Month: October 2017

Photo by Abode of Chaos

The world boast of diversity especially when it comes to race and culture. People from all over the world have a unique way of doing things, the cultures they practice and even the language they speak. Even with the benefits of this form diversity, racial discrimination is a common vice that hinders peaceful co-existence of people.

What is racial discrimination

The practice occurs if your colour is used as a determining factor when it comes to the goods you can buy and even the services you can access. Even with constant condemnation of the practice, the practice is still well entrenched in peoples minds.

The origin of the practice

The vice dates back to as far as the slave trade era. During this troubled historical period, blacks were the inferior race compared to the whites. To them, they were valuable as servants. Since Africans could not agree to such terms, they had to be captured as slaves and transported to European countries for work in the various farms and industries.

Even though the practice was banned, the impact was devastating. To the Africans, it portrayed Europeans or whites as they were commonly known as cruel people with no regard for human life. To the Europeans, it encouraged a sense of pride that they were the superior species that had to be respected by others. This kind of beliefs led to the deterioration of relations between the different races and created a lot of hatred among people.

The impact of discrimination in the society

Discrimination of any form limits peoples interaction. It limits meaningful communications, and if left unchecked, it can be the cause of clashes among people of various races. If we are to coexist and flourish as humans, we need to find a way of living together peacefully no matter the race.

Discrimination’s have led to the death of many people over the years and the rise in evil practices such as slave trade. In the modern world, bias is still in play. People in some situations get jobs based on their race a case that has denied qualified individuals a chance of earning a living heartbreaking because they are not members of a particular race.

What can we do to stop this vice

Discrimination is not something we can encourage in our society. The disadvantages are just too severe to ignore. The first step to end this evil is accepting that all human beings are valuable. Being black or white colour is not something that should define us. Everyone should get a fair chance may it be in the workplace or even in the allocation of tasks to be done. No race is superior to the other, and if we are to live harmoniously, we must learn to respect each other.

Measures were taken to punish those who commit the offence

Even with the end of slave trade some people still feel superior to the rest regarding race. Individuals with such ideas should not be allowed the chance of implementing their evil schemes. Upon suspicion, they should be taken to court for a fair hearing before judgement and imprisonment. The government should also ensure they monitor people perpetuating this practice and apprehend them,

For victims of such discrimination, the ordeal can be heartbreaking. Some have experienced immense torture a situation that has left them very bitter with life. In such circumstances, it is vital that the individual first undergo counselling. The counselling session will be of great help so that they can heal and move on with their lives.Any form of discrimination is evil and should not be allowed to happen at all costs.

With modern societies becoming increasingly dystopian in nature from the United States all the way to the faraway Philippines, class discrimination is becoming more and more a battleground. The election of U.S. President Donald Trump has been followed by the polarization of the white supremacist and the Black Lives Matter movements. Who will gain the upper hand, only the future can tell?

One thing for sure, though, is that attorney billings will escalate to levels previously unknown. For to wage a battle in democracies and non-democracies alike, lawyers are called upon to either put a rubber stamp on a piece of legislation or to ferociously argue the rights of those who are oppressed or deem themselves to be oppressed in the society they live in. And to make matters worse, the sexual harassment of women in the entertainment industry is beginning to rear its ugly head.

This, too, is another live coal for increased counsel activities on both sides of the fence. Hence, it would be an understatement to say that we live in very interesting times. As Charles Dickens once wrote, the present is both the worst as well as the best of times.

How did all these issues come together? No one knows for sure, but certainly, the worst isn’t over yet. There’s also the added issue of citizen & civil rights seemingly being trampled upon, as in the country where drug addicts are summarily executed extra-judicially. Back to the United States, the mass media is on trial and at certain points seem to back down from its Fifth Estate status.

Finally, television, radio and print journalism has met its match in a Twitter-savvy president that knows how to fill the first ten headline spaces with his own brand of news–on a daily basis. Certainly, President Trump does know how to ensure that he hugs the limelight either through good or bad publicity. The tight reins on immigration, the overhaul of Obamacare, and the latest tax legislation are all causing reporters to walk a tightrope if not a live fuse.

Could the legal community be any happier? Happy days are here again, to echo a Barbra Streisand song of long ago. Legal billings to the max as America struggles to find its one voice in a cacophony of voices. The ongoing judicial probe into alleged Russian meddling in the last presidential elections are lending the political palette even more color.

With class discrimination and a vast conundrum of other issues, life goes on and perhaps life will never be the same again. NASA is finding more and more so-called exoplanets or Earth-like planets that at some point in the distant future could be humanity’s future habitat. Billionaires like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Elon Musk of SpaceX are touting the establishment of the first Martian colony even as North Korea is threatening a full-on nuclear war with the world’s largest democracy.

And yet the more things change, the more they remain the same. As Star Trek premises in every TV episode and movie version, man may someday travel the vast expanses of the universe. However, human nature will stay the same. The same can be said for class struggle in particular.

At the moment, America’s number one ally, Canada, is embroiled in heaping apologies to the country’s aboriginal class, which for years has fought unsuccessfully for recognition and equal access to the educational system. The aboriginal Indians of the land are arguing that they should have more share of the economic pie and lands in particular because they were in Canada first. This again creates a flurry of activities for all the legal luminaries of our time. And so the fearless forecast: It’s all systems go for the legal machinery. Or in other words, there’s never been a better time to be a practicing attorney.