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SOCIAL JUSTICE
Does Justice Look Different Between Black and White?
It shouldn’t
Everyone deserves justice when they are wronged. I expect this. But this is not reality, because law enforcement, and, well, society in general, sees color.
Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Kendrick Lamar gave us a wake-up call during the Super Bowl: Turn this TV off.
This is a case study. Same crime. Different response. Same repairs.
The way law enforcement responds to crime in “white” parts of town seems different than how it responds to crime in “Black” parts of town. And that’s not equal. How is justice supposed to be served by our government if this is the case? Maybe it’s by design.
I thought I knew what it was like in the world of Black and brown. I even considered myself an ally. But I was a tourist in that world as a home health provider. And I wrongly assumed that I was immune to crimes that only happen in “their” parts of town. So when I was a victim of my neighbors shooting bullets into my home, it was then that I thought I really knew.
But when I had a Black person open up to me about their experience with bullets flying through their home, I realized our experiences were vastly different.
