Web Log #4

WebLog4   Where Race Lives 
In class and through our readings, we've struggled to develop an understanding of social justice.  The liberal theory of social justice concerns matters of distributed justice.  However, should social justice also concern matters, as Young asserts, of power, domination and oppression?  Please explore the website Where Race Lives which concerns how United States government policies and past discrimination have made generating wealth easier for some Americans than others.

Prepare to discuss what you have learned in class.

(+/-250 words and at least one photograph).

Social justice should extend to the acts of preference and discrimination that infect the society of the past and present. Systems such as social security should not exclude any group of people because of their race. Any government program should affect every race equally. Also discrimination in jobs is unjust to the specific races the perpetrators are targeting. Throughout the entire housing system discrimination had run rampant. The property and loan value of white homes should not be any higher than that of an African American or other immigrant. The most unjust and surprising aspect of the situation is the ruling of the supreme court having no affect on how the system functioned. This just showed that he situation on the social injustice was completely out of control and no one was doing anything to stop it under the excuse that the segregation was "market given". Then after all of the ignorance of society the national housing act which destroyed minority owned property without rebuilding it leaving many immigrants homeless. Also the few homes left were soon destroyed or inconvenienced through the booming suburb construction building freeways through the communities taking out shopping stores and homes. The declaration of independence says we have a right to the pursuit of happiness. When a governing body or group of people take that chance away from you the society is nowhere close to socially just. In a just society everyone will have equal value not dependent on race or any other factor.