For years many different races have fought for equal rights and treatment; yet in doing so these people cause a butterfly effect and end up restricting the rights of the very people who restricted their own.  There have been many different examples of bias between races which have been shown through many different revolutions throughout the ages.  However there are still some incidents that display bias and unequal treatment.  Ferguson Uncensored by Tim Dickinson is a short news report on “The killing of an unarmed 18 year old Micheal”(173) who was shot twice in the head.  Ferguson Uncensored is one of the many examples of bias between races focusing primarily on the African American relations, this does not make the African Americans completely innocent in the matter.

Already suspicious enough that the police killed an unarmed man, the police were very desperate to cover up the entire story and went to extremes to quell the protests in Ferguson.  The killing created a huge uproar in these quiet streets.  Many citizens began to protest this racial injustice.  While the protests weren’t violent, the police responded with a militarized effort.  The police met the protest with “tear gas, rubber bullets, and sonic cannons, fired from war vehicles that have no justification on civilian streets”(174) which is a rather extreme way to respond to a civilian protest.  

This entire response seemed sketchy; first the killing of an unarmed man, then attacking civilians during peaceful protest.  What seemed to top it all off was when a reporter was arrested for taking pictures of the horrible acts of the police.  They were trying to keep reporters away and restrict the information, however Scott Olson, the reporter in question was released and submitted the photos in an essay, detailing the frightening events that occurred in Ferguson.

What happened in Ferguson is just one of many different events where prejudice against a race occurred and attacked in a violent manner.  Prejudice against a race happens so often that people have begun to even get used to the problem.  In The Globalization of Ferguson: Pedagogical Matters about Racial Violence by Sylvanna M. Falcon, a school teacher mentions the event in Ferguson, and to her surprise there was total silence in her class.  The students were not fazed at all as they believed that this event happens all the time and that it’s unpreventable or unreasonable to continue to fight.

The teacher realizes that her students lack of viewing the problem in it’s entirety from a much broader spectrum, missing some key details that caused this amount of uproar.  She attempted to present the information using globalization while connecting other issues.  This helped her students understand how big of a problem Ferguson actually is.  Some issues such as women’s rights compared to racial rights were considered separate until she presented the horror of how they all can relate.  It was hard to reflect police violence with students.

The problem of not realizing these kinds of discrimination is a rather large since many people don’t realize just how serious these events actually are.  Those who are protesting issues do, but many people just go on with their lives and it makes the protests weaker and weaker.  This in turn causes the event to be smaller and the global spread of the entire event seems small.  Especially with police coverage and difficulty of getting any kind of information, the entire thing is almost covered up.

The idea of globalizing all these problems will not only raise awareness but maybe even prevent some of the horrors that happen.  Though globalization has become increasingly popular, some people still don’t wish to get involved.  This can be due to the violence that ensues or just their ignorance.  However, with those that undercompensate for issues, there is an equal balance with those who overcompensate.

In Commentary-United Front: Service Workers and Supporters of Reparatory Justice by V. P. Franklin, the author defines a lot of the extremes in protesting.  While the author does care about the man who was shot and the protest for it, he seems more concerned with protesting some problems that don’t really relate or aren’t actually problems.  The author mentions the low wages are for fast food workers, however the wage is at the legal minimum.

The entire essay is about low wages for African Americans even though the wages are at minimum wage requirements.  The author wants a special wage for those working in fast food restaurants which is highly unfair.  The entire read is all about wages, especially the wages in Ferguson.

This is one of the extremes in protesting, where some people turn the protest into a benefit for their own gain like wage.  This has nothing to do with the injustice on the person or hands up don’t shoot campaign, this protest was for nothing that had to do with the death of Micheal with the current problem.  Rather this is almost like an organization trying to push its head into the problem to further their own goals.

It seems ideal to Black Lives Matter, this group started as a rights group until it morphed into an extremist group.  The group that originally started as a rights group which later became a group looking for privileges.  This group protests at some of the smallest events and seems to ignore the significant issues that need more support in protesting such as Ferguson.  This is one of the overcompensations of racial rights groups.

With such a vast amount of people and such high amounts of prejudice, races need to try to come to a consensus to be able to stick together and support each other.  However races seem to appreciate themselves and dislike others.  There are all kinds of stereotypes that social media works off of and these stereotypes unfortunately, bleed into real life.  It is true, there are still a lot of problems with equality and rights mostly socially as many legal proceedings other than biased ruling have been fixed.  Yet in the eyes of others, many people still seem to have this prejudice towards different races.  Which is something ingrained into others at birth; stereotypes, looks, all these different problems that seem to just occur from how we are raised.  Raising awareness is really the only way for someone to change, however their personality could also deny that change, they have to feel inclined to try and stop racial injustice.  The same goes for extremists, they have to understand that rights are rights, privileges are privileges, if we go for privileges then we are no better than the people before us.  In this world, an eye for an eye seemed to be adopted more than cherish others with peace and love.  Those without privileges now want privileges; they want to get back at others for what they have suffered.  With such a violent ideal it seems like there will never be true equality, the only group that can truly make something remotely close would be egalitarians.  However most seem to be stuck in their own right, to be where they are, what they are, who they are and to fight for their biased beliefs.  Is racial injustice wrong? Yes, of course it is, but no one is innocent of not having commited such an unfair atrocity.
