- Free for Equality and Justice
Do We Really Have Justice and Equality?
By Sandra Levkovich
After reading Prison Writings by Leonard PeltierReading Prison Writings by Leonard Peltier, you learn how the Indian race is in serious jeopardy. He vividly describe the pain and sorrow that his people go through and still are going through. In America, they teach us at such a young age in elementary school’s that our country is a nation of freedom; that everyone is equal. Reading this book, I can not help to think back to this young age and remember on Columbus Day how my second grade teacher would get dressed up in a big chief feathery hat and support the Indians. I wonder if she knew of the treatment in South Dakota and on the Indian reservations. I wonder if she knew how there isn’t justice for the Indians as well as other groups. I cannot point fingers at people, but why hasn’t people stood up if our country is so righteous about the fact that we are equal? It deeply saddens me that while growing up, I thought all other nation’s are so unfair and judgmental. However when you read articles, books, essays, news, and even personal experiences, its like a slap in the face of how our own nation is not equal to its people. To conclude my thought, I hope that people like Leonard Peltier are heard because people like him a voice to a real equal nation.
