Justice

In our group of four we came up with two broad sentences for each pair that we thought summed up our experiences with injustice. The first one was Denying service by appearance is an injustice. And the second one was An injustice is a morally wrong action negatively viewed by society done by someone who is not punished for. Our final representation of what we thought fit best to each scenario is below.

An injustice is a denial of service to a certain race or appearance, done by a figure of authority who isn’t punished.

Although this example did not apply to me directly it applied to my family and I believe that to this day, an apology is still necessary. A little background information is needed before we start. My family is extremely diverse. On one half is all Japanese and white, and on the other primarily Vietnamese, but there’s Laotian and Lebanese as well. This story relates to the Lebanese side. My two cousins go to visit their dad every year around the same time in Lebanon, but to get to Lebanon you must go through Saudi Arabia. The plan was for all three of them to come back to the United States to see the rest of the family in San Diego. You can assume by the title of this blog post some type of injustice would prevail itself. Don’t worry it’s next. Going through customs in the US is a huge ordeal, whether you’re not a citizen or you are. But customs to come into the United States is a whole other story, especially if parts of the country near you have been flagged. Continuing the story, my cousins and their dad made it to the airport, easily one might say. Yeah that didn’t last long. As soon as they reached customs and TSA, both of my cousins were let through but their dad was stopped and questioned. Not just the usual “where are you headed, how long, how’s your day, what kinda snacks you want on the plane?” type deal. No I mean question questioned. How long are you going to be there, are you on a visa, what connections do you have…blah blah blah. Bag check came next. Everything in the end was fine, but he wasn’t the only was to get stopped on his flight. There were multiple people, same background, same story. Just a bad case of racial profiling.

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