minorities. Without a deeper knowledge of what science really is we aren’t able to secure and advocate for ourselves, people begin to lose interest in the importance of science and forget the meaning. With my education I would fix is the lack of environmental knowledge in my community, the best way to do this is educating my community of the environmental effects that we are currently facing and strategies of ways we can fix them. I want my community to have a deeper knowledge of what science actually is and have them know the conditions we are living in as a poor community. It is important that our community, especially our young adults, know about these science issues.