Jahmal Butcher
From what I have read in Leonard Peltier’s book, I do not see how race can relate to justice. I say this because when speaking about race and what it might relate to, all I think about is injustice. In his book, Peltier’s words paint a picture that depicts a particular race, Native Americans, and shows how they are subjected to numerous accounts of injustice. In high school I took a class which focused primarily on black history. In this class many things stuck to me especially the segregation era. We watched various tapes that basically all showed how black people fought for basic rights that blacks today now take for granted. I watched as the black and white tape showed police men setting fire hoses and dogs on blacks that were peaceful pretesting. I may only have been alive for nearly nineteen years but that doesn’t seem like just to me. Justice is fair and doesn’t discriminate no matter what race an individual or a group of individuals maybe. I hope those who read this will understand where I stand on this issue. I just don’t see how race and justice could be in the same sentence let alone be related to one another. Since justice has the root word “just” in it, which means to be fair, how then could race even be considered to be relevant with such a word? No sane individual would consider heaven and hell to be alike so why should these two words be. Injustice and race just seems to be a better pairing because of their long history together as viewed through the eyes of the Native Americans, African Americans, Asians, and those of Middle Eastern ancestry.
