Well. It's 3 in the morning and my mom is going into labor soon so I decided what better way to keep me up late than the joyous act of taking advantage of my late night wandering mind and use our global class' blogger website as a method of letting all my thoughts go into good use...
First of all, one thought that came across my mind when reviewing all of the content given during second and third period global is the topic of racial oppression from higher authority figures. This topic, as controversial and complex as they can be, provide a vast amount of insight depending on one's personal perspective, morals, and values. It makes of good use for valuable lessons that enable you to get to know someone on a more enhanced level and who doesn't like getting into conversations covering our American Justice System and our society as a whole. The other night, I found myself engaging in a conversation with my boyfriend about the roles that race plays in the way our national police department works. We analyzed and touched base on the Ferguson case- Michael Brown and Officer Darren Wilson and the significant role they, themselves, played as key examples of how racism seemed to have had to play a part in the way things were evaluated at the end of the trial. From my perspective, I expressed my concern over what I had just learned within what I had gradually collected and learned about during the study of the volumes from the case itself from the profound information given from fellow classmates and their introductions to each and every eye-witness account during our presentations. Sure, my mind was introduced to much more valuable and useful information as to what really went on, who did what, and how everything unraveled between Brown and Wilson, however I still found the case having to be racially unfair to an extent in which the way Wilson approached the situation had to have been generalized as at least somewhat wrong and should have been given some type of assessment or trial rather than just letting Wilson go for such a forceful and, morally, inhumane method of attainment. As I rambled on about the many things we had learned in class which all appointed to my personal take on what I and many others believed in. As the yellow light turned red, he struck me with one statement that left my mind at a sudden blank, and it was the negative and oppressive ideology behind bringing matters such as race into the subject of police brutality and our society. Rather than bringing ethnicity or racial background into play, we should rather focus on the almost unethical, immoral, and forceful act committed by high authority figures. He made it important to remember that we are all human and that gender, sexual orientation, race, economic status, religion,etc. should no longer be brought up when situations like these happen for it only makes matters worse and rather promotes the concept of dehumanization rather than actually making any progression in the way we think and handle things. The solution is not to point our fingers at blaming it on these irrelevant influences and generalize it all on one factor. I paused and sat in silence as I actually seemed to have understand where he was coming from. It was a new perspective and something that I had never truly stopped and thought about. Now, not many people think and look at it this way. Some people gradually build up to these new and different thoughts and tend to agree with them simply because they are tired of, again, the act of dehumanization- not only seen in racial situations however often seen within gender oppression as well. As much as it is important to keep an open mind and build our progressive ideas by standing up for basic human rights by blaming it all on race, why not make a human thing? Why don't we put an end to pointing our fingers at who and what and where and learn to enhance our society by no longer focusing on the things that do not matter (like race, orientation, status, gender, and religion) and oppose against forceful tactics made by police. Humanity, as a whole, would make much more progression and benefit from learning to no longer putting names and labels. What do you think and do you believe the concept of dehumanization should also be put to an end?
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